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ill ask a third time. Is there a reason my rank 3 frost is only simming 100dps less than rank 4? anyone know why that may happen?
because mercury is in gatorade
all i did was compare rank 3 to rank 4 and it was a diff off 100dps
that's not a sim link
Glad I’m not the only one
did you select blood and unholy dmg gems aswell ?
might not be that f ar off reality though, i think r4 to r5 is like 280 or something
and idk how the r3 to r4 jump is cause they aren't linear gains
What plode said essentially. Was going to check for any error in input but chances are it’s not wrong. I know the diff for me is pretty low currently. But my gear is dog
im running like 45% crit so it should be bigger gains.. man its dissapointing
if I had to bet he forgot to select dyz so he has an empty socket or some shit
because linking the sim is hard, its easier to just describe it in great detail
lol
Subterfuge 
but they arent on my character tho...
do you not have dyz as a shard
or why are you using bek
in your normal gear even
always more
omg this sim is all over the place...
no you just dont know how to sim gems
!def
Rogue Defensives usability: http://tiny.cc/q602uz
well it also works a little dumb but you just need to understand how it works
can someone else sim for me? lolol
just click run again and click the blood shard you have lol
(and the dyz one you have if you actually have it)
its +270 when you actually sim correct gems
oh i was wondering
or wait my default overwrote your chest enchant aswell eh whatever
I found a few changes
Still running because I’m an idiot that did t5 zzz
I probably scuffed tf out of it, mobile and in bedge. But normalizing most of it is quite a big change
Talents, offhand
ah offhand to Sylv dagger
no
max you gonna get is 20 more im pre sure
but likely not
probably 2
sadge
actually no, 28 more
i have 9
cos of the non boss mobs dropping embers
need 50 for last t5 upgradde
well normal raid is 20, max you can get in a week is 61
oh you meant you need 41
actually normal raid with trash is 30?
yes
i see
yes
normal = 2 heroic = 3 mythic = 4
I meant the trash mobs but yeah same thing
do lfr trash boys also give 2 then
more than bosses? 
Also @idle star you don’t have nadjia as your soulbind 
Checking that rn
you want daggy or what
just ping me at some demon evening hour when u do normal ill trade it to you if it drops
cba about normal one
- even more
by going Nadja?
Yes
will do
and thats rank 4 frost not rank 3? i have rank 3 equipped
Yes I’d assume it’s even an upgrade the . Lemme run again
you dont get any extra from trash on mythic so a full mythic clear only nets 10 more than heroiac
If that’s true ez r5 then
yeh but if you have ran normal already, subtract that
ah nvm then lmao
lol
Next week
Next week just like phial 
So r4 is like +260ish
is it better to use flagellation of cd or always combine it with vendetta
Use together unless you’ll miss a cast of flag
ty
did they update something on raidbots? my sim went down even though i got conduit upgrade and ilvl increase
this is from last week
this is from today
i think the shards its a lil bit rng so its not always going to sim the same
one has no flask for some reason
oh nvm i am dumb
not loading icons pepelaff
let's SEE
one is smart sim one is stat weights

is there usually a noticeable difference between the two kinds of sim
i know they should be same but i remember having inconsistancies between topgear and stat weights
could be here too
but also like
i cant figure it out
why you be simming weekly
i didn't actively sim frost because i don't play it
but there was a change like 7 days ago to more cleanly seperate the stacking interval
koji said it'd have little to no impact but idk if little to no impact is within the 30 dps range
everything else looks fine, just ye running weekly build 7 days ago probably means a 14 day old build
it might be bigger than 30 cause i upped the ilvl of my braacer and got the 252 venthyr conduit
i guess just diff simc builds
yeh
the weekly last week didn't have the winds thing
so it's for sure that
nightly would've had the change btw

Wait is that grom
yes
Lol

That guy is a character

Sheeeesh
can't even believe dood
Congrats friend
Thats awesome
grats man
Its probably about time i found a new guild maybe ill apply to some this week
thanks oxi ❤️
so like one in every 15 bone spikes, my bonespike will just flys past remnant and doesnt hit him
probably parry
Hello guys, I have try to sim sylvanas weapon on 233 vs my 246 dague and apparently it's a los of -44 dps. I saw on FAQ that sylvanas 233 weapon almost beat 252 weapon, so i don't understand, does the sims are fked up ? Sim here : https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/argv428yemhtJhqbBXqnnH
it beats it for sub
In his defense it does say that it'll beat most 252s in the assa faq too
but yeah what ryler said, that's more true for sub than assa now
ok, so i guess i can trust the sim on that one right ?
yeppers
ok boyz thanks 🙂 ❤️
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/qXQfqpGyckBQHch5n3GzPs this is how it looks for me
hmm for you its almost double the difference
yeah my 233 edge beats all my 236/239 offhand options
how much crit do i need before dashing sims higher than doom?
However much raidbots tells you to have for it to sim better than unholy
just run your highest simming gear and change up the dom sockets and sim em
Well 30 DPS is 0.3%.. I think that's fair to say little to no impact, but would need to look at the sims to know what it was specifically
as in, sim myself with unholy and then sim myself and force frost?
you can sim both sets in top gear
well yeah, but it just puts me in unholy/doom all the time cuz it's aparently a 100 something dps increase
what's your ilvl?
im simming 9.4k with no access to Mythic raid
242
are you simming the sets at equal level? like r4 v r4 or simming what you actually have?
ah you're necro
ffs is that the key to all this? ive been trying to scrounge for crit where i can but 😩
is trinket giving haste or crit to you?
but yeah as necro I assume crit must go beyond insane if you wanna do frost
you probably need fatescribe helm, better neck, 1 bettter ring
yeah. was hoping for some drops tonight but nothing. not sure what the trinket gives me, never actually checked
ah trinket gives me haste
oh if i sim max level leggys and shards it goes to dashing tho
smh
interesting finding btw. i got both 239 SF and 239 wps. i lose 5st dps putting the sf in the empowered slot vs wps, but i gain 80 in 2t. basically identical st but decent aoe gain
idk if anyone else profile behave like that, i thought it'd be more of a dps loss on st but i guess not
Next week nadja enhances a potency slot boota
Nah not really, for me at some point haste is kinda on the same level as crit for st
And dashing/doomblade sim really close. Doesn’t matter if I run like 35 or 45% crit
As necro
spicy shoulders though
i have 239 shoulders
and 226 fusion amp
but my outlaw MH is 213
and i wanna do outlaw keys again
yeah
Dps wise
i should be able to farm those other items
Exactly
or take them another week in vault if they pop up
Weapon u might not see for ages at 252
exactly



sf is bae for anything
yeah they're actually bigger upgrade than the H fusion amp, but like 40 dps
outlaw wep is like +400 dps just in ST
Huge
nah it's fine, it's probably just a matter of shard sets being active on your patchwerk sim
It’s the set bonus
So who wants to go kleia sin for science
set bonus far outweighs that
like these are from my sims earlier today
it's not even close
O.o
That’s so insane lol
I’m used to last tier I guess since it was my first tier
Kinda crazy that sin is getting gapped in dslice like that now
Buff sin pls 
but I still play only sin 
Make CT baseline and give us something that spreads dots faster
Idk I’m no expert, obviously
At least each class has their niche kinda. Besides outlaw this season
I mean I think sin performs better compared to what dslice would say
Ah
true I guess
but It's pretty hard to nail down why that is
I always overperform compared to my sims
I've spent many hours of my life trying to get sin dslice better
o:
I guess it's mostly the dungeon covenant effects and specificities
but it's just nowhere near enough
but like it was bad in legion as well
and it was bad in bfa as well
I've basically chalked it up to dslice just not favoring sin as a sim type
Sin is just higher floor and lower ceiling compared to the other specs
It's a dot spec. That's how it be
not to say it's bad and you shouldn't use it or whatever, but it just doesn't bring out the strengths of the spec I guess
Put dots up and keep them up, you're probs doing decently
Sims are sims and don't account for misplays that happen during fights. It will play whatever it is perfectly according to the apl
It's hard to optimize a spec and attempt to push past it's ceiling when it's ultimately limited in what it can do like sin is
What specifically makes EP/Vigor better than Blindside/deep strat?
Idk man aff looks way easier
All their dots are instant and spender just does big dam based on how many dots u have out
Plus they’re ranged 
Nothing. Bs DS is actually better but people prefer the feel of EP vig
We have to dodge shit in melee, build resource just to dot etc
ive just noticed all top parses are EP/Vig. over 90%
Nah fight timings and uptime can make EP/Vigor better
Even on Guardian?
Guardian is 77% Ep/Vig
Becuz people don’t care lmao
Probably just people being too lazy to switch tbh
Ep vig probably better for the boss just before and the boss right after so Id see why people don’t swap talents
Yeah I mean
People are blasting over 10k dps now
A small change of dps like those talents
Isn’t a big deal
EP is better when there are adds and there's a lot of fights with random adds you can use to pad your parse with
I need someone to teach me they way of the parse 
Press buttons harder
Be in a speed kill guild
No lol
No it doesn't
Look ik
Don’t @ me ok
But if boss dies right before my CDs come back up again
P sure dps will be lower than if I got them off
Less time to kill means higher damage per second cause there’s less seconds
And then boss died
Because higher average
Youd have had moredps too
Ye
Ofc
I mean we’re killing heroic bosses atm
I’m just over 3 min on some of them
Never lucky
Do people do heroic parse runs?
Obviously
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Best kill timer is just after your 2nd cds lol
No
They sure do
Alt/helping guildies get aotc/getting raiders last of their gems/sockets
Even after that
People do for fun heroic clears
Yes they do
Lmaoooooo
There's a reason ceverion is #1 heroic
With boosters present?
You're not there for gear so you may as well parse
Mythic parsing is just a totally different game than anything
Not really lol
Raidmasters kind of shows a cool glimpse into it
Do people buy normal boosts
People got mythic on farm after a while just like heroic
Yeah but speedkilling is different I mean
People buy torghast boosts bro ofc
Not really
Theres always some speed strats on bosses
With gear
ofc they do,most likely undergeared alts farming those cinders
I mean they are about the same, just offset like 2-3 months 😛
People use Heroic as an outlet for pushing numbers while Mythic is still in prog mode or quick/clean farm, but eventually do the same shit in deep Mythic farm lol
how much crit do i want for assassin just outta curiosidy
40+ if you’re running dashing frost set
i have 36% and i have obidence
Should be fine
i also assume same with haste? like as much as i can
just sim yourself
im not asking like on gear im talking in general cause i thought were supposed to have atleast 30%
There isnt really any breakpoints
Its not as simple as stack haste untill ur hat falls off
Only thing to look out for is having High crit with Frost set which is like 35% +
Is it easier to flex between sin/outlaw or Sin/sub?
sin and sub
Playstylewise?
cause they both use daggers
for stats i'd say sin/outlaw, but weapon-wise sin-sub
Mainly stat wise, Bcz I am fully committed with crit and dashing frost
well with a crit build, i guess sub is easier to transition to
iirc outlaw is haste/vers then crit or sth
Is there a way to see in logs what powers someone ran on Tarragrue?
Hmm… I guess I gotta do some sub research the, yea it’s kinda hard to get other stats when I am already like 40%+ in crit
Outlaw is going crit haste just like sin right now
Sub doesn't mind mastery but sin doesn't like it at all
It does for keys
You could run the same exact gear set for outlaw and sin with frost and be pretty optimal. Sub not so much cuz the haste
Yeah for keys true
Its pretty bad for st tho
Luckily there’s many multi target encounters so secondarys are kinda w/e outside of crit as far as I’m concerned
I mean you can one trick any of the three specs right now and still be optimal so it doesn't super matter anyways
Ye exactly
Have the feeling we get way to caught up in secondaries atm for really minimal gains
Tbh I love it. I'm learning outlaw right now just because, but knowing I can just play one spec for all content and not just be competitive but be optimal is a good feeling
I was just aiming for a other outlaw or sub that I can switch on using my same dashing frost sin for mythic
I mean yeah sure people do worry too much about secondaries and not enough about just simming themselves
Minimal gear change is what I am looking for
oh fine then, i guess that's for the frost set too ?
Yep outlaw is using frost too
If outlaw is frost too than that would make it lots easier for me since my other gems are pretty low rank
Same idea as sin except a lot of our crits are coming from bleeds poisons whereas they are high apm with a crit booster built in
I'm going sin/law right now. Sub goes frost but at way higher gear than both other specs. They are more comfy with blood atm so it would throw things off for sure for multispec
I've been doing only sin for a few weeks now, i'm not aware of changes to the other specs after the shards buffs
but I'm having so much fun as sin

Yeah same I'm progging as sin and experimenting in heroic/normal
But ye they are all 3 in a great spot so it's a good time to just one trick something until you know it in and out
Tbh u Can do pretty much whatever u want with rogue atm
I played all 3 specs for painsmith prog so far
I just cant seem to get this out on top. At 40% crit, r3 frost and 235 dashing, but simming lower than UH R4, doomblade. Guessing Ill have to wait for R4 frost and 262 dashing, but im kinda committing for small gains atm it seems. Am necro btw
You can sim with r4 frost and see
But yeah 235 leggo usually means low ilvl which means uh is better for the flat stats
Ye, not at home right now, but afaik my last sims were very close with R4 frost and doomblade still came out on top
Am 243 eqq tho
Obv. Lower with 235 dashing
Dashing only starts seeing value at r4 or higher. From my experience anyway
It honestly just depends on your gear. The 40% crit isn't even that accurate it's just something that people started saying as a short answer
Alright. Guess ill have to hold on and believe. Still 55 embers off rank 4 frost (spent 50 embers on the blood DPS shard 1st week kekw)
For some people blood is the play for their current setup. It just be like that
Sim yourself and slot in some stuff that is easily attainable to feel it out if you really care about future proofing
can sm1 link me necro assa rogue that sims ~10k (243-246 ilvl range)
mine seems low
It's fine
CT is mistake
Try BS/DS & Poison Bomb - not CT for Single target
bs/ds is literally 2 dps gain
and spec is clunkier to play
Should i maybe craft 262 dashing
i've heard its the play now
I would probably worry about getting ksm then getting the other 2 Dom pieces
ksm ?
Your rings D=
sadly, those seem to be simming the best
i just realized that despite doing at least 1 15 every week, 4 some, i've only pulled one 252 from my gv
Dom slots be like that
Leeching poison 
Look through this, bunch of options for you
Leeching poison is chad

hey guys sorry to bother but i was doing volunteer work for past 2 weeks could anyone quickly explain why dashing is the best now? i would greatly appreciate
anyone know if u can get sylv dagger from 4 mythic dungeons weekly this week
No
Leeching poison is like asking for being dead 
bone spike copium -,,,-
eh.. back to venthyr next week i guess
I'm pretty sure you can get a sylvanas dagger from the weekly tho
why wouldnt you be able to, as long as you killed sylvanas at least once
i think it actually doesnt matter if you killed her or not, at least that's what ive heard
For vault it matters probably not for quest
yeah
ohh you mean the weekly quest, nevermind I was confused
is that 100% confirmed ?
My vault is so scuffed this week that the biggest upgrade is totem trinket.
Isn’t it a sim trap though at 252?
I was always under the impression it’s a sim trap
no, it's really good
easy to use
It wasnt simming properly until recently iirc, but it's a very good trinket
give it a try
Well it’s either that or I take the mists neck t 252 but it’s not enough crit
just sim
Heya sorry to bother, but, Zoldyk Insignia, secondary stats: crit/haste? (I'm doin m+ mostly)
Cool, mastery seems easy to obtain on the Gear, haste not so much..so Will Go crit haste, thanks m8 :)
any faq about the use of fusion amplifier? im assuming sync it with vend?
slam it on cd just like shiv
Is deathly shadows pre fight worth for sin? Or is The vanish on opener better generally
Doesn’t work for sin
No
I'd say use it with Flag(if you're venth and don't have obedience legendary), they both have 1,5 min cd 🙂
Dont get why top-rio sin rogues running heirmir in m+, as marileth sims higher in dslice. Whats the difference in playstyle for them? Marileth is more ST oriented?
thanks a lot!
marileth does more damage because you have perma uptime on 120 mastery
and on most dungeons 2% agi
then extra dmg on kevin use
that has high uptime because the way sbs works
Yes, the reason why its higher is clear, I dont get why ppl dont run it
also 10% dmg on hitting not damage enemy
as it has been seen many times
top rio does not mean they are running the best things
they play what they like/want
Hence my question - what is the diff in playstyle for them. I mean, m+ playstyle is always the same for sin
no real difference
bonesmith has gemstone windows
marileth has kevin windows (sync with vendetta etc)
And kevin sometimes pulls trash, like when if you are sapping someone - pulled this way in mots
Just sim dungeon slice, no set bonus, choose the dps shards you want and see the difference.
Will need dom sockets tho
a little more crit and frost is gonna pull ahead for me 
hey guys, i finaly got HC shoulders with domination slot ! I'm looking forward frost build but doesn't simc higher than blood currently. Too low crit ?
could be low crit or low ilvl in general
another thing would be frost set level but idk what level u have it at
gotcha
when you get more gear even with low crit frost starts simming better
i have 27% rn because i cant find any but im 242 ilvl and frost is like 30 dps down
just keep getting ilvl and crit pieces
i play sub basically but i've them both in 40 dps range now
dunno if i should totally switch to assa 🤔
only if you have frost set and even then it doesn't have to always be the choice
for me as necro at rank 3 frost set I still use doomblade with vigor and ep, dashing with bs and ds sims only 2 dps higher
wow that's pretty close yeah
dashing should be the one you generally use atm
but doomblade is still good if you have it and it sims higher
how is assa in dungeon ? i tried one it seemed so much weaker than sub
its good but not better than sub or outlaw
I find it more fun tbf 🙂
Guys phial 252 or sylv dagger heroic
still playing zoldyck in dungeon ?
obedience can be good as venthyr but zoldyck is the normal go to
I would get the phial just for the reason that you cant get that ilvl anywhere else
depends
Phial period
i would go phial. who knows when it shows up in vault again
Never
Yeah that what i was thinking xD
phial is probably better since you won't ever replace it
dagger if you do mythic can get replaced
Hey guys.. Is this shit cause it occupies a dom socket slot or is it good? Since i can still run 4xShards, frost bonus and all that could it be worth? rest of vault is hot garbage (or alrdy obtained)
I do not have a dom chest yet so for the moment it's def a big upgrade
seems like its up to you man
you'll probably swap to a socket chest anyway but its probably good until then
Yeah frick it i'll go for the chest. The nice one is from sylvanas so might take a little while to get it
There's a small ilvl upgrade of a ring i've got aswell
What is the weekly évent mates ?
nah, no way my chest is really bad
on the other hand you could greed if you havent done heroic yet and wait until you see what loot you get
Whispyr it seems lile you simmed wrong neck on necro sims, you used tarragrue neck at 259 ilvl (low haste/high mastery)
Probably won’t change much but thanks I’ll take a look tomorrow
can we get 63 renown this week
no up to 62
will it be every week +2 now?
Yep
@limber lion hey do you have frost set?
Yes
252 crit neck today, up to 38% 
how do my stats look for m+, i feel i may have to much crit ? but im unsure
Stop looking at stats.
Sim yourself in top gear.
Definitely not too much crit
im doing that as we speak just wanted opinions while i waited lol
Can you check if frost bonus is oversimming in a dummie? 😛
as frost shards whats best Dashing Scoundrel or doomblade?
It doesn't proc on a normal target dummy because you have to be in the Maw, and I don't have a special dummy
the frost set is so good, the sustain it adds is insane
like you can really feel being beefier during the boss fights
Omegahealing parses too
how do you cast crimson tempest in aoe ? after i get 3 ruptures up i usually just spam fan->ct, but should i wait until ct ticks of before recasting it ? i'm talking 6+ mobs
Don’t spam ct
On 6 mobs you apply and reapply the dot
In between you garr and rup em
well yea, ct->3xrupture->spam ct, is what i was doing, cuz with 3 ruptures it;s already really hard to spend all the energy
and mobs are starting to die, casting rupture on 25% hp target feels bad
I usually just dump a couple envenoms and refresh my snd for next pull
can someone remind me the addon for rogue for the combo points buffs?
the weak auras i mean
with subterfurge you want to spread up garrotes then snd
sure, i wasn't talking about the start of the rotation, just when you get into pure aoe
i go 4x garotte from stealth, snd, ct, 3x rupture then just spam fan and ct untill my ruptures start falling off
and i'm not sure how right it is
You don’t stop at 3 ruptures
And again you dont ever spam ct
Also apply the first ct before snd and make sure to always have it up before packs the rest of the dungeon
Use shiv and vendetta on cd
And make aure you envenom to maintain snd
ok, thx for the help
And use vanish on cd to reapply empowered garrotes, let’s not forget
I am in the position of Creating my 2nd Max rank legendary. Dashing or Doomblade? What are you guys using? I ran with Obidience for the most time.
Do you run Frost set
Yes
Nobody other than you can make that decision
What covenant? Current gear? Current stats? Preferred content? Access to content?
If ur venthyr most likely dashing if ur necro most likely doom but it’d sim Them
Well I do ask with one you guys use not wich I should use. I definitly should use Dashing but I feel like this is a niche wich only works for now
Ive Been using doom so far with t4 Frost but im swapping to dashing today
As venthyr
I might craft dashing too and hope it will stay stable so I do not have to switch around until I have enough Soul stuff for leggy 3
I am Venthyr, lacking propper Weapons but have otherwise phantastic Gear. I do raid a mix of Hc and Mythic. But more Hc since most of us quitted Wow after the harrassmant stuff
What would make it unstable?
I don't see any buffs/nerfs to either db or dashing coming soon
It’s not getting nerfed this late
235 dashing sims higher than my 262 doom
But 40 dps isn’t the reason we’re wiping on prog
Players leaving wow for the harassment?
Ur necro has an empowered conduit btw on a potency
Yea but thats only 30dps
You should be simming with Lashing Scars.
And that^
Ah, i'll retry
Lashing scar is our best conduit
Also. If u do this mostly for raiding. I would sim with ep/vigor
Hey Cev, from a prog stand point, you think EP-Vig-PB is better for every fight right?
As we dont really use bs/ds. Except foe gardian (and maybe remnant)
Did u try bs/ds cev on wvery fight
O:
Thanks mate
Which fights would you run CT?
I think i saw u write u would try this next reset
Yeh, I'll try it this reset with my new legendary and whatnot
I usually just play Sub on fights with add waves
But I’m trialing with a mythic guild
And Sin is definitely safer
I tried in heroic with my fellow rogue who do usualy similar damage. And it wasnt conclusive.
You run CT on soulrender/Fatescribe? Or which bosses
Soulrender, Fatescribe and KT at least.
Kk I actually didn’t go to phylactory on my reclear heroic last night
I played PB upstairs 
I still did good dam just spreading rupts around on stuff for energy
CT would’ve banged tho
Thanks sir 
On heroic. It could be a hit or miss.. if the add stay alive forever. Thats good
In my group they get nuked
U can still use like 3cp ruptures on them
Because u will get energy regen even after the add dies
For whatever the duration was left
I used FoK on the ice spikes, and the little adds to spread poisons. And on the big adds after he dies each phase
I was energy saturated for a lot of the fight lol.
why does my doomblade sim 100dps more than my dashing with frost lmao https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/kPi4FjhoXCynRXXwnJQn6u
what’s ur frost rank
4
hmm idk I’m pretty similar but 235 dashing beats my 262 doomblade
So dumb that changing soulbind doesnt reset the timer on theotar buff... Imagine if it was bis to swap spec every 2. boss, just not possible 😦
Covenant?
Necro
why though?
is there a line to add to sim your vault choices?
anyone else lost like 60 dps in sims? same gear 2 days ago lmao
simc*
open vault and do a /simc
@hollow river ah i guess it does with extra bleed
it will get all your vaults options and you can use top gear
Venthyr gets more haste so you can stack crit even harder for frost dashing
@plain thistle tyvm
Also it’s the capstone of Nadija. Huge crit
Apparently there was an update
Couldn't leave my necrobros for a bit of dps
@hollow river should i play doomblade then ?
guys are you pulling energy as venthyr right before flag ? i seem to reach only like ~20 stacks (playing Deeper stratagem though)
You mean the update to frost shards on raidbots?
Until dashing sims higher, sure
Or have u not crafted anything
gotta love these updates
i crafted both but doomblade is rank6
Why deeper? O.o
dashing is 235
sims higher so i trusted it
That could also cause a bit of dps to lean towards doomblade unless u simmed 262 dashing too
That’s about normal for sin
Most people only play BS/deeper on Guardian of the first ones
20-24 stacks is average
rest of time we go for vigor ?
Not gonna make a big diff but I think u do pool
vigor / EP ?
Yeah EP/vigor
I full send my first flag to get it on CD and end up with about 24ish stacks
Same
that's probably cuz of vigor, i starve energy quick with DS
But yeah for others you’d pool a bit so you don’t get like 17 stacks and be sad
28 stack dream a few times on painsmith opener last week, felt subbish 😂
I hit 29 on soulrender last night 
Lust helped 
even when reaching only 20-24 stacks, obedience is better ?
I’ve gotten 29 once during lust
Gotta love the huge crit. Nothing worse with the old unholy build getting zip crits in openers 😭
Depends a lot on your build. Sim yourself with other legendaries if you’d like to.
says scoundrel is higher in 235 even when not frost build
O:
You probably have a bunch of crit which synergizes well with scoundrel
Doomblade still simming higher for me even though venthyr nadjia
But I'm still rank 4 unholy
I guess frost would change that?
That’s prolly why, unholy
Maybe
Depends on your crit and the rest of your gear
Sim sim sim
Most likely yea but as others said double check before committing to anything 🙂
Finally go my frost to r4 last night too
It pumps 
I'm still waiting on gems/dom socket gear 😦
2 weeks until r5, then we popping
Whew, we’re starting heroic next week
any1 know if simulationcraft includes dom sets? I loose about 300 dps when changing to frost set (gear change is a -4% downgrade)
Lashing scars upgrade going to be good
They actually seem to be better than I initially figured, the enhanced conduits
Make sure you’re simming with the nightly build and not the weekly build
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My sims are weird Frost Doom > Frost Dashing > Unholy doom
Crit % sora?
45%
U are necrolord
Aren't you necro as well?
yeyte
Kekw
Ye low haste
More obvious than I figured
I’ll be 4 Embers from R5 this week 🙃
Necro favors doomblade
you’re actually about to transcend to pumper supreme soon
Ur spike also increase envenom damave
I can go rank 5 unholy this week sadge
Ye H sylv dagger last night made my month
I asked my RL if we could clear heroic tomorrow after remnant and he never responded 
pug sylv kek
Wtb
Hey i got a Question: Is the Sylvanas Dagger on 233 in Offhand always the pick? because Raidbots says i should use my 236m+ Dagger over the Sylvanas one and i´m not sure if i should trust it XD
It is safe to trust the robot
Unless you play sub
For us

On a 5 min fight it dis like 180 dps
According to my aim weight. A 236 dagger stat would have given me 180 dpa
Thats only with secondary stat

Tldr: It doesnt really so a lot of damage*
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/pHwZLfucBW2Yj811PJBrUZ - Doom - Unholy
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/3MyjGZPDYAL87MVNKKELRU - Dashing - Unholy
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/pEU6us2Ps4dCsgZFL9tTS6 - Dashing - Frost
What crit percentage do you guys have that dashing starts out performing? (I'm on 32%)
Higher than 32 
My sims tells me to equip 45%...
So i have 45
But even with that. It wasnt until i had 262 dashing that it put it ahead of doomblade
With ep/vig. Doomblade at 262> daahing 235
And. Dashing 262>obedience 262> doomblade 262
I don't know how to get more crit, I've got Decanter + crit major on most of my stuff, if not major then crit secondary + sockets on everything that can take sockets and only get to 41
Meanwhile my rogue is broken and dashing frost outsim doom unholy despite both being r4+having 31% crit
ohh nice ill try it with my 30% just gotta get r6 dashing soon
Finally got my KT shoulders last night. It's from normal, but it was a bigger upgrade than my vault was so I'm excited.
shld I yolo my cinders in to r6 dashing? been holding off but it seems like dashing is the endgame
I guess we truly never know what the endgame is kek
I'm r4 Frost with 36% crit and Dashing isn't that big of an upgrade for me right now. It's a 21 DPS upgrade over Obe and Doomblade is a 16 DPS loss.
Current gear is with Obe
damn that ring tho
That was my vault item from yesterday. Not a big DPS upgrade, but a buttload of crit
63 renown is this weeks cap, right?
62
ah
You can sim it. It is good with the right circumstances
Guys what is the best shards for now?
Your set bonus + the other 2 dps shards
Using frost at moment, and Im necrolord.
Sim yourself for best bet
I would
any1 know if I have to enable dom sets in the simulationcraft program? I get about 500 less dmg here compared to raidbots. I am using the nightly build
Yeah - I wasn't flexxing damage I was just showing how close DS and Obe are
Obe/DS/Doomblade is within like 45 DPS for me
You have 4 Dom sockets, so right now you probably will be lol
I only have 3 Dom sockets and I haven't even gotten a m+ dagger to drop for me, so gear wise I'm behind
to upgrade de shard you have to unsocket it and upgrade?
Yes.
damn that´s a lot of stygia.
no
Is Titanic Ocular Gland any good?
the item you remove shards with is permanent
no
It's siming quite well but I will most probably go for 252 arachnid cypher ring with socket. Thank you!
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/sJHirH9wjcytnXnSgSnADg too much 226 items 
Oh truely nice.
if you got 45% crit you have a 10% penalty on crit stats says my addon so i got 41 then i got 1049/1050 crit
233illv
Dont think you understand what the crit dr is
Just ignore any nonsense bout it and use sim
You you need to enable it lol
Yep, this right here. If sim is telling u that crit keeps giving u dps, then keep get crit
Yes
Its also not entirely true to just blanket state 45% crit is when the penalty hits
Specially when every character has different weights depending on gear 
I am almost KSM boys
1964 and have a 12 tyrannical times for Theater so I think I can get KSM this week?

Yes yes yes u can, this week is super easy compared to last week
I think I’m gonna have to do like 17 theater + 2 15s on some other keys. I didn’t notice I don’t have a fortified PF time so missed out 
Yay 247 with 0 raid stuff /0 dom socket thing 
Sheeeeeesh
Oh no! At least go do normal, it’s super easy, those Dom shards gives good buff
Raid require time to clear it i can only play 1hr/day
Yeah, optimizing your character without playing multiple game modes is impossible. It's one of my gripes about the game (and I understand you don't HAVE to optimize). I just look back and Conflict and Strife from BFA being BiS for so many DPS specs
If you're even somewhat m+ geared, you can join a guilds alt run on Normal. They usually fly through Normal
You won't get a full clear in an hour but you'd probably get 4-5 bosses
Usually Tuesday/Wednesday nights are good to join a guild who's missing a DPS or two and Saturday/Sunday nights for alt runs on guilds
Pop in when you can, leave when you need to
1 hr a day and better geared then me, I’d say you are doing pretty good for yourself besides the dom sockets

is it better to stack up som energy & CP before using shiv, or just use it on whenever ready?
Where?
In ilvl maybe, cant be better geared this tier without raiding
Is there something wrong with raidbot/sims?
It tells me that if I swap my Dyz with Kyr shard from chest to the hands and vice versa I will receive +154 DPS bonus. 
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/u5JLtdiAwHLKCHKgiUSvtd
How should I open fight (all round - quests, dungeons etc) in one guide it’s stated to put Mark for death and then Snd and then regular rotation with garrote, rupture and so on. The other one says to open with garrote, and use mark for death outside stealth if you don’t have cp
Ye that’s what I mean should’ve been slightly more specific my r4 frost puts me up there 
It's really worth 154 DPS? 
easily
Thanks for clarification!
You skirmish. Eternally. The dps gain is unlimited.
15 stygian embers short of t5 frost 😦
Any of you champions know how many embers those named mobs give in SoD on M difficulty? I can't remember.
I think 4? Not sure if some are less
maybe thats just bosses I might be wrong actually
"1 Stygian Ember per difficulty starting from normal." according to WoWhead comment. I did it earlier tonight but it all blurs together sorry
Yeah. I saw that. If they're right, fantastic - I'm golden. But it blurred together for me too so I can't quite remember.
We swap to frost shards?
Ah. Do you remember if it's 2 or 3 then? Got a feeling it's 2.
Depends on your talent setup and your current content
is there a way to make a macro that will use ambush over mutilate when it procs from BS
or is that not possible
dashing frost is simming better for me, check pins and sim yourself
So there is no general rule?
I would follow ur sim opener, usually it will go something like Mut, SnD, Mut, Garrote, Vendetta, Rupture, vanish, Mut for CP into Shiv then envenom and so on
Dashing would be crafted crit/haste?
Yes
Lots of gripes yo
@primal falcon generally speaking if your Master Assassin Talented you open with muti or SBS if subterfuge you open with multiple garrotes
Same 
Most of my gripes are me being salty about not getting loot to be honest. I don't even believe my own bullshit.
99% of the time I'm talking out of my ass
The GV was amazing when I got my 226 Phial. It was shit the next week when I got nothing but downgrades
In my opinion, I think they should at least maybe the vault not give u any duplicates, there was one week that I got like 2 wrist in the vault from raid and I already had one of them
100%. I don't enjoy the pure RNG aspect of the game, but I also know it's not going anywhere. While I may not particularly enjoy it, I still actively participate in it.
I got pretty lucky this week so I’m happy
i got 252 phial early on
feels bad to put forth a lot of effort to get 10, +15s in only to get things you cant use or downgrades
H sylv dagger from sylv and 252 outlaw wep from vault
jesus...
I only did 1 +15 last week
God damn
I got that nasty crit ring this week, but my normal KT shoulders that I got last night was a bigger upgrade. Most of my DPS increase from the ring was just because it came socketed
dw Palmer my GV has been worse than current equip for weeks
Since I replaced my 213 outlaw wep
got salv amp from weekly tho
they need badluck currency, if you dont get anything in the vault give us 10 coins of pepe, and a vendor where we can buy any 252 item off it for 50 coins, 5 weeks of bad luck becomes working towards a goal
How did you get a dagger and outlaw weapon in 1x vault?
thats all we really want
I got Decanter from the weekly
Can you set more than 1x loot spec?
No
Ah
I think he was saying he got both, but not necessarily the same week
He said dagger from raid
<--Stupid :)
I know the heroic Sylv ring is a ton of crit, but I actually think I’m going to run double M+ crit haste rings to try to keep my haste over 500. Haste and crit are already starting to pull even at 41% crit, 12% haste
pog
I'm hoping this will be my last week for pugging heroic Sylv
people just want to know their work is going to pay off down the road, not complete rng on if you ever get the thing you are working towards
It might sim less, but I don’t like dumping that much haste
And the sim diff is minor
I’m in a guild still feels like pug heroic XD
Oof
I was too
But now I’m trialing with a good guild
lucky
Yeah - we are 8/10. We'll easily kill KT this week but IDK how much time we'll have for Sylvanas so it'll probably be next week
Just hope I make the cut
Then they are dumb
It can be hard
plus thrall is dead realm
But u can find a guild
need to swap
Come over to Area 52
I was going to, with my last guild
But I think I am done with that I hope
I used to be Alliance on Burning Legion. Before the last merger I think it only had like 20k max levels and it was a 70/30 split Horde to Alliance
Yeah becouse great dps+ ability to cheese mechanics , not to mention survive most shit other classes can’t is bad.
On 9/10 wipes my guild has, I’m the last man standing
I came over here and joined a Friday-only guild. We aren't super progressed, but the raids are fun and I have 6 nights a week to do whatever I want.
i have a home here and i like it
pfft friends
i transferred for the guild not the server
played on tich for years
Oh yeah. We're like cockroaches. Everyone else died ages ago and we're still scurrying about the ruins looking for stuff to stab.
friends just hold you back... hold you... hold me, sob
We got 3/10 to push this week for mythic so we will see




