#subtlety

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vale pine
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you need the new crests to get higher

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but in order to get them#

alpine wraith
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nah maps are a scam

vale pine
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you need to complete 9s

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now 9s are out of reach

alpine wraith
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yea but im capped on gildeds already

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unlucky

vale pine
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which means

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you stick to 7s

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7s are hard but not insanely hard

cloud rover
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Ye

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For casuals its really weird

vale pine
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so you have a gigant pool of palyers in the 7 range

cloud rover
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You dont have a real gear progression

vale pine
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and also because people are somewhat capped on gear

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item level is what you mostly decide on when creating a group

gritty knot
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@vale pine I think they will change that soon honestly. A lot of ppl are talking about this issue

vale pine
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in the end, each class has at least one good performer to play

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but this isn't only a problem at this level of play

prisma stump
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
vale pine
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now lets say we go to the next group

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people who managed to go up

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do 9s/10s

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they improved in gear

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and now have the next see

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10/11s

alpine wraith
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i dont get invited to 9s

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but i get invited to some 10s

vale pine
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the step from 11 to 12

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is insane

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so now people gear up

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and get stuck at 10/11

haughty mural
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getting into 9s is impossibru it seems

vale pine
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so there is the next see

haughty mural
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10s ez

keen dome
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I saw someone make a good point about gearing today. Hero and Champ gear is identical in power. Because both hit 619 off Hero crests.

vale pine
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and just like in the 7 see

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you will invite based on item level

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class is not a problem, each class has a good spec

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so unless you see like a sub rogue

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you cba

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and 12+

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is so big of a step up

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you start to see the typical high key shananigans

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can only play like 1-2 tanks

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only certain healer, certain dps prefered

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but what the system creates is

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a actually less meta focused enviroment

cloud rover
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The thing is also

vale pine
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if you stay in the see

cloud rover
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Why should i upgrade my Hero track item

vale pine
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yes

cloud rover
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when i can craft an item to 636

vale pine
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crests are a big issue

cloud rover
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90 is a bit

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low

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per week

vale pine
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its basically

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one crafted piece per week

keen dome
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Yeah

vale pine
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its designed to be slow

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and for 9s

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you get the worse risk/reward in them

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thats why nobody runs them

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can just run a 10

keen dome
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Yeah - at least a failed run there is still vault.

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Sorry, untimed run.

cloud rover
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The 15 second affix

alpine wraith
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i mean i can understand ilvl but also luck plays a big factor

cloud rover
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is just dumb

alpine wraith
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im 626 but some people in my guild are 631

vale pine
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e.g. i run 100+ delves

alpine wraith
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i get 1 map

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AAAAAAAaaA

vale pine
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and i didn't even see all slots drop

alpine wraith
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dont remeind me

keen dome
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There's also the final two steps of Hero pieces, where 623 is actively wasting 15 gilded to do. Which is a failure of this design imo

vale pine
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don't have the 10 map achivement

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etc

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so e.g.

alpine wraith
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i still have kiss of death

vale pine
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streamers love to say

alpine wraith
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as my on use

vale pine
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if you play delves only

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you are gifted

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619 item level

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i highly doubt that

alpine wraith
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well usually if you only do delves you also have access to lfr and weekly content

vale pine
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how its designes is to reduce upgrading to the minimum

keen dome
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Yeah.

alpine wraith
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and timewalking did vomit so much champion and 1 hero track piece of gear

keen dome
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It also makes Champ and Hero pieces functionally identical (Champ caps at 619, hero effecitvely caps at 619 if you aren'tg etting gilded).

alpine wraith
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but yea i find weird the cadence of gilded upgrades

vale pine
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exactly

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that was my point with the image

alpine wraith
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i did some math and unless i get lucky in vault

vale pine
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you now devalue heroic gear

alpine wraith
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and get loot from later MYTHIC bosses

vale pine
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but make upgrading normal gear a pain

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so the gearing process is

alpine wraith
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i wont get full upgrades EVEN IF I HAVE THE ITEMS ALREADY(not possible realistically) until like december

vale pine
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"get 619 in each slot"

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and then try to upgrade stuff once you get mythic or craft to max mythic

keen dome
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Adjusting Hero to take Hero Crests up until 626 would be a good solution, imo.

alpine wraith
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yea then you get hc gear and it is like

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do i waste gildeds¿

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or wait for mythic

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and when you drop mythic you upgrade it to 639 or craft 636

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and those other items WILL STAY 619

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for a long time

keen dome
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Yep

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20 ilevel gap is so massive.

vale pine
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your gearing caps out, and you are potentially crest limited

alpine wraith
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going 623 or 626 is trolling unless trinkets

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that you know you wont be able to get better ones

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like for sub mandate and transmitter

cloud rover
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Thats the issue

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of 6 myth tracks now

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instead of 4

alpine wraith
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also crafted is 90 crests

plush roost
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Could alleviate this by making hero 8 levels, with 5/6 being runes crests, and 7/8 being 629/632 gilded. That way when you get a myth piece you aren't "wasting" those crests as they'll be discounted (unless your myth drop is higher than 632)

alpine wraith
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so you can eventually un unluck yourself

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but it will take longer

cloud rover
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Ye 90 is crafted and to upgrade a myth track to 636 is 60 crests

keen dome
cloud rover
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that doesnt add up to me

alpine wraith
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basically if you are luckier you get lots of mileage from crests

vale pine
alpine wraith
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hence some people have so much ilvl on us unlucky

vale pine
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you have heroic track almost useless

cloud rover
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where the 1/4 myth track was 6/6 Heroic

vale pine
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because normal can upgrade all the way to where you get as heroic player

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and mythic is only a small upgrade on heroic pieces while too expensive

hazy breach
cloud rover
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is myth 5

alpine wraith
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yea he means you send 30 crests to the nether

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if you craft

cloud rover
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yes

alpine wraith
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but you kinda have to do it

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with how gatekept M gear is

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BUT

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if you are lucky and get lots

cloud rover
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If you upgrade a 1/6 myth track to 636 its 60 Crest
If you craft a 636 its 90 Crtests

hazy breach
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Sure i guess

vale pine
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you can boe farm mythic

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a lot of guilds do so now

alpine wraith
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you save 30 crests every time

vale pine
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so 2 slots

alpine wraith
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3

vale pine
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whats the 3rd slot

alpine wraith
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ring

vale pine
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oh

alpine wraith
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I myself plan to buy ring and shoulder

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when they go down a bit

hazy breach
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Theyre actual BoE now

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So you can just buy em

cloud rover
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The ring is also good for sub

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Vers mastery

alpine wraith
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I HAVE THEM IN MY SIGHT

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but

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bit pricey

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although they are dropping in price SUPER HARD

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for the non tertiary ones

vale pine
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just my 2c

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spending 3M on a gear piece

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isn't improving the gear situation

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even if you don't need to

alpine wraith
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i think non tertiary are way cheaper let me check

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yea they are 750k and dropping

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it has been 1 day only and this is on my server

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other servers have even cheaper ones

iron spear
alpine wraith
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I have around 70m right now

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but i dont like to spend a lot

keen dome
alpine wraith
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i learnt my lesson in bfa

keen dome
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That's a lot of cool pets you could buy

alpine wraith
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where i spent like 20m in BoEs

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just for them to get nerfed

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next week

cloud rover
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The ring

cloud rover
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exceeds my gold

alpine wraith
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then another 30 in masterful/honed mind afterwards

cloud rover
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I have 2 Million

alpine wraith
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right now i should have made more enchanters/incriptors

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to use concentration on

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LW/ENgi is not going as fast

cloud rover
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Ye

alpine wraith
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im selling the res items quite well tho

cloud rover
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You mean enchanter Jewel

alpine wraith
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I need someone good to make a video about the engi pots of power

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no inscriptor is making like 100k in vantus runes

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with concentration every day

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or more

cloud rover
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wtf

alpine wraith
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i mean JC and enchant are almost the same

cloud rover
alpine wraith
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or even better

keen dome
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Yeah I do about 100 - 200k atm casually atm

alpine wraith
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for my enchanter im setting up authority of the depths

keen dome
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Just tossing my advert out between pvp matches, is ncie and chill

cloud rover
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Im just too lazy

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TO make multiple enchanters etc.

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I have two

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because masks were a good acuity thing

alpine wraith
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im even lazier i just set this one up 2 days or so ago

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i usually only play my rogue

pale python
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Hi, I have a question regarding the rotation and burst window. I am familiar with the Deathstalker and Trickster rotation, and I know that Deathstalker should have 2 Dances within the initial Burst, and Trickster can push for 3 Dances. I also know that you should cast Vanish between CDs for Deathstalker and Vanish right after Technique for Trickster. However, I notice that there are several top rogues with 99 or 100 parses that are just going full 3 Dances, Vanish right after the first Technique, no matter if they are in Deathstalker and Trickster; they don't care about this single Symbol of Death, instead waiting to align Symbol with Dance and Technique together, so my question is, does the rotation guides are accurate or rotation for a sub is more flexible. Can you adjust it to your needs? I'm trying to follow the guide patterns, and my logs still suck, getting way behind others...

alpine wraith
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you can triple dance as deathstalker but it is not ideal

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depending on boss some mechanics can happen at 40 secs or 60 secs

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that make you skip that dance anyway

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so you send on pull

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and skip the dance when that shit happens

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like ky veza or sikran

pale python
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ok, thanks a lot @alpine wraith thats clarify more for me

alpine wraith
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yea raid bosses have their things

graceful crown
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how's it going

night depot
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
tribal blade
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so sometimes you'll see top logs that are playing the spec wrong, but because they were in a group that killed it at a certain speed, or had half the raid die so they could pad on adds, or got 0 mechanics, or rng'd crits they get an incredible parse

pale python
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Yea I notice that mostly it cames for whole team with high overall damage and the fight time. Shorter the fight, higher dps I can keep at the end of the logs

tribal blade
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someone posted in here earlier asking how did this group of people all get 99s on heroic ovinax with an 8 min kill timer

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and i took a closer look at the log, and on pull within ~10 seconds half the raid died to 1 shots

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because it was a sale, so they made all the carries die on pull to not fuck up mechanics

alpine wraith
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yea hc logs are super funny

tribal blade
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and then the people carrying could full pad on adds the entire fight and get insanely good logs

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when usually the adds would die twice as fast with everyone alive

pale python
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lol

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thats a quite cool insight

tribal blade
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i used to be a big parse monkey, but i've chilled out on it now

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obviously parses are a decent indicator if you're playing your spec right

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but you get assigned to a terrible job (like i did doing immune bombs on sarkareth)

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and it's literally impossible to get a good log

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so take that what you will 😉

wispy pebble
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Also getting good logs for classes that are played less is a bit harder because those classes are rarely played casually. And sub dmg is quite reliant on burst phase so if timer is unlucky the boss dies right before flag and sb are up again

pale python
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ok, i guess I will change my attitude also when it comes to parses, lets just keep if the boss is dead or not 😄

tribal blade
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maybe just look into it if you're consistently getting gray parses across the board

wispy pebble
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Man i was so happy getting transmitter out of vault but Jesus christ its annoying to use during opener

tribal blade
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the warr on my raid team msg'd me during ovinax prog to bitch about transmitter haha

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trying to use transmitter on broodtwister is so bad

alpine wraith
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let me tell you a secret

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move your char in a 180º angle

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suddenly ball or soak spawn not in the meaty ass of the boss

raw ivy
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honestly at the begining i hated transmitter but with time its easy to use, you can anticipate it and make it pop where you want

wispy pebble
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On ansurek it was really annoying because she moves quite a few steps on start so i couldn't hit during collecting

pale python
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Im mostly stay at the back of the boss and angle my camera like 45* angle just to spawn orb next to me

fierce cedar
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oof new build sims better in all scenarios for me

cyan lion
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!ui

wicked joltBOT
cyan lion
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
plush crescent
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
hard wren
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too much haste on tier this season

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sub left to die

hazy breach
hard wren
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I reroll assa

craggy quest
fierce cedar
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play sub anyways

mental comet
craggy quest
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I tried to play assa and just don’t enjoy it at least on ST

tribal blade
fierce cedar
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i like assa i just feel like sub atm

mental comet
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Sin feels 10x better in keys but 10x worse in raid

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Vs sub

craggy quest
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I wonder how dummy thicc the spec would be if all the important bugs were fixed

alpine wraith
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quite a bit better

fierce cedar
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what do we play in raids even

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many of the fights need cleave. do we go trickster or ds on these

mental comet
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Fury warrior

fierce cedar
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oh

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fair enough'

mental comet
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Ds on sikran rashanan and princess trickster for rest

alpine wraith
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think DS is better on ovinax now too

mental comet
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I think they removed adds from logs and they should insta die anyway

alpine wraith
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and i would not play DS on rasha

mental comet
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Would u not

fierce cedar
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when i check the logs i pretty much only see trickster lol

mental comet
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Idk the adds die in 1 millisecond

craggy quest
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Would the new m+ build be good for m ovinax

fierce cedar
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top log on rash is a ds tho

mental comet
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Trickster is just more fun to play even if it’s worse idk

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DN sux

fierce cedar
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now that we have a better build for aoe

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is it time to go ds on courts

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ik its 2 target but there are adds too

alpine wraith
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it is more dps for warriors to go arms

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and other classes st

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than for you to go DS instead of trickster

fierce cedar
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all i know is that trickster > ds 2 targets

alpine wraith
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our war did like 120m more on boss than me XD

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the idea is that you get cleave for basically free

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while losing like 2% st

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or less

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but if your comp has lots of aoe sure go DS

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we are going to be on the always show me anyway

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if it makes you feel a bit better

steel heart
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Our state is depressing tbh, I try to be positive but its hard to cope 😅

knotty totem
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Are the anniversary patch changes look like they gonna buff us?

fallow nimbus
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Nope

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With anniversary patch all 2min trinkets will be yikes for the future

graceful crown
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im gonna be honest i check this chat daily at this point hoping something changed

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LOL

mental comet
fallow nimbus
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I don't think we will see more good 1.5min trinkets. A powerful 3min trinket could be good

graceful crown
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i like how a fucking buff of all things made this spec worse

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a buff

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ruined a spec for me

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like it's crazy to me

fast surge
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which buff

graceful crown
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the bp buff

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making DS over trickster

fast surge
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was wondering if that would be the case

tribal blade
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the buff was warranted, but they threw it in last second to apease us

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and not do further digging into what's wrong with sub

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it's basically kind of like they went "oh sub has some issues, slap big buff on BP because that's their aoe finisher, that'll make em happy"

hard wren
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idea to fix sub: turn every finisher into a a DOT so they benefit from haste

fallow nimbus
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Just bugfixes would do so much

hard wren
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I just fixed the whole spec with this one ide

fast surge
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throwing a meatless bone into the kennel of a starving puppy

graceful crown
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thing is, i will probably still play trickster, but im in a guild where they want you to play the best so you can do your best, and now having trickster be worse in every situation than DS is just

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discouraging as hell

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idm playing DS in ST

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but in aoe it feels so TRASH

tribal blade
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if they truly wanted to do meaningful changes like they did with sin they would have fixed nimble flurry too

graceful crown
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honestly im so fucking shocked it's bugged

tribal blade
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because that issue goes hand in hand with sub's aoe problem

graceful crown
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lmfao

hazy breach
elfin saffron
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that's what im doing. life goes on (even with all the shitty bugs they should fix)

graceful crown
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cuz that's the state of wow rn

hollow cobalt
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Do you macro transmitter with flag ?

raw ivy
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i do

graceful crown
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not a bad idea actually

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i can see that being a bit funky with dust tho

fast surge
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nah I pop it earlier so I can grab buff/jump last time just as I pop cooldowns

fast surge
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you can also pop it in stealth before pull

raw ivy
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when you'll get use to transmitter you'll finish each game just before first sechtech

hollow cobalt
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Yeah i play dust trick

graceful crown
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but i think im the only one who does

raw ivy
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the better spec

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i mean

steel heart
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Dust smoothens the issues

fast surge
raw ivy
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the most "funny" to pay

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play

fast surge
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would like to see less downtime still tho

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the burst vs chill periods are a bit too extreme

hollow cobalt
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I dont know if i give the trinket its own bind or macro it with something

raw ivy
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use it to spread rupture in m+

hollow cobalt
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A macro would be easier for me

fallow nimbus
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Current dust is just straight forward with extra benefits if you want

fast surge
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auto-thistle is going to be so obnoxious :/

graceful crown
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and your fazed will remain for multiple casts of coup without issue

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and casts of fully empowered ST

fast surge
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when that ST lands with all buffs active

hazy breach
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Liking dust is not an extremly niche opinion

graceful crown
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dude, i've had like 12-15 flawless form once

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that 3 mil per strike on ST

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😩

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thing is, dust trickster is sooooooooooo good in burst

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but once that bursts goes away

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you can sit down there with the tank

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LOL

steel heart
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At least you can stun mobs for 7 seconds

fast surge
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yeah. thats what I mean, pooling energy & backstabbing is so slow

graceful crown
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i've gone up to like 8 mil dps and then straight down

hazy breach
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Dust doesnt really increase your burst

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It just makes you do it more often

graceful crown
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in aoe

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not st

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obviously

hazy breach
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Ok, my point is exactly the same

raw ivy
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Dust i interesting because its more flexible

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i mean on certain raid boss with certain mech

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you can do your CD at 1:00 on a key moment if you want

hazy breach
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Ye and its been deemed too complicated and too powerful so its getting removed

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In order to simplify the spec so we dont need a spreadsheet of when to send cds for every boss, that also varies based on the week and your raid cds

half comet
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can we make a dust with a halo role whe nit sgone

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dust misser

raw ivy
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thats half true i mean i dont know what you really think about that

half comet
hazy breach
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Might aswell have the spec be fun all the time

raw ivy
half comet
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ya if the ywant to add more complexity prob a better way of going about it in the long term

hazy breach
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Yes

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Oh the fight is 20 seconds shorter than before, guess i have to move all my cds and rethink everything

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For every boss

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Every week

raw ivy
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But

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inst that the goal of the game?

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or do you want to just press one bouton whitout thinking

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like a bm do?

hazy breach
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Brother'

spark tusk
steel heart
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you are comparing two extremes there

spark tusk
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Like it's fun to be doing a boss with a pug

raw ivy
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yeah that was on purpose

spark tusk
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realizing it's about to die and I still have a vanish charge up

hazy breach
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Removing dust doesnt make the spec easy

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In comparison to other specs

raw ivy
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thats true

spark tusk
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so I can decide to use them both

hazy breach
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I dont want to have to preplan the entire fight

spark tusk
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AND it's not a trivial decision on how

hazy breach
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Every week

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And if somebody dies and the timings are off

spark tusk
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like, do I just vanish now to pull things? Do I do the Flag -> Dance/secTec/symbols THEN vanish blades?

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have to think about it based on the siutation

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no longer do we have that

hazy breach
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Doing that is fun during progress, but i dont want to do it every single week

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Or every other/whenever we get the buff increments

raw ivy
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i understand

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i just think that this flexibility was a really cool tools

hazy breach
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ye and its really OP

spark tusk
# hazy breach Doing that is fun during progress, but i dont want to do it every single week

Yes, and doing it every single week is not something I experience as I have no dedicated farm group. Every boss kill feels somewhat like prog to me, if only because it's always different with a different group, even if it's a one shot the timers may be different and I have to react dynamically, not preplan differently. Sometimes it's a shitshow and timers are bad for cds, sometimes it's great. It's the situation I've been dealt peeposhrug So I recognize my experience is different from someone with a set group every week needing to plan everything out

hazy breach
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Just like shuriken combo was too OP during zul, so theyre removing it

spark tusk
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I've come to appreciate dust for what it does, it isn't what makes the entire spec fun for me. It's also hard to say what I'll find fun with the changes in the 0.5 patch because I haven't played with them

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removing dust doesn't make me dread the spec, it is a neat thing I've come to enjoy that I'll lose but it's not the primary reason I'm here to begin with so I'm not too torn up about it

hazy breach
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.5 gameplay still janky as before, just with new janky stuff

raw ivy
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the thing is : whitout dust we have just 2 choice left DS or trickster and they are apparently not even balance

spark tusk
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The major thing I don't like about dust is it takes a defensive / utility spell and, by turning it into an offensive cd, removes it as utility. Same discussion as imp garrote on sin, vanish no longer gains its utility as a mark emergency recovery or as a way to evade mechanics

raw ivy
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i am really bad with DS DB and i dont really know why

alpine wraith
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yea how easy it was to have prep

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but OH NO MORE BUTTONS

raw ivy
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^^

alpine wraith
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same with trickster and unseen blade

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if i had a spell i had 3 stacks of for ex

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i would be so much happy

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than OH NICE A RESET

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said no one ever

hazy breach
alpine wraith
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and from fade and cloaked

raw ivy
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thats a pain

hazy breach
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So we have no passive dr and no passive healing

spark tusk
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I don't mind more buttons as long as they're on the GCd because the cadence of pressing them is fine for me to personally manage. Having a ton of buttons that are off GCd means fingers are at the mercy of krangling

hazy breach
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Very neat

alpine wraith
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yea imagine having something to be hyped about

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like tempest

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or colossus one i forget the name

hazy breach
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or well, i guess the DR after dance talent is still a thing

spark tusk
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I feel I should know this answer but

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Is vanish immunity still a thing?

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No right?

hazy breach
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Nop

alpine wraith
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nope

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went away in like WoD

spark tusk
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Like in classic I remember vanishing uh

alpine wraith
#

or before

spark tusk
#

Lich king when we killed it

#

when LK does the "kill everyone" spell

#

that was neat

lunar arrow
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale pine
#

it feels like you either just burn your charges

#

or play it regular

hazy breach
#

Well ye its less of an issue right now because there no good 2 min trinket like ashes

#

But its likely to arise again

#

Or it would be rather

vale pine
#

ye

#

i think dust is just

#

the potential to be bad is there

#

so rather change it

#

i still don't think the complete removal was good

fierce bobcat
#

guys we playing deathstalker in raids and also in m+ now?

#

checked it before i typed here but aoe means m+ right? bla

haughty mural
#

spec cant catch a break

empty plume
#

Why does tornado not max out cp during blades

nimble burrow
#

i feel like sub is a little bit weird rn

#

idk whether its my gear issue or the spec number issue, like i used all burst skill in the game but i cant fight against sin

hazy breach
#

Yes its silly, but thats the reason

alpine wraith
#

yea basically fucked over the spec because of this aoe talent

#

then it is also horredous in aoe

#

because of other things

sly shore
#

and then we kill it 30s faster then expected and it's fucked

sly shore
#

not if you had planned cd's for a completely different timer

vale pine
#

well ye thats not that great

#

but wouldn't be that big now

sly shore
#

na now it's just press button

vale pine
#

because of how we line up cooldowns

#

and is my main point

#

the positive arguments for the dust removal is the potential to not have this optimization problem

#

but the problem wouldn't exist

#

if we had no 30 sec gap between flag/blades

muted agate
#

delete fuckin shuriken tornado!!!!!!!!

fallow nimbus
#

It's like trying to solve a problem but in the wrong way, like removing your car engine but from inside the car instead of opening the hood

vale pine
#

i think dust removal is fine

knotty depot
#

I'm less unhappy with dust removal know that everything is moving to a 1m30 cd

alpine wraith
#

you made me mad again about tornado and blades

#

i already forgot about it

knotty depot
#

rather than the first iteration of flag every min and blades every 2min

#

it felt too much like assassination

fallow nimbus
#

With 1.5min cd tornado doesn't even fit anymore kekw

fierce cedar
#

i do 0 damage in dungeons i swear

keen dome
#

Death to tornado

knotty depot
#

I don't do M+ as sub and tornado is one of the things that makes me really not wanting to

#

only sub in raid

fierce cedar
#

i only use tornade when i can spam dust after lol

#

nevermind read wrong lol

#

But tornado can die plz

lilac stag
#

@tribal blade & @haughty mural my full on copium took Mad Queens over the special neck.

keen dome
#

We're gonna get such blessed change notes this week. It's gonna be perfect.

alpine wraith
#

dont worry that neck is a lie for sure

alpine wraith
#

also yea we are getting for sure 3% buff

#

to shadowstrike

keen dome
#

full 3% to everything.

alpine wraith
#

oh true to storm

keen dome
#

from the weekly raid buff

alpine wraith
#

120% buff to storm

lilac stag
#

I figure that’s the one item I won’t replace until we hit ce so yolo

alpine wraith
#

yea i also got mandata hc

#

now only need transmitter

#

have been having atrocious luck with mandate tho

#

almost 0 crits

lilac stag
#

I have both. Now I just need Sub to not be dog water

#

11.0.5 copium

#

watching Kush in keys yesterday. Hilarious how it’s still so far behind assa.

haughty mural
#

yea

#

to be fair he also trolled and made some weird talent setups

#

but yes its really far behind

vestal escarp
#

Gj kush

#

All according to plans

wise badger
#

I don't have assa gear 😦

#

My dungeon slice is only 200k above my sub sim

hazy breach
#

well theres almost no difference between sub and assa gear

#

Esepcially on aoe

limpid lynx
#

dear friends , is there a weak aura that indicates shadow binding ritual knife debuff to cloak ?

fierce cedar
#

my highest damage in dungeons is rupture...

uneven scarab
fierce cedar
#

i think ill put my rogue on the shelf for now

#

maybe its better next patch.

haughty mural
#

thats drastic

charred sandal
#

could be controversial, but i dont dislike tornado as a whole, would like if they fixed it or even replaced by something cooler rather than deleting it completely

uneven scarab
#

Needs to be replaced, causes more problems than good

charred sandal
#

having a button to press that is not storm and BP gives dopamine to brain

alpine wraith
#

if i told you best use of tornado right now

sacred yarrow
alpine wraith
#

is to cast rupture 4 times

#

what do you think

uneven scarab
#

Yes

#

Replace it

#

Exactly

#

Thats terrible

wise badger
charred sandal
hazy breach
#

It doesnt matter nearly as much as you'd think

haughty mural
#

you just have to use DN

#

(:

charred sandal
# alpine wraith what do you think

ye my point would be, i would like if they replaced or fixed cuz having something else than storm bp its funnier, not entirely ditch the idea of having an AoE button for bursting

charred sandal
alpine wraith
#

our AoE button is dance as sad as it sounds

uneven scarab
#

Just make shuriken tornado convoke 2.0

alpine wraith
#

that would be funny

uneven scarab
#

It would be funny and epic

alpine wraith
#

imaigine just shitting finishers

#

for 5 secs

uneven scarab
#

Tell me that doesnt sound kinda fun tho

upbeat escarp
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
alpine wraith
#

it would be

charred sandal
#

just make it killingspree 2.0 with shadowstrikes

charred sandal
rigid pasture
#

is there any reason to play sub in any pve content atm?

#

serious answers only

alpine wraith
#

not really

rigid pasture
#

aight thx

grave abyss
#

do you enjoy playing sub?

uneven scarab
#

If you enjoy the spec

charred sandal
uneven scarab
alpine wraith
#

or wait if the kill timer of a boss is around 1:50 or 3:20 more or less

#

it is better than assa

#

just remember to also crit with mandate

rigid pasture
#

so like 2 weeks before next raid tier

alpine wraith
#

or the great HC bosses

#

kekw

kindred thunder
#

!transmitter

wicked joltBOT
#

The orb and circle from Treacherous Transmitter always spawn in the same spot. Relative to how your character is facing it spawns northeast/1:30 o'clock/frontright, this means you can know where it will spawn and react accordingly.
https://i.imgur.com/cTPN4Tz.png

dawn trellis
#

would you guys still play trickster on ansurek or swap deathstalker

alpine wraith
#

depends really

#

would bp on the webs on p1? quite a waste

#

trickster free cleave is so good

dawn trellis
#

yeah thats what i figured i feel like bp is still a trap on her, so even with the recent knowledge trickster just feels right for being able to efficiently hit everything

onyx hare
#

Trickster + dust + pretending they didn’t change anything this week is bis

alpine wraith
#

you can try DS on some bosses now ovi nax is a good one others it is whatever

#

and in m+ some people have tried

vale pine
#

i found trickster still more comfortable to play

hallow saddle
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
onyx hare
wise badger
#

Trickster is just better. I'm not swapping to DS to spam BP tbh

vale pine
#

but i feel like playing sub also leaves damage on the table

#

when assassination is noticable better on the fight

onyx hare
uneven scarab
#

why play sub when sin better in 95% of cases

onyx hare
#

100% of cases let’s be real

#

Except like stitchflesh, Dust Sub kinda pops off a bit there in comparison

uneven scarab
#

Idk i think sub still kinda owns hard on court

#

but yeah

#

its enough to be kinda ridiculous

alpine wraith
#

sadly not for long as other specs get more gear

#

and we get PATCHED

uneven scarab
#

Yeah anniversary kills our court swag

alpine wraith
#

expect sub to be on always show me when patch drops

uneven scarab
#

so fun!

alpine wraith
#

well we would be snapped in 2 anyway by fdk/spymasters

uneven scarab
#

idk i kicked my fdk’s ass on heroic ovinax the other night

#

Full hard pad trickster

#

Felt good

#

But you are right yeah

#

arcane spymasters billion damage execute

#

Is insane

onyx hare
uneven scarab
#

Nah hes actually really solid but he gets really pissed off on that fight and idk why kekdog

jaunty umbra
#

just proc reaper's mark bro

hazy breach
#

Princess down Prayge

uneven scarab
haughty mural
keen dome
hazy breach
#

I did play assa though suskaygeagreegebusiness

haughty mural
pliant topaz
#

despairge

#

big gratz! its now silken and sub time pog

hazy breach
round latch
pliant topaz
keen dome
#

5% buff to backstab damage

#

If you are behind the enemy and only then.

uneven scarab
#

Nah they’ll buff blades you know that spell that doesnt interact with half of our core kit

alpine wraith
#

i think kieron and stealthi went assa for princess

#

so eleem reigns supreme

#

as the assa bronzer

#

from sub town

light imp
#

why are rune-branded armguards better than the Vambracers?

alpine wraith
#

no idea what those are

light imp
#

Venting Vambracers are engi crafted wrists and have a single primary stat and a tinker slot, Rune-branded armguards are LW crafted and have a 50-50, they are on the "overall bis" list on wowhead

hazy breach
#

Theyre the same

#

Except you can put embellishments on the lw ones

light imp
#

ahh

alpine wraith
#

yea im using the engi ones

#

bit more mastery

vale pine
#

congrats

wispy pebble
#

Is there an alternative talent i can take instead of shuriken tornado?

tropic pier
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
soft summit
uneven scarab
#

800k is definitely low for an 8

#

I do like 1.3 mil in 6-7’s

uneven scarab
#

Hmm

soft summit
uneven scarab
#

Oh im dumb, i thought you meant overall damage

#

Not dps

dry plank
analog grove
#

hey there i have abig question

#

how mush is usually the damage difference between coup degrace inside the SD and outside of it

alpine wraith
#

quite a lot

#

but if you mean holding coup

#

that one is way less

analog grove
#

out of cd and stuff

#

is it more 2-3m damage

#

or less

#

sometime i hold it for 30sec

#

which i can make it ready again

#

with Secret

topaz egret
#

Thank you.

alpine wraith
#

did you try ER reverb

#

that one is a goldie

alpine wraith
#

like 0,4-5%

wispy pebble
#

any shuriken tornado alternatives? If i have to play that talent again im legit rerolling

shrewd lantern
#

as #1 for public rogue kyvezas

small crown
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
tepid trellis
alpine wraith
#

and i was wrong!

shy ermine
tepid trellis
#

log invalidated

pliant topaz
#

did it actually LMFAO

#

okay he only got 4

#

thats normal

#

youre just jelly

half comet
#

is there a diff between sin and sub for princess at all

pliant topaz
#

yeah one sec ill show u the difference

#

sub is here

tepid trellis
#

assa does more dam

#

sub is slighly tankier

#

but it doesent really matter

tepid trellis
#

if you get to the boss now

#

just play assa

frosty bridge
#

current situation reminds me bfa as well when assa\outlaw was just better

#

by a mile :x

shy ermine
#

surely sub will be back online with supercharger

hazy breach
#

We had 3 priests shrugeg

keen dome
#

It's going to supercharge our posting abilities.

uneven scarab
blazing cedar
#

Make sub great again copium

fickle sundial
#

at least sub feels good to play

#

outlaw feels so bad

#

so disorganized and clunky

steel zinc
fickle sundial
#

it like they cut portions from 2-3 diff classes and glued them together

vale pine
wispy pebble
fickle sundial
#

it’s better than outlaw

uneven scarab
#

what did they do to outlaw that it feels clunky

fickle sundial
#

by a mile imo

vale pine
uneven scarab
#

okay well come on dude

#

besides having actual real stats for once

fickle sundial
#

rtb, bte becoming a dps finisher, focusing dmg during subterfuge, making vanish a pure offensive cd for subterfuge, endless bugs to trigger subterfuge, etc

frosty bridge
#

we really need big finishers to feel good again, bigger than assa now kekdog

vale pine
#

but tl;dr: you now need a bit of haste for it to work well

fickle sundial
#

make dfa baseline

uneven scarab
#

has it not

vale pine
#

so if you have no haste, it feels not good

fickle sundial
#

i played for a tier in legion and BtE wasn’t like that, I don’t remember in BfA

#

didn’t play in DF

uneven scarab
#

yeah that i can understand but like the actual gameplay of it

#

i dont think changed that much

fickle sundial
#

all i know every time ive tried outlaw every xpac it’s felt worse and worse to me

uneven scarab
#

Bte has been that way since shadowlands i believe

#

maybe bfa

fickle sundial
#

it wasn’t like that in BFA iirc

uneven scarab
#

so yeah slands then

fickle sundial
#

pretty sure it was still the 4 second ranged stun

#

all i managed to do in slands was level

#

before i lost interest

uneven scarab
#

i played assa rogue mainly in shadowlands

#

Dark times

fickle sundial
#

i was a firm rtb hater from its conception though and i haven’t budged from that

uneven scarab
#

Rtb is what i like most about outlaw

#

tbh

fickle sundial
#

i looooved combat in WoD

#

so simple and satisfying in pvp

uneven scarab
#

hell no

fickle sundial
#

they went in a good direction with ‘outlaw’ besides rtb imo

#

gun stuff and grappling hook is cool

#

rtb was lame

#

it’s gotten more tolerable to use but it’s still just a drag

uneven scarab
#

idk i like it for the most part, i will agree it does have a bunch of annoying bugs tho

#

Is it still spam bte in subterfuge

fickle sundial
#

pretty sure

uneven scarab
#

i havent played it at all

fickle sundial
#

keep high ar uptime, keep good buffs, use vanish as an offensive cd to proc subterfuge for bte

uneven scarab
#

I do think that having a required haste amount probably sucks though

#

instead of it just being a decent stat for them instead of useless

fickle sundial
#

i mean it’s virtually nothing for HO build

uneven scarab
#

I only really played KiR

fickle sundial
#

Hidden opportunity is like 6%? That’s like one of the tier pieces and a ring

#

if that

uneven scarab
#

i played ho in shadowlands

#

and then never again

fickle sundial
#

you could flask it if you had to

#

kir is more

#

Like 16% or smth in there

#

but i want to interact with RtB as little as possible so id play HO regardless of my threshold

dry plank
#

We are so fuked that assa rogues discuss outlaw in sub channel?

fickle sundial
#

yes

#

tbf the original starting point was that at least sub is more cohesive feeling that outlaw

graceful crown
#

!wa

wicked joltBOT
half comet
shy ermine
#

no

#

very few raids are using pi on their assa rogues

trail dawn
#

What is higher priority in Dance, Deathstalker mark or Shadow Technique?

lilac stag
#

OK, What's in the drinking water today?!?! at least sub feels good to play

jaunty umbra
#

DS feels good dracthyr_shrug

wind canopy
keen dome
coral pier
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
trail dawn
wind canopy
#

Yeah, I wouldn't say the playstyle is awful aside from things like CDR on dance, naked symbols, or things like that

#

And the whole BP vs. cleave opportunities

vale pine
#

the gameplay of sub isn't aweful, ofc it could be better

vast bloom
#

!log

sick jackal
#

wait so if i am hearing this correctly sub in m+ plays ds?

alpine wraith
#

you can try sure

uneven scarab
#

Trickster still feels way better to me

sick jackal
#

i am going pure sub

uneven scarab
#

Trickster dust has been the coziest

#

just bing chillin

lilac stag
gritty knot
#

did u just see the latest hotfix

#

now u get guilded crests from +8s

#

not +9s anymore

keen dome
#

Big win, big improvement

#

love to see it

gritty knot
#

its live already, just did a +8 and got the guilded crests

#

its like they overheard our conversation today @vale pine xD

keen dome
#

Owns

sacred yacht
#

Rejoice

keen dome
#

That's a really good change.

thick temple
#

I'm still catching myself up on the recent changes written here and by Eleem. It seems Deathstalker is the winner in AoE/m+ now?

As a generalization, I presumed ds was for single target and trickster is to multi target as it applies fazed to more than one target. Am I missing something? Are we still like multi target cleaving from a single-target priority kinda playstyle?

gritty knot
#

Coming later today

Mythic Keystone Affixes

Increased the duration of the buffs granted by Xal’atath’s Bargain Affixes to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
    Developers’ notes: We’ve been closely monitoring the impact of the bonuses provided by Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes, and we’re increasing their overall power level on players. We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these buffs as well as the challenges these affixes present.
Xal’atath’s Guile now increases enemy health and damage by 10% (was 20%).
    Developers’ notes: With the increase to the buffs granted to players by Xal’atath’s Bargain we’re reducing the effectiveness of of Xal’atath’s Guile, to allow players to push deeper into the Keystone system with current item levels.
#

thats crazy too. from 20 % to 10%

frosty bridge
#

+8 drops myth crest now

#

finally

keen dome
#

Yeah, seems like it's just a solidly good change overall

#

Next up: poison toggle.

gritty knot
#

Surgeon Stitchflesh

Surgeon Stitchflesh’s health reduced by 20%.
Stitchflesh’s Creation’s Festering Rot damage reduced by 30%.
pliant topaz
#

im starting to feel like no ptr notes

#

and that scares me

gritty knot
#

finally 😄

steel horizon
#

Good changes

alpine wraith
#

they actually buffed stitchflesh kek

pliant topaz
#

vat

alpine wraith
#

spears dont stack anymore

pliant topaz
#

yeah but they made it a playable boss

alpine wraith
#

that is true

pliant topaz
#

instead of a cheese inshalla u have enough burst

alpine wraith
#

now you can do it in 3 mins

pliant topaz
#

not really. u can still 2 shot it imo

alpine wraith
#

well now you can still spear him every time he comes down

gritty knot
#

ye finally that boss is playable tbh

#

i rlly like all these changes

pliant topaz
#

u can spear other bosses now

alpine wraith
#

nah other bosses have too much hp for 10 secs of some extra dmg

#

to matter

#

maybe last boss

#

can you stilll spear a whole pack?

pliant topaz
#

it goes through stuff yeah

crystal spear
#

!wa

wicked joltBOT
graceful crown
#

i feel like at this point im just playing sub wrong, there's no way i dont climb even a little bit in dps after gear and shit compared to my peers

alpine wraith
#

yea a bit unlucky

#

our biggest highs are mandate and transmitter

wispy pebble
#

Is there a DN bug with it just not being consumed atm?

graceful crown
#

the DN meal in mcdonalds

crystal spear
#

anyone know how to make the shadowcraft refund sound effect louder?

tender mica
#

crank wow sound effects to max

#

go big or go home pal

keen dome
#

Replace it with a funnier sound like a foghorn or a duck quacking.

tender mica
#

personally like loud gun shots directly into my ear more

uneven scarab
#

manscream.mp3 everytime i get a shadowcraft

tender mica
#

HAHa sounds amazing

uneven scarab
keen dome
#

Gonna make my cheat death proc sound effect the wilheilm scream now I think about it

uneven scarab
#

LMFAO

#

thats an insane idea actually

#

Me too

tender mica
#

no way that isnt a WA already

keen dome
#

comedy option of forgetting you set it as that

#

and getting a big spook in a few days

hollow cobalt
#

Bro transmitter can be tricky on Ansurek hm ahah

lilac stag
#

Send it prepull

#

Smooths out the sus areas

hard ember
#

so proc stuff works in timewalking again (was for a while taht because level scaled down you never actually got procs), and even though they disabled the heart of azeroth active, the azerite traits still work

#

azerite tfd actually gives you a stack of danse which is kind of funny

#

the really really funny thing is convergence of fates procs roughly once every 10 seconds

acoustic lodge
#

What's a good alternative to ST in M+?

hard ember
acoustic lodge
#

sukrien tornado

hard ember
#

if you're playing the new black powder stuff swapping silent storm and gottagofast shuriken storm for backstab and weaponmaster gave me 35k single and -12k aoe in the sim

#

oh if you don't want to play tornado i think tbh play trickster

#

and inevitability

#

tornado smoothes you over so much in aoe imo

dawn plume
#

is black powder good now?

hard ember
#

it's your highest dmg source in the build

#

you do evis on every tdn proc to put mark on which is weird feeling in aoe but like

#

i mean it does good prio

#

and you get a ctw for your troubles

dawn plume
#

should i play trickster or ds in m+?

hard ember
#

at least for me DS sims far ahead in both aoe and single now

alpine wraith
hard ember
#

i really like how trickster plays personally

dawn plume
#

same

hard ember
#

what you have veiltouched already

drowsy pivot
#

I'm just getting back into Sub after a few years away. Not sure I'm understanding these paragraphs.
It seems to say that Trickster is very good because of Nimble Flurry,
then that Deathstalker is bad because it's bugged and tuned badly,
then that the Black Powder buff makes Deathstalker BETTER than Trickster,
then that Trickster is also bugged so it's only sometimes better.

So... I'm confused. What's bugged right now?

alpine wraith
#

then wm

#

man what a shite build

hard ember
#

yeah i hate it

#

like

#

i don't think that's a good recc

#

like i sim 35k more in single and 12k less in aoe with WM and improved backstab

alpine wraith
#

well i will wait until good people at the game try it

hard ember
#

i don't get it

#

i want WM

alpine wraith
#

im staying trickster

hard ember
#

like i will be okay doin 12k less aoe when the aoe sim is literally millions

#

for the improved single target

#

i would like to drop tornado for gloomblade cuz i like gloomblade but uh it's not proccing flensing

#

so uh

#

the "single target gain" you would have gotten from having gloomblade in that case is actually a loss for sure

fierce cedar
#

oof

#

Tornado is evil. kill it with fire

hard ember
#

flensing is getting buffed by something i'm not sure

alpine wraith
#

lingering darkness

hard ember
#

lingering isn't doubling the dmg is it

#

that sounds crazy

alpine wraith
#

30% is quite a bit

hard ember
#

this is on dummies

#

30% doesn't change 33k to 62k

topaz egret
#

I wouldn't recommend playing without imp backstab

hard ember
#

^

alpine wraith
#

dance and SoD

#

also yea imp backstab

#

we already have shite crit

hard ember
#

yeh idk

hard ember
charred sandal
#

dust brainwashed me so hard to play without it

hard ember
#

@hazy breach in a scenario where like we're not in dance, we have lingering darkness, and symbols up, do we spend CTW or do we just keep pressing backstab to extend symbols uptime

#

in the darkbrew/ds

quartz prism
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respec assa in suboptimal gear, literally increased my m+ dps by 300-400k + you get aoe silence and aoe dmg redux.......

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im so sad guys

hard ember
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i mean yeah my sin sim is over 1m ahead in patchwerk 6t cleave despairge

hazy breach
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Keep stabbing in symbols

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For inev

hazy breach
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Not like "oh its good for a rogue spec" but like one of the best specs in the entire game

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Because it does insane overall while also doing bonkers priority damage

alpine wraith
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and getting dr

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and silence

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and execute

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idk

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also does the dishes on sunday

hazy breach
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Usually dont spec execute in keys though

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But you could

alpine wraith
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i meant the thingy that pops mobs

hazy breach
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Ah ye, demise

alpine wraith
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it is funny seeing some big hp mobs dying at like 15%

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if they still have DM on

civic oyster
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!wax

wicked joltBOT
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Bubbling Wax can once again be applied to weapons of all levels
There might still be bugs and odd things happening to it that hasn't been tested yet, but it seems to be working based on initial testing

uneven scarab
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Dude dm on a prio target with demise is insane

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like actually just delete those mobs

jaunty heath
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Bumpers peepoLove

pliant topaz
alpine wraith
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clear the witness storms can save ass yea

quartz prism
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before my friends let me play sub, but we just timed our first 9

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and they kinda want me staying assa haha

hazy breach
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If fw isnt up

left ledge
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Just like the good old days

pliant topaz
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yep thats what i kinda did

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not sure if silent storm is worth it but yea

alpine wraith
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you have ti talent anyway

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and momentum of despair can save your ass a bit if you still have it from critting before

pliant topaz
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not really u are giving up a lot to take it

left ledge
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Why is this spec lowest ST and garbage in aoe

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Can anyone explain

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What does sub rogue do

pliant topaz
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oh oh i can

alpine wraith
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the buffs are missing

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the bugs are plenty

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the devs are in malaysia

left ledge
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Why does this spec even exist

hazy breach
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Idk is it really a lot, its inev/wm+imp backstab