#assassination
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yeah the token sure gives this feeling I guess, in my server u can't buy tokens so this feeling for me isn't that strong
Not as soon as real money is involved through a token
there would still be a lot of boosting even if blizz removed the token
Ive done my fair share of boosting. There’s guys out there making a living out of boosting 10hrs a day
Mainly Persian
Faction Imbalance, dead realms
Is one problem
those are the main reasons for boosting pandemic
How is that?
This we can agree on
Still plenty if ur good enough
But ye for a casual it’s rough
Not really, if you get like 10 kills, of which 8 are 0 parses
Not lot of pugs will accept you tbh
why are there no obedience parses on painsmith
point is, even if blizz removes the token, boosting will still exist and be a major problem
feels like it's pretty good on that fight?
I think it’s crushable if you remove the token and punish advertising very severely
But we’ll never know
Not happening
But we’re getting off topic
Cos it’s not better than dashing with frost
and wow assassin is the top spec for the raid according to logs
Is it?
I remember when SL launched and sin barely could beat tanks lol
well on average yeah
Yeah sin wasn’t great when SL came out
actually it seems all rogues specs are good
Yeah, dropping CP into SnD didn't feel good in 9.0
Yes, let’s enjoy while it lasts
according to sims they are very close. If obedience gets you an extra flag per phase that must be worth
for me they sim almost within margin of error of each other. could be due to my gear.
But don’t know the numbers
But it’s a hassle to switch around from other bosses
Where you all play dashing frost
And with obe I reckon u play unholy
Frost is a thing with our spec having a bunch of ticks and stuff and being good with crit already
Frost but with high crit. Dashing frost pulled ahead for me at about 35% crit and pulled way ahead by 40%
for some reason all of my best parses are with obedience
for some reason I can't make dashing perform as well
I'm close to giving up and just playing obedience exclusively
how much crit do you have
42%
That seems like a lot
im gemmed and chanted for haste too
Does crit stil sim better than haste at that point?
no painsmith kills??
just simmed a crit/haste obedience at it's simming well above dashing for me https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/xwimj3Nt5h6suvQ1DUwW44
is that ring off the nine the only other ring you have?
yeh cause they both kinda suck
theres 2 good rings in dungeons you can go get
bloodoath and arachnid cypher
too lazy, waiting for the vault to give me one 🙂
haste mastery legs on too
maybe I should wait to get the legion dungeon autoattack ring
those gloves though. unlucky 😅
yeah
theres no way they keep the CoS ring in its current state
had it in vault couple weeks ago
that'll be so bis on almost every spec
but mythic sylv chest was also there
yeah i doubt that ring keeps the proc
or effect i mean
can't believe they haven't said anything about loot
patch is nov 2nd
thats not when legion timewalking is tho fam
what??
its a month after the patch
disgusting

They give us 1 new (old thing) which takes another 4 weeks
its legit just a alt patch
wow, doesn't even have avoidance
doesnt matter, finally got'em
i somehow have never seen a single dagger
killed sylv first time week 2
on heroic
killed her 3 times on mythic now
ive killed sylv since like week 3 and had mythic sylv on farm for about month and a half now
never seen a second dagger
other rogue in guild looted one and got 2nd from vault following week
2x259 shieeet
I’ve been discarding it weekly in the vault
Sorry not sorry
Heroic tho
And now he probably plays New World
i think most of my guild agrees that game is trash
we've started m sylv like week ago - hope we can kill her before 9.2 
the goal is the guild not dying during prog or after it dies
Let’s face it, we’re not gonna get 9.2 before like March
Which happened to 2 guilds I joined already
I actually gave up
Just cba
I’ll remain 9/10 this tier
first guild legit died within minutes of killing sylv
joineda new one that had it on farm
How many guilds are gonna be left after this tier
Oz ur such a doomer bro
February 9.2 💯
Bad for morale
😄
January 
What do we get a 2 month ptr for 9.2?
They’ve got hands full on .5 stuff
After legion tw in december
Seems a fair estimate
if they do blizzconline again in like march or w.e
Anything later would be a disappointment
Next xpac or if we get 9.3 should be blizzconline announcement i think
Which would kinda be stupid without covid?
without?
They arent doing blizzcon this year
9.2 in like 3 months
then full throttle to next expac
there isn't gonna be a 9.3 for SL
We dont have insider info
could you not
!wa
Assassination WA's:
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
Idk where you live but we have 0 restrictions anymore
9.2 is late feb early march
They alr said no blizzcon
Its antivaxxers, we can do without
It’s going to be another Blizzconline or whatever they called it
Netherlands too
hasnt dropped below 30k a day for 2 months now
But
and just hit 50k
most places stopped reporting the deaths
according to google netherlands is averaging 6 a day
bro did you see when that scientist in florida
posted real numbers
and they raided her house
Which is terminally ill people anyway
to stop her
god imagine a blizzcon rn
bro our deaths are spiking to over 100
most of the fuckers that go already dont take showers
we had a day where over 200 people died
shit i dont even look at my state
i should
only 39 past month
lower than i thought for nyc
our health secretary is talking about cases going over 100k a day in christmas
and people are still chilling
wait no this is wrong
theyre too busy looking through the game to fix anything sexist
#wow-general / #off-topic friends
its like 1989 in here
no it's 2021
does anyone know what was the consensus when you have a kyrian druid
nadja or theotar
Those are venthyr soulbinds, not kyrian
Yes
He’s asking which soulbind is better being simped by a kyrian I assume 😉
It gives crit right?
With the leggo yes
is 8k overall dps for a 236ilvl in M+ considered as good ?
I would think nadjia is probably better because it reduces the value of crit tea
But I havent seen any real TC on it personally
also need this answer for simp parsing reasons
dps in keys depends on way too many factors. which dungeon, key level, the rest of your party, etcetcetc
8k isn't terrible, but if it was something like NW for instance with damage amps inside the dungeon, then it's a bit on the lower side i'd say
fellow sylvanas gamers
if obedience and dashing are simming within the margin of error for you
would you take obe or dashing?
Any update on Jeweled Signet of Melandrus, anyone farming for it?
is this for HC or M? and are you using MFD
mythic, mfd sims higher on both ye
mfd gaming, ye
I'd stick to dashing
i use dashing but it sims better than Obedience by a decent amount for me
if it's within margin of error then i'd just stick with dashing tbh
but that's just because usually it generally just feels smoother to play, but I think either would be fine
your CDs are usually assigned to specific platforms regardless
yep
obedience just means you can flag every platform ig
we're stopping dps so fast in p1 now i don't get a 2nd vendetta
depends what your team needs
i either have to send before 3rd veil and waste ~10 seconds of it or try to send after and they call stop ~5 seconds in ):
o
flagging every p[latform or every burn pphase?
every platform
Might need to flag the off target so it doesnt end prematurely
depends if you're wanting to pad or not
cos if you put it on the prio target and it melts you wont get decent value from obedience in p2
the easy answer is to go dashing and just send it when you're assigned to blow something up 😂
we don't know
gotcha, ty guys
nah
at least it didn't during my prog
I got 1 extra flag during p2
but p1 push was around a minute, so no extra flag there
and p3 with lust boss melted
so you just get p2 flag
which isn't really that great tbh
P1 you never get extra because everyone has cds
yeh
guys I am struggling to get over 4k dps on H Sylv as Necro with MA
by the time I go for chains they are already dead and then I am fdar away from boss
ilvl 239
master assasin lego?
maybe u could post a log and some log reviewer could help u
sry, no log to show you atm
u are likely not pressing buttons correctly
those damn buttons
same, spell book is hard to navigate tbh

O.o
whispyr
I actually type all of my spells
i got a lot of dm's saying i sabotaged u 
I know, I told them to dm you their complaints 

i bought new ram today, turns out 1 stick is faulty
very pog
what do you guys use on chains? Al I can do is fan before they are down
nothing usually
no sense putting a bleed on them
thanks for no ping
gl on ur painsmith prog


tyty first pull and its already more of the same + a dc so we're off to a great start
@ everyone I’m trading my entire csgo library!! Go here: lmao.com

I am already in so much pain why you do dis
What’s wrong :(
Sadge
idk what i've done wrong in my life to desrver this
Yay, 262 dashing scoundrel
grats!
scoundrel was only like a 40 dps upgrade surprisingly
necro?
Hey guys, I've been looking through logs and I'm curious why most of the highest parses (top 100) are with Vigor and Dashing Scoundrel even though Obedience and MFD tend to sim higher. Is it just the fact that it is harder to execute the Obedience + MFD rotation?
it takes a while for everyone to catch onto smaller optimizations like that
and yes technically its a little more difficult to execute properly i suppose
Sure, the top 1 is indeed using mfd + obedience but still 70% using vigor.
And just 8% using Obedience.
just use whatever sims best for you/what you are more comfortable playing
dashing/mfd sims the best for some
for me in particular it sims better
Yeah, I've been using Obedience + mfd , it sims higher for me, I was just curious why the majority of the top logs aren't.
Ye, cheers.
My first orange ever in mythic
RHcord

can mfd be an 300dps upgrade?
Link
pog
So might miss something
But aside from the gain being pretty high looks okay
Think you’re overriding something
i have no idea but i think so too
ran a sim again mfd is actually a close to 300 dps upgrade with dashing too
nice
mfd is +148 for you but that specific combo is +300 compared to your current setup
click your highest combo without mfd then you'll see how much mfd itself gives you
yeah seems like it. when you're lower ilevel haste is better
did some mistakes with shards so im behind
can someone ELI5 how to sim food buffs in patchwerk and DS ?
or it doesnt really matter that much just but the cheapest 
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
Pretty much this
Unless you're someone who cares about 10 dps, then you're fine just using whatever is cheapest
fair enough bro
I just default to Sharpening Stones/Agi pots for consistency, oil is kinda ass in aoe
All the power to ya
Hi, my mfd disappears from my spell bar every time i change my spec, do you guys know how to fix that ? I'm using elvui btw
Maybe it's the wrong channel but it only happens with my sin spec 😛
you can make a macro
just for mfd
and it should stay
yeah use a mouseover macro
dashing generally pretty bad in keys
u only run dashing for the crits to funnel winds and that doesn't work in m+ so prob still obed or zoldyks if you're necro
I'm not really used to mfd mouseover but thanks for the tip i'll make it a macro
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,exists][@target,exists][@player]Marked for Death
👍🏻 great
outlaw and 2 other specs have "different" mfd's, bc outlaw's is on 60 sec cd
mouseover good for sniping low health targets too
while not swapping off ur main target
10/10 would recommend
Sure it's just a habit to get into 🙂
To get the hang of hit, make mouseover for rupture aswell
making all your rupture and garrote mouseovers ain't a bad idea tbh
yepp, I do that and its pretty sweet
and a "no rupture" plater mod so its very clear which enemies doesn't have rupture applied.. makes it easier in clustered packs
and Slice admiral so you can have a cat meowing when its time to reapply xD
how does the damage scale past 8 targets for CT and FoK is it scale root ?
do you guys use vendetta on fatescribe intermission adds or nah?
I save Vendetta only for boss. But I send Flag on intermission adds.
send it if its 1st intermission
keep if its 2nd
cos you want it for lust
This is your daily reminder that the night fae master cov takeover is imminent. Prepare for impact.
Not getting gaslight into that dogshit like I was in CN
it was pretty good in CN though until they reworked flag
funny how times have changed and now sepsis is the one that needs the rework
It was bis covenant until 9.0.5. When you know we had covenants finally. And damage!
But also NF simps 
it would actually be competitive if sepsis's stealth ability actually gained effects as if used from stealth
Also if it cost no energy.
The only thing that makes it good is the torghast powers.
NF already struggles in the soulbind department for us. Even if sepsis got everything we would want it to get it still wouldn't be the play i htink
You can lay some pipe in Torghast. Remember one of the other rogues getting the exodia of powers for NF and pulling over a mill dps. Nutter stuff
Burrs was okayish ngl haven’t even looked at the last row ever
Depends on the strat too. Sometimes in my guild, we try to make the push to 72-42 so he doesn’t get another cast off. I think next week I’ll try to full send & see where that takes me.
Not missing much
I kinda figured
I’ll stick with the master covenant, Necrolord
And do some venthyr shenanigans for raid on 9.1.5

sylv seems like a better necro fight idk
It’s not
Its not
I don’t think it is
Only p3 and p2 burn actually matter
Because you can time your windows pretty well in p2/3 with flag
Which is infinitely more valuable than a bit of spike damage here and there
i view necro as the 1min spec so maybe that's why
Mainly because Kevin >>>>>>>>< mnmenonic device
true
but
18% crit?
mnenonic device was such a letdown though
i was hype about the execute built in to soulbind but alas, it's booty cheeks
Mfw 60% crit during gemstones but still 2 CP muts
it is lol
the strenght of bonersmith is the gemstones and i guess main stat is ok
but idk i've been out of the necro game since 9.1
i played necro for sire after trying venth for awhile
I can tell you
However device sounds
It’s worse in practice
Out of 8500 DPS, it does about 50 
It was Kevin all the way for the week that it was bugged
That was cool
This this this
is it worth it to duel wield edge of night or only one for debuff
dual mythic edge of nights is bis
how about if there both normal
Sim it
It only sims like 50 dps under most 252's, at least for me.
But weapon damage is big massive.
More of a Sub thing.
Preparations have been made. All conduits for NF have been buffed 10e100 times.
So even if 9.1.5 hits it will still be Necro for M+ and Venth for raid? Thought NF can have a chance to be tested but if garrote is not even empowered…Legendary rework sounds good :/
yeah nf is still troll i just like to meme about it to annoy certain people
@balmy condor is mfd > vigor in dungeons
not imo
if you play obed in dungeons, you can make a case for like "oh but boss damage"
but usually mfd + subt = pain and not good
cool beans

Pagman
hey guys, my rings are enchanted with haste tenets and haste gems. when i sim for m+ i get " +3 " dps difference if i change them all to Crit enchants .. is it worth it ?
hwat boss
Yeah when is that book coming out anyway
Dslice is weird like that, is is always telling me to get more haste atho it seems to be the worst secondary for aoe?
bosses are a significant part of dungeons anyways
also
doesnt haste increase dot tickrate which makes it not turbo useless in aoe anyway
Ye I know but still
Correct
If anything it’ll gain a bit in 9.1.5 with target caps
Ct poison stonks
On like
The 4 pulls it matters
but mastery also gains stonks

i feel like theres decent aoe pulls in almost every dungeon
or the potential for them
but its still mostly a feel change of course
Yeh
I mean at the end of the day
You sim for what you want to
And you interpret the data how you want
No, how Whispyr tells us to

I mean me and Ryfie disagree about sims and stuff
Me and jpc disagree
But at the end of the day, we don’t disagree that the sim is wrong, or bad, or inaccurate, etc
We disagree about what the data is showing
And as long as the person understands what they’re looking at and why it is the way it is
It’s a good conversation
The really really bad conversations that make me go

Those are the ones where it’s like “I don’t like dungeonslice for dungeon evaluations, so I sim 10 target 15 second”
And they don’t turn off bloodlust
And I’m sitting there like bruh what are you trying to get out of that
But things like playing zoldyck and some more mastery cause you prioritize aoe more, versus obedience and some more haste for bosses
Like that’s fine
You just don’t value X more than Y
its even worse currently as there are even more footguns in low target sims like the dom set
Yeh
I had someone in DM’s ask me if it’s worth to unequip cor for a healing shard, because the dps seemed not worth
My guy was simming 4 target 5 minute
:/
tbh i think you can't prevent people interpreting data wrong.
my approach is more towards just showing the data and trying to be educational about it
if someone makes their own conclusion a different way that's fine too
I'm always curious how dslice works. Does it build in a time lapse between pulls?
Actually, what's the best resource to look things like that up?
it basically is a long single target fight followed by a small and a bigger add group alternating
the mob count and duration of each of the groups/mobs is randomized, this means you get diffrent uptimes on certain target counts
There’s also restealths and some random downtime between packs
So like a pack of 2 followed by a pack of 5, with 7 seconds of stealth between
koji showed the uptime in #tc-updates when he updated the fight script
But the next iteration might be a pack of 3, chained into a pack of 7
As for the where to look it up, you can see a lot in the full html of a sim
The GitHub is also good
But I’ve found that the documentation can be a little outdated at times
Still a good baseline
But like dslice numbers might not be exactly the same
Everytime I ask things in rogue discord I get awesome answers and it boosts my confidence in using it, then I go to other class discords and they tell to me to avoid it. I'm going to keep using it. But will look into understanding it more (like actually reading the html). Thanks fellas.
one thing to keep in mind about dungeon slice if you compare it to your details ingame is how both work
details only shows you your active time
while dungeon slice or wcl shows you the overall dps
Oh wow, didn't know that, makes sense though. Details will generally be higher then. Assuming good play.
Well the thing is that each spec has to have implementation for dungeonslice
Like rupture has a condition for things like time to die, how many are out, how many targets you have
And a lot of specs just don’t have that support
Yep, understood. Was in ret discord and their apl isn't optimized for it.
But they gave other reasons I don't buy
the class/spec needs to have optimizations for add events
Yeah that too
thats mostly what dungeon slice needs
multi target support is at least for me sth that should work on most classes
because even those who "dislike" dungeon slice often use sims with multiple targets
Yeah, warrior apl for example is split into single target, and aoe
But it’s mostly a toggle on 2 targets
serialos did a kinda "supported" fight style document a while back
and a lot of classes did end up supporting everything outside of dungeon slice

How do they support HAC but not dslice
HAC has similar mechanics
Add events, etc
yes
to be fair the early days of dslice had some issues
raid_events+=/invulnerable,cooldown=500,duration=500,retarget=1
Actually can’t imagine simming a warlock alt after looking at rogue apl for the last 2 years

^ dungeon slice has a invulnerability event to the main actor, this did break some things
(we talk about early versions of it, this should be all fixed for a while)
the sim does switch to other targets if the main target is invuln, but it did break some caster pre combat stuff before fixed iirc
to be fair i had quite some people tell me that they want to improve/fix the wl apl, but i think nobody did rly want to invest a lot of time into it
iirc it got somewhat better, but i am still unsure about its quality on all 3 specs
Well yeah, everyone WANTS to be the person to fix it
It’s just that they don’t actually want to do the work to fix it

It’s a lot of work to rewrite the apl, I doubt any one person will step up to it
Probably need like 3-4 people
i think its more than that
you basically need to double check the implementation before doing apl
so you need to level a wl too
Yeh
i could do some wl logs if somone rly wants to approach it
my gf has almost all classes on max level (shes atm leveling the last 2, rogue and warrior), and i could
login to her account and do some testing ask her to create me some logs 😉
How long is it worth holding shiv for vendetta?
I usually use if I'm still going to get another shiv at maximum 10 seconds into vendetta, that correct?
Also is it worth using the deathly shadows prepull on sin aswell?
Ten seconds is good
Deathly shadow prepull doesn’t work for any spec except sub
So no
Thanks, and in the opener
I've seen a lot of openers on warcraftlogs
Is there any sequence for the first 5 casts that's always the best?
Pure single target in raid ofc
Depends on covenant first
Venth
Venth dashing frost set
And what’s your first three talents?
I play elaborate planning and vigor
I don't know if mfd is better or not
This is mfd vs vigorbhere. Vigor opener is mut snd mut garro flag rupture
That’s a sim question
Ye it autocorrected to and
Ok, in case it is better, how do i incorporate it into the rotation
Use on CD
And make sure I use it during flag
Right?
yep, that's pretty much it
Yes, but on the opener, after the rupture - mfd after
Yup, and also the 1 MFD that's not during flag I should try using during shiv I guess
You don’t want to prepull SnD with mfd not do it for the rupture so you can establish all your bleeds n shit
Honestly don’t remember as I’m a healthy necropapi. I want to say it’s possible in #assassination-faq though
you're also talking about a tiny fraction of a percent for holding abilities like shiv or mfd to go together
itll give you a few thousand at the end of an encounter
True, and also it depends on boss timers
Maybe if you hold it you'll delay it by too long from getting a bomb on guardian for example and then it will desync with flag
You are right
Thank you for the help guys ❤️
You send mfd on cd
Don’t hold for shiv you want it to sync up brother
Nono, was talking about holding shiv for it rather than the other way around
Oh and I forgot something
On warcraftlogs everyone shows up as using agility potion
But on guides it says that phantom fire is better on up to 3 targets?
Is phantom fire inconsistent?
you only hold mfd for flag btw
yes
So I should be using agil potion and sharpening stones then
its more consistent
if phantom fire sims higher theres some chance it can highroll
but agi and sharpening is pretty much always the same
what is the ideal haste, crit and versa for assas rogue in raid
sim it, I think tho the highest possible sim dps is achieved with 60% crit, 20% haste and vers/mast around 10%
wouldnt aim for it tho but just continuiously sim what seems to be the stat weights for your character
Only 1 question though, why start with mutilate instead of garrote when you're gonna SnD anyway and you only need 1 cp for that?
!mut
Ambush is currently only used from blindside/sepsis proc, not from stealth.
The reasoning is a little complicated, but the most important of them is the difference in combo points on crit (up to 4 vs 3).
Some other factors to consider are increased poison applications, blindside, and doomblade. This is true for all talent combinations and legendaries.
because we run MA basically
Ah I see
you dont want to waste your MA window by using garrote during it
You almost get guaranteed
5 combo points for flag rupture anyway with MA
Yeah sorry, I'm dumb
I'm only at 46 crit atm so
thats plenty if it sims well
not bad
It's enough for heroic at least
And first 3 on mythic
Dunno about rest since I haven't been able to pug it
Mythic is not about ilvl
even with lower crit your chance of getting more combo points is still high
It makes it faster and easier
Sure but also you don't wanna be last on the dps chart
But by no means you need ‘x’ to do mythic and do well
yeah hes right
ive been the lowest geared member of every raid team ive been in for most of the tier
i still perform plenty well
only fight I havent been least geared is sylvanas
we have a lower geared feral
and its also not always ilvl but the pieces you have
U need to play realy badly or die as sin to be on the lower brackets in an avg raidteam
Do agree with both of you truth is I'm just a dps whore 😦
I respect the mechanics but I like cheesing them as much as possible
You know you’re gonna be swingin’ those spikes around come 9.1.5 Agreon

imagine if the spike spread poisons to all nearby enenies 
ok, I guess you can be my little pogchamp
Make
great again
Was it ever great?
Sure was in 9.0 ptr
Actually made you vanish and benefit from stealth effects
Too bad people didn't like it resetting mobs that they used it on.
Would have been dank in raids though.
And well m+ as well. Basically any content other than open world/torghast
hy im new to wow and im already lvl 60 but im now at the conduit and idk how it works :/
Like the system itself or which conduits to use?
the thing whit nadjia
Wowhead has a good write up that explains the system better than I can. Check this link out and if you have any more questions let me know and I’ll try my best to help you 
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/soulbinds-conduits-covenants-shadowlands
iirc you just need to get one up to remove the swaping restrictions
do we have to do anything special for the frost set rotation wise or is it just play like normal?
nothing special, it just works well with the spec design if you gear correctly
Try to crit as much as possible 
if u hit ur buttons harder u should have a higher chance at critting so do that
all I'm saying is every time I push my buttons super hard, I crit

in m+ both weapons for Lightless force or one celetial and one lightless ?
yes, I crit my keyboard
IS there anyone that has a nice gear guide for the upcoming Legion m+/timewalking? What is the best gear to gather? with sockets and such
for sin rogue that is
go study
I never really bothered with lightless tbh I just ran sin/cel
I'm playing my last hs bgs game okay?! 😦
I said GO 
yes daddy
do we swap to adds on soulrender or are we better off sticking to the boss
Overlord sure, agonizers probably not
You can throw a garrote and a rupture on one
just one?
do you take poisoned katar in m+? the fan of knives conduit
Yes
Which one do you guys think is more fit for KT progression? Assa or sub?
if they are played at the same level
Assassination if you are going downstairs, subtley if you are staying above would be my assumption, wait for a more confirmed answer though
Yeah im going downstairs each time so i have to hold my cds
I’m sure the difference is marginal and doesn’t matter overall
That's actual and factual
mfd sims higher than vigor for me, should i take it for kt since im using crimson tempest too?
i am really indecisive
Venthyr and obedience?
Yes, always use MfD instead of Vigor.
That goes for all fights.
As Venthyr that is.
Our lord savior has spoken trust his words 
is that for both obedience and dashing?

Ye

If you don’t have sylv dagger, dashing will sim higher, if you do, obedience generally will.
General rule, not absolute
oh rly
havent simmed assa in a while, might become my main raid spec if my lag doesnt stop
It is a lag helper. And yeah - that’s what’s been uncovered anyway. But yeah mfd is the play
Pooling won't help you much in that department
Assassination is a slow spec. You’re always gonna feel energy starved
Especially with Frost favoring Crit
with vigor it didn't feel so bad 
Something something class fantasy
And most of the time it's in the users head
Like you will never feel the difference between 15% and 25% haste
Alt tab and look at logs if you’re bored 😄
But some people claim that it's night and day
I actually think most of what makes Vigor feel good is the higher max during the opener and coming off downtime more than the regen itself.
It's like arms war and the way gcd works for them
Yeah, apm wise I think they're pretty close.
MfD is basically just an extra button to press every 30s.
im sensitive you kno 
oh damn obedience sims higher O_O
With MFD it tends to sim higher
MfD + Obedience being the best performing single target combination
like 20 dps higher
so using it on every fight is good?

Yes.
hell yeah
u still use mfd at 15 sec before pull and ull get one inside first flag right?
I wouldn't use MfD pre-pull unless you get like a 25s pre-pull
It might be a bit janky for future Flag windows if you barely fit it in the first one
ah makes sense
And we don't really get much from using it pre-pull anyway
"yo can we make a 25s timer like we used to do in bfa? im using double on use" 
yeah thats true we have infinite snd anyways
We always used 25s pull timers with Method
Gives people time to think through talents, gear etc.
Nah, not anymore. I've quit the game. :P
That's why the past tense.

Yeh pretty much
I personally did Flag - Rup - Vend - Shiv - Vanish - Muti - Env - Muti - Env - MfD - Env
But it doesn't really matter
Just use it right away when it's available and you're at 0-1cp
after opener , we use mfd on cooldown or delay it sometimes?
On cooldown, holding it for Flagellation if needed
ok ❤️ gonna keep prog in sylvanas today
RIP
I'm just barely hanging on right now myself, if I'm honest. We'll see if I survive 9 more months of SoD 🤣
Yeah, had plenty of time to play the game during covid, but with things slowly returning to normal, all my extra time is slowly evaporating. But it was fun while it lasted. 
Yeah I have been exceptionally busy of late and that's not helping
I'm kind of glad the game dipped so much and the patch cycles being so extremely slow
Doesn't feel too bad to quit the game when it's so stale
Don't really get much from doing the same dailies every day and mythic raids 3 times a week for no loot.
I really would love to make a run at parsing this tier (my gear is garbo luck right now so pointless atm) but that would require the game to cooperate and I'm running out of patience 😛
That feel when 50% of all my Mythic gear drops are from The Eye 🤔
(Wish I was joking)
Yeh, gear definitely helps. Especially now where all the big guns are either 254 equipped or have some sort of externals
disgusting
Externals I can kinda live with but until I get at least one Mythic dagger and Mythic fusion amplifier I feel like it's not even worth trying
I sim like 1k or more below top gearsets atm
Yeah well, Kindred Affinity giving us more than 1k dps aint helping either
Good luck trying to beat someone who has a simp druid on the roster :P
At least I got legs and gloves this week.. was my first gear upgrades in like a month
Still sitting on 4 Heroic items in my gearset (was 6!!) after all this time
I've only kept 6 Mythic (and 4 usable) drops since the start of the tier, this personal loot tier has not been kind to me 😄
Just need to find someone to bribe for a dagger
@here what are some daggers i should be aiming for rn i have 2 213's and im not sure which daggers i should ofcus on getting
outside of Sylvanus daggers
here or everyone is dissabled
any high itemlevel is good to get, so try to get a high itemlevel dagger or sylvanas
if you can decide, you want high itemlevel and good stats
F for Cev
It’ll probably get an asterisk like with PI?
Thank god for that
Tagging everyone with such a question? Cmon
I don't think it's covered by the externals counter but not sure.
It is not, no.
Might be worth mentioning on WCL Discord tbh
Already done.
Still think it's fairly BS that buffed parses aren't on their own leaderboard 😛
Or at least keeping track of an unbuffed leaderboard in the background
Yeah, but that brings with it possible griefing as well
Anyone with an external can grief your pure runs, because people suck
And they do dumb stuff
lol sure, but if you're getting griefed by your own raid that's kinda not really everyone else's fault 😛
But yeah, I do agree that it's a bit all over the place currently
time to make our own website "nobullshitlogs" that has a ranking with all those blacklisted
Considering fflogs has distinct aDPS vs rDPS rankings I don't really get why Khira hasn't added a distinct ranking entry for unbuffed parses at least
Kihra has said that they will be adding Kyrian Affinity as an external and it'll show up as 1 buff.
It's apparently hard to track that because it's not tracked well by combat logs.
But I think unbuffed people deserve to know where on the "unbuffed" leaderboard they are
On Blizzard's end that is
I agree.
Nothing wrong with having one for the pureblooded boys.
we had 2 enh shamans
Me neither, but then again we used to private log with my previous 3 guilds.
all 2 stopped playing
So kinda whatever
i mean my gear is worse than kojis, so i am not in a position to log 😛
My parses can't really get any better, but I can always work on the ranking whenever someone beats my parses.
Feels kinda bad losing by a hair just because someone got fed externals though
I'd need like 6 people in my raid to get assassinated before I got to the line of succession for PI 🤣
Lost my r1 Sire parse by 0.7 dps to someone who got 3 PI's back in Cn.
Massive 0.7 dps
I don't honestly even care for externals.
It doesn't work well as a comparison to your previous parses
I aim to always do better than last time and suddenly doing 300 dps more because I get externals kinda ruins it
Rogues aren't an awful external target (way better than those terrible charts from Azor would indicate)
But realistically Balance Druids, Shadow Priests, and Warlocks are probably better
I mean
You shouldn't be using all of your PI's on the same target either
That's just being lazy
But yeah, Kyrian Druid's are just absolutely insane. Nothing else comes even close.
We had 3 Balance Druids on prog and they ate all of them 🤣
Kyrian?
But Azor's chart sucks because it uses set timings for PI (not any way around to unfortunately) which just sucks for the default Venthyr profile
Since Vendetta timings aren't set
Yeh
I did some isolated tests for figuring out PI value on intermission Sylv burns
And Rogue was extremely competitive
But Shadow Priest seemed a bit better
And Demo Lock was also a bit higher
Yeh, Demo is kinda dumb
But Assassination was actually like the 3rd best option in our raid, compared to the chart which shows it as one of the worst 🤔
Also there's player reliability involved
I ended up getting a single BF in p2 on our Sylv prog because I theorycrafted it and handed in solid proof of why it's the best for me instead of anyone else
'best class' isn't always best pick
We actually ended up giving one to a Rogue on prog
Because Rogues can cloak the waves
And was more reliable
Worked out well, did over 600 dps more than KSP on my first kill 
It's funny how my view of the two fights is so different. Sire was such a fun fight to optimize for, Sylv makes me SMH
Parsing on that fight pretty much seems miserable. I dunno if I'm ever going to try too hard to do it. Would require changing almost all my assignments, plus a lot of luck 😛
Sylv wasn't too bad because it was very clearly separated to 3 phases.
Intermission/p2 downtime allows for cds to be back, so you can safely sync Vend/Vanish/Flag in p1 both times
P2 you use all cds on burns with BF, or alternatively on the first adds without BF
P3 you have to play around your fight length and kill time
I got multiple r1's from it, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Progressing it was a major pain in the ass though
Having to do 9 minutes of p1/p2 before getting to p3 is just awful
Also Sylv is crazy with the externals due to the length and nature of the fight. Like if you look at Sire, there's hardly any externals on the first page, for Sylv it's nuts
What Crit % is recommended before switching to DS + Frost
You should sim it, there is no magic number.
Aight, waiting for my sim already, just thought i'd ask
It depends on a lot of things, it's not as simple as looking at crit and changing whenever you hit a certain number.
😄


i think sylvanas is just design wise not great
but its not the worse fight in my opinion of the tier
Fatescri- 
fate is my candidate for the worse fight this tier
The Nine
whats wrong with nine?
I mean for example if you are assigned to AoE side vs. ST side on second platform in the intermission, just a big DPS difference you have no real control over. And domination arrow pad is still a big part of a lot of high parses and that's just going to depend on your comp and strategy. A lot of factors. Getting chosen by the wrong arrow in P3 is just going to totally murder your P3 damage after 10 minutes of the fight. It's pretty feelsbad. lol
I mean the priests in my guild are for sure lazy about PI
The step up from Nine to Remnant is not funny
Our main PI still goes to a destro lock

thats a thing ever tier
remnant has the issue of spell queuing
just bad if it requires damage stops
Na that's fair
well depends on the guild
Ofcourse
Depends on how many dps you have to carry
Lots and lots 
Same
But you’re in like a top 20 guild?
200
Then you’ll have ppl that prepare, learn the fight and not int all the way through
Us mortals have to wait for a pull in which the ideal set of players get hit by mechanics
Or until we outgear fights by so much u can cheese most stuff
I mean 120 on remant is alot no matter how you slice it
its not anywhere near average
It was more like 80
Just looked it up, I was overly dramatic
80 still too many there I think
I don't have any issues with fate




