#assassination

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gusty mirage
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oh for sure

limber lion
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Any smelly boys in the chat?

fleet anchor
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If you cast on the pull before anyone else hits it

hazy crater
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smelly boy all the way

fleet anchor
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You can get a SBS up on Greshaal before he lifts off and becomes immune

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It does no damage since he's immune

gusty mirage
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Vaughn found a funny SBS interaction on SLG, when an add on SLG would die with his and Seli's bone spike on it. It would refund them each 2 charges

polar cape
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Thats kinda big

limber lion
fleet anchor
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But the DoT is still up for CP calculations

limber lion
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That's kinda sick tho

fleet anchor
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So you get +1 CP on all of P1 and P1 Intermission

limber lion
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Literal free CP

fleet anchor
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Which is nice

limber lion
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Ye damn

limber lion
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Just need to be the first to hit it

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Pull it before the boomies do

hazy crater
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does the SBS need to pull the boss

limber lion
gusty mirage
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300 iq play is to play with another necro lord so you just get a billion charges

polar cape
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Sbs at 5 guys

fleet anchor
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It's a projectile so you can launch around the same time the Wraths are almost there

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That's what I found anyway

limber lion
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Ah fair enough

gusty mirage
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I wonder if blizz will fix that

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or if they already have

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I don't think they intended 2 necro rogues to refund each other 2 charges when 1 add dies

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lol

fleet anchor
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Wait.. that works?

polar cape
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Hmmmm

rich wren
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👀

hazy crater
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they didnt count on anyone bringing 2 rogues to raid pepechortle

fleet anchor
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Our other Rogue is Venthyr so I've literally never been in a group with another Necro Rogue so I wouldn't know

gusty mirage
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yeah, I was watching Vaughn on SLG and everytime an add would die he'd get 2 charges back because of Seli's bone spike I think

dull cloak
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who brings 2 rogues to raid/dungeon?

limber lion
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BFA fanatics

fleet anchor
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Even we're only in together on like half the fights

gusty mirage
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MOAR rogues

fleet anchor
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I mean I am glad Necro is competitive because I really enjoyed the Necro gameplay on beta and I think it's just really fun to play

rich wren
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I've been trying to go back venthyr but I enjoy sbs way too much. I've got the second part of the quest up so I can loot a conduit

fleet anchor
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I miss Night Fae though 😦

worn path
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Lol easiest way to get out of farm clear is “I don’t need any of this loot, I don’t bring an immunity or raid CD, I’ll sit”

limber lion
rich wren
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I do miss fae but necro is soooo fun. I'm excited to see it in the new raid

hazy crater
fleet anchor
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I will admit

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I used Fleshcraft

limber lion
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I had a hard time getting used to Door of Shadows after swapping from NF

fleet anchor
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Literally

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0 times

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All of last night

limber lion
fleet anchor
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I totally forgot about it ><

rich wren
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I've used it once, we had a spooky blood price and it acutally saved me

worn path
fleet anchor
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I mean I should use it on like SLG phase transitions or if I'm soaking

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I just totally spaced

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I'll get used to it eventually

rich wren
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reps baby

limber lion
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Yeaaah

fleet anchor
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Soulshape was a little more clear when to use it lol

worn path
hazy crater
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I got used to using fleshcraft on denathrius P3, just cloak first price, craft second, cloak third

halcyon zealot
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sooo 2 weeks after i swap venthyr im seeing necro stocks rising?? i love this game so much

bold jetty
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!wa

prisma monolithBOT
limber lion
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Soulshape is the best covenant signature ability in the game, change my mind

rich wren
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impossible

worn path
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Can’t argue with facts

fleet anchor
rich wren
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that new emeni trait is so odd on PTR

gusty mirage
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I can't tell my friend's they're yoo-hoo the best for 24hrs with soulshape tinfoil_pepe

compact pumice
fleet anchor
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Hmm if only

tardy knoll
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finally got a dagger and i want to try assasination, what lego have prio atm? doomblade right?

fleet anchor
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The game designers had this CRAZY idea

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Of like

worn path
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At this point I’m thinking about swapping back to nf for two weeks just to get the t2 achievement to get more anima

gusty mirage
fleet anchor
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Maybe you grind Renown with every faction and at certain Renown levels you unlock the Signature and Class ability to use freely

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🤔

tardy knoll
gusty mirage
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then yeah go doom

gusty mirage
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on the glovies

tardy knoll
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thank you

limber lion
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Don't tease me

gusty mirage
rich wren
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that would be nice, though screw kyrian

worn path
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Soul shape but red and venthyr models

fleet anchor
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"We wouldn't want players to feel FORCED to go back to Oribos to use their brain and not be locked to arbitrary combinations, so instead we've decided to make you all sad instead"

worn path
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We need to make impactful decisions

gusty mirage
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Koji yell at blizzard to remove the conduit energy system pepehands

fleet anchor
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MeANinGfUL CHoiCEs

limber lion
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I progressed on SLG with Lashing Scars as Outlaw

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Because I didn't have energy to swap on CtO

compact pumice
limber lion
fleet anchor
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Like me choosing to go Necro 3 days before they add that achievement for Anima scaling

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After I have R3 on my Night Fae buildings

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And didn't get credit

charred geyser
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!wa

prisma monolithBOT
gusty mirage
worn path
fleet anchor
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Such meaningful

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Much choices

limber lion
gusty mirage
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Yeah I thought it would apply to the achieves you had from previous covenants

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cuz I had everything lvl 3 as venthyr

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😦

fleet anchor
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Drop 70k on NF buildings after being a NF lifer since launch and avoiding changing until the last second

gusty mirage
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AND as kyrian

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wtf blizz

fleet anchor
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Only to have them drop that literally like 2 days

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After a swap

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FeelsBadMan

compact pumice
icy crater
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aren't you guys excited for lvl 80 renown POGGGG

worn path
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Just swap back for two weeks

gusty mirage
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tbh at this point I might as well go fae and get 40 renown and level 3 buildings there too

fleet anchor
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Yeah I'm probably gonna do the swapy swapy

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At some point

gusty mirage
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covenant world tour OMEGAKEKW

fleet anchor
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Which is just dumb

worn path
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Don’t cash in the anima you get over the two weeks and you can just dump it into venthyr when you swap back

fleet anchor
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I mean I had a lot of anima banked when I swapped

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It's more that I had just been upgrading NF for a long time

compact pumice
fleet anchor
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Because I had no plans to swap

dull cloak
fleet anchor
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I swapped over with like 20k

gusty mirage
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soulshape is still by far the best covenant signature ability

fleet anchor
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So I have the R1 achievement now

gusty mirage
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so I don't blame you

fleet anchor
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But yeah it would be awesome if we had more flexibility

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Like SBS+Soulshape would be pog

compact pumice
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tbh rank 1 achieve requires only like 4.5k total

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Rank 2 is a bit more juicy, and 3 is... too much.

fleet anchor
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Well I'm more limited on souls the first week anyway

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I couldn't get R2 this week even if I wanted to

compact pumice
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You could get 30 renown in like a day tho, so can't you just wait with doing the quest until 30?

gusty mirage
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could you theoretically just grind a buncha renown and get 20 souls?

drifting cloud
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15 easily

fleet anchor
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The renown isn't a problem

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I'm maxed out already

worn path
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You can just switch back to the other covenant, pool your anima. Get the achievement, swap back. Put them in the reservoir. And get the benefit of the achievement for the two weeks of swapping back

compact pumice
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Did you do the 5 souls quest before getting the 20 souls ability?

fleet anchor
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But to get R2 in all 4 buildings requires way more than that

tardy knoll
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can anyone help me with a macro Mutilate/Ambush that let me use the same keybind and use Ambush instead of Mutilate when i can use Ambush:)?

gusty mirage
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true

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it jumps up to like 15 souls right?

fleet anchor
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Its 8 per building for R2 other than the special which is 12

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So 36 for all R2s

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Takes 2 weeks minimum

worn path
gusty mirage
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What Misty said, you gotta use an add-on to make the macro work and it's just way more effort than necessary

fleet anchor
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And R3 is 22 souls

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Per building

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So basically it will take me like 2 months to get the R3 achievement on Necro if I don't swap back to Night Fae and get it "for free"

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Which is just dumb

compact pumice
fleet anchor
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But I'd love a system where we could swap more freely because the class abilities have such strong niches for Assassination in general

vestal wren
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you mean 2 months of player engagement 👍

gusty mirage
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well luckily, we got at least 2 months before 9.1

vestal wren
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seems like it achieves the goal of keeping you playing

gusty mirage
fleet anchor
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Like Flag for ST and SBS for AoE is clearly a choice to make and it's kinda silly to make that "permanent"

gusty mirage
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MeAnInGfuL

compact pumice
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But it would be nice if you can just... choose between the covenant abilities like a spec if you are renown capped on all of them. Like a KSM but for covenants.

fleet anchor
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Yes I think you should unlock it forever if you max Renown

gusty mirage
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I mean this is the same company that effectively ruined m+ looting and had to copy and paste a system in to fix it

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instead of just leaving it be

limber lion
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Actually

fleet anchor
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The reason I'm personally deciding to go Necro

limber lion
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I think most classes have a covenant

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That works everywhere.

fleet anchor
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Is that I think it shores up a weakness Assassination has

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While still being fairly strong baseline

limber lion
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What's the weakness?

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Which one? lul

polar cape
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Trillseeker going off mid mechanic is a feels bad

fleet anchor
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lol

limber lion
balmy condor
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Yeah there’s no reason to track it

polar cape
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You use to be able to click off the stack i tough that was cool

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So you could line it up where you want it

limber lion
balmy condor
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That was almost never worth it

fleet anchor
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Also can I like

balmy condor
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And such a pain in the ass

fleet anchor
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Talk more Rogues into playing Assassination on Darkvein?

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So I can get higher percentile parses?

worn path
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Thrill seeker always procs during a mechanic or while I’m boogieing down

limber lion
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I'm getting a r1 on Sire today

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Watch me.

fleet anchor
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Freakin Rank 27 parse and still only 98% because too many jokers think Outlaw is still actually better on that fight 😛

gusty mirage
worn path
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Must kill boss

limber lion
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Even though Inerva is a full ST pump boss

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Where you just bleed everything up to do more ST damage.

ionic kelp
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encounter has adds? i pad

polar cape
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Then half your raid spex aoe

vestal wren
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just play subtlety

worn path
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But the dps meter says outlaw is better

vestal wren
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easy ranking

limber lion
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Wouldn't sub ranking be really really hard though?

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With so little people playing it

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Like a rank 2 would be a 95 or something lol

polar cape
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Just togle the boss dam chart <.<

vestal wren
limber lion
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True

worn path
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I’m having a super hard time parsing with sin in mythic

fleet anchor
limber lion
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Practice makes perfect

fleet anchor
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I mean Outlaw doesn't even do more damage on that fight anymore

worn path
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It’s not like I’m really making any mistakes, it’s just fight duration, mechanics and itemization

fleet anchor
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SBS gave me like.. a casual +500 DPS on Darkvein though haha

limber lion
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Sheeez

fleet anchor
nimble tartan
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just be like me and do every fight blue parse sin but u get rank 90 mythic cause u did every fight

fleet anchor
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Same gear otherwise

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Killed back to back Mon/Tues with about the same DPS

limber lion
nimble tartan
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79 now greyfoPog

limber lion
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Back in the good ol' days

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9.0 peepobless

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37 huge parsers

fleet anchor
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lol

limber lion
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Now a 6.2 is probably a blue

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I'm really on the fence here

nimble tartan
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my guild does 2 1 1 on denathrius and that is very much not a good strat for parsing as sin rogue

limber lion
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I don't know which covenant I want to play

nimble tartan
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since every wracked add dies fuckin quick

limber lion
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I feel like I would enjoy SBS a lot more

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But idk

timid coral
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!oil

prisma monolithBOT
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Using consumables will increase your damage, however the difference between oil/stone/potion combinations are very minor (within 0.5% of each other). You can sim the difference for yourself by pasting this pastebin underneath your /simc input, in the "advanced sim" section of raidbots: https://pastebin.com/Lbxc7afJ

limber lion
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I'm a sucker for high sim numbers and high ST dps.

fleet anchor
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I mean I think both are fine tbh

slow marsh
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Look at ptr over the next couple weeks and decide. I was thinking to go Necro but the nadja bonus conduit looks really good

limber lion
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Do you remember from the top of your head how much necro sims better in Dslice?

worn path
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Well have to see what borrowed power comes in 9.1 and how ScAlinG effects us

fleet anchor
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Not off the top of my head though

slow marsh
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And Necro doesn't seem to get much interesting that I've seen

fleet anchor
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A fair bit iirc

limber lion
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Yeah, probably quite a bit

fleet anchor
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I mean the other factor is that Necro is better for Outlaw atm

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And I play Outlaw as well

worn path
fleet anchor
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If someone is being an Assassination one-trick, Venthyr seems fairly reasonable

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But Necro is definitely viable imo

limber lion
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Yeah

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If changing back wasn't so difficult

heavy skiff
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if i swich to necro to lvl it up is it easy to go back to venth later if i want?

limber lion
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I would just do it instantly

worn path
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Venthyr is also viable for outlaw too

limber lion
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Just to give it a go and see how it plays out

fleet anchor
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Necro is kinda fun on fights like Sludge too since it gives something you can bank for pillars

ionic kelp
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might just switch to NL after we kill sire and get a couple of reclears in, just to get it prepped for next tier

fleet anchor
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00:04:26.799 Kartra Serrated Bone Spike Sludgefist 16696

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Kinda fun ngl 😄

balmy condor
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Did they ever fix the mastery on initial hit thing

fleet anchor
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Mastery got removed from that yes

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Otherwise Necro would be king

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Honestly if they ever fixed SBS mechanically.. like Sudden Fractures not benefitting from Mastery and the DoT not being able to Crit

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It'd probably be about the same as Venthyr

icy ember
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whats this i hear about sharpened blade being added to sin rogue

thorny rose
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It currently stacks with wound poison but I doubt that will go live

gusty mirage
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unless they intend to give assa essentially the same thing as sharpened

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but we'll see

fleet anchor
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Master Poisoner+TTB+Hemotoxin burst build 😮

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Just waiting for those Nightstalker+TTB screenshots in the PvP channels next patch

gusty mirage
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well we'll see how this new pvp gear scaling works

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it already popped up on the ptr, base ilvl 200, 213 in pvp

swift dragon
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im back

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@stoic needle your WA doesnt really work with vigor lmao

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it never procs

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nonetheless a very good one

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i need some help

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i can only manage 2k dps on a dummy

balmy condor
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Does that sim use raid buffs

swift dragon
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idk

balmy condor
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I’m unfamiliar with the discord bot simming

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As it’s rather useless

vestal wren
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sim with target dummy fight style

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this one is patchwerk

balmy condor
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^

swift dragon
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whats the diff ?

vestal wren
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raid buffs/runes/etc are deactivated

balmy condor
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Patchwerk includes lust and buffs and loses hp

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Dummy does not

swift dragon
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oh right

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i want to cast muti/finishers as soon as possible right ?

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unless theres a point to pooling energy ?

balmy condor
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Higher envenom uptime

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More energy for shiv/vend windows

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Higher elaborate planning uptime if you’re using that

swift dragon
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BS/MA

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so no

balmy condor
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Well the first 2 still apply

swift dragon
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wait so what do i cast then if im at 5-6 combo points and everything is up

balmy condor
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You cast when at max-1 cp, instantly in shiv/vend

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Or you wait until about 30 energy from max otherwise

heavy skiff
balmy condor
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That’s how the sims do it

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It naturally just pools for everything and maximizes your uptimes

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So

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Seems worth to me

heavy skiff
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i think it ends up being the same thing tho

balmy condor
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Well not quite

stoic needle
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i was using it all last night with vigor

balmy condor
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If you just finish in <1, you’re not technically pooling for shiv

tropic echo
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i doubt it, envenom during shiv is a lot of dmg so it's a lot better to get 2 or 3 by pooling and losing a second or two on the envenom buff than just getting 1 envenom during shiv

balmy condor
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You might do that in your gameplay

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But just the rule <1 doesn’t cover all the bases

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The same way energy -30 does

heavy skiff
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ye ur right

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Ty

stoic needle
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my weakaura uses >75% energy, which is energy -30

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roughly

icy crater
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wait do you really use that envenom weak aura?

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that the guy wanted pinned

balmy condor
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What

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I feel like I missed this convo

stoic needle
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i mean yeah why wouldnt i use the weakaura i made

icy crater
tropic echo
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self-awareness of being bad

stoic needle
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i get better results with it than without it so Shrug

icy crater
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do you have an envenom buff bar?

stoic needle
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my envenom buff does show up prominently on my bars yes

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but the envenom buff and pooling to max-30 doesn't always line up

icy crater
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I'm confused as to why you'd ever need that information then

stoic needle
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because they don't always line up

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sometimes the envenom buff will drop and you still won't be pooled to max-30

compact pumice
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Just curious

swift dragon
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what take prio, mainintg envenom or energy pooling ?

stoic needle
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i mean, you don't 'lose' dps by the buff dropping off. pandemicing the buff doesn't magically give you extra buff uptime

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its still the same duration

limber lion
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Your Envenom will be the same

swift dragon
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thats highly counterintuitive lmao

balmy condor
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Like if you have 5 seconds of envenom, and you wait till 1 second left, and get another 5 seconds, that’s 10 seconds total

old depot
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I'm new to retail, will stygia likely still be used to socket the new gear coming with 9.1? I just hit exalted with Venari and was wondering if I may as well hold off on socketing my current gear

balmy condor
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If you have 5 seconds

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Wait 2 seconds

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And then 5 seconds

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You still have 10 seconds

limber lion
swift dragon
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right but like if i have 1 second left but only say 50 energy should i cast it or not

compact pumice
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Unless you can get an envenom up as it lines up with the previous one etc?

limber lion
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And you cannot use Stygia or the current socketing items to socket your gear.

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That's why they are classified as "Season 1" sockets.

hot chasm
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The socket item states its for season1 items

old depot
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Perfect, thank you Ceverion

heavy skiff
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Does env buff buff ur next envenom? Or only poison damage?

swift dragon
stoic needle
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it's max -30

balmy condor
limber lion
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Not sure why so many people think that the Envenom buff increases poison damage

stoic needle
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90 without vigor, 140 with vigor

limber lion
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It's literally just an increased poison proc chance.

swift dragon
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right

quasi widget
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crit haste on doomblade lego right?

limber lion
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Not increased damage.

limber lion
swift dragon
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not trying to contest it but why ?

limber lion
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Why do we pool you mean?

heavy skiff
stoic needle
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if you don't envenom until that threshold it guarantees that you have energy up for every shiv window, and that you don't clip the envenom buff and waste uptime

heavy skiff
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It was on the artefact weapon

limber lion
icy crater
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I guess I look at my energy bar so like

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having that WA makes sense but not for me

balmy condor
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There was a passive that increased poison damage

swift dragon
wary ice
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Pooling moves resources into periods of higher damage

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you pool around envenom to get mutilates to finisher-cp inside the window

stoic needle
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i look at my energy bar too, but sometimes my outlaw brain gets the best of me and i want to envenom early, and the weakaura helps to remind me not to

wary ice
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slash it makes your energy in general line up better for shiv windows

stoic needle
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unless a mechanic means i shjould anyway

icy crater
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its kinda weird especially on sludge no?

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should be dumping for stomps and shit anyways

balmy condor
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Well you don’t pool when you can’t

stoic needle
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yeah i mean its a judgement call

icy crater
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regardless of energy since you'll regen while doing mechanics

heavy skiff
wary ice
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rip kingslayers you were kings 😦

icy crater
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chuffa 900iq memory

balmy condor
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I mean not really

icy crater
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y

limber lion
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Surge is a staple

balmy condor
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He remembered something that increased envenom damage on envenom

limber lion
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If he said "Surge"

icy crater
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is it poison and not nature damage

balmy condor
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And that did neither

icy crater
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or something

wary ice
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yeah thats why it says poison damage lol

limber lion
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It increases your deadly poison damage.

icy crater
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jesus christ

balmy condor
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It says poison in the description

icy crater
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blizzard

heavy skiff
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I almost got it right

icy crater
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is cancer

balmy condor
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What

stoic needle
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Envenom is a poison but not a Poison

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-blizzard

balmy condor
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Why is that blizzard being cancer

stoic needle
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because our mastery says bleeds and poisons - affects envenom

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zoldyck says Bleeds and Poisons - doesn't affect envenom

balmy condor
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Mastery is the outlier

stoic needle
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or is zoldyck the outlier pepehmm

limber lion
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Na

wary ice
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Def mastery

icy crater
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it doesn't matter it makes shit ambiguous as all fuck

wary ice
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mASStery if u will

icy crater
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I don't remember how exact mechanics work on every tooltip from 5 years ago so if I use a definition today

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its just wrong

stoic needle
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make zoldyck envenom peeporiot

icy crater
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thats why its bullshit

balmy condor
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Well considering zoldyck doesn’t work, and surge didn’t work, and other poison affects don’t work

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Mastery is the clear outlier

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As the only thing

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Which affects envenom

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So yeah

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Mastery is the outlier

wary ice
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TBH i learned that mastery affected envenom like a month ago

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and it straight didnt matter

stoic needle
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But imagine how dogshit our mastery would be if it didnt affect envenom

wary ice
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Not a single gearing decision in the last 4 years woulda changed

limber lion
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I had a brainfart about mastery affecting Envenom the other day as well

balmy condor
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Like stats are already the same thing with different colors of paint

icy crater
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yeah ofc

wary ice
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speaking of colors of paint

balmy condor
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They all basically increase 50% or more of our abilities, and that’s that

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Like

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Stats are incredibly boring

wary ice
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Is Haste still the goto stat w. the MFD NS build ?

balmy condor
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Yes

polar cape
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wasnt it agonizing poison that got dmg amp from surge and you could increase envenom dmg with it

wary ice
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Weird

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Oh wait its not wierd im wrong

limber lion
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Fuck Agonizing Poison

wary ice
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I keep forgetting u take MA w/ it

balmy condor
#

For that 1 patch

#

But agonizing has like 629594 other problems

#

I try my best to forget it existed

#

Worst talent they’ve ever made

polar cape
#

lots of sick interraction <.<

wary ice
#

I kinda miss having different kinds of lethals though tbh

#

Esp now that poisons arent an assa thing

icy crater
#

y you just push it

#

oooo fun

stoic needle
#

Yeah I would like to have more types of poison

old depot
#

For M+, are we garroting beyond the first 3 from subterfuge?

wary ice
#

Honestly i think all the Unpruning/classwide changes into SL for rogue were ass

icy crater
#

unless they spend 27432423 hours actually designing lethals that are interesting and you actually use different ones

gritty spoke
#

agonizing was basically hunger for blood 2.0

wary ice
icy crater
#

or have a lethal on a CD like fucking idk poison dip

old depot
#

So in a pack of 5, Garrote and maintain all 5?

icy crater
#

kinda like shiv but cooler

gritty spoke
#

or 3.0 possibly, forget if they had another thing like it inbetween

icy crater
#

and you just pump

heavy skiff
#

Imagine having to change poisons mid fight when adds are about to spawn...

balmy condor
wary ice
#

basically im saying i dont like instant poison existing

limber lion
old depot
#

Right, copy that

wary ice
#

assuming Zoldycks

#

i think the ct and rup are switchable if needed

wary pawn
#

as necrolord , what would be the optimal opener sbs>mut>snd etc or mut first? does it even matter?

balmy condor
#

Yeah, CT would come first on 5 mobs for sure

wary ice
balmy condor
#

But usually rup/ct in cleave is close enough

limber lion
#

I tend to garr and rup both targets in 2T before using CT

wary pawn
#

tymen, also is sudden fractures conduit worth it?

wary ice
#

SBS first just to get the dot up faster, i dont think it'll make a huge difference over a boss fight tbh

limber lion
#

Yes, but you should sim it.

stoic needle
#

So what's the consensus on opening from stealth with mut vs sbs?

balmy condor
balmy condor
#

But it’s a difference of like

thorny rose
#

ranged opener we hunters now

balmy condor
#

5 dps

wary pawn
#

better than WPS? SF its like 8dps more in sims

swift dragon
balmy condor
wary pawn
#

ok ty man gonna try it

limber lion
balmy condor
swift dragon
#

alright

wary ice
#

yeah essentially

sweet fable
#

Can 213 poison katar drop in CN or is it only venari upgrade

swift dragon
#

ty

icy crater
#

pulling slg 80 times then forgetting your regular ST opener lul

wary ice
#

the key part of pooling is to not over think it

thorny rose
#

pool for shiv but don’t hold shiv, slam it on CD

swift dragon
#

im assuming maintaining rupture and garr take prio over pooling ?

wary ice
#

its really just asking yourself "Will i be able to do what i need to if i burn energy right now"

stoic needle
#

Yes

#

Never delay rupture or garotte to pool

wary ice
#

^

stoic needle
#

Pool is just for envenom

swift dragon
#

right ty

#

good to know all this

stoic needle
#

I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a misplay to sbs from stealth

wary ice
balmy condor
#

Well technically we pool on mutilate as well but I never mention it cause it’s such an edge case and so minimal that it’s not worth the energy talking about

balmy condor
limber lion
swift dragon
#

watch me ping mods to pin it and get banned

balmy condor
wary ice
balmy condor
icy crater
#

do you only pool mut if ur past a certain haste breakpoint where the spec "feels" good?

limber lion
#

Exactly.

stoic needle
limber lion
balmy condor
#

I see

stoic needle
#

I mean lets be real sin is unplayable without 15.01%+ haste

balmy condor
#

I didn’t read mute logs today lul

balmy condor
#

Serves me right

wary ice
#

how he get muted twice its only 1:30 :/

swift dragon
#

ive only been muted once lmao

stoic needle
#

Man's on a mission

limber lion
#

Nah he pinged Blades twice.

wary ice
#

lol lets keep it that way

balmy condor
#

He pinged BLADES?

swift dragon
#

well the first time cause they changed my name for no reason

balmy condor
#

Jesus

swift dragon
#

second time cause of poggers WA that was linked asking them to pin it

limber lion
#

We had all orange boys and Fiery in here for a good while.

swift dragon
#

my brain is quite smooth

icy crater
#

there was a mod uprising

#

and the guy was banned

balmy condor
#

And FIERY?

#

Holy shit

swift dragon
balmy condor
#

Imagine pinging shadows for a weakaura

#

Oh man

swift dragon
balmy condor
#

Every day I think I see funny shit

#

But then the next day comes around

icy crater
#

isn't it fantastic

wary ice
#

truly a blessed day

fleet anchor
#

I ping Fuu all the time and I don't get in trouble

willow drum
#

on mythic council do you guys hold vandetta untill attendat has passed?

#

like on pull

swift dragon
#

things are about to get a lot funnier now my clown ass is in here

balmy condor
#

Koji shut up

swift dragon
#

@vestal wren this guy ?

wary ice
balmy condor
#

Bruh

tribal steppe
#

hey quick question - are the openers on Icy veins current.. for pve and pvp?

icy crater
#

mute

swift dragon
#

it was good knowing you lads

icy crater
#

4 hour mute

#

send it

swift dragon
#

godspeed

willow drum
#

dunno im trialing tnight on it and i rly dont wanna fuck up

fleet anchor
#

First attendent we usually have Boomkins blow up anyway before it does anything

willow drum
#

ah ok

fleet anchor
#

So I've never really delayed for it

balmy condor
#

I’m gonna blame koji for that one

willow drum
#

ye we got 2 boomies as well

balmy condor
wary ice
drifting cloud
#

I hold it but its mostly because of our kill timer

halcyon zealot
#

first attendant is not 30 seconds in on mythic council, maybe heroic

#

it’s like 8-10 seconds in

drifting cloud
#

since its 8:30~ so im not losing a cast

balmy condor
drifting cloud
#

because you cant get 4min one for us its always during dance

tribal steppe
#

also - for necro - im using MA legendary, do you open with bonespike or stick with mut?

willow drum
#

and why i was confused

swift dragon
#

good thing fuu is on dnd

limber lion
#

He always is

balmy condor
#

Yeah fuu’s always on mute

icy crater
#

his discord probably looks like a christmas tree

swift dragon
#

no ping notifications peeporeallyhap

icy crater
#

with all the notifications and shit

balmy condor
#

Presumably cause dumbasses ping him for no reason

icy crater
#

actually ban

limber lion
#

Might wanna stop

icy crater
#

like actually

balmy condor
#

Aight dude

drifting cloud
#

just mute him for 24h

tribal steppe
balmy condor
#

Didn’t you learn your lesson earlier

swift dragon
stoic needle
#

If you open with sbs you still want to use mut in the rest of the ma window right?

cedar hare
#

And good news in 9.1?

wary ice
limber lion
#

Sbs Snd Mut or Sbs muti SnD

icy crater
#

yeah we didn't get nerfed yet

#

that's good news

cedar hare
#

so no buffs I guess

icy crater
#

ye ur right assa needs some buffs

swift dragon
balmy condor
#

We have basically 0 changes

icy crater
#

they're not competitive at all

vagrant bison
#

is doomblade much better than zoldyk in raid (heroic)?

balmy condor
#

In 9.1

wary ice
balmy condor
wary ice
#

so u can very safely just always do sbs snd mut

swift dragon
wary ice
#

to get buffs up quicker

limber lion
fleet anchor
limber lion
#

Or at least since I checked it yesterday

fleet anchor
#

Because all of his Discord servers look like that at all times

icy crater
#

true

wary ice
#

YEah 1 cp SnD is 12s and you env about 6s later in ST; might be different in aoe where you're holding the env longer

tribal steppe
wary ice
#

then you aint gotta worry about a thing :^)

icy crater
#

tfw I have to get up and do stuff and I really don't want to

stoic needle
#

Getting 2cp from mut with MA talent is truly fucked up

tribal steppe
#

lol

limber lion
#

It's also really rare.

hollow escarp
#

yeah, but memorable

wary ice
#

ITs more the 1 cp from sbs

#

in that regard

stoic needle
#

Sometimes you get bad rolls

tribal steppe
#

how is it possible not to get 4 from stealth with MA?

swift dragon
#

is it worth "wasting" the cp from shiv to get a good window ?

willow drum
#

yes

limber lion
#

You press Shiv on CD

wary ice
#

also its only really relevent for the literal first global

swift dragon
#

aight ty

wary ice
#

IDK if SBS is still used in subsequent vanishes w/ MA talent in st

halcyon zealot
#

anyone take a look at bosses on ptr yet and (from the available information) able to see if it’ll be a more ST/2 target (assa) or cleave (outlaw) heavy raid in 9.1?

limber lion
#

Quite a few cleave fights

halcyon zealot
#

of course.. smh

limber lion
#

But that doesn't mean that it's an "Outlaw tier"

stoic needle
#

Sin pumps hard on 2t cleave

wary ice
#

Turns out the dot class is pretty good at cleaving too yeah

stoic needle
#

And there's going to be at least two of those

willow drum
#

do y'all pre-pandemic apply dots if u get shiv in like 5 and garrote falls off in 9 and rupture in 11 ish

#

like random scenario

#

just tryna find out cuz i'm trying both rn

#

but i feel like pre-pandemic feels kinda meh

limber lion
#

Nah

#

Just reapply during the Shiv

wary ice
#

honestly i just take the shitty shiv window

#

If i have to rupture in it; i rupture in it

#

GEnerally that means you fucked up somewhere like 20s before that anyways

hollow escarp
#

shiv is a 9 sec buff on 25 sec cd

#

worth reapplying

willow drum
#

it just mostly happens after my opener

#

then not rly after

balmy condor
#

Stop thinking of shiv as an envenom buffer, and start thinking about it as uptime

hollow escarp
lapis pecan
#

Bottled Flayedwing Toxin work with doomblade?

balmy condor
#

If you use shiv thinking “I need higher shiv uptime”

willow drum
balmy condor
#

You got it

balmy condor
#

Damn what

#

Pins

#

That’s crazy

#

Who would’ve thought of that

willow drum
swift dragon
#

wait a second

#

whyspir

#

whispyr*

#

arent you the dude that was on the marcelian podcast

balmy condor
#

I am

swift dragon
#

pog

limber lion
#

Whyspir owoHehe

balmy condor
lapis pecan
#

thanks

wary ice
#

more like pogcast

#

checking that out now

hollow escarp
#

never heard of that lol

stoic needle
#

Whiespayr

#

Whyspr

#

How badly can we mispell his name

balmy condor
#

Almost as bad as my name in real life

#

Tbh

halcyon zealot
#

whispyr doesn’t get paid enough for this

balmy condor
#

I just live a cursed life of getting my name misspelled

split veldt
#

wispeer

balmy condor
stoic needle
#

Whydontyoureadthepinspyr

halcyon zealot
#

hahaha

balmy condor
#

Oh my god

stoic needle
limber lion
stoic needle
#

Change your icon to checkthepins

hollow escarp
#

lol

balmy condor
#

I’m on it

stoic needle
balmy condor
#

I will combine all my limbs into the shape of a pin

#

And become pinsodia

stoic needle
#

Pin tattoo when

#

man sbs is so much more fun than flag I can't deny it

thorny rose
#

man if people keep saying that im gonna have to switch to necro but i hate their mog and mounts :/

stoic needle
#

They're so bad

#

I just pretend they don't exist

velvet cosmos
#

Am i going crazy or why is druid roar breaking my shroud? 😛 Always been like this or something changed?

stoic needle
#

And wear the wod poisoner's battlegear set

#

A new patch, new stealth bugs

velvet cosmos
#

tried a PF +19 and after roar broke shroud 3 times we just for the luls tired it 2 more times. Same shit.

stoic needle
#

Can't say I've had that happen to me before

#

We're you using theotar double potency

hollow venture
#

Handing out that absorb breaks things

#

Or at least can. I hear it's weird

wary ice
#

only thing weird is running double potency theo

#

smh

halcyon zealot
#

is there any other class in the game where you’d wanna play 3 covenants at once or are we the lucky ones

wary ice
#

Warrior

halcyon zealot
#

like i wanna be NF venth and necro and it i think has been taking years off my life the stress it’s caused me the past few months trying to decide then swap then swap back lol

wary ice
#

I mean

#

the deicsion straight doesnt matter

stoic needle
#

Just play all of them

wary ice
#

I play ven cause pressing flag is a feels good button for me

#

Oshosi ABANDONDED US for the same reason: he enjoys pressing sbs

naive surge
#

Sbs feels so right on sin

stoic needle
#

I also enjoy pumping in m+

shy dust
stoic needle
#

And you can't really pump in m+ with venthyr

wary ice
#

Yah if ur a dork

slow marsh
#

Oshoi was an oGvampboi but he's a traitor now

stoic needle
#

I'm stinky now

halcyon zealot
#

ya my prob is i like to optimize my toon around raid, where i play assa 95% of the time, but out of raid i’m usually outlaw, and venth outlaw feels like straight ass

wary ice
#

high key i just think flag is an amazing cd to have available for pridefuls and stuff

stoic needle
#

It's punishment enough

wary ice
#

Ven outlaw is dope af

#

smh

stoic needle
#

Ehh

#

I think it's pretty bad ngl

wary ice
#

Its literally inverse-bladeflurry

#

u burna global and do too much damage to one thing instead

stoic needle
#

I didn't find flag to be a needed cd for pride when you already blow all of your CDs on pride

#

And my overall was doodoo

slow marsh
#

What is doodoo to you

wary ice
#

we cant afford to burn everything into a pride and then have a sick ass 4 minute boss fight

stoic needle
#

Like barely 6k overall

teal bloom
#

That video was recommended to me Pog

limber lion
#

Equal amount of effort as I put in

balmy condor
limber lion
#

As is proper for Whyspir

teal bloom
#

Whispir is my favourite rogue guy :)

slow marsh
#

I don't think @surreal torrent is a real person

balmy condor
limber lion
limber lion
slow marsh
#

Kekbanned

balmy condor
frosty bridge
#

is 17% "lot" of haste?

#

Raidbots already making me go full crit gems and enchants + deeper strat

#

over haste

#

250 dps gain according to sim

balmy condor
#

yep

#

that seems reasonable

#

especially with venthyr

#

which I assume you are

#

because I'm 900 iq gigabrain

frosty bridge
#

Yup, switched to fool around as sin, pretty fun

#

Makes sense makes sense

wise fiber
#

im getting Exacting preparation soulbind as the best sim with dungeonslice. is that allright? or whats the recoomended tree?

stoic needle
#

exacting prep is fine

#

theotar wasteland propriety is also good

#

but you just have to make sure not to die or to refresh your food buff if you do die

wise fiber
#

Ok got it! thanks!

stoic needle
gusty mirage
brittle pawn
#

probably more

shy dust
stoic needle
#

yeah fuck xav

frosty bridge
#

Always saving weapons for the last boss

#

NW

brittle pawn
#

spires alst boss

stoic needle
#

true devos is thicc af

balmy condor
brittle pawn
#

most bosses in pugs because other 2 dps find fun and exciting new ways to die

stoic needle
#

bro you can't tell me you haven't seen those forsworn clappers

pastel shale
#

25% haste and counting 2ez

wary ice
#

uhh basically all of DoS 'cept hakkar

#

and gnomes

#

so really just the dealer

stoic needle
#

4 min xy'exa monkaGiga

#

sounds like a wipe to me

wary ice
#

if we burn shit on the prideful we go into the fight spamming firebal and SS

#

takes like 30s of pride buff before we're actually doing damage

#

honestly hakkar can realistically take 4 minutes if your healers good

#

but your keys dead at that point so

stoic needle
#

dos in general is some fuckery

wary ice
#

My point is just that flag is a really good cooldown for prideful cause of how it works

stoic needle
#

i'm glad i got it as my key this week on fort instead of tyr

#

for sure, i don't disagree with you there

#

i just didn't feel like it ever made the difference between us killing the pride or not

wary ice
#

Althought tbh i probably woulda swapped to NLord by now if i didnt also need to be the guy to take gargyles and open the code reds

#

I think its pretty inarguable that its the better cov in M+

shy dust
#

Invest in a holy Paladin

wary ice
#

we have one :/

shy dust
#

Venthyr*

wary ice
#

Kyrian :^(

stoic needle
#

could you imagine if flag blade flurried poggers

wary ice
#

Initial hit does, at the very least

stoic needle
#

the lashes i mean

quasi oar
#

!guide

wary ice
#

I'm pretty sure the bonus lashes from conduit also flurry since they're tucked into the initial it itself

#

I cna test that when i get home

#

but yeah the CP lashes def dont and that sad

halcyon zealot
#

bull you play assa or outlaw in ur high keys

wary ice
#

Outlaw

halcyon zealot
#

bet

wary ice
#

for the record i think Assa is super capable of doing 20+s

#

I just think our group benefits more from having outlaw rogues CC - more specifically it gets gouge and the rotation is ez monkey brain so i have the mental bandwith to be cc bitch at the same time

#

Also honestly for as long as @marble hemlock continues to play Outlaw i will play outlaw

marble hemlock
halcyon zealot
#

yeah i play outlaw in keys also, just feels smoother atm for me at least

tribal steppe
#

how far below venth is necro now in PVE ST?

drifting cloud
#

100~

wary ice
#

i believe the simsare in pins

gusty mirage
# stoic needle yeah fuck xav

Cool concept that I just knew would be miserable in m+ especially because the buff doesn’t make up for the dps lost

stoic needle
#

yeah idk why the buff is so low

#

i don't think the pinned sims have been updated with the new gemstone sbs dumping optimization which narrows the gap a bit more

gusty mirage
#

They should make the buff scale with key level or something

wary ice
stoic needle
#

koji came up with an optimization that brings necrolord to within 1% of venthyr

#

wherein you wait until the marrowed gemstone proc activates and then dump all of your sbs charges

wary ice
#

The true dream is running rogue Fmage afflock, fmage busts and the rogue and the fmage get sent down as the banner spawns

gusty mirage
wary ice
#

LEaving the poor warlock trying to figure out how to kill a banner by himself :^(

marble hemlock
#

gimme 15k stygia

gusty mirage
#

Take all my Stygia man

marble hemlock
#

so i can add 2 sockets to my high crit bracers/neck

gusty mirage
#

I don’t even want it

#

Get me out of outlaw hell pepehands

wary ice
stoic needle
#

my M+ sin set is up to 34% mastery

wary ice
stoic needle
#

i wish sub wasn't dogshit i wouldnt mind playing it in keys too

wary ice
#

I love sub tbh

#

but it sure doesnt feel good to play rn

brittle pawn
#

sub be ResidentSleeper

wary ice
#

I still play it in raid fights im not comfortable on

#

Namely Council prog and Sunking

shy dust
#

Still pretty good

#

For both of those fights

spice spire
shy dust
#

Especially council

wary ice
#

YEah but tbh im only playing it cause the rotation is pretty brain dead so i can focus on mechanics without losing too much damage

wary ice
#

and also because I'm getting UTTERLLY FUCKED by my guild on sunking

stoic needle
#

rngesus gave me the bis sin crit mastery neck so i took it as a sign from the lord that i should return back to my spec in keys

gusty mirage
#

Tbh I don’t know if there’s any way that fight goes smooth for anyone

#

Sun king is legit such an awful fight

wary ice
#

No i mean UTTERLY fucked

#

I have to get first fucking pedastal

shy dust
#

Hey bro

#

Why were you afk

wary ice
#

and then we call a stop dps because our dps is way ahead of our healers

shy dust
#

For 1 min

halcyon zealot
#

bruh lol that is a wild graph

wary ice
#

I literally didnt press a button for 45s

shy dust
#

Your parse might be low if you afk for a minute

wary ice
#

then i pressed feint

brittle pawn
gusty mirage
shy dust
#

Sire has that problem too

wary ice
shy dust
#

From 2 mins until the end of phase 1

#

I just have to sit there maintain alacrity

gusty mirage
#

Sure they have, it’s called mist weaver

#

And 2 holy priests

#

And you just face roll it

wary ice
#

We just pop like 3 combusts and Warlock 1 minutes into the opening pack it it melts

shy dust
#

2 Hpriests make the fight a joke

gusty mirage
#

Oh omegalul yeah that’ll do it

#

Don’t worry in August when 9.1 comes out we can laugh at the fire mages

marble hemlock
wary ice
#

Bro mage will still be busted in 9.1 😦

marble hemlock
#

but game doesnt have crit mastery items

wary ice
gusty mirage
#

Buncha fuckin haste mastery though

#

It’s actually so tilting to get haste mastery gear

wary ice
#

Also beyond true

#

Im willing to bet theres at least 7 haste/mast rings

gusty mirage
#

Is the team that designs loot all resto druids or something?

stoic needle
#

I looked on the ptr and there seems to be a better balance of secondaries on gear in the new tier

#

In the raid at least

#

I regret turning down that 226 crit mastery chest 2x in a row

lofty shell
#

you gotta sync cd's and trinkets with the pillar hits

#

potion

#

make sure bleeds are up before he crashes into it

#

shiv can get a bit wonky if you forget to watch the timers

balmy condor
#

you shiv once between pillars

#

and once on pillar

lofty shell
#

but theres prob ppl here with better tjips than the obbv ones 😛

ionic kelp
#

uh small things like flagging before finisher and not before a generator

balmy condor
#

so it's shiv on pull, shiv between pillar, shiv pillar1, shiv between pillar, shiv pillar 2, shiv between pillar, shiv pillar 3

ionic kelp
#

you are refreshing bleeds during pillars

balmy condor
#

yeah that's a pretty yikes

ionic kelp
#

super small thing but u popped ur potion middle of 4th pillar

#

its better to just not be in that position ever

#

yup just so it covers the 10s

#

like this is kinda awk

#

ya dont waste a gcd in shiv / pillars

#

not really necessary, its a slight dps increase but the only real pooling i end up doing is for shiv which is just because of having to run out

frosty bridge
#

16k envenoms

#

im legit

#

happy that sin is this good

pure moth
#

You still did 7k though... so im curious rhett these tips will do for you next time!

subtle kiln
#

are you comparing a 5:15 kill to a 4:39 kill and wondering why you have more envenoms?

balmy condor
#

you're also using vigor

#

with is really weird

#

like it would be fine if you ran EP

#

but you ran both BS AND vigor

#

which is just for sure wrong

#

he played BS vigor?

#

that's so troll

#

with high haste, you have to drop one

#

and ESPECIALLY with venthyr

subtle kiln
#

not playing bonespike smh

balmy condor
#

yeh you also just got fucked with crits

#

but that's nothing you can control

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I'm not sure when venthyr wants to drop BS/vigor

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but it's like

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stupid low haste

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I'm not sure if you'd actually ever run bs/vigor as a venthyr

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even 0 haste

ionic kelp
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when i had 11% haste as venthyr, DS was still like a 40dps upg

balmy condor
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I mean I don't see your meters

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but you're not doing more aoe with those talents

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at least not because of those

muted ridge
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Not playing with Vigor feels to me like playing at 0.5speed. Sure does more dmg but, just so slower

stoic needle
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Me gusta low apm sin

royal lantern
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vigor doesnt give you 20more apm, just saying

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vigor is SLIGHTLY faster

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slightly

brittle pawn
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more buttons = moe dam

dawn moat
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do you pool energy before shiv/ven windows when playing 3322221?

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ST