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Assuming you're at max-1 before using rupture yes
Wait what is gems?
Gemstone proc from Heimir
marrowed gemstone
Does the max-1 apply to the venth opening as well? mut>slice>mut>garotte>flag>rupture, but should i mut>garotte>mut>flag instead if i'm not max-1?
Ah okay I’ve just switched to necro so not done any of this stuff
you dont have energy for mut as venth
god 9.1 is looking spicy for us
hell you dont even have energy for garrote most of the time
I'm here for it
Sorry for noob questions what is max-1?
gotcha, so just 3 cp rupture rather than wait? (almost never happens with MA anyway)
Nah you wait and mut again
Does it mean 5/4 or 6/5 with ds
Waiting isn't the end of the world
Yes sir.
3 cp would be super unlucky so just wait and rupture on that
Thanks sir
although you would have like 80% or so crit getting a 2 cp mut is rough
makes sense thanks
what really is rough is getting parried bcs tank turns the boss for no reason
on your critwindow
What's the dps loss of subterfuge?
You should sim it
It'll be different for everyone.
I guess it depends on how much value you get from multiple garrote on sires cabalists, and it's only 1 vanish so I'm not even sure
It's definitely not worth using Subterfuge on Sire.
I'm not sure if I missunderstood, but while talented MA, is it wrong to always go Vanish > Env > Mut > Env regardless of the CP gathered but mut during that window?
I'll probably just get dots on sword then sire, envenom for snd time, and just spare CT and ruptures on cabalists in between refreshes
MA fok more
That is incorrect.
You still follow the same generation rules. Meaning that if you only get 2-3 combo points, you would mutilate again.
Yes that is fine.
This you probably shouldn't do.
The key to parsing well on Sire is to maximizing bleed up time on all targets, managing cooldowns well and having very high uptime on the boss itself.
I'm trying to kill him, I'm assigned to gloomveil because that's just how our cds end up
That's fine, just use cooldowns accordingly.
For what bosses in Castle Natharia do we change to CT? I asume Sun King's, Stone Legion and Sire? Would you do it on Huntsman and Council too?
Those 3 that you mentioned are all good candidates for CT.
You should also be playing CT on Huntsman.
But, you should not play CT on Council, unless you're looking to pad on waiters.
Thanks Cev!
Is there any serious dps loss for letting a dot fall off 1 target in cleave? If I'm prepared to ct, but garrote is wearing on sire, and I'm waiting for remornia to come back to hit 4 with ct.
Should I overcap cp to refresh, or as long I'm pooling and garrote exists on someone, it's OK to wait?
You should never, ever let rupture/garrote drop from your main targets. It's better to just overcap by 1 cp and garrote instead of letting it drop
But you should also not be waiting for Remornia to come back, it's better to just CT immediately and then CT again when Remornia comes back a while later
No point just sitting there waiting for 3-5s with max cp
When there are multiple targets (3 or more), you should have your garrote on cooldown at all times
Meaning that you should also have 3 active garrotes up on 3 enemies at all times.
Garrote is one of our strongest buttons. It deals decent damage, it generates CP and it refunds energy via Venomous Wounds.
There is very little reason why you would not want to press garrote and those scenarios are very rare.
I don't feel spending cp on one target for ct would exceed having 3 with ct and putting more ruptures
The pins say 5 bleeds are optimal for primary target damage. On a fight like council, should garrote be prioritized over rupture for non prio targets?
??
Yes.
You should use both, but garrote > rupture
thanks
The idea of just ct, then re ct for one target, when dots are being juggled seems wasteful. I already realize this whole phase is pretty much tab target the game
Shard of Domination's sound like a right hassle right now 😦
Your idea of sitting there doing nothing for 5s waiting for Remornia to come back is 100000000000 times worse
You should never wait for Remornia to come back.
Wait is CT better than PB for pure ST?
How long till first add wave until P3 anyway, save cds I assume since they all got blown killing gloom
You just keep pressing buttons, applying ruptures/garrotes to everything
You CT even on single target
It's not.
Ah ok
That's like 2 minutes alone from her death
Honestly, I've read your messages a few times now, and I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Sorry.

The range blew nearly everything on sinsear, so I get swapped to using cds on gloomveil
Still not sure what you're saying.
But you should use cooldowns on Gloom and then hold them for P3.
40.5
All phase transitions happen at X.5%

No you sardine, that was our first p3
Then you should word it ”Our first P3”
Wow he's so nerfed, the first P3 was 52% and now it's 37%?? whahaat
someone knows if Mnemonic Equipment dot stacks like doomblade/ignite?
mnemonic equipemtn doesnt even work correctly yet i think
Too early to say, yeah.
i know for DKs it wasnt taking into account any of their pet damage so it was doing like 0.2% of their dam lol
for my character i couldnt even find it doing damage
Those sire nerfs will obly help guilds that was struggling with those 1% wipes on him.
Only*
I mean it's a massive nerf, so it will help all guilds quite a bit. Even guilds that are farming him.
not really dont understimate the extra % in execute range
getting him to 35% and 20% earlier in p3 is big
Some guilds (like my previous guild) could kill all other bosses on farm, but not Sire
So it'll help them a fair bit.
now we can do sire with 2 buyers lets gooo
15 seconds or however much it is made a huge difference
one more impale for the apes to die to but still sooo good
We didn't even get an extra impale, we just pushed at our normal time pretty much :P
Didn't have to hold dps though, so that's good.
Yeh
Why is Heirmir better over emeni ? new to neco .. i dont get it
heirmir gemstone thingy at the last line, 18% crit every minute
ooh
i guess i need more levels now .. only 24 reown level right now and i was simc and get emeni as best for my char lol
Do you guys have the plater config to see normal bar but see it in a specific color when SBS is on target
Sure use emeni until then
what's the best resource to learn +20 key routes/strats?
Well the best resource is usually just playing the game more and learning stuff as you go.
But there's plenty of streamers that you can follow and mimic.
Ryfie is a great assassination sin streamer, who pushes high keys.
yeah of course. just wondering if some generous soul has put together a little summary somewhere of tips for higher keys
I mean, Ryfie has a guide for Assassination in M+, but it doesn't really go over routes and whatnot
yeah I've read that, super helpful. but yeah moreso wanting dungeon specific tips
Yeh, those are few and far between.
for sure. worth a shot
im doing like 6.2k ish on 17s. not playing perfectly obviously and not really potting.
im sure CT uptime and fully understanding CD timings would help other than like hold for pride
and regemming towards crit I suppose
do we know which slots will have the domination sockets?
any tip for SLG? Starting progress today
Keep all bleeds up on the boss and the Goliath at all times. You can slam ruptures on the skirmishers, if you know they will live the duration. The first pack for example will likely not survive the duration.
I am going with doomblade so I guess I should keep mutilate on both as well righT?
If you're necro, make sure to throw SBS on Grashaal on pull so you get it on the boss before he flies away so you get more combo points with SBS during the encounter with Kaal.
No, you do not need to Mutilate multiple targets when running Doomblade. It does not work like that.
Mutilated Flesh's damage compounds, meaning that every time you hit with Mutilate, it adds to the existing dot, instead of replacing it.
It works similarly to Fire Mage's mastery, Ignite.
oh I thought it would replace it
Yeah, well it depends a lot on the dungeon as well. Some dungeons I do 8.5k+ and some I do closer to 7k.
yeah luckily I'm self-aware enough to know which parts of my play are lacking. I totally think I can get there with some more practice. and basically playing in my raid setup doesnt do me favors either
Yeah, that's great. Always looking to improve your gameplay and always being on the lookout on what to improve your play on, will skyrocket your performance.
this disc has taught me everything I know though. wish more ppl in my guild would actually engage with their class discords lol
Not all discords all equal though. :p
But yeah, glad to hear it!
But in the end, we just provide the information and the player does the work.
Yes, currently (afaik) these are the slots
This is why some are theorizing that Dashing Scoundrel on the cloak slot will be the new bis legendary for us.
Mr limit said all discord suck
But who knows, maybe we can add domination sockets on our legendaries. They have not yet confirmed nor denied that.
i just spent 50k gold and 5k ash to make another doomblade hands cuz mine was haste/vers, hopefully i didnt fuck myself

Well you can still get plenty of use out of them
God knows when the patch actually drops.
I'm sure you can make 50k gold and 5k ash before the next raid releases.
You shouldn't recraft legendaries just to change secondaries
That's definitely a waste of ash
eh i know but it would bug me im not fully otimized haha
But they're literally the same
its 18 dps differnce for me
im over 7.2k now
Crit haste doomblade sims as a dps downgrade for me
The sim will change the gear it recommends based on whatever secondaries you chose
eh its done now, fuck it
anyone knows the name of the -not really fair play- addon that give SoA 2nd boss bolt lines ?

I would not recommend using it, as it is clearly unfair play and most likely against the ToS.
well its not like one would need it either
if your tank does his thing right they arent hard to dodge
to be fair, it can get damn messy, tanks just need to try and stack turrets in twos
Probably don't need one, but the addon in the clip that's been around just makes it super easy.
Yeah but, not hard to track either
Tbh I didn’t know there was an add on
Have you even seen the clip?
Nope
welp
yeah ive seen a live dude using it and wanted to share with friend, but cant remember who it was
ohh nice ty
Imagine if blizzard actually properly telegraphed mob abilities 
I mean, if it’s the fight I’m thinking of
It’s just a matter of keeping track of orbs and the tank pulling the boss away from them
Just look at the clip.
See, this is what he was talking about.
It shouldn’t be but since the change for add ons prob is
How Crimson Tempest is best used? should I spam it or just use it once and let the dot do its thing? (especially in p1 and p2 at Sire mythic)
You should only apply the dot, you never want to spam CT.
tnx
You can refresh it at a maximum of 5 seconds remaining on the dot but no earlier than that
So like for example, when you get gripped after killing the first named add, you can use it on sire + remornia there and then again when the first set of cabalists spawn
But you're likely better off rupturing them both instead
Generally you want to try to pool cp to CT immediately when adds spawn
In P1 you mean?
P2 as well
For the cabalists
Like when a pair of them spawns you want to ct, then sbs > rupture into each one since they die quickly
Getting ct on both cabalists and sire and remornia with one cast is kinda disgusting damage
Ok I got you. thanks 🙂
Just make sure you're not sitting at max combo points and max energy waiting for stuff to spawn.
@limber lion

I've been beasting here for like 7 hours now.
You're just built dif
Glad to see some familiar faces
I would've been on earlier but I was being an old man and golfing 
I'll take you 
which build do you prefer for sire progress myth? I am using EP/vigor/CT so far, wondering if i should switch to bs later on or if it doesn`t have that much of an impact
Should play bs/deeper for p3 damage since that’s usually the pain point
I hate BS/DS/CT personally, I played it on one kill
EP/Vig/CT is honestly fine with the recent nerf.
DS/BS/PB is fine as well, if you're looking to focus more on P3.
But yeah, like Whispyr said, even with the nerfs, you can't really guarantee your team being alive for most of P3, which is why the damage check can get spicy.


I wonder if Doombalde is getting a placement update.
I didn't notice any of the rogue leggos on the list of them that did

Does Zoldyck's boost PB? The main hit? I'm assuming it boosts the ticks.
It should do, afaik.
There's no way to test Zoldyck's on a training dummy is there?
Afaik there's no "main hit" of PB. It just ticks for two seconds
If you get the training dummy low enough on HP
Hmm. Yeah looks like PB just ticks, but the rest of our bleeds have an initial hit, am still curious/.
neither garrote nor rupture does. CT does though.
Hmm
Yep. We don't really have execute dummies widely available
Is mechagnome oversimming? I ran a sim of all alliance races since I am unfortunately going alliance, and mechagnome had almost a 40 dps lead over the next closest race
No
mechagnome is the best dps race. I don't know what you mean by oversimming in that regard though
that just seemed like an outlier result
Mechagnome is an outlier.
Ok, I just wanted to make sure it was actually that good and not a mistake on my part
It's not as useful as Night Elf in M+, but it is definitely the best race for raiding.
Night Elf will win in m+ and PvP yeah
and does decently good on stats too so good overall
ya. I was mainly trying to see if sim recommended something besides NE
mecha is 60 more dps single target lol
But you'll look way cooler as Mechagnome
I kinda hate how they look
I would play Mechagnome if I was alliance.
I dont have them unlocked >.>
Rip
dark iron dwarf > void elf were the next 2 highest
also dont have those
gnome was the highest base race, but not by that much.
void elf is quite good if you also play sub at least
although human and dward are usually quite good all around too
It honestly doesn't make much of a difference in the end.
Just play whatever makes you happy.
on Mythic Denathrius, is it worth to keep CT up on him at all times or just when cleaving stuff?
Yes, you should keep CT up outside of Shiv windows.
ok got it, tyvm

kinda hesitant to swap to necro rn considering the guild I joined recently is still trying to kill sire, but what could go wrong with just a 70 dps ST difference 😄
Necrolord is actually the better covenant for Sire.
It performs quite a bit better in P2 and P3.
well makes sense I guess
Especially if you run Zoldyck.
31 renown should be realistic with a bit of playtime till sunday I guess?
have like 2h a day until friday
It's also really fun 😛
Although I'm still really unsure what exactly causes the P3 bugs
I agree, SBS is so much fun.
do you guys use any necro-specific macros? prolly not since its a builder and lowish cd, right?
I don't have any in particular
Some people mouse over macro SBS
sure. mouseover macro SBS
Other than I double up Fleshcraft on to one of my other buttons with an alt-modifier macro since I'm really low on hotkey space haha
I do use a tricks macro, but nothing else.
I need a focus target macro and tricks as well
same. I always do that with ST builder + AoE builder on 1 and alt+1 for example
Some people do prefer having a mouseover macro for it, because of resets.
Similar to how people macro MFD.
That's just like binding two abilites just one with a modifier though.
Yeah I use mouseover for SBS but I use Clique for that
Rather than macros
But I also have mouseover set up for Garrote and Rupture through Clique too
I use my M3/M4 buttons with modifiers for most of my mouseover things since it makes sense to me for mouseover macros to be controlled by my mouse to me 😛
I don't like just slamming mouseover conditionals into my main bar abilities via macro since I always feel like that's a good way to accidentally target the wrong thing 😛
I never really found the use for mouseover macros personally. It's more of a preference thing.
I'm just too used to tab-targetting everything, so I just stick to it.
I tried it with SBS, but I just had more issues with it randomly going on the wrong target because my cursor was on top of some random target. :p
^same
But yeah, stuff like this is really fun on Sire 
did someone already see/test if SBS preferably hits target without a dot already on them with the new legendary?
Afaik it hits the targets closest to your primary target.
It doesn't prioritize targets without the bleed, just whichever is closest.
Similar to how CT works
do the bonus hits from the legendary apply the dot?
Yes they do.
nice.
Sbs > garret the future is now
I like having one target macro if I'm swapping targets amongst a sea of nameplates
Yeh, it all comes down to preference in the end.
sim yourself
Generally DS is used for pure ST fights.
It's also fine with heavy add fights as Necrolord.
this happens to me all the time and it tilts me beyond belief
Same, so my solution was to just remove the mouseover function completely.
It's not like I ever used it anyways 
just a really quick question, Best weapon in main or off?
Even when I sim 3 targets ds comes on top
main
ty ty
that'll happen yeh
Yeah there's plenty of factors in play. Covenant, other talent choices, fight length, add waves etc.
Do you think 28% vers has an impact on sim choices?
Quite possibly. That's a lot of vers.
it will impact in the way that it most likely will suggest literally anything else
I've fine tuned myself to have 0 mastery 
I soak 2 nighthunters like the cool guys
Mastery is surprisingly good if you have very little of it. Just because it may be the overall worst stat doesn't mean that it's always useless.

and do negative dps.
love to see it.

Do you also have 226 gloves @stoic needle ?
Cool so you’re still better the. Osh 



i just did a weekly key and we didnt get lust until the last boss
and we had double tank

I've seen Protadins be the group's healers in like, 12s before. Didn't think it'd work but by god we timed the dungeon and nobody died.
nah we had a prot warr for 3rd dps
the main tank and the healer were typing for lust so hard on kultharok that i didnt get dispelled for over 10 sec
Magic of pugs.
at least i got to blast
and maybe i get 226 phial or the good neck from vault
but thats probably mad cope
Imagine getting a 226 phial
i have a 220 with speed rn feels pretty good
I can't wait to get a 226 phial the same week 9.1 is released
just so it gets rendered useless the same day.
haha
Definetely will happen
this is my first season, we can get higher level of the same trinkets next season right?
Yes, but we're not sure yet if we can upgrade the current gear in 9.1 or if we have to get a new base item to upgrade.
But yes, gear level in general will go up
I have not gotten drops from him on Mythic either. Just the covenant conduits.
Don't think I've ever gotten the weapon on any difficulty though.
sup guys what is better now assasination or subtlety on pvp?
I think both have their good quality’s though for what I can answer
I gave up phial farming
Did they ever confirm upgrades to mythic raid equivalent with the new m+ scoring?
No
I got my Phial pretty early and used it for a long time. Mythic Chain was the one that eventually replaced it
If we could upgrade up to mythic levels, I would have never swapped that Phial out.
Cause vault casino is garbage
Yeah but
It's not even that bad now
Mythic + would erase raids again
Which was a problem
whatsoever
And ksm is significantly more time consuming in 9.1
Not really
It's not significantly more time consuming than mythic raiding
You get KSM in 2 weeks.
You will not get CE in 2 weeks.
Nor will you kill that many bosses that you actually get any relevant loot from those 2 weeks
You aren't getting enough Valor to max an item in 2 weeks unless you get lucky
Even if I did mythic CN
?
You can literally farm it
It's not limited by time
You can farm max valor in a day
It is clearly a weekly cap
No
Huh
Farming max valor in a day is pretty unrealistic
Yes but you can do it
Like even if there was a weekly cap
It's big enough
where you could upgrade one item
to max level
instantly
905 was only making up for the missed first half of the patch
You aren’t making any sense my guy lol
Have you ever raided mythic?
Except that last one
Castle Nathria was released in December
There's still people trying to get CE
7 months later
Are you saying that M+ gearing with valor will take as long

Who cares about the raid, this is about getting enough Valor to upgrade an item 15 times in a week
You literally can
Valor cap is gonna be like 550 week 1
Sure. And?
I’m valor capped so it won’t matter any way lmao
So it takes you 4 weeks to upgrade an item to max
A bis item
Let me tell you that during that 4 weeks you will most likely not see a bis item from mythic raiding.
Or you get lucky in the vault
It's not "significantly" more time consuming lol
I'd even argue that KSM in 9.0 was harder than it will be in 9.1
because we started from 0
But in 9.1 we will start with fully geared characters from 9.0.5
2x 8 is not double of 1x8?
No, I was getting my conquest set
Why would I
You will get KSM faster in 9.1
Because you now have that gear
You don't need to gear from scratch
what is the best legendary for pvp now guys?
Do not ask PVP questions here. Ask them in #pvp
I'm probably going to play something else if ptr doesn't have anything new
This is PvE.
oh okey sry
Finally killed sire mythic 
Feel free.
Congrats! 
i thought difference
it was my worst pull but still parse 78
flex flex
Complained about what
@limber lion ok first gotta reclear all nathria, hold on 
Just chill.
Yeh, our first reclear with my old guild was very rough. Hopefully you have a better time :p
it s been 3 weeks sire + 5 weeks stone, idk if we still remember other bosses 
8 weeks is not too bad.
We started extending on Council and only recleared after killing Sire.
So after like 3 months or something.
Artificer is rough after a long break.
I got a few try’s in on mythic huntsman. That boss is not to bad
Yeah, that's pretty much the norm for mythic.
The first 3 ish bosses are very simple, then it ramps up a bit
when your RL told u to cloak + bop the sinseeker
Then the last 2 bosses are a big leap in difficulty.
Isn’t sire nothing compared to SLG
Not anymore.
And it really depends on the group.
Some groups spend 300 pulls on SLG and 500+ on Sire.
Some groups spend 400 pulls on SLG and down Sire in like 120
Pre-nerf SLG was a major pain in the ass though.
Weren’t they super bugged
guilds that killed sire now probably never pulled prenerf slg .p
Eh not really.
Some mechanics are a bit janky and it fucks up here and there
but it's not "super buggy"
the big slg nerf was what like middle of march
Yeh probs :p
been a while
I heard mobs were falling through the floor
Very edge cases
Doesn't really happen that often.
The only bug that happened on our group was just some wicked blades being wonky
God, I've been doing nothing for 12 hours now.
Just spent my entire day in discord, mainly in #assassination
Just doing... nothing.
welcome to our life
I opened up WoW
and just
disconnected after a while for being afk
that happened like 3 times
Yeh. I wish I like alts more
But I'm not much of a fan of alts
I just want to play my rogue
It’s more like an option to do things. I wish I could only play one clsss for ever
Did it for 4 years on a lock though
I chose to farm for Invincible instead of just running laps around Oribos
Can you see it ?
But I got it in like 3 weeks after I started
So now I don't really have anything else.
ashes next
Ehh
Get midnight
I'm not much of a mount farmer. I just always wanted to get Invincible to use as my main mount
I guess I should spend some time trying to find a group to push m+ with
I guess that could be fun.
Pushing keys as sin is super fun, but that might be because im not super comfortable with sin/rogue in general, so i have to concentrate
It is fun, I just lost the magic because of pugging is so miserable.
Finding a group is the biggest issue for me.
Main dk, thought pugging as rogue would be better, its equally shite
I rarely have problems with the actual groups
You want a sad time, go pug with warrior, arms of all specs
^^^^ this
Some pugs are worse than others
You'd think that someone who has all 20's done and is 10/10M in Mythic would get invited to +21's
but that's just not the case.
Dude
Unless you play a Fire Mage/Boomie or whatever.
You think pugs think rationally?
When i was climbing io, i had the issue of once i got all 17/18s done
No point doing a key unless you have the absolute best op classes for your groups
IO, ilvl, Gearscore, Come to the bank so someone can inspect your gear and kick you because you got a leather piece on a warrior
They ask for 1800/1900 io
Like bruh, i cant get that untill someone lets me in to the higher key
I mean, that does sound pretty int.
Yeh, but it's like that on raids as well.
IO is good until people get a hold of it
I remember trying to get into heroic back in the day, but I couldn't
because I didn't have curve.
Can't get curve, if I can't get into heroic groups.
The only reasonable fix for that problem is just creating the group yourself.
For both raids and m+.
Nice you just graduated uni, but what about your 5 year experience comes to mind
if u got all the keys to 17/18 u can push ur own key to 19
idk where's the problem here
Its more just human nature, You want to crush the challenge and have an near unlimited pool of people to pick from
- lazy, never do my own key dont really know why
yeah so it's a you problem
not a raiderio problem
or w/e
Also we bitch about pugs but we shouldnt, this game is much better as a group
Pushing your own key is more time consuming than joining a group that will give you score for clear.
Like the issue we run into as pugs should be there
if u dont wanna put in the effort, why should people that puts the effort take u in their grp ?
Create a group, wipe once, then the key is bricked
Then you have to do one m+ to get your key back to the level it was
Got wrong end of stick there
i'm chill man p sure we agree on the issue even
Pugging should suck to an extent
I mean, it is easy for other classes.
To prevent it being prefrable to groups
Was a good time when shroud was meta for a season
m+ pugging is fine
Fuck that expac
idk, I only played s1 of bfa
Yeah, Shroud has been op in m+ since day 1
It only changed in Bfa s3 because of Awakening
just a time commitment
I don't see groups ask for shroud now, though I rarely do anything other than raid log in SL
At certain keys though, youre right its time because the group is a 50/50 if its gunna complete/time
Shroud is not that widely used in SL anymore.
You might have a nutz fore mage
The dungeon design is a big thing.
You may have 1 of the million trash fire mages that have score
also, the one dude who walks through the mob in shroud thinking it gives him invisibility
They specificaly designed dungeons with that as a factor in mind didnt they for sl?
Shroud/Invis pots are still widely used in very high keys.
That makes me want to feed them to shriek wing
Just not as much in like 15-22's.
Yes, they designed SL dungeons with M+ in mind.
Ye but thats for pride skips n shit
Shroud is not used for pride skips.
Pots are
Yep.
You mentioned pots
I mentioned both
Both are not used for skips
Just pots
And pots are used for other stuff as well, not just pride skips.
The next season will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Affix is still wip for 9.1?
Everything is WIP in ptr for 9.1
But you can go play m+ in ptr and try it out for yourself now.
does cloak not work on massacre in p3 on sire?
correct
In its current iteration is there still required tank paths and shit for the 9.1 affix
ok, i remember reading something about that, but forgot the answer
not sure what you mean
Like you need paths to spawn pridefuls at the right time
So tanks have to know the dungeon, plus proper pull routes
Does the new affix require that as well?
ofc
To some extent
The Torghast spawns are static
And you need to kill them
And you get buffs from killing them
knowing the dungeon and the route is part of tanking
yes
so tanks will need to know proper pull routes
just like always
Well, you can complete a dungeon without spawning a pride before a boss
Just wondering if this is less controlled that way
With static random buffs
Probably less than Pride, but still necessary.
the mobs seem to be static, but like 8.3's awakened the mobs will come to join in the fight on the last boss if you don't kill them
Like you still want the big buffs for the bad parts
Yeah that’s what I was thinking
They buff the last boss to the heavens as well.
Apparently.
Not sure how big of a buff it really is.
One increases physical damage done by like 50% one is a move speed decease aura, one is a healing decease aura also 50% iirc
don't recall the last one rn
last one is a dot
Sounds awful.
they basically give their aura to the boss
the fire dude has a dot ticking aura, if you dont kill him, last boss get the same aura
I love it.
dot and 50% physical damage increase
not sure how strong the dot is, but that and the slow one maybe can be done with last boss
Are the anima powers as powerful as torghast?
No
Most of them are themed around the affixes of dungeons.
Volcanic Plume looking pretty op.
The tank thorns one is crazy as well.
But that's about it
when playing around marrowed gemstone soulbind, (obviously not ideal) but say rupture will drop off in 1s and you also have 1s left on gemstone crit buff
would it be better to hit a 5 cp envenom within the crit window, or refresh rupture so it doesnt fall off at all?
ok so only change to gemstone is to drop sbs charges?
yes
thanks
dots are dynamic (with 1 expection), gemstone wont buff the entire duration of rupture
there's like 3 exceptions
but i don't think he was assuming it would snapshot
he was comparing the extra crit for an envenom vs. the loss of dropping rupture uptime a bit
is it ok to post logs here for some advice?
yep
feel like i should be doing a bit more dmg, not really sure what i'm doing wrong
i got a hungering kill there just for some basic (dummy) beatage
kinda low garrote uptime, missing shiv casts
ok i'll look into those, ty
opener looks a little funny
vend before rupture, vanish before shiv, both of those are pretty weird
!wa
Assassination WA's:
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
didn't save a shiv going into vendetta
i've seen a lot of logs people using vend around garrote (4th gcd)
Is assa actually looking that strong for 9.1?
assa looks out to be one of the best ST spec damage wise yes
10-15sec to come off hold it?
ye
ok gotcha
thanks
in general though seems okay
it still a melee, and a melee with no utility
you technically missed a flag cast
does very good damage tho
yea melee sucks
but kinda rough on that kill time
double oil usually sucks too unless you're theotar cheesing
vend before rupture was pretty bad ngl
which is doesn't seem like
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
oil/oil usually ends up just being the worst
np
What's a bigger DPS loss, missing a flag cast, or failing to synchronize flag/vend when you cast them the same amount? Essentially wondering about a rule of thumb when the fight time is on the edge of being able to cast an extra flag or not
missing a flag is much worse
Gotcha, thanks. Guess i'll always cast on CD unless there is a 0% chance of an extra cast then
holy shit we can keep bone spike up on 3 targets?
can keep it on 15 with the necro legendary in 9.1
but yeah
definitely should be multi-dotting
that's why necro is strong
i cant' believe i just realized that
yeah it's ridiculou
i can't believe how much better it is than sepsis
and more fun tbh
/r
you use a weak aura to track the dot on multiple target?
wait whoever said assa was slow to play tf
playing it just leveling in shadowlands dungeons almost 60 and as necro with the insane combo point gen you feel like the biggest brain mofo around
Nah nameplates for anything multitarget
That’s necro, not sin
People who say sin is slow to play play outlaw in aoe
Ergo they don't experience sin aoe
I speak nothing but the truth homie


outlaw aoe playing like an st class PepeLaugh
!stats
In general simming yourself is the recommended way to determine stat weights.
The following is a general recommendation, but you will always get more accurate results through simulation.
Haste > Versatility => Critical Strike => Mastery
I'm slowly transitioning to playing ass from outlaw and the idea of garroting/rup more than 2 targets scares me, seems like a lot of tracking and target swapping. Prob gonna stay outlaw for m+ or any boss like Sun King
Yeah, def need to work on nameplates. Rn I have a lot of junk that I don't really control like numbing poison, some enchant proc, etc
thanks
206 pulls
was getting burnt out
but got a purple parse on the prog kill
say what
3 spikes x 5 charges = 15 targets dotted
holy loly
qq do i spam CT on adds when theres more than 3 targets or just cast once for bleed and user env after?
if i change covenant, will all my upgraded mission table, portal will reset?
The covenant specific stuff yes
There’s general use mobs like meatball
Those stay
what about the conduits? how long will it take usually to get lashing scars?
1, 2 weeks ?
i remember before i need to get a weekly quest from covenant
Epic calling or if you have rest venari
is doomblade much worse than zold in keys?
Well on trash u press a lot fok
Certain keys are okay ish. Others you'll get punished
It's not even fok vs mutilate. You just have so many bleeds up and you won't be pressing mutilate vs garrote/CT/rupt/SBS etc.
So the ratio of mutilate to other spells is expanded
But like don't fret and think thr world is ending if you pushed doomblade high and haven't gotten zolds yet.
Plenty of time to get more leges aswell
200 years till 9.1 still you can get all of them
And I still don't have dashing.
Me neither and most likely wont make it either
Need zolds with every stat combo just incase
Dashing will be the play. I've drank the raid gem Kool aid
i won't get lashing scars drop conduit until i change to ventyr right?
Correct
you maintain it like a dot. you can recast ct at 5 seconds remaining but no earlier than that
where is the lashing scars drop? is it in dungeons?
world boss / venari / sire / callings
!guide
Do we have to spam SBS during ST fights?
use it during gemstone
Multi: Garrote 3-4>CT>Rupture was my usual so when do we SBS?
spam or just 1 shot cos we will over cap points?
1 at the start to apply the dot, then the rest in gemstone
always prevent overcap first tho
what soulbind and conduits do i want? im a necro and im gonna be doing m+
Heirmir gemstones sudden fractures
Or emeni gnashing chompers if you have two melee dps
ohh ok
!guide
Have you guys started swapping to necro in prep for 9.1 or nah? Heard that some rogues are making the switch but havent really understood why
i started off as necro cause i was told to so not a clue
i have been liking the ability alot though
Already necro for a while
all guides dont tell us to use CT on single target even if this is true.. any chance to update the guides?
or is it because they are raid focussed?
Guides often don’t have super minimal stuff like that
Because of slight loss in st and massive gain in cleave/aoe?
Yeah I’ve been sticking with Venthyr because of the mindset that im usually playing outlaw on heavy cleave fights anyways, but I suppose necro is way better for law aswell in cleave so maybe the switch would be warranted
If you play outlaw to any degree, venthyr is kinda trolling imo
Only on SLG and Sun King, and it doesnt feel too bad on slg atleast
But yeah necro for sure better
Do you do m+?
I do my weekly keys for loot, not interested in pushing at all
Yeh then that’s whatever
Yeah, thats the biggest reason I didnt go necro initially and went venth instead at the start of .5
Guess its time to re roll and farm another 16k anima for the portal sadge
I assume the PTR soulbinds haven't been tested much? Some of them look pretty intense
they are subject to change any day so no real need to super focus on them same as domination sockets
Yeah that's a good point. I like brainstorming but brainstorming about things that aren't permanent I guess doesn't make much sense
I’d take that spreadsheet with a huge grain of salt btw
Good chance that it doesn’t get updated often, if at all
Isn't it kinda obvious that necro is the play though?
it isn't super well maintained^^
best is still to check the implementation status on github and/or ask in the class discords
yeh
we can get renown to each CN bosses?
yeah
it's obviously not 100%
but you can get renown from every boss, on every individual difficulty, once a week
so if u take all normal to mythic. almost 30 renown in a week? 😛
cool. thanks
but theoretically it's possible
I did lfr/normal/heroic when I swapped
and I think I got 6 or 7
across all 3
ok great. thanks
is there a ToT macro taht would only go on tank role ? or do i focus tank and do focus macro
too slow old man
thanks

How does that work in raid?
picks the first one I believe
As expected I guess.
yea
we finish on max-1
so finish on 4 with vigor, 5 with deeper
if you're under that, you would generate instead
ok great. thanks
pleasure
which sim would fit the best to the SLG encounter? Also, any assassination rogue pov? I found it quite hard to do a good dps in this bossd
Are you absolutely sure? I switched 2 days ago and I’m stuck now at renown 30
Ye I see what you mean, but it seems to stop at some point
Then I’m really unlucky with 5 dungeons, 3 bgs and 3 raid bosses, zero drops?
While up until 30 almost evrything gave it
correct
Yikes
Kinda sucks, i kinda need 31 for Bonesmith Heirmirs last row before raid tonight 
But thanks for confirming I can still get renown
did you do all of LFR?
is assa and outlaw equally good in raids?
sin does more single target, outlaw more aoe
generally not a question that can be answered with a short easy answer, but Whispyr summed it up
it will benefit you in the long term for sure
anyone know if 9.1 raid encounters are more aoe or st heavy
more st usually
better question is how melee friendly it will be at the high levels
aye whispyr thx guess its worth to learn assa then xd
If you've completed your weekly callings renown stops until reset, i had the same issue last week when swapping to necro. Was able to hit 30 quickly from dailys/raids/quests but after handing in the calling i got 0 for three days of spamming bg/arena/dungeons
I think that's tinfoil hat assumptions :p I swapped during the weekend and I accidentally completed both the souls and weekly anima collection quests
I think it used to be the case, but must've been hotfixed
well it definitely seemed to be the case for me, i played more in those three days than i have in a while trying to get 31 before my raid and nothing would drop that last renown
I got lucky on my third m0 dungeon after being stuck on renown 30
what would be a decent ilvl/dps to start getting a foot into mythic raiding ?
what ilvl are you at now? at this point in the tier it's very easy to get up to 220
but you can do well in mythic with lower gear also
im 222-3
see that's more than fine
i started mythic at 213 you should be fine at 220+
aight
what's your haste/crit % at?
24% and 26%
if you got to 222 with having mostly heavy mastery gear, your experience wouldn't be as fun as if it was haste and crit. 🙂 But those are really good
as necro assa SBS, do i just see it as a DOT i want to keep up?
Same here, dunno if it was the weekly callings that triggered the stop tho
it's just from renown 30 on it lowers a lot
you recast it during gemstone
Gonna do some more lfr then and hope for the best
aight thx
do you think there will be more significant changes to Rogues on the PTR before 9.1 comes out Whispyr or will we remain mostly untouched?
with the buffs and changes before and during 9.0.5, all my assassination issues were pretty much fixed
I'm quite happy with how it plays now
Except for the raid utility that is non existent outside of good dps 
yeahh i got a bit too much mastery
any word on this raid utility that was mentioned yet?
they haven't even confirmed we're getting any utility
they've mostly been focused on squishing AMZ with a sledgehammer and then trying to put the pieces back together
people are just hyped because they mentioned it as a quick one-off two or three times
it's certainly not this patch we get something, and it's questionable we get it in 9.2, IF AT ALL
You know what else could use some light tuning?
yeah it struck me as an offhanded comment anyway but it was definitely something to get our hopes up over

deez nuts?
I wouldn't bother getting hype for something blizzard probably doesn't have any info on themselves
but if that's what you wanna do

dev interview wasn't scripted, so I guess it was jus Ion brainstorming out loud when being put on the spot
anyone got a minimalistix combo point energy WA ?
https://wago.io/p/Whispyr all my stuff is up here
You're one of those people that doesn't put descriptions in their weakauras 😦
lot of work for unnecesary info imo
the essence tracker I made had toggle switches and settings and all the bells and whistles
and it just was a giant waste of time tbh
descriptions are very useful if you want your stuff to be found by people looking for specific things. Although wago search generally sucks
sure, but at the end of the day I just upload them for backup mostly
they're not intended primarily for the masses to use
I have no problem sharing them
but I'm not going to put in effort to maintain them the same as the huge packs do
Hello guyz, do u think Venthyr with leggo Mutilate will be the go-to for 9.1 ?
we don't know
pretty safe bet that venthyr won't be the go-to
considering it's barely worth it right now
yea i dont know why i swapped back for sire, want to be a boner slinger again
wait you swapped to venthyr for sire?
im not smart ok







