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gloom is lame, it literally shouldnt exist imo
if we look at the game
the majority of players
are actually not new
in fact what it looks like
is that wow has a very bad growth
10 year squad here
yes cause blizzard is appealing to 15 year old veterans
catering to them is precisely what holds wow back
so what happens is
people play for a long time
and they build a perception of how things are
it is why people still think of sub
as a pvp spec
i remember getting crucified here for suggesting that the level experience is bad
people gave me arguments like "yeah but if you do x timewalking and y chromie timeline its okay"
like bro a new player doesnt know what any of that means lol
because thats how it was designed for long
Blame the classic andies
tbh people that start a game now dont want a game with tab target combat and comic graphis
If action combat mmos werent ran into the ground by their creators WoW would have a way harder time
its like this.
The argument of "you spend only a fraction of time" is valid
but it dismisses that leveling is part of the player onboarding
your first experience
Rogue leveling is so bad, that Iβve asked myself if Iβm doing something very wrong and I play for years and also had already max level rogue
nah wow could appeal to new players
even with tab targeting
Itβs that kind of awful
so for me it seems logical
that the consequence of it is
that people see how specs get developed
who gets attention
what plays best
etc.
and over time people mostly go to the classes that seem better
e.g BfA was a weird xpac
where if you loved to raid
rogue suddenly was completely optional/irrelevant
and if you played rogue
you ended up present with
its visuals will always lose though. If the game looks cool it will attract more people. There is a reason BDO still has a playerbase despite being handled absolutely terrible. Throne and Liberty does nothing except looking cool either. If those games had decent endgame and no P2W bullshit they would easily steal new players from WoW
only one spec you play in raid
one spec you played in m+
and a spec you can't play from public perception
because it got no attentioon and was poorly tuned
its not valid at all cause it assumes a new player has all of that information
which is exactly the problem this game has
the average wow player doesnt see a problem with any of this cause he played for 15 years and he made it work somehow
its survivorship bias
yeah visuals are a big part of it for sure
that wow aims to incrrease the amount of new players
while if you look at the graph
they have a big player pool
they can lure back to the game
that also gets older, so has more spare money
Leveling in WoW is ass. The story is not told to the player at all, the old zones are insanely outdated, you wont meet anyone because the old players level in dungeons etc etc
oh no absolutely not
wow is optimized for profits, which doesnt have to come from new players
in fact, new players are a bad business strategy compared to, as you pointed out, older players with more income
however as a product, it becomes worse without a doubt
and then can start with the newest xpac
thats also in systems
crafting is confusing
even for people who play actively
i don't mean us
we spend time learning it
but even in our guilds
we might have people that need the system to be explained
or
e.g. you saw it in here
people craft intelect weapons
on accident

kekw
the game isn't helping you with things like this
and wow has many systems with dark patterns
you have to go to a third party
thats also a result of old games like this too, far too many systems and its very hard to introduce a new player to everything
making things more obscure to understand
wow is another product of modern times "enshittification" you see everywhere in the software sector
make great product
get people hooked
gain monopoly status
appeal to investor
product is now mediocre
the burden of knowledge to be a "good" player is extremely high
id argue the game basically doesnt help you with anything.
Had a dude who ran his first m+ pull primal rage on cd
Alot of people dont realize the INSANE knowledge gap from the low end to the top end of players in this game as well
There is a HUGE disparity
Literally same problem league has. Old playerbase is toxic, Game doesnt help you at all, loads of old bullshit that shoulnt be there anymore (yes im looking at you racials)
FFXIV is infinitely nicer as a new player because people will help you where the game doesnt. In WoW you get told to read a guide and league players will tell you to end it
its also entirely anecdotal, but from my time working in games, many devs/product are hesitant to improve the ftue or decrease the amount of learning to get into the game because the tradeoff is hard to measure
its practically any live service game >5y
just tons of layers of knowledge and systyems
on top of new knoledge and systems
the damage is also basically done. WoW and League will never fix their reputation
racials are fine as long as one is not clearly better
Which uh
has been the case many times

they literally only need to be 1% to x stat and some kind of crafting/gathering and 1 flavour racial
when you have full on utility or steroid thats when it becomes a disparity
u can pry my vulpera tent and vials out of my cold dead hands π
Make them a talent tree! 1 active choice, 1 passive. Pick from any combo in the game. Quests to ulock them all on your warband
Blammo I've fixed everything.
every race should deal the exact same damage
i think dps isnt even the issue atm
DPS is whatever
dwarf/did are the outliers
It's always utility like gnomeform or stoneform etc
yea the abilies are even worse
Which is wy my solution solves it: everybody can get those buttons so nothing loses out. Be the cosmetic choice you want.
imagine dracthyr wouldve kept their racials lmao
You can keep the other speciifc racials (I.e., home two hearths or w/e) tied to race but the super impactful buttons (Stoneform, will, etc) become free
well somehow they have to get their new race to be played i guess, Because if its not stronger people wont opt for the non transmog class.
numbers
??????
Is Deathstalker still bugged to where it's troll to take it?
Do you have an idea how bad it looks that the new class is barely played at all? If Aug wasnt added evoker/dracthyr wouldve been an absolute failure
its still bugged
you still play it in some situations but im behind on whats going on on m+ so idk whats played there
You can play it in m+ but it plays like shit
Compared to trickster
does sim better though
So up to you
i dont think the amount of people playing a class is representative of whether or not its a failure. i think aug is the categorical failure but 
looks at rogue
Investors will be pissed if you spent loads of time on the new class/race just for it to fail
Investors won't have a clue
its funny u think the investors are smart enough to know
Blizz doesnt even play this game
Investors, in video games, typically don't have a clue about the video game other than is it printing as much money as other video games
let it be the higher ups then idc, your new class failing is terrible
Espescially as they are now owned by Microsoft so a Blizzard investor is someone invested in Microsoft haha
Really good mental image though
your measurement of whether or not a class is failing is rather lacking, tbh.
Someone banging their fist on their desk, in a Microsoft earnings call: "How many people are playing Evoker?!"
Pretty sure your playerbase not playing the class is the class failing
I dont even think evoker failed, it was mainly just aug that was received badly
You need to remember that Evoker was limited to 1 per account? server for most of DF
becuase of how op it can potentially be
This has a pretty impactful uptick on it's popularity.
its the same for DH no?
Pres is literally the best healer atm
Also monk sat as lowest played forever. I think DH was the only 'really big' new class addition
still dumb asf they didnt lift this restriction for mop remix lol
ye
restriction for dh was lifted in sl if i remember right
Still DH was highly popular before that even
and dk also had a similar restriction
anyone good with figuring out why frame rates are dropping?
Monk didn't manage that. Evoker didn't either. DK did too. Like, it's just how it goes. The class isn't a failure but it does have lower play.
lower details tick rate and remove all weakauras with models
weak aura models are removed did that already
how do i lower details tick rate? and also im sitting in the middle of dorn and have 45 fps
nothing going on
i mean main city is always catasrophy fps wise
i have a brand new pc thats got more power than this game wil need for 10 more years
Most of us do
Main city will always be bad
i wouldnt use sitting in the main city as ur measure for ur fps
especially since loads of peole will raid sunday at 18/19
i promise when u walk out of dorn u will gain like 30 fps minimum
18/19 frames or are you using military time like a wierdo
mb, guess you cant count above 12
god forbid someone be not american
lol im in the military
ok just needed a friend hunter for emotional support for it to drop
i use military time thats why i made the comment
Gz hacha
π American spotted π
time to pump to the moon
did the hunter bring his support dog?
he brang paco hernesto
lol god damn right im American 'merica bitches
Tarkov taught me military time 
I just use a 24 hour clock
Ye americans just call a regular 24 hour clock military time
huh, the more you know.
Uhmm aktually the 12 hour clock is the regular one 
yeah as our 'regular' clock is not in fact a 24 hour one. So... yes.
kinda wish my workplace had used 24hr clock cuz then we wouldnt need to worry about writing am or pm on the paperwork
Even when we had a regular 12-hour clock in the UK I've always just used 24-hour.. Funny.
haha
most people have 12 hour clocks tho
havent seen many 24 ones
i do use some in fabs
they seems weird
they are big and square
Well the ones on the walls are 12, but you'd always write 19 and not 7 pm
Digital clocks saying 7pm is psychotic
digital clocks ezclap
Hey. So I have a macro for Cold Blood and Secret Technique but it only works about 30% of the time. Is there a known issue with that or something?
problem solved
Not on ur stealth bar
Make sure its on the stealth bar
Also computer clocks
my macro has no issues? wdym not work?
Which we all have in front of us right now. Maybe.
I dunno some of you could be phone posting
That would explain why it don't work. Thank you all. β€οΈ
i am laying in bed rn
Big phone posting energy
its kinda rainy and the cat is cuddling me
I guess phones are just computers these days that can sometimes make telephone calls so it's a computer too.
Also hell yeah cat pette that cat
she just sighed heavily at me
Hey man she had a long day
shrimping action
yesss
This is one of my sweet boys
cutee
π»
the other kitty (she wouldnt look at me lol)
Tfw allergic 
Me too, but its so worth it
i will suffer for them
We had cats while i was growing up
Then i moved out an realized thats why i was constantly sneezing and had a runny nose
Thought i just always had a cold since it wasnt really serious 
i think there are many things
like visual clarity
Yep i get the same
and e.g. how punishing doing keys now is
Idk i dont really mind it 
It doesn't help that they're doing an 'okay' job of consolidating visual language in modern content. While also bringing old dungeons back that just do whatever the fuck they feel like, haha.
A buddy of mine began playing recently. He got pretty confused over the DK Death and Decay. It's bright red. So he thought: oh no! Danger! I won't stand in that.
its also clarity in what works and whats not
e.g. cloak
City and mist aint that fun, but the others are fine imo
cloak could be a very obviouse spell
Yeah, absolutely, Fuu. It's very obfuscated if an ablity will work or not
this looks like magic
Hello, I have a question regarding tornado in ST. On WoWHead it says "use tornado outside cds", so not even during symbols or before dance+symbols? Or I can just hold it for adds in general?
so cloak should block its damage
right?
well for old dungeons, you are in for some surprises
Shoulda brought plaguefall/theater of pain back instead of necro wake
Those two were goated
Yes actively outside your cds
When I'm doing lower keys I'll just try to cloak and evade anything to see what happens.
LITERALLY iv tried to cloak shit and it jus dont be cloaking sometimes π¦
You absolutely do not want it during blades on ST
yea tornado right now is a cdr hog
Because then you'd waste your shadow technique stacks
okay but i did like 3 leveling dungeons w my partner on prot warrior and i kept moving out of the new spear of bastion animation because i hadnt seen thw dungeons or the new spear animation and assumed it was bad until i saw it in the second dungeon and had to ask π
Hahaha, right?
But ye holding for adds is always the play, you'd only use it on ST if its more than a minute left until more adds spawn
Thought so, thanks a lot!
on st you could use it before a dn evis to try and bait momentum after you pop it
but man it is so useless
nado feels so weird to use idk. i also only used it in one key
of course out of cds and sod
before i gave up on ds in m+. (prior to the bp buff)
Ye nado is really weird
I'd expect it to get removed whenever they do some sort of rework to sub
Or heavily reworked to become a passive in some fashion
Summon a shadow clone(s) who will replicate your abilities for the next 10s
a easy solution would be

just replace it with this bad boy
god i hate convoke and i always have
convoke is so cool dude
i HATE druid but convoke has nearly convinced me to play it
make it shadow not aracne damage
Oh thats cool
glaives go brrrr
btw.
i think it would be op for pvp
but kick shouldn't be usable if the target isn't casting
Perfect cd on glaives as well 
That'd be interesting and honestly, yeah.
so you can't interrupt something if there is no cast
in m+
at least with current design
one wrong kick
can easy kill a pull
because you miss it for the next cast
It doesnt have to be entirely different, they could just make it so your first BP during dance casts storm or refunds 7 cp
Or your next storm hits 4 times
Idk lots of things, current implementation is just awkward
Black powder does double damage during dance
i played feral in sl and convoke made me quit. what you did outside of the convoke setup mattered very little and a button you pressed once a minute that channeled for 6 seconds was worth at minimum 25% of your overall damage throughout an encounter. now a large portion of dmg coming from a cd isnt a problem for me personally but when its not even you like, playing the game, for that cd, i dont like it
BUT convoke isnt like that anymore for feral
a lot of ferals really liked convoke bc big bites big dopamine but i fucking hated it lol
so is trickster sandbag in M+ now?
no?
the pins would indicate that it is unless im missing something
Ds sims slightly higher but it's disgusting to play
It also feels so bad swapping between that and trickster
3-15% depending on target count, at exactly 2 targets trickster is better but then 3 target its like 3-4% behind
And it just ramps up to be more more behind the more targets you add
how so when youre prioritizing bp instead of evis?
Not if you're spamming BP???
(im not doubting you im just curious)
because trickster just does its full ST
Whereas deathstalker gains a lot of damage compared to full ST
More marks, darkest night and singular focus
Yes with full aoe rotation, which includes eviscerate with darkest night
so the difference between the two is such that youd recommend learning to play deathstalker in keys
Ye theres no reason to play trickster on anthing besides court imo
i did like trickster but isnt deathstalker basically the same shit weve been playing for years?
yea trickster just needs a bit of a mentality change
vs deathstalker
so just reboot brain
you know what will suck? our cds won't reset anymore
oh no
How to improve as sub rogue besides looking at logs? Cant do more than 680-700k St dps in single target in raids 601 ilvl, stacking mastery, following guide from wowhead. It feels like I need to work twice as hard compared to dh or lock, esp in aoe
Same, Evoker is my alt and shit is wildly easier on other classes besides my Sub main.
And the spec no longer has cdr talents in 11.0.5
most based aoe trinket they ever made ngl
such a fucking banger
timing the pop for maximum pad in raid
was glorious
Iβm still confused as how this misunderstood so often.
Swapping trinkets out in dungeons. 
please don't bring that back holy fuck
having like 6 gear sets
all different legendaries
for maximum pad

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can someone who is more well-versed with wow history remember a time when it was complete radio silence from blizzard and then they just drop a bunch of bugfixes on us out of the blue
basically is there any hope of trickster next patch lol
was rly bad
amp poison or instant?
nah remove all interrupts, make this entire game about how much u can dodge and dps at the same time

or bring back wildstar mechanic of interrupt armor where you needed X Number of kicks to stop a cast, not just one
lol
idk if im cooked but
i just realized coup the grace animation.... it doesnt play unless u dash with it lul
that actually sounds interesting
^
looking at how blizzard handles skilshot indicators color wise.. rather not
mild spirits
thought you said "milf spirits" for a second idk why
they have it now it is called sentinel bird poop
and tanks keep moving mobs from it
the cycle never ends
interrupt bars ala gw2
would unironically be good i think
so you just just kick or cc to break it
kekw

first night on queen rn if i delay opener by one finisher before flaging
i can vanish first root
and cloak 2nd
and vanish 3rd
oh dope
tahts prob wwhy
you go gnome
you need cloak for intermission big damage
at the start
think most went gnome
at least thats what echo/liquid did
for the non meme answer
yeah im checking one by one they all are gnome
sooooo on DS im using nado for rupture?
you use it outside of cd's but yes, can use it to spread rupturee
do i need to dot tha entire pack
suff....?
fast question - when do i use my CDs on sirkan on mythic? i cant fit 2 dances on pull, because charges coem and the boss goes out of range
do i delay them?
NO!
else go assa and dont care about melee uptime 
my gear is not optimised for asasi π¦
you do 1 dance then vanish do finishers untilDN is up then wait for charge to end
then step dance SoD evis
doesnt work, because of decimate
either otehrs will hit me or i have to break the shadows
you never click nado in cooldowns?
no
outside of cooldowns
basically
the problem is, shadowcraft and blades
give you soo many combo points
it works because i do it every week
using tornado loses too much
so idk
opener on sikran
ah interessting
probably dumb question
but do we know what loots we'll get from the new anniversary patch raid?
like is there anything like ritual knife lol
something that can outsim 639 mythic trinkets
not likely
probably not
as for loot i didnt check raid or dung
LOL checking every guilds ahead of us, every rogue is a gnome sub except @lucid jackal playing sin
the number 1 sub hater
guy does not hate sub that much
fair
don't worry
sin is now quite good
the buffs helped it
yeah its probably very good
impyr is also playing sin rn
not surprising since hes a sin main
but gnomes everywhere

I think sin low key insane on the fight
Ur obviously less useful at web breaks, and on her shield, but you get an execute lust
havent watched in depth why sub is good, but yeah sin seems very good too, esp with the buffs
Sub is good cuz 130s are just a bit better
U can cd shield, and also the shield add
In intermission
Mechanics are a 45 sec caedance on the fight
do you actually cd shield
Well as sub, you can
but the ydont
Cuz ull have it up for the next important burn
Do you (me) idk yet
We haven't gotten clean intermissions yet really
how do you deal with roots as sin
Ive said to my rl that I'm open to playing sub to make shit easier in the moment. Or long term. I'm just playing sin for now cuz it's more fun
Play a no vanish build
Yeh
i guess it is with gnome
yeah ive seen this
but they dont burst on shield, idk if its cause its a pain to leave meleee during burst or specific uses like first platform
subs are not bursting on queen shield
yea you use cds on first add
Uhhhh
That sounds wrong
Like I'm sure they are doing it
But it sounds incorrect to do
yea man imagine not having real classes
well trickster sub is decent at 2t and cds come back
you could in theory only use flag and you get more uses at the end of the fight of blades thx to using a vanish
but at the end exile didnt use it to have cleaner intermission
Well then u don't have Cd's for the shield add in intermission
yea you skip cds on that one you dont do much
because you have to yeet with protal
to the other side
and look at the bright stars
i cant play DS bro im so shit with it
just play trickster
yeah i just went back to trickster
i litearlly terrorized a key with the DS
yea i mean someone somewhere will enjoy it
but you will kinda have to get used to it because next week is going to be that
unless they fix nimble
well yeah im also too used to dust so thats gonna hit like a truck
only coup cdr change is not enough
although i might try some trickster keys anyway
15 cp coup seems silly
and i also have secret supercharger bug tech
where does this come from
in df i was called sub otp
i just think its better
my memories are wrong then
i remember always seing ur name as sin

i might give a try to sin
cause anyway trickster sub being so strict on uptime kinda annoys me for prog
is skipping 3rd dance okay?
you skip 4th
but in mythic i dont remember if boss does webs at 40
or 60
you can skip either 4 or 5
mythic timers are not the same, its not even about this fight, it just annoys me to triple dance
thats a personal thing
and I also dont like DS sub
and im sad dust is soon gone

i quite like triple dance
you might be able to do it next patch thx to some bugs
unless they fix them
the funniest shit will be skipping dance AND sod

nah not even close
deathstalker would be lucky to get double dance
Nah, no way we have to do this shit
trickster just double dances normally
but you might need to over optimize blades usage since its so short
eseentially the idea is for trickster u need 2 gcds between dances so your whole 2 dance sequence is 18seconds long.
if you use premed first and sectech first -> you can delay blades by 2 seconds
so the remaining 16 (18-2) seconds, can be covered by blades
gonna be fun...
with trickster you can but idk if it is worth
how? its mathematically not possible
you cheat supercharger
you would need to farm 120 cps
it applies if you do it prepull
okay thats 6 combopoints
and to sec tech if you use it as you use it
Huh?
where do u get the other 114?
but why would we ever do that anyway
transmitter is only 15 secs anyway
and why would we use the 3 charges of SoD on pull
also that build must suck ass on overall dps
why coup the grace animation only goes off if u dash with it
it is the same as in bfa with dark shadow and lots of things that increased evis dmg
you could get big finishers but was it worth?
not likely
only when we were cracked out of the ass with mastery it became a thing with NV
no idea, they removed the animation if cast in melee like a month before expac release on beta and never said why
its not a cool animation regardless
kinda tilts me in fact
bro copy pasted Fury warrior rampage and siad done
same with charge ahaha
is the broken cdr stuff fixed
yea beneficial and bad
and of course the beneficial ones are krangled to use
and annoying
a lot of things copy warrior
paladin hammer of light is literally collusus smash
lmao
all talents have reused assets
let me steal touch of the magi
wait I can vanish 4th root too as sub
vanish 1 3rd and 4th
no gnome dream ?

that means scuffed cds for a while
but if I dont cd until P2
doesnt matter
well if you dont need cds in interphase yes
exile held until p2 yea
ads are p2
anyway no gnome until tuesday night so im gonna have to try some fun stuff
Wouldnt be too surprising if they send a nerf to the boss come reset
yeah that would be a good timing
But probably not related to the gnome thing
What's up with gnome thing?
next week unlikely actually
as the 3% dmg and heal drops
maybe they want to see how it pans out
with that one
really? cuz thats when we also get the first 3% idk
maybe with anniversary
Possibly next week because of that
But 400+ pulls is still probably a bit higher than they want it
And thats for good guilds
right now you kinda need to have some spell to free you from roots every roots on mythic P1 ansurek
@clever delta did you just get kicked from this raid 
riot
imposter maybe
Oh
Ty
!up
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dang then prayge i get me a heroic ritual knife one day lmao
8 delves a week since season launch and nothing so fara
might be a good idea to update the pic for the 8s
i think ive gotten like 6 since the season started
and nothing
damn i've gotten 1
it's pretty unfortunate
well i got an avoidance heroic glove right at the start
turned that into set
and then never got another upgrade from that again
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hmm where's the other bug list tho
the one that's separated by ds/trickster/baseline sub
Here
ty ty!
during queen heroic are we holding blades/flag during the second phase with the adds and shit? just a dance sod
Pretty sure top logs send a flag on the platforms
So you flag/blades the shield on p1 then send a solo flag on platforms then flag/blades immediately on p3
can we cloak the p1 shield web suck thingy?
No and cds should line up to send after first pull
playing deathstalker sub, do you play for double CB in your opener with sectech?
does not stop you from being sucked
but if you step the boss during the drag you null the mech
like while the drag is happening and your character is being pulled
the passive suck you can't stop*
can you actually step the boss itself during the suck? always been too scared to try
i know you can step other players and it works
yeah but i still run anyway
yeah 100% run out of melee
so when the actual pull happens if i step it negates it?
how the fuck do i do the intermission phases for these damn fights im so bad
you run away from the boss and do it normally
As trickster u do sectec 1st finisher?
do we have any information on what feint works in the raid?
Bro this spec is worthless on queen 
i just found out something hilarious
my guild is upset we're slipping behind in server ranking
when they decided after killing rashanan to take a break until ovinax was nerfed
so we didn't start progging her until the nerfs went out
π
tbh as well i dont think your guild is the only one to be like that
i didn't mind taking a break
but surely they could have known if you take your foot off the gas you start to fall behind
can yall drop transmitter wa pls
!transmitter
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
yeh like i think this might be the first tier that you can step the bosses and not like instantly get fucking rolled
like i fully expected say, like, if you stepped rashanan it would put you off the edge, that if you stepped the intermission on ansurek it would kill you instantly by putting you in the center etc
the only boss that's happened to me is sikran, whenever the last charge person would drop their image right on the edge
and i fell off 1 time stepping to the boss immediately
i think maybe you can send vanish full charges and just get a whole nother full set of cds on the intermission and just sac the platforms
like you're not really gonna do much there anyway cuz stuff has such low hp etc
is it normal that I struggle to record logs on raids as sub
my alt survival hunter gets 80~90 just pressing buttons and my main sub is still stuck on 60s
That makes sense bro
it makes sense we didn't start prog until the nerfs happened?
if anything we could have just started to get reps in and fix addons
Yep makes total sense to me!!!!!
Funny as that they're complaining about falling behind after not raiding
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i mean parse well during the intermission for first boss my dps tanks hard same for p2 on queen dps tanks a ton
p1 im sitting at 1-1.3mil then i get into phase 2 and it just drops. the adds there die so fast i dont get real use out of the CDs
Off topic from the raid. In dungeons am I supposed to use trickster or death stalker?
I found that rerolling entirely was the best option for sub in dungeons
So you just raid with yours?
That was the plan
but enhancement is really fun, so I'm basically just waiting for sub fixes at this point
I'm also bad at the game though
deathstalker assi
so I wouldn't listen to me
if adds die too fast then L i guess
Iβm only gear score of like 580 right now
i'm also suffering from the same
Assassin Rogue
I have always been the player not to play the meta builds either. Thatβs why Iβm sub and not assassin
Im outlaw too because its more fun
But sin is so broken
Sub is really fun too when you get the hang of it
Also I think you can play either
there's avoiding meta and then there's directly hampering yourself
However deathstalker is slightly behind due to bugs
Thatβs what I thought about with death stalker
Tbh deathstalker looks easier though just because you dont need to use shadowdust
you do 300% more work to get 70% of its damage and 20% of it's control
math just aint there chief
Sub would be so much better without the bugs
feel bad for you guys
at least the other specs have manageable bugs
Like outlaw bugs are pretty easy to manage
Outlaw seems pretty fun too. Itβs just weird that the builds I find donβt use killing spree anymore
there are killing spree builds
its the highest simming ones iirc
everyone just doesnt like using KS
so they dont
Ahh okay. I heard they nerved outlaw Iβm not too sure though
nope
used to be i believe
its also dog shit to play
yes but the important thing is to have fun
I honestly can't believe how many people meta slave or suggest meta slaving
like... y'all are sad for a few reasons
1st and foremost being that you probably are not playing the game at the highest level, where meta slaving is worthwhile/mandatory
so you are just having less fun to do more damage for now - the 2nd reason is that retail actually has class balancing changes
anyone who dabbled in the whole classic rerelease chain understands that people play classes with no hope of ever being buffed
like literally no changes, no fixes for shit classes
at least if you play sub in retail they might have their hayday in season 2
like you could pick your favorite, get good at it, and be strong when they're prime (see frost dk right now)
I like to try meta slave but whenever I go off of outlaw rogue and play sin and come back to outlaw I realise how much more fun outlaw is etc
things will just get buffed and nerfed moving forward, people who want to multispec can do so - just a sad existence it must be, deliberately going into the subtlety channel on a class discord (instead of spending time playing the game) only to rag on the spec and tell noob question-askers to reroll
I was joking if youre insinuated im telling him to completely reroll
You as a joke, the other guy serious, 50 other cases in the past 24hrs
more a rant than an attack on you
It's just the running meme, really
I guess if you all bitch enough I might benefit from the buffs
from one perspective
Haha you know how the rogue discord works
Its great to see sin living out its glory days because it would be the same exact thing in outlaw chat or sub chat if they were popping off
yeah... Rogue is just a 3x dps spec
so they directly compete with each other
2024 optimization in gaming
only one can survive really
unless they have really distinct niches, separating single target, low-mobcount cleave, and true aoe
each spec kinda does all of those OK
There's a difference between metalsave and what feels fun to play
Sub just feels bad in dungeons compared to other things
Everyone has their own preference
And I can completely understand loving sub in keys
Even if its not for everyone
Like I had a buddy tell me he hates playing outlaw rogue and loves sin
Its completely understandable
some people purely want dps and that's how to have more fun - I wouldn't even really call that meta slaving... but they also should play something other than rogue rn
that's just their Love Language
sub can do 1m+ overall in a key which will get it done for most people
i love sub in keys
i delete a pack and all i hear is "oh look boots finally decided to press his cooldowns"
Pov fury warrior ^
- a person who has never tried pugging as a feral druid when it's not good
game is significantly more playable historically when you play what's good
balance just closer than it's ever been
since df
there are different levels of meta slaving though. Respeccing is a much easier job than reclassing.
Arguably as well for classes like rogue where you only have the choice of dps/dps and dps - you should be able to play multiple specs at a decent level because something like this happens every patch.
people also want to do damage. big numbers activate pleasure neurons in brain. As it currently stand sub doesn't really do comparable damage to assi.
Sub also doesnt provide nearly the same amount of utility that assi can provide. Silence on an entire pack on every single pull vs absolutely nothing unless you want to RP as a pvper and dance -> cheapshot every mob
Sub rotation is also incredibly jank at the moment in m+ . I personally hate how trickster functions (probably in the minority here). If i wanted to play outlaw (or current assi) i'd play those so I can cleave. Out of cooldowns you're also competing with the tank for damage.
Also also even if youre not pushing 0.1%, people still (hopefully) want to achieve a good outcome. When things are like 10% less than "meta" then yeah sure play whatever you want. But sub right now compared to assi is 300% the effort for 80% of the damage and 20% of the control of assi
thank you for coming to my ted talk
normally i'm on the side of "play whatever you want as well, all content is achievable with all specs"
but at the same time i'd rather tell someone to cut their steak with a knife than a spoon
ye respect
if someone actually comes with questions specific to sub rotation then yeah sure I'd give a better answer that actually responds to it
but the question was "what hero talents do i play in dungeons"
which is so basic
may as well tell them there's a better option that they might not have considered
last bit but also also also there's nothing wrong with respeccing. i swap between sub and assi constantly. I really enjoy sub in raid and play it whenever I can, but at the same time playing sub in dungeons just feels like digging a hole in the ground with a spoon
is there a numbers tuning that could fix it? probably
it's sorta like - numbers feel bad so things that felt bad in the rotation feels even worse
if sub numbers were dialed up to being top, then you'd have way less complaints and people would be sucking off how good the rotation is
i still don't understand the love for trickster
I love specs with so many dead or narrow talents 
it's just outlaw/assi2.0
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
idk man
not trying to start shit
but I feel like it's a bit disingenuous to say that DS in aoe would feel better if it just had "moar damage"
i come from the minority of enjoying SS -> black powder
so if i can do that
with bigger numbers
my neurons are activated
i enjoyed it too
but the marking mechanic, not so much
esp trying to always consume DN ASAP for maximum dmg
yeah that part is a bit of a pain
meanwhile trickster is just
faceroll ur single target rotation
and a passive node automatically turns it aoe for u
and the coup/fazed intereaction just makes sense
it makes sense but at the same time
fuck pressing backstab in single target
it is the worst feeling in the world
with 5 mobs up
you are pressing your single target generator
and then waiting for energy
even if it sucks that it makes sectech a buff applier instead of JUST ur biggest hit
wait
i dont think ur backstabbing tho
DS should be funnel dmg less energy to cast shuriken and evis is some how amplified on prio target if shuriken hits X amount of targets
then yeah

USUALLY though
u throw out one backstab and it's enough to let u go back to ss - evisc
Not always
^
i think it's acceptable
Thereβs a 10 second window where youβd have to cast sec tec to proc it
i don't think it's acceptable
i just rly dislike how so much of the aoe stuff in ds
trickster sub is essentially outlaw rogue/assi
is tied to the single target mark
they have perma uptime on their cleave
why the fuck does sub have to do this jank generator shit
i half get it, but i also think it's stupid
i think historically we've had issues with 2/3 target fights
i just remember 2 boss fights being SOOO bad
for so long
and this sorta fixes it
oh yeah it was terrible
our cleave on 2t fights was rupture
3 target also was pretty shit
because our cleave was 3rd rupture
and whatever sectech did
it does fix it
but like it could still be better
it just loops back to sub doing 200% the effort for 80% of the damage
while also praying for procs
assi is just
press bleeds and then lol do caustic splatter
outlaw is just do single target rotation because you always have blade flurry
sub trickster is do single target rotation but also you gotta hope you get procs
oh man i think outlaw has it worse than us on the rng front lol
i can't comment too much on outlaw since i only played it for a few weeks at the start of the tier
you mean as a sub rogue or as trickster?
i know it has its issues as well
but yeah ig im just happy enough that im not living the tomb of sargeras 2nd boss experience
porque no los dos
actually DS is pretty straight forward but i havent tried it in keys yet
for sure
it feels like it flows well
it's a no brainer
yeah
Do we use both charges of SD during opener?
and trying to hit 7 CP outside of blades window feels really bad
so when ur just sending a normal dance + symbols, you get what
2 BP casts in the dance window
and u just wonder if it's really even worth it
lmao yeah
but also also
on a lot of bosses it's kinda meh
when it's heavy movement
idk
the auto attack thingy
true
loses a lot of uptime
eh...
as opposed to getting like another 5% of their damage from white attacks
Kinda?
so movement doesn't hurt it quite as much
Sub in general isn't as bursty as it used to be
Envenoms are dealing more burst than eviscerate can ever do
i pull about 1.3 ~ 1.4 million dps as trickster
and as DS
just 1.1
and it's such a shame bcuz i rly like the idea of having dark brew buffing all my DS magic damage procs
:(((
Thats not true
Is evisc dealing more dmg than envenom atm?
On average its about the same, but during burst eviscerate is higher
Eviscerate is just split into multiple hits
So it doesnt look as high
Which is dumb
oh, due to the shadow dmg
Ye and blades
that explains things
I'd say so
Iirc yes but not a lot
hey, I found Eleem parse on princess

Around 20 ish casts difference on that fight on top parsers
Sometimes i feel like our combopoint gen is way too more than assa (never played outlaw) makes me feel like evis presses are less valueable
i feel like they're just not valuable period lol
it's all about sectech now
but even that is cheapened bcuz ur doing it twice during flag
Typically is 2 whetstones better than 1 stone 1 wax? I tried the sim thing but Iβm too boomer to figure it out
Last time I simmed consumes for myself, wax + stone was 0.1% better than double stone
Are there any early data showing how sub will perform with the shadowdust removal?
About the same numerically from initial impressions
we just got a implementation of supercharger yesteday
but early looks its about exactly the same output
hero talents might be more restrictive
Idk im not liking what im seeing when trying to test stuff
Unless your literal first gcd of your first dance during cds is sectech
armin shared me his sim
You cannot fit 2 sectechs into your cds






