#assassination
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And you think that’s better?
No
@strange python what's power if it's not meant to be borrowed
It's almost like he posted it or something
You think he doesn’t have numbers
The man designed the fucking thing boys 
anyone with brain can probably tell that 100% increase on bleeds and poisons is a pretty insane effect lol
It's what people initially thought the 4p did
I saw that and instantly thought "Woah that sounds really really strong"
devs dont do sims guys he doesnt know nuffin
I mean it's not if bleeds and poisons do shit damage
bro
Hide the sims

I can’t wait for spec channel degeneracy
It’s already begun
A Christmas miracle
I can't wait to see sepsis inside of shiv
I'm actually hyped for 9.2 now, fuck
It’ll be a nice change from the MT degeneracy
oh no....anyways
Nah it’s fine let sepsis die
That’s fine no one cares

^^^^^
yeah we dont need nf sims
100% damage increase on sepsis, probs still bad
dont waste your time LOL
Sadge
nf soulbinds are balanced guys trust
I'm pretty sure even if sepsis did literally 50k damage people still would ignore it
Negative.
We're dps whores all of us
Let's not pretend
True
they should remove the stealth bullshit with it
K try now
and just make ti do 500k
Add this to the 2pc: (Except for sepsis, we have it increase sepsis damage by 1000% for the 3 people still playing night fae)
And you don't even have a brain
exactly
Well sepsis condie

Whi would ever share a covenant with a mothbaby
Not gonna lie
Already super buffs sepsis + WPS+ 2p
It still bothers me Sepsis doesn't work with Mastery
When it's obviously supposed to be poison damage
Genuine question: Does it bother you that sepsis even made it live?
It still bothers me that the stealth effect is a thing
It bothers me sepsis isn't a 1min cd
Because it's literally useless
Because it’s such an awkward ability lmao
Sepsis is a really trash tier spell lol
Sepsis was great for us when it restealthed
But 45 second vendetta lines up with sepsis
Don't forget slaughter poison
But Sepsis does work with Shiv so I'm gonna assume this works with the AoE shiv too
probably one of the worst covenant spells ever
Too bad too many whiny boys in the chat got it nerfed
Imagine they make sepsis 1min cd and fix the stealth ability to proc stealth talents
except now it literally rips you out of stealth lmaooo
Yeh, very poggers
Hate it
tbf it had a really odd positive feedback loop with Shadowdust that could have been omega busted
would have been sick build
As a pvper I was fine with slaughter if it did more damage than normal poisons
i really wanted to play shadowdust + MA sepsis
We love to see it.
But it did the exact same damage as shadow
but they ended up not letting us do 2 baseline legendaries
and that version of sepsis didn't make it to live anyway
Zeph planning the long con
So now we wait for deathspike + sepsis reworks or what
good one
FOR SCIENCE 🧪

Make sure to equip septic shock
Koji unknowingly giving Cev some serious hopium
now make sepsis benefit from mastery and sim niya

I do enjoy the fact that Shiv, Zoldyck, Mastery, and Dashing all have totally different poison/nature whitelists
you guys huff more copium than me in here jesus
It's the capitalisation of the p 
Poisons/poisons/poisons
lol
Poisons
Poisons
Let's get that crit mastery profile with the new tier tho
poisons
Hi welcome to the party
Nice of you to join us finally
If the party just arrived why are the pins already updated
is it still January before we get to test it?
And the sims already run
Yeah

I prefer it that way
Party is over, time to go hype up Outlaw now
still waiting for sepsis sim then its complete
Yuk
yeah outlaw sounds kinda cool
I don't want to play the omega strong build knowing it's getting nerfed
arg
pewpew
that greenskin combo they mention in the bluepost sounds fun
Not my sim, koji sim, and they’re all local
bte into big ps in bte into big ps
Waiting for Mystlers sim robot to tell me what to do
Yep
kinda sucks the BTE buff almost certainly overwrites


atleast the bte is actually free this time
csv file so big you won’t know what to do with it
no cp pooling, no energy cost, just a 6cp bte baked in pistol shot
Robot goes 
Just waiting for all the ideas on how we should 200 IQ Shiv
"Nah still cast on CD fam"
hold up the 2pc works on poison too now
True
Man I had to double check this was the assasination channel
We might update how everything else gets cast AROUND Shiv lol
But that's a different issue
Such a massive cd now
Especially on CD now
This is even more on CD
Hard cd now to make it in time for 50s vendetta
Remove the hold 12 seconds for vendetta 
It's possible
CT - Shiv everytime
i feel like our envenom uptime is gonna suffer
That's definitely worth checking
It won’t
Envenom uptime will only go down with CT
CT when shiv id coming up
With non-CT it's about the same
Wtf are you going to do in between vendettas?
im assuming with CT
CT
Still lots of Envenoms being cast
CT will be cringe
Ofc it will
I really just don't see how anything other than downtime that would make you want to delay a 9 second buff on a 25 second CD
But CT is gonna omega pump in AoE now with the AoE Shiv
with duskwalkers would you do 75 second intervals on vendetta and flag just to line up nicely with shiv?

or do 30 second intervals on shiv
Assassination is going to be the aoe spec now
Ye until we realize all the adds are already dead to hunter + ww

CT has to tick to do meaningfuldamage
Paging @marble hemlock
You were right all along old man
You knew the light before we did
Seli’s older than me
Subterfuge + 2nd MA lego + CT + Shiv opener in AoE? 
You definitely want Shiv for every Vend window and right after Vend again on the buffed dots, currently it holds it for max 12s.
😛
dont give me hopium
I can’t wait to offer to help and you give me crayons and a coloring book to sit in the corner with
i know it currently holds for 12, but i mean with the tier set
So your first cast in vendetta should be shiv basicly
May be worth looking at but one of the few advantages of an Exsang mechanic is fitting into damage windows
Yeh we'll have to play around it and see.
Either holding vend or shiv
So you don't really want your Shiv not to overlap with Vendetta
Every programmer needs a rubber duck to talk to
But as long as it gets in Vendetta fully it shouldn't matter when
Start or end doesn't matter
If your first cast is shiv you get it 5 seconds after it expires on the buffed dots
But with dusk holding vend is worse
I do think that getting a second Shiv on the buffed up dots after Vend could be the play though
Those are fully juiced up snapshot bleeds
That's plausible if they keep the overhang
Assuming you will refresh dots at the end of vendetta
For sure. The main thing I'm thinking about is if you shiv at the start of vendetta and right after it, then hold until your next vendetta, assuming around a 65 second interval from duskwalkers. Or if you shiv 3 times per vendetta, and hold flag/vendetta until 75 second intervals to line up with the 3rd shiv
Will need to look at the timing windows to see what the offset ends up being
Funny thing is, when you will have 2 piece from the raid, bot not 4p yet, your shiv will be a bigger CD then vendetta
I think as long as you shiv on cd then it'll naturally line up for 2 shiv's on vendetta bleeds
Yeh, who knows. Will habe to sim around and see which is best
If you vendetta on cd as well
I mean it already kinda is
Fuck yes
sin aoe sounds insane now actually
Obed is kinda the weird one now
Er flag
4p is working with necrolord?
Should do, doesn't yet
It should, that’s the plan at least
sounds insane compared to what we're used to
ye
Yeh

subt garrotes + ct with shiv sounds like it pumps
Welp back into torgies farming renown
Don't tell musclebrah
it's fkin ovah
Getting that kyrian up or what
I mean this is a pretty huge increase to DungeonSlice DPS
Hey you're the guy who replaced me
he is a mage main now nobdy cares
Like for example
What’s a kyrian
For ST sims
Our DPS basically goes slightly higher than what we have now
For DS sims
Out DPS goes like...
30% higher than now lol
But that's assuming the 2pc stays how it is, but it'll certainly change to some degree
Ye
Either way the design is good for our AoE
yea the design is great

I love it
ya sin tier set is in a nice place
I'm v happy they listened to the feedback about the design
Meanwhile outlaw still capped
2pc is easily tuneable

Bruh
.
wht the
ye this sets pretty dope
you wont be laughing when i vomit 10000000004569 bullets into dungeon mobs
outlaw
it's kinda funny, this 2 piece makes sin play a lot like sub does
1 minute CDs with flag/vendetta, with 30(25) second half CD intervals with shiv
How so
instead of flag with every 2nd symbols
Wasn’t that already the case?
no? assassination was much more of an "always on" spec, neither vendetta nor shiv windows were large bursts, you just did the rotation and maintained envenom buff for winds damage, and you used 5 ish shivs per vendetta
instead of alternating shiv with vendetta/shiv without vendetta
like sub does with symbols and flag
yea you're basically just a "do winds spec"
yea but i mean it specifically makes it a 30 second half CD 1 minute full CD spec
Yeah
although it's also possible that you delay vendetta and flag for 75 second intervals to pair with every 3rd shiv
depends on how low the intervals get from duskwalkers and obedience
if no dbl leggo w/ new changes we still playing doom ya?
only dusk w obed + dusk? or no
that exact question should be simmable tomorrow
once the nightly build goes through
Lmao
yeah I dunno I didn't look at single leggo setups just double
Also thanks for your pov vid on sylv, it helped me prep for my kill
I think that it's still obed going into 9.2 without any tier probs
:'( I'll be waiting
Just build a server rack at your house just for simming Koji
Pls.
We’ll collect community donations to pay for it

He's yellow tho
why u bully me
u are red go play dk
The fish we throw on our keyboard can’t tell you news updates
I only now just looked at the set bonus
Jesus
That thing is a monster and I love it
@balmy condor you need to bold underline the will get nerfed part
lol
maybe make it its own pin
Oh I know that it’ll get nerfed
Let people be excited for a bit
But its still really nice to see that
Can do
The design is nice
Oh yeah
Just please don't spam the thread later with "omg u nerfed us to the ground we were so great on ptr"
Ye the design is the important part for sure
LOL
I wonder how major a 50% increase would be.
I hope it gets nerfed before it hits ptr 
That is, instead of 100%
Srz
Balance Druids gonna be all like "but see, this is compensation for the fact that Mages get a good second legendary so this set bonus is perfectly balanced"
Waiting
and try and play it off like its no big deal
and see if we can stall out until mythic
lol
I thought we did that with obedience and it didn't work
Lmao
nah we're too ethical @slow marsh
Agreed
If you say "but Warlocks" enough maybe people will listen
someone call up tettles we need some sandbag coaching
echo stalled it out so long they even got wf without going venthyr
Truuuu mega sandbag it
ok back to reclear good luck keeping us op
Whispyr is just gonna start deleting random APL lines when running sims
Lmao
Gl on the loot my friend
Make all Sims play BS/Vigor
Where are your local sub sims, then?
@gusty mirage i got sylv ring thats it basically
Assa doing 9k dps with tier set, pls buff
@drifting cloud better?
Nice dude I got benched for sylv

fuck....
I wasn't talking about the sims 😦
100% bleed damage is what we needed baseline we need more buffs plz

Apparently Sub channel is dead
Do I need to use any options on Raidbots to ensure that MDT is being accounted for in sims?
It was some dude posting the feedback post like 1.5 hours after the fact
#buffassassination
That what is being accounted for?
Mad Duke's Tea
Method Dungeon Tools
Mythic Dungeon Tinvitational
Okay
I've fallen into this Discord's trap of using TOO MANY FUCKING uhh
shortened letters
to mean words
I forgot the word
Abbreviations
yes that's it
Acronyms
lol
And apparently not being able to type out sentences in one message
shadowlands.party_favor_type=crit
If you want to sim only crit
No I just thought it was weird that Theotar is still outsimming Nadja for me, but I wasn't sure if I needed to enable an option in Raidbots or something like that
You say that but you said MDT instead of tea.
I learned from the best, Whispyr and Foreverguy
Theo good
Nadja bad
Simple
Okay, I'll try it out
Nadjia not bad, Theo just better
Why shouldn’t it out sim it ?
nadjia BAD
Anything that's not best
What’s the problem ?
Isnbad
Says the guy running nadjia on sylv
Don’t talk about my girl like that 



I was gonna say
Don't tell em
Cev’s secretly a fatal flaw enjoyer
Ceverion more like clownion
Man’s a legend
im proging sylv this week, am I swapping to nadjia?
No
Play Theo
do it coward
Didn't sleep at all today, we out here grindin
Kleia is best sl waifu
This 4h train ride is killing me
I will not elaborate further

Cev tell me to play nadjia
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
No this is kyrian sin enjoyers
But Theo is more consistent generally
token better for prog aswell
pls tell me nadjia is better so i dont look a dumbass when i forget to swap to theo after swapping covs
Ye it does a nice chunk of healing
Eww imagine caring about defensive traits
Yuk
Oh wait
boys boys boys
"only 60"
the 60 avoidance
Only
they defend other people not us immortal frost set gamers
60 is massive
Theo is 3 potency conduits?
Yes
60 avoidance? 60 SPEED
More consistent and only +60
No wonder, I'd always only have 2 selected
60 aint worth it
Thank you guys
Didn’t you farm the cos ring????
Not worth it when it's easier to use and more consistent

Hmmm
ah the classic this number isnt worth but this basically identical numer is worth
equipping ring is not the same as change in playstyle
I’m sorry?

Change in playstyle
🤔
Pls repeat that for me but slower
theotar doesnt change much lmao
Have I entered the twilight zone
LIke, y'all can clown me but I'm gonna play what I am comfortable with / like which is vigor nadj
VIGOR
theotar changes my gameplay immensely by making me want to log in for <2 minutes every hour to fish for crit tea
Bro wrong year
Literally nothing changes, just go for it
Fax
@limber lion standing in the shade and thats pretty much it ?
I'm dead
Yup
That was December 2020’s discussion @slow marsh
No changes since 2020 tru

If not, tough luck
bruh
Basically
i legit move out of the umbrella sometimes cause i think its a veil cast
Guys with the niya burrs nerfs do we play triple potency now
Lmao
Oh fuck my umbrella procd what to do im panicking pls my rotation is getting completely destroyed now i dont know what to do
just dont track the proc and have graphics on 1
I was referring to mfd you assholes lol
You play mfd on both....
Who wants 500 mastery for standing in a huge back circle anyways
Guys does this 8% aura buff make us viable
Always mfd
nah, I aint about that life
how does haste affecting our DoTs change the spec?
Not about that damage life
On what fight time do I play guardian over bote?
We’ve went back in time 
When do I play CT with expedient build?
I played mfd one raid night, performed worse than I would normally, wont go back for now
no reason to
Is razer coral that good?
good, but you dont have to tell us 5 times
Nah trash give it here
we dont actually care
Should I save coral for ink proc or pop on cd
Do I play CT for opulence?
is sharpened blades really BiS for ST?
Do we use fok in st to get the last combo point?
Where do I get vendetta artifacts
Does sin have an iron artifact?
sec checking my opulence logs
Should I envenom to consume deadly or just keep evising
We’ve broken whispyr
idk what this is
Good job guys
holy shit my opulence logs are trash
I'm just glad it wasn't me this time

Dratnos has a video on his r1 assa opulence kill
Might wanna check that out
Learn a thing or two
ty will do
Gl
Hey I was curious if it’s worth playing font of power in m+ as assa
Delete that shit
Font of power the worst trinket in existence
Also how do I get my tank to respect my restealths???
no the charging animation was sick
Dratnos initial take on sin tier bonus was actually from the future

@limber lion if I play BS/Vigor how do I stop being last on the dps meters?
you swap to ep/deeper

Swap to sub
if you want to play mp on some bosses you should ask vel hes the expert

Oh God the MP viable? Inc
externals 
How many tokens do I need to convince one of y’all to reroll simp Druid for me?
When I play MP I hope I’ll be able to convince my raid to refer to me only as “the Master Poisoner” how likely is this
I already got the name pickwd out fam
True
when was the last time MP was viable? legion?
for Mage tower
Bro I barely remember 9.0
Go to sleep
That escalated quickly
Pvp ;P
it's ok they got the ligma it usually causes quick escalations
What’s ligma
Mage tower 

Lick ma balls
7.3 yeh
You offering or what?
See you in 15
back when our mastery was good 
mastery about to be good again bet
fold
weak
Does anyone know if there’s a specific person who writes all the rogue feedback or works on the rogue changes (ie these recent tier set changes)
me
Back when we built our build around an overpowered, awful artifact trait.
I’ve played multiple classes and I’ve never seen such good open communication and quick acting on feedback for a class
i miss kingsbane 
Maybe
this is pretty new to this tier i think
We're definitely in a good spot and lucky.
yeah the homie lurks in here but we will not point him out because we are rogue bruddahs
Hasn't been the case previously
he said hell nerf rogues for 1% for every ping he gets
He genuinely needs to be praised, it is honestly really impressive. It’s amazing to hear their reasoning and thought processes behind changes
We need this bloke working on other classes
He does
He does work on another class i think
We aren't even his first choice and is still good to us
There's a bunch of devs actively seeking feedback on tier sets
(I also have no idea if these changes are good or not since I’m new to rogue but still.. they seem to target feedback from what I’ve seen here)

do you guys also think that Theotar is also BIS for Assassination as well?
or more consistent?
according to sims, yes
Oh, Dashing finally outsimming Obedience for me now
Still wants me running Nadja though
Crit tea would win
BS/DS?!??!
I have like 5 levels of my sims...
With all combos of Nadjia, Theotar, Vigor, MFD, & Obedience.
wait blizz is watching us? 
ye
yes.
I knew I could trust you.
Sims weren't accounting for the natural -2000 dps due to not being able to pool properly
Waiting for EU to wake up and be hype

@manic harness oh you got your countermeasure, grats, i was in one of your vaults earlier
Malxo, yes, thank you
oo thats a buff alright
I actually got it several days ago but I kept running VOW/COS to help others get theirs while I grinded valor
You'll get it eventually bud!
?
EU is already hyped lol
Oh you mean the new 2pc oxi? It's nice i guess. Nice bandaid anyway. Not a big fan of bandaid fixes. Not sure if it'll actually make assa more viable in m+ either, we still won't even be close to ww or mage or warrior burst aoe, and unless you run a more of less sustained aoe comp, i think you'd still rather have the sub rogue prio+st
I look at the bonus and see wits 2.0. an ability that fixes most of the issues the spec has in aoe, but overshadowing every other mechanic so much that it almost becomes boring because it is the only thing that matters and allows us to scale.
Very happy about the ongoing communication though, feels incredible to have someone take care of our sets that's invested and reading and engaging with feedback. That by itself makes the game more enjoyable, no matter what the set bonus ends up being.
I'm not that big of a fan of band aid fixes either but it was kind of apparent we were going to be getting a somewhat boring set bonus from the get go

This reads like a copypasta tbh 
But I get the sentiment
kinda thought the same lol
i kinda like the set, its gonna shake up our talents a little bit
thought idk about NS hype 🤮
I think bandaid fixes for the last tier of the expansion are fine
yeah ive never been a fan of NS
But obviously I'm not a big fan of temporary bonuses or rental powers being the sole reason a spec regains viability in a specific content type of environment
subterfuge>MA>Venom Rush> NS
Entire assa talent tree needs a rework
^
With the exception of the survivability row, every row in that tree has big problems
wouldnt that also mean the same thing for the other 2 specs?
outlaw is almost fine
No
but sin and sub have severely required talents
Both outlaw and sub are fine. Sub talents need some numerical tuning and ES +1 SHD charge needs to be baseline, but beyond that sub is fine
id say sub is a little worse off in REQUIRED talents than sin, but sin certinaly has alot of dead/boring talents that are basically placeholders
Eeeh
making pb and/or ct baseline sounds pretty good
but what else is in raging needs of change?
outlaw has multiple talents rows for throughput that are all fine
most of the assa talents are big ol nothingburgers
like whats wrong with first 3 rows f ex?
alacrity row
i suppose
exsang literally never used, and venom rush has never been used once
Alacrity 
hidden blades is a meme since inception
ns vs subter vs ma is a whatever row. so is pb/ct/hb (in terms of raid/st viability)
But yeah besides last 2 it’s fine i guess
sure, you could say "on a fight with adds playing subterfuge over MA might give you a bit more dps" but is it actually a meaningful choice that will lead to a meaningful difference in dps?
yeah MA row is boring af imo i wish theyd revamp it to actually make them give real through put and not an imaginary throughput increase
well it depends, is a meaningful difference in dps like a monk on 5T going from hitcombo to chiji?
same applies to mfd/ds/vigor
3 globals for 50% crit is so fuckin sad LOL
like what do u mean by meaningful dps diff
something youll actually see on the meters in a 5min bossfight
not like
tripling your dps
but like
multiple %
being able to at least "notice" that you played different talents
you can play subterfuge on soulrender and triple garrote the adds and even IF they live long enough, you wont be able to tell based on the damage distribution and overall dps, what talents someone played there
How is that good Seli ?
My take is that I like talent rows that reward you adapting to the fight, like MA in this situation is good, Subt is good in this one etc
Idk if that’s what you mean
but theyre not good
na seli’s right
you can not play any of these talents and you will barely notice a difference in dps
That would be good if they made any difference
Sure that’s what I meant.
like try to think about how much damage you REALLY gain from 3 globals of 50% crit
Kind of lmao
you can leave 3 dps-talent rows in assa empty without any talent selected
and you probably wouldnt even lose 5% dps
when you look at other specs (not just rogue) final tree row, theyre normally massive rotational changing/CDR talents
and then sin has pb which is like 4% dmaage????
doesnt do anything
Bruh outlaw plays blade rush and that’s it lol
then sin has CT that if u take for a fight like fatescribe u just dont use on ST cuz its a loss 
is it not? 
we've seen killing spree used this expac
on multiple fights/m+
I used it in 9.0 with MA in dungeons
ngl tho ultimately if they were gonna change something id like them to make some things baseline and rly crack down on reworking completely unused talents that just clog the tree atm
This patch we really just play blade rush
ideally they just do 1 big rework going into next xpac which would be noce
and lets be real, mp/ep/bs isnt really a meaningful row either
^^^^
This isn't just a sin problem
could make the argument that a first row shouldnt be the make or break dps wise as much as last 2, but ye
I give MP a break because i know blizz adds talents to the early rows that are for lazy/new/bad players
Premed is bad at what its doing, gloomblade is not a talent, nightstalker doesnt work with current design, subterfuge is a pvp talent if even that, vigor doesnt exist, mfd is very very bad for sub, dark shadow is both weak (low dmg amp) and doesnt work, alacrity is both bad and weird thematically, sec tech is awful
meaningful choise is running ns+ds as a sub rogue, and getting fewer dances but more powerful ones. thats meaningful choice.
the fact it doesnt work rn
doesnt change the fact that theres actual meaning behind those choices
blindside is a good thing
but it suffers from the same issue
it just not tuned right
The choice between master of shadow and tornado is pretty cool tbh
and sub design space is massively hampered by the fact you cant not play enveloping
Yea thats the only thing we ever change
thats why i was sayin sub has more required tlaents (Imaigne playing sub without ES or shadow focus), but sin has more talents that are just fuckin worthless
hell even MoS in ST is kinda required
Dark shadow is also bad tho
15% dmg amp on dance is not impressive
thats what i meant with ns+ds 
I think seli is saying he wants that
Yea when the dance design was completely different
And it didnt have 15% baseline dmg
conceptually the choices sub has are much more meaningful
Idk i think assa has just as many useful talents as sub
They don’t work tho
they just arent meaningful rn, because +1 dance charge is basically required. bit of numbers fidgeting, and they are meaningful again
doesnt take much to make the sub talent tree an interesting one
I swap 1 talent on 99% of content, not sure how thats fine in a talent context
for that to be the case for assa, you need to remove like 6 talents and buff others by 200-500%
Idk, if talents used could be different in different content that’d be cool
ye ngl i feel like saying the choice is there but is tuned badly is a bit misleading. technically they could just number tune HB/venom rush/BS/subt into playability in niche situations too
only time assa swaps talents is when another one starts to sim higher
Yea but you have subterfuge, MA, blindside, EP, PB and CT that can be used right? I think thats not as bad as you make it sound
conceptually, sub has meaningful choice, its just hampered by ES +1 dance charge and some numbrs tuning being a bit off, but it offers opportunity for high and lowdance uptime gameplay which can be more sustained or more bursty depending on choice. other talents supplement that, or go in different directions with a prio/aoe focus over raw singletarget, for example
assa has... well
they have similar problesm, sin has a choice in 100 useless talents so nothing matters in the end, and sub has multiple required talents on many rows so nothign matters in the end
Coz sin has it worse doesn’t mean a spec that swaps one talent is better
i really dont care about which spec has it worse
I get that
its not a competition that sub needs to win
so dunno why you guys are making it one
I mean i agree that DS can work if they do like a complete overhaul of the talent or dance design
b-b-but sub totally has it worse, baka!
like if you look at sin, theres not a single talent that is required to play the class, but sub has 2-3 talents that make it playable because of how impactful they all are
Nah i just feel like talents being good « conceptually » doesn’t do much to the actual gameplay
Its because you downplay the need for work on the sub talents, and idk, i kinda feel like they need a lot of work
I still remember that venthyr sub sim where you take 3 bad talents and you do like 30% less dmg
that just seems so insane
all 3 specs could definitely do with some reworks to talents and making things baseline
@shut garnet nerd
on assa if you take everything except alac away do you even lose 30%
(Okay no I’m exaggerating)
no point prioritising x y z when realistically these would be changes made going into next xpac so theyd likely happen at the same time
@burnt latch no u ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yea the talents are bad for almost every spec in this game in one way or another. Blizzard is more worried about creating dopamine machines that last 24 months at a time

1st row is passive damage, passive damage or execute (which is nice conceptually but badly tuned rn)
2nd row is 3 talents around vanish, none of which are meaningful in a raid environment due to numbers tuning. only meaningful one is subterfuge because it allows for triple garrote in aoe, giving you a faster ramp
3rd row is 3 nothingburgers
4th row is great
5th row is great
6th row is 2 useless talents and a good one (which is passive again)
7th row is an ability that needs to be baseline, and 2 abiltiies that give you 2-3% damage, and are again just passive damage increases
Blizzard like some to have just passive dmg
Cus its ”easy talents”
Which idk, seems to be a design goal of theirs
and when i say "meaningful choices", then there really is none in assa. i cant just change my gameplay based on my talent choice. ill still press the same buttons in the same order, at most i change my damage distribution by 1-2% one way or another
honestly alacrity is the vlosest talent sin has to a required talent
and thats not because of how good it is, but how bad the other two are
given which other 2 are in that row, might as well call it mandatory
Cheat death is the only required talent for sin prove me wrong
exactly
cuz ur not under any circumstance taking exsang or vr lmao
Yea i mean i get that dark shadow COULD offer more burst, but even in a perfect world where its played, its not like it would be insane, it’s 15% more than ES
maybe if ur on some 100% pi uptime crack for a meme log
so if it was 25% instead of 15%
which is just numbrs tuning
it still wouldnt be a meaningful choice?
It's honrstly both. Alacrity is likely the best talent we have in the entire tree.
yeah
idk how thats even worth debating. choosing between fewer but more powerful dances, or more regular but less impactful ones, is meaningful choice.
yeah
cause ES is just
ridiculous
if it was just CDR
vs DS damage amp
would be a different story
but the +1 charge is just
yo dont say that instead of buffing DS they’ll just nerf ES
required

Exsang is worse even with 120% gear haste and full pi uptime
hey guys, im having trouble hitting 1.2k dps on the mage tower challenge. I'm assuming its a skill issue, and not a gear issue but here is my gear regardless
LOL
exsang shouldnt even exist, simply because it basically requires either subter or NS to even have a difference
Lies meev can prove that i once got a r1 parse with exsanq but log got corrupted
Buff exsang
Exsanq is hidden meta
I don’t know what 90% of these items are, are they just old world for gem sockets?
yeah
Bro
like all SoO gear for sockets
your offhand is enchanted?
Are you dying to the enrage?
What if they would slap like 100% more damage on the bleeds in exsang
Is it
i have
ya
I haven’t seen anyone use it
it always needed smth like that
its got +12 gems in it
+24 haste and +12 verse
Does the gear scale up? Cuz ur running items below ilvl 50
its a 1 min cd
Dont know how that works
Then it’s probably not gear tbh
with haste static stat
You’re geared to the teeth
just making sure lol
problem with exsang is that its only value is in giving you more unbuffed dot-ticks, and assa only having 1 way (vanish) to buff bleeds
That’s a ton of sockets
Something like that could make it good. Bleeds in themselves are not strong enough to ever justify using the current iteration.
thing is exang feels like one of those talents that isnt as dependant on number tuning (unless ur buffing it by some insane multiplier or adding shit to it obvs) and more dependant on “scalling” and borrowed power. which just feels like dogshit
It should, but alacrity is also just ridiculous for assa. Mistake reintroducing it imo
@rain kettle get the pod trinket from Emerald Nightmare first boss, it is exception especially over badge
cuz if the borrowed power is on the level of corruption and ur running around with 80% unbuffed haste its all good
If it makes you feel better, pikaboo was using ambush 
but the second it isnt, its unplayable
thanks ill give it a shot
XD
@rain kettle just do the first boss on Normal, Heroic and Mythic
its a 1 min cd
haste static stat
and gives you leech
and drops a pool
never forget blizzard specificlaly mentioned a talent surrounding shiv/toxic blade and then just threw alacrity at us and ran
you stack all 3 of them together
ok yeah that sounds good
and then use that shit
if you exsang a 20tick NS rupture, itll still only be 20ticks. just faster. only thing you actually gain, is that some of these ticks might be within another overlap of CDs, like with BoTE in BFA, and you get a few more unbuffed rupture ticks because you get to refresh it faster
it does BIG damage
like... stupid high damage
but could also be your talents tbh, what are you running with? @rain kettle
I just honestly want to see a massive reduction in aura buffs and more buffs tailored toward bleed/poison damage, including a better talent tree. But, a man can dream, it's never gonna happen.
Cev didnt you retire bro
Aura buffs are the laziest way to buff a spec up
smh
running the guide's talents
That prob only happens in new xpac tbh
Nah
idk. i dont mind alacrity. i like the idea of us starting a bit slower, and as we continue attacking a target (or the same target) we start to deal more damage and do it faster
kk ya whisypr's guide is good
Retired from omega tryhard hardcore raiding yes
ye
1/2/1/1/1/2/3
ye ngl hot take but thats whats at least slighly refreshing about the 4pc, not just slapping bleeds, pressing vendetta then ook ooking mut mut env for 20 seconds
its just not tuned in a way that it really represents that idea
Can you ever talent out of it tho
No
so went from Method to top 20 WR, got it
It’s an oppressive talent
imo it should be stronger, longer duration, but reset on target swap, for example

the reason you cant swap out of it
its just i went from one shotting the feral challenge to really struggling on this guy lol
Eye of Command pog
is cuz venomrush and exsang are both useless
but feral is my actual main so
triple bleed everything
if you arent making damage check, its because you have Sigryn cc'd all the time
you dont do that
theres fight and dungeons where i loathe playing alacrity
you only interrupt her cast with blind
i still do cuz the other 2 are basically 0dps
Ngl I don’t even think about alacrity
yeah i grab her after blind immediately
i stopped giving a shit about it running out on sylv p2
hmm idk then
People were like yo during painsmith get cp on orbs for alacrity and I just like
Don’t care
like i have the mechanics down pretty much i just need to get my uptimes better i bet
ye
I would have to watch it or something to understand what you are doing wrong then @rain kettle
Venom rush should have been removed years ago
because it seems like you are doing everything correctly
esp if you follow Whisypr's guide
its a set and forget talent, but not because its so good. it kinda isnt. its just the other choices are worse. but losing your alac isnt really a big dps loss either
and with cracked gear like that
im betting missing globals and bad uptimes
venom rush should be like fucking 20 energy
ahh
Alacrity is a boring talent
^
But VR is legitimately the worst designed talent in thw entire game
Alacrity on Sub rogue 
alacrity should be a pure st talent, that resets when you attack a different target
tied with chiji
WHO THOUGHT THAT ALACRITY SHOULD BE ON SUB

kek
Who thought that a talent which causes our mutilate to cost 8 less energy would br any good
exsanguinates entire usefulness relies on other things that make it better, because by itself its a useless talent.











