#subtlety

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vale pine
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perception and player retention

uneven scarab
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I would actually like to see gloom baseline

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Backstab is full wet noodle status

void hound
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gloom is lame, it literally shouldnt exist imo

vale pine
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if we look at the game

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the majority of players

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are actually not new

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in fact what it looks like

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is that wow has a very bad growth

alpine wraith
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lots of wrath babies

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kek

uneven scarab
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10 year squad here

vale pine
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the last one is wrath + bc + classic

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its one bar

void hound
alpine wraith
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tbc did not grow much

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but wrath did

vale pine
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so what happens is

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people play for a long time

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and they build a perception of how things are

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it is why people still think of sub

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as a pvp spec

void hound
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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

vale pine
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because thats how it was designed for long

uneven scarab
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Blame the classic andies

wispy pebble
vale pine
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but it dismisses that leveling is part of the player onboarding

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your first experience

brittle rain
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Rogue leveling is so bad, that I’ve asked myself if I’m doing something very wrong and I play for years and also had already max level rogue

void hound
brittle rain
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It’s that kind of awful

vale pine
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so for me it seems logical

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that the consequence of it is

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that people see how specs get developed

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who gets attention

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what plays best

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etc.

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and over time people mostly go to the classes that seem better

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e.g BfA was a weird xpac

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where if you loved to raid

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rogue suddenly was completely optional/irrelevant

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and if you played rogue

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you ended up present with

wispy pebble
# void hound nah wow could appeal to new players even with tab targeting

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

vale pine
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only one spec you play in raid

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one spec you played in m+

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and a spec you can't play from public perception

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because it got no attentioon and was poorly tuned

void hound
vale pine
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yes

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but your assumption is

void hound
vale pine
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that wow aims to incrrease the amount of new players

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while if you look at the graph

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they have a big player pool

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they can lure back to the game

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that also gets older, so has more spare money

wispy pebble
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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

vale pine
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a returning player does not need to start at 0

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you get a free char boost

void hound
# vale pine that wow aims to incrrease the amount of new players

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

vale pine
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and then can start with the newest xpac

vale pine
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crafting is confusing

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even for people who play actively

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i don't mean us

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we spend time learning it

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but even in our guilds

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we might have people that need the system to be explained

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or

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e.g. you saw it in here

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people craft intelect weapons

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on accident

uneven scarab
wispy pebble
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kekw

vale pine
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the game isn't helping you with things like this

uneven scarab
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Saw that happen too many times in here

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Yeah it doesnt make these things obvious

vale pine
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and wow has many systems with dark patterns

uneven scarab
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you have to go to a third party

warm depot
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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

vale pine
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making things more obscure to understand

void hound
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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

warm depot
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the burden of knowledge to be a "good" player is extremely high

wispy pebble
uneven scarab
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Alot of people dont realize the INSANE knowledge gap from the low end to the top end of players in this game as well

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There is a HUGE disparity

wispy pebble
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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

warm depot
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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

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its practically any live service game >5y

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just tons of layers of knowledge and systyems

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on top of new knoledge and systems

wispy pebble
latent wren
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i like racials tho ://

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there are problematic ones for sure

uneven scarab
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racials are fine as long as one is not clearly better

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Which uh

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has been the case many times

warm depot
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they literally only need to be 1% to x stat and some kind of crafting/gathering and 1 flavour racial

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when you have full on utility or steroid thats when it becomes a disparity

latent wren
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u can pry my vulpera tent and vials out of my cold dead hands πŸ˜‚

keen dome
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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

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Blammo I've fixed everything.

wispy pebble
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every race should deal the exact same damage

latent wren
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i think dps isnt even the issue atm

keen dome
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DPS is whatever

latent wren
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dwarf/did are the outliers

keen dome
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It's always utility like gnomeform or stoneform etc

wispy pebble
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yea the abilies are even worse

keen dome
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Which is wy my solution solves it: everybody can get those buttons so nothing loses out. Be the cosmetic choice you want.

wispy pebble
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imagine dracthyr wouldve kept their racials lmao

keen dome
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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

latent wren
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that had to change

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the glide is still kinda busted tho even if its not super fast

uneven scarab
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Can cheese throngus with it

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Doesnt drop the lava pool

wispy pebble
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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.

latent wren
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??

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why do they need people to play dracthyr lol?

wispy pebble
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numbers

latent wren
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??????

winter stratus
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Is Deathstalker still bugged to where it's troll to take it?

wispy pebble
# latent wren ??????

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

latent wren
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its still bugged

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you still play it in some situations but im behind on whats going on on m+ so idk whats played there

uneven scarab
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You can play it in m+ but it plays like shit

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Compared to trickster

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does sim better though

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So up to you

latent wren
wispy pebble
keen dome
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Investors won't have a clue

latent wren
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its funny u think the investors are smart enough to know

uneven scarab
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Blizz doesnt even play this game

keen dome
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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

wispy pebble
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let it be the higher ups then idc, your new class failing is terrible

keen dome
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Espescially as they are now owned by Microsoft so a Blizzard investor is someone invested in Microsoft haha

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Really good mental image though

latent wren
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your measurement of whether or not a class is failing is rather lacking, tbh.

keen dome
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Someone banging their fist on their desk, in a Microsoft earnings call: "How many people are playing Evoker?!"

wispy pebble
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Pretty sure your playerbase not playing the class is the class failing

uneven scarab
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I dont even think evoker failed, it was mainly just aug that was received badly

keen dome
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You need to remember that Evoker was limited to 1 per account? server for most of DF

uneven scarab
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becuase of how op it can potentially be

keen dome
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This has a pretty impactful uptick on it's popularity.

wispy pebble
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its the same for DH no?

uneven scarab
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Pres is literally the best healer atm

keen dome
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Also monk sat as lowest played forever. I think DH was the only 'really big' new class addition

latent wren
keen dome
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ye

latent wren
keen dome
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I think so, yeah.

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But DH was just really fucking popular from the get-go

wispy pebble
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Still DH was highly popular before that even

latent wren
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and dk also had a similar restriction

barren plume
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anyone good with figuring out why frame rates are dropping?

keen dome
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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.

wispy pebble
barren plume
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weak aura models are removed did that already

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how do i lower details tick rate? and also im sitting in the middle of dorn and have 45 fps

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nothing going on

wispy pebble
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i mean main city is always catasrophy fps wise

uneven scarab
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Well dorn kinda be like that

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yea

barren plume
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i have a brand new pc thats got more power than this game wil need for 10 more years

uneven scarab
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Main city will always be bad

latent wren
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i wouldnt use sitting in the main city as ur measure for ur fps

wispy pebble
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especially since loads of peole will raid sunday at 18/19

latent wren
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i promise when u walk out of dorn u will gain like 30 fps minimum

barren plume
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18/19 frames or are you using military time like a wierdo

wispy pebble
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mb, guess you cant count above 12

latent wren
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god forbid someone be not american

barren plume
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lol im in the military

alpine wraith
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ok just needed a friend hunter for emotional support for it to drop

barren plume
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i use military time thats why i made the comment

uneven scarab
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Gz hacha

hazy breach
uneven scarab
wispy pebble
alpine wraith
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he brang paco hernesto

barren plume
uneven scarab
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Tarkov taught me military time basegcat

keen dome
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I just use a 24 hour clock

hazy breach
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Ye americans just call a regular 24 hour clock military time

keen dome
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huh, the more you know.

uneven scarab
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Uhmm aktually the 12 hour clock is the regular one Nerdge

hushed ferry
latent wren
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kinda wish my workplace had used 24hr clock cuz then we wouldnt need to worry about writing am or pm on the paperwork

keen dome
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Even when we had a regular 12-hour clock in the UK I've always just used 24-hour.. Funny.

latent wren
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that caused issues and a lot of crossouts and rewrites

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problems for quality control dead

keen dome
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haha

alpine wraith
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most people have 12 hour clocks tho

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havent seen many 24 ones

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i do use some in fabs

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they seems weird

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they are big and square

hazy breach
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Well the ones on the walls are 12, but you'd always write 19 and not 7 pm

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Digital clocks saying 7pm is psychotic

latent wren
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digital clocks ezclap

winter stratus
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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?

latent wren
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problem solved

hazy breach
keen dome
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Also computer clocks

latent wren
keen dome
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Which we all have in front of us right now. Maybe.

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I dunno some of you could be phone posting

winter stratus
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KEKW That would explain why it don't work. Thank you all. ❀️

latent wren
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i am laying in bed rn

uneven scarab
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Big phone posting energy

latent wren
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its kinda rainy and the cat is cuddling me

keen dome
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I guess phones are just computers these days that can sometimes make telephone calls so it's a computer too.

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Also hell yeah cat pette that cat

latent wren
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she just sighed heavily at me

uneven scarab
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Hey man she had a long day

latent wren
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shrimping action

uneven scarab
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long day of resting

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Omg siamese?

keen dome
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love a good siam catte

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(all cats are good)

uneven scarab
latent wren
uneven scarab
latent wren
keen dome
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😻

latent wren
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the other kitty (she wouldnt look at me lol)

hazy breach
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Tfw allergic sadgesipjammies

uneven scarab
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i will suffer for them

hazy breach
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We had cats while i was growing up

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Then i moved out an realized thats why i was constantly sneezing and had a runny nose

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Thought i just always had a cold since it wasnt really serious shrugeg

vale pine
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like visual clarity

vale pine
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and e.g. how punishing doing keys now is

latent wren
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so glad i chose this season to play casually ngl

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dungeon pool is awful

hazy breach
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Idk i dont really mind it shrugeg

uneven scarab
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I like them i just think tuning

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Is the bigger issue

keen dome
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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.

vale pine
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i think dungeons are fine

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as people get gear

keen dome
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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.

vale pine
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e.g. cloak

hazy breach
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City and mist aint that fun, but the others are fine imo

vale pine
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cloak could be a very obviouse spell

keen dome
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Yeah, absolutely, Fuu. It's very obfuscated if an ablity will work or not

vale pine
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this looks like magic

keen trellis
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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?

vale pine
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so cloak should block its damage

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right?

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well for old dungeons, you are in for some surprises

uneven scarab
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Shoulda brought plaguefall/theater of pain back instead of necro wake

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Those two were goated

keen dome
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When I'm doing lower keys I'll just try to cloak and evade anything to see what happens.

tardy badge
hazy breach
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You absolutely do not want it during blades on ST

alpine wraith
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yea tornado right now is a cdr hog

hazy breach
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Because then you'd waste your shadow technique stacks

latent wren
keen dome
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Hahaha, right?

hazy breach
keen trellis
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Thought so, thanks a lot!

alpine wraith
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on st you could use it before a dn evis to try and bait momentum after you pop it

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but man it is so useless

latent wren
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nado feels so weird to use idk. i also only used it in one key

alpine wraith
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of course out of cds and sod

latent wren
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before i gave up on ds in m+. (prior to the bp buff)

hazy breach
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Ye nado is really weird

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I'd expect it to get removed whenever they do some sort of rework to sub

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Or heavily reworked to become a passive in some fashion

uneven scarab
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make it convoke 2.0!!!!

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shitting out finishers time

keen dome
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Summon a shadow clone(s) who will replicate your abilities for the next 10s

vale pine
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a easy solution would be

uneven scarab
vale pine
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just replace it with this bad boy

latent wren
uneven scarab
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convoke is so cool dude

keen dome
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Oh yeah, that'd be cool

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Shadow tornado

uneven scarab
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i HATE druid but convoke has nearly convinced me to play it

vale pine
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make it shadow not aracne damage

uneven scarab
keen dome
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I like it when I kick convoke in pvp

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it's funny

vale pine
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glaives go brrrr

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btw.

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i think it would be op for pvp

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but kick shouldn't be usable if the target isn't casting

uneven scarab
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Perfect cd on glaives as well NODDERS

keen dome
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That'd be interesting and honestly, yeah.

vale pine
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so you can't interrupt something if there is no cast

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in m+

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at least with current design

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one wrong kick

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can easy kill a pull

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because you miss it for the next cast

hazy breach
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It doesnt have to be entirely different, they could just make it so your first BP during dance casts storm or refunds 7 cp

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Or your next storm hits 4 times

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Idk lots of things, current implementation is just awkward

vale pine
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could also just

alpine wraith
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best i can do is give sec tech 2 more charges

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oh wiat

vale pine
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Black powder does double damage during dance

alpine wraith
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that would be good

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nvm

latent wren
# uneven scarab convoke is so cool dude

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

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BUT convoke isnt like that anymore for feral

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a lot of ferals really liked convoke bc big bites big dopamine but i fucking hated it lol

fallow bone
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so is trickster sandbag in M+ now?

latent wren
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no?

fallow bone
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the pins would indicate that it is unless im missing something

rugged moon
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Ds sims slightly higher but it's disgusting to play

hazy breach
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its not slightly higher

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Its significantly higher

alpine wraith
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yea you can try it and get used to it

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in the next patch it will be better anyway

rugged moon
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It also feels so bad swapping between that and trickster

hazy breach
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3-15% depending on target count, at exactly 2 targets trickster is better but then 3 target its like 3-4% behind

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And it just ramps up to be more more behind the more targets you add

rugged moon
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Also less prio damage and just spamming BP

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Feels so bad

hazy breach
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Its more prio damage

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Deahtstalker does significantly more prio than trickster

fallow bone
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how so when youre prioritizing bp instead of evis?

rugged moon
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Not if you're spamming BP???

fallow bone
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(im not doubting you im just curious)

hazy breach
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because trickster just does its full ST

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Whereas deathstalker gains a lot of damage compared to full ST

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More marks, darkest night and singular focus

hazy breach
fallow bone
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so the difference between the two is such that youd recommend learning to play deathstalker in keys

rugged moon
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If you want to hate your life

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Play deathstalker in keys

hazy breach
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Ye theres no reason to play trickster on anthing besides court imo

fallow bone
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i did like trickster but isnt deathstalker basically the same shit weve been playing for years?

alpine wraith
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yea trickster just needs a bit of a mentality change

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vs deathstalker

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so just reboot brain

fallow nimbus
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you know what will suck? our cds won't reset anymore

keen dome
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oh no

drowsy stone
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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

hexed bluff
drowsy stone
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And the spec no longer has cdr talents in 11.0.5

sly shore
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such a fucking banger

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timing the pop for maximum pad in raid

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was glorious

lilac stag
lilac stag
sly shore
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please don't bring that back holy fuck

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having like 6 gear sets

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all different legendaries

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for maximum pad

keen dome
brave escarp
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale lagoon
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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

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basically is there any hope of trickster next patch lol

uneven scarab
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we sit and cope

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And pray

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Im right there with ya

barren plume
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amp poison or instant?

vale pine
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you don't have amp poisons on sub

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only instant

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if you mean on sin

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amp + deadly

warm depot
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they need to make a kick refund

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if you accidentally overlap

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or 50% cd

vale lagoon
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nah remove all interrupts, make this entire game about how much u can dodge and dps at the same time

alpine wraith
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imagine if all the casts from mobs were skillshots

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touhou m+

light imp
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or bring back wildstar mechanic of interrupt armor where you needed X Number of kicks to stop a cast, not just one

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lol

half comet
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idk if im cooked but

charred sandal
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i just realized coup the grace animation.... it doesnt play unless u dash with it lul

half comet
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that actually sounds interesting

wispy pebble
vale pine
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yellow on yellow

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yes please

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also make heal spells a yellow indicator on the floow

wispy pebble
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Dark purple on blue. Pog

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Bring Wild Spirits back

vale pine
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mild spirits

vale lagoon
alpine wraith
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they have it now it is called sentinel bird poop

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and tanks keep moving mobs from it

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the cycle never ends

warm depot
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interrupt bars ala gw2

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would unironically be good i think

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so you just just kick or cc to break it

golden totem
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is there any guild that is progging ansurek

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with a rogue not being gnome

vale pine
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especially in heroic

pliant topaz
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kekw

golden totem
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first night on queen rn if i delay opener by one finisher before flaging

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i can vanish first root

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and cloak 2nd

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and vanish 3rd

pliant topaz
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dont think cloak would be up for 4th then though

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even with the 30 sec cdr

golden totem
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you dont cloak 4th

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anyway

pliant topaz
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oh dope

golden totem
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tahts prob wwhy

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you go gnome

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you need cloak for intermission big damage

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at the start

vale pine
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think most went gnome

golden totem
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at least thats what echo/liquid did

vale pine
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for the non meme answer

golden totem
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yeah im checking one by one they all are gnome

charred sandal
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sooooo on DS im using nado for rupture?

vale pine
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you use it outside of cd's but yes, can use it to spread rupturee

charred sandal
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do i need to dot tha entire pack

vale pine
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if suff survives yes

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else nope

charred sandal
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suff....?

brave escarp
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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

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do i delay them?

golden totem
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you cry in bed

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and take the L

brave escarp
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NO!

golden totem
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else go assa and dont care about melee uptime starege

brave escarp
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my gear is not optimised for asasi 😦

alpine wraith
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you do 1 dance then vanish do finishers untilDN is up then wait for charge to end

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then step dance SoD evis

brave escarp
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doesnt work, because of decimate

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either otehrs will hit me or i have to break the shadows

half comet
vale pine
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no

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outside of cooldowns

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basically

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the problem is, shadowcraft and blades

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give you soo many combo points

alpine wraith
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it works because i do it every week

vale pine
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using tornado loses too much

alpine wraith
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so idk

vale pine
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what does not work?

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or does

alpine wraith
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opener on sikran

vale pine
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ah interessting

vale lagoon
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probably dumb question

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but do we know what loots we'll get from the new anniversary patch raid?

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like is there anything like ritual knife lol

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something that can outsim 639 mythic trinkets

alpine wraith
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not likely

vale pine
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probably not

alpine wraith
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as for loot i didnt check raid or dung

golden totem
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LOL checking every guilds ahead of us, every rogue is a gnome sub except @lucid jackal playing sin

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the number 1 sub hater

alpine wraith
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guy does not hate sub that much

vale pine
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don't worry

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sin is now quite good

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the buffs helped it

golden totem
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yeah its probably very good

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impyr is also playing sin rn

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not surprising since hes a sin main

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but gnomes everywhere

brave escarp
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thanks!

lucid jackal
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Ur obviously less useful at web breaks, and on her shield, but you get an execute lust

golden totem
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havent watched in depth why sub is good, but yeah sin seems very good too, esp with the buffs

lucid jackal
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Sub is good cuz 130s are just a bit better

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U can cd shield, and also the shield add

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In intermission

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Mechanics are a 45 sec caedance on the fight

golden totem
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do you actually cd shield

lucid jackal
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Well as sub, you can

golden totem
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but the ydont

lucid jackal
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Cuz ull have it up for the next important burn

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Do you (me) idk yet

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We haven't gotten clean intermissions yet really

golden totem
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how do you deal with roots as sin

lucid jackal
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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

lucid jackal
golden totem
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yea for sure

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but 1 vanish charge is enough?

lucid jackal
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Yeh

golden totem
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i guess it is with gnome

lucid jackal
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Cloak gnome vanish gnome

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Then cloak the intermission pop damage

golden totem
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yeah ive seen this

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but they dont burst on shield, idk if its cause its a pain to leave meleee during burst or specific uses like first platform

lucid jackal
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Idk what Ur saying

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Like are other sub rogues not using Cd's on the pull shields?

golden totem
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subs are not bursting on queen shield

alpine wraith
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yea you use cds on first add

lucid jackal
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Uhhhh

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That sounds wrong

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Like I'm sure they are doing it

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But it sounds incorrect to do

alpine wraith
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well it kinda frees up to use more spymasters on boss

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in p1

lucid jackal
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Oh duh just get more spymasters

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Why didn't I think of that

alpine wraith
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yea man imagine not having real classes

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well trickster sub is decent at 2t and cds come back

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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

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but at the end exile didnt use it to have cleaner intermission

lucid jackal
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Well then u don't have Cd's for the shield add in intermission

alpine wraith
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yea you skip cds on that one you dont do much

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because you have to yeet with protal

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to the other side

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and look at the bright stars

charred sandal
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i cant play DS bro im so shit with it

vale pine
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just play trickster

alpine wraith
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ds is annoying yea

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the bugs dont help

golden totem
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im not playing this ds build in key

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i did it once

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that was one too many

charred sandal
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i litearlly terrorized a key with the DS

alpine wraith
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yea i mean someone somewhere will enjoy it

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but you will kinda have to get used to it because next week is going to be that

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unless they fix nimble

charred sandal
alpine wraith
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only coup cdr change is not enough

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although i might try some trickster keys anyway

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15 cp coup seems silly

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and i also have secret supercharger bug tech

fringe palm
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i just think its better

golden totem
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i remember always seing ur name as sin

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i might give a try to sin

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cause anyway trickster sub being so strict on uptime kinda annoys me for prog

alpine wraith
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should not be that strict if you skip the dance

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you have like 10 secs leeway

golden totem
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is skipping 3rd dance okay?

alpine wraith
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you skip 4th

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but in mythic i dont remember if boss does webs at 40

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or 60

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you can skip either 4 or 5

golden totem
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mythic timers are not the same, its not even about this fight, it just annoys me to triple dance

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thats a personal thing

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and I also dont like DS sub

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and im sad dust is soon gone

alpine wraith
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i quite like triple dance

charred sandal
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same brotha

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same

alpine wraith
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you might be able to do it next patch thx to some bugs

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unless they fix them

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the funniest shit will be skipping dance AND sod

golden totem
alpine wraith
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just sending the noodlest sec tech

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in history

pliant topaz
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deathstalker would be lucky to get double dance

formal helm
pliant topaz
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trickster just double dances normally

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but you might need to over optimize blades usage since its so short

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eseentially the idea is for trickster u need 2 gcds between dances so your whole 2 dance sequence is 18seconds long.

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if you use premed first and sectech first -> you can delay blades by 2 seconds

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so the remaining 16 (18-2) seconds, can be covered by blades

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gonna be fun...

alpine wraith
pliant topaz
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how? its mathematically not possible

alpine wraith
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you cheat supercharger

pliant topaz
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you would need to farm 120 cps

alpine wraith
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it applies if you do it prepull

pliant topaz
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okay thats 6 combopoints

alpine wraith
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and to sec tech if you use it as you use it

formal helm
pliant topaz
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where do u get the other 114?

alpine wraith
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but why would we ever do that anyway

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transmitter is only 15 secs anyway

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and why would we use the 3 charges of SoD on pull

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also that build must suck ass on overall dps

charred sandal
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why coup the grace animation only goes off if u dash with it

alpine wraith
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it is the same as in bfa with dark shadow and lots of things that increased evis dmg

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you could get big finishers but was it worth?

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not likely

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only when we were cracked out of the ass with mastery it became a thing with NV

pliant topaz
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its not a cool animation regardless

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kinda tilts me in fact

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bro copy pasted Fury warrior rampage and siad done

alpine wraith
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same with charge ahaha

charred sandal
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animation is not even that bad i thought it had none

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lmao

hard ember
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is the broken cdr stuff fixed

pliant topaz
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yea

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but there are new bugs so dont worry

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the quantity hasnt changed

alpine wraith
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yea beneficial and bad

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and of course the beneficial ones are krangled to use

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and annoying

charred sandal
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a lot of things copy warrior

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paladin hammer of light is literally collusus smash

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lmao

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all talents have reused assets

alpine wraith
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let me steal touch of the magi

golden totem
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wait I can vanish 4th root too as sub

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vanish 1 3rd and 4th

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no gnome dream ?

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that means scuffed cds for a while

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but if I dont cd until P2

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doesnt matter

alpine wraith
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well if you dont need cds in interphase yes

pliant topaz
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exile held until p2 yea

alpine wraith
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he didnt sadly

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had to flag+blades first set of adds

pliant topaz
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ads are p2

alpine wraith
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ah that is intermission for e

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but yea checks out

golden totem
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anyway no gnome until tuesday night so im gonna have to try some fun stuff

hazy breach
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Wouldnt be too surprising if they send a nerf to the boss come reset

golden totem
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yeah that would be a good timing

hazy breach
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But probably not related to the gnome thing

golden totem
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I would say nerfs coming next week for ansurek?

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not this one

formal helm
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What's up with gnome thing?

alpine wraith
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next week unlikely actually

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as the 3% dmg and heal drops

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maybe they want to see how it pans out

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with that one

pliant topaz
alpine wraith
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maybe with anniversary

hazy breach
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But 400+ pulls is still probably a bit higher than they want it

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And thats for good guilds

pliant topaz
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imagine oure one of the 1000+ guilds

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its like pls god just get me out

golden totem
alpine wraith
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back to my boi KJ

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good times

spice matrix
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@clever delta did you just get kicked from this raid PEPW

alpine wraith
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riot

spice matrix
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imposter maybe

hollow patio
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!up

old socket
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale lagoon
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8 delves a week since season launch and nothing so fara

shrewd lantern
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Well you need to get a map

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then hope the item from it is the knife

brave escarp
vale lagoon
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and nothing

alpine wraith
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damn i've gotten 1

vale lagoon
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it's pretty unfortunate

alpine wraith
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but im lazy do to the bountifuls everyday

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i only do keys i get

vale lagoon
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well i got an avoidance heroic glove right at the start

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turned that into set

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and then never got another upgrade from that again

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!bug

wicked joltBOT
shrewd lantern
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replaced my map gear

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except my dh has two hero weps from it

vale lagoon
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hmm where's the other bug list tho

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the one that's separated by ds/trickster/baseline sub

vale lagoon
barren plume
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during queen heroic are we holding blades/flag during the second phase with the adds and shit? just a dance sod

lethal gale
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So you flag/blades the shield on p1 then send a solo flag on platforms then flag/blades immediately on p3

barren plume
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can we cloak the p1 shield web suck thingy?

lethal gale
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No and cds should line up to send after first pull

obsidian garnet
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playing deathstalker sub, do you play for double CB in your opener with sectech?

hard ember
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but if you step the boss during the drag you null the mech

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like while the drag is happening and your character is being pulled

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the passive suck you can't stop*

tribal blade
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i know you can step other players and it works

tribal blade
short radish
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i think theres enough input delay/lag or something

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that you have to run

tribal blade
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i play with ~200ms anyways

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there's no way i can stay in melee and get around it

barren plume
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how the fuck do i do the intermission phases for these damn fights im so bad

short radish
charred sandal
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As trickster u do sectec 1st finisher?

trail crest
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do we have any information on what feint works in the raid?

lucid jackal
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Bro this spec is worthless on queen OMEGALUL

tribal blade
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i just found out something hilarious

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my guild is upset we're slipping behind in server ranking

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when they decided after killing rashanan to take a break until ovinax was nerfed

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so we didn't start progging her until the nerfs went out

short radish
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πŸ’

tribal blade
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doesn't impact me in any way because i don't care about rankings

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just just funny

short radish
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tbh as well i dont think your guild is the only one to be like that

tribal blade
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i didn't mind taking a break

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but surely they could have known if you take your foot off the gas you start to fall behind

wooden kernel
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can yall drop transmitter wa pls

short radish
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!transmitter

wicked joltBOT
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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

short radish
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oh

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nvm go search on wago

lucid jackal
hard ember
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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

tribal blade
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the only boss that's happened to me is sikran, whenever the last charge person would drop their image right on the edge

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and i fell off 1 time stepping to the boss immediately

hard ember
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like you're not really gonna do much there anyway cuz stuff has such low hp etc

sinful sluice
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is it normal that I struggle to record logs on raids as sub

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my alt survival hunter gets 80~90 just pressing buttons and my main sub is still stuck on 60s

oak idol
tribal blade
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if anything we could have just started to get reps in and fix addons

oak idol
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Funny as that they're complaining about falling behind after not raiding

pliant topaz
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
barren plume
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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

placid jacinth
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Off topic from the raid. In dungeons am I supposed to use trickster or death stalker?

willow bobcat
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I found that rerolling entirely was the best option for sub in dungeons

placid jacinth
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So you just raid with yours?

willow bobcat
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That was the plan

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but enhancement is really fun, so I'm basically just waiting for sub fixes at this point

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I'm also bad at the game though

willow bobcat
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so I wouldn't listen to me

short radish
placid jacinth
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I’m only gear score of like 580 right now

short radish
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i'm also suffering from the same

placid jacinth
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I have always been the player not to play the meta builds either. That’s why I’m sub and not assassin

oak idol
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Im outlaw too because its more fun

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But sin is so broken

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Sub is really fun too when you get the hang of it

short radish
oak idol
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However deathstalker is slightly behind due to bugs

placid jacinth
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That’s what I thought about with death stalker

oak idol
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Tbh deathstalker looks easier though just because you dont need to use shadowdust

short radish
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you do 300% more work to get 70% of its damage and 20% of it's control

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math just aint there chief

oak idol
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Sub would be so much better without the bugs

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feel bad for you guys

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at least the other specs have manageable bugs

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Like outlaw bugs are pretty easy to manage

placid jacinth
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Outlaw seems pretty fun too. It’s just weird that the builds I find don’t use killing spree anymore

short radish
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there are killing spree builds

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its the highest simming ones iirc

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everyone just doesnt like using KS

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so they dont

placid jacinth
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Ahh okay. I heard they nerved outlaw I’m not too sure though

oak idol
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used to be i believe

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its also dog shit to play

short radish
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yes but the important thing is to have fun

empty plume
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I honestly can't believe how many people meta slave or suggest meta slaving

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like... y'all are sad for a few reasons

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1st and foremost being that you probably are not playing the game at the highest level, where meta slaving is worthwhile/mandatory

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so you are just having less fun to do more damage for now - the 2nd reason is that retail actually has class balancing changes

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anyone who dabbled in the whole classic rerelease chain understands that people play classes with no hope of ever being buffed

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like literally no changes, no fixes for shit classes

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at least if you play sub in retail they might have their hayday in season 2

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like you could pick your favorite, get good at it, and be strong when they're prime (see frost dk right now)

oak idol
empty plume
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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

oak idol
empty plume
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You as a joke, the other guy serious, 50 other cases in the past 24hrs

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more a rant than an attack on you

oak idol
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Okay thats fair enough

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I can understand where youre coming from

empty plume
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It's just the running meme, really

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I guess if you all bitch enough I might benefit from the buffs

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from one perspective

oak idol
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Haha you know how the rogue discord works

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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

empty plume
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yeah... Rogue is just a 3x dps spec

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so they directly compete with each other

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2024 optimization in gaming

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only one can survive really

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unless they have really distinct niches, separating single target, low-mobcount cleave, and true aoe

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each spec kinda does all of those OK

willow bobcat
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There's a difference between metalsave and what feels fun to play

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Sub just feels bad in dungeons compared to other things

oak idol
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Everyone has their own preference

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And I can completely understand loving sub in keys

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Even if its not for everyone

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Like I had a buddy tell me he hates playing outlaw rogue and loves sin

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Its completely understandable

empty plume
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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

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that's just their Love Language

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sub can do 1m+ overall in a key which will get it done for most people

wanton bronze
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i love sub in keys

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i delete a pack and all i hear is "oh look boots finally decided to press his cooldowns"

oak idol
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Pov fury warrior ^

latent fog
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game is significantly more playable historically when you play what's good

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balance just closer than it's ever been

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since df

short radish
# empty plume I honestly can't believe how many people meta slave or suggest meta slaving

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

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thank you for coming to my ted talk

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normally i'm on the side of "play whatever you want as well, all content is achievable with all specs"

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but at the same time i'd rather tell someone to cut their steak with a knife than a spoon

empty plume
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ye respect

short radish
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if someone actually comes with questions specific to sub rotation then yeah sure I'd give a better answer that actually responds to it

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but the question was "what hero talents do i play in dungeons"

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which is so basic

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may as well tell them there's a better option that they might not have considered

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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

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is there a numbers tuning that could fix it? probably

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it's sorta like - numbers feel bad so things that felt bad in the rotation feels even worse

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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

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i still don't understand the love for trickster

wind canopy
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I love specs with so many dead or narrow talents Smile

short radish
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it's just outlaw/assi2.0

pliant topaz
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale lagoon
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not trying to start shit

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but I feel like it's a bit disingenuous to say that DS in aoe would feel better if it just had "moar damage"

short radish
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i come from the minority of enjoying SS -> black powder

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so if i can do that

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with bigger numbers

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my neurons are activated

vale lagoon
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i enjoyed it too

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but the marking mechanic, not so much

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esp trying to always consume DN ASAP for maximum dmg

short radish
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yeah that part is a bit of a pain

vale lagoon
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is super stressful imo

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maybe just skill issue idk

short radish
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it partially is

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but that's also why i hate it kek

vale lagoon
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meanwhile trickster is just

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faceroll ur single target rotation

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and a passive node automatically turns it aoe for u

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and the coup/fazed intereaction just makes sense

short radish
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it makes sense but at the same time

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fuck pressing backstab in single target

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it is the worst feeling in the world

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with 5 mobs up

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you are pressing your single target generator

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and then waiting for energy

vale lagoon
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even if it sucks that it makes sectech a buff applier instead of JUST ur biggest hit

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wait

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i dont think ur backstabbing tho

short radish
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you are

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if you dont have buff

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and you are out of dance

vale lagoon
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OH

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i see

barren plume
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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

vale lagoon
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then yeah

short radish
vale lagoon
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USUALLY though

short radish
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it's not common

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but it happens enough that i fucking hate it

vale lagoon
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u throw out one backstab and it's enough to let u go back to ss - evisc

barren plume
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Not always

short radish
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^

vale lagoon
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i think it's acceptable

barren plume
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There’s a 10 second window where you’d have to cast sec tec to proc it

short radish
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i don't think it's acceptable

vale lagoon
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i just rly dislike how so much of the aoe stuff in ds

short radish
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trickster sub is essentially outlaw rogue/assi

vale lagoon
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is tied to the single target mark

short radish
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they have perma uptime on their cleave

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why the fuck does sub have to do this jank generator shit

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i half get it, but i also think it's stupid

vale lagoon
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i think historically we've had issues with 2/3 target fights

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i just remember 2 boss fights being SOOO bad

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for so long

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and this sorta fixes it

short radish
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oh yeah it was terrible

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our cleave on 2t fights was rupture

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3 target also was pretty shit

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because our cleave was 3rd rupture

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and whatever sectech did

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it does fix it

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but like it could still be better

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it just loops back to sub doing 200% the effort for 80% of the damage

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while also praying for procs

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assi is just

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press bleeds and then lol do caustic splatter

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outlaw is just do single target rotation because you always have blade flurry

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sub trickster is do single target rotation but also you gotta hope you get procs

vale lagoon
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oh man i think outlaw has it worse than us on the rng front lol

short radish
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i can't comment too much on outlaw since i only played it for a few weeks at the start of the tier

fair stump
short radish
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i know it has its issues as well

vale lagoon
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but yeah ig im just happy enough that im not living the tomb of sargeras 2nd boss experience

short radish
vale lagoon
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i still remember doing 2 target fight

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as dfa sub

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sucked so much

short radish
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actually DS is pretty straight forward but i havent tried it in keys yet

vale lagoon
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:(((

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oh DS feels so horrible in keys

short radish
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i really enjoy DS in raid tbh

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on ST fights

vale lagoon
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for sure

short radish
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it feels like it flows well

vale lagoon
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it's a no brainer

short radish
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yeah

vale lagoon
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but like

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idk

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in aoe ur scrambling to use mark always

fair stump
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Do we use both charges of SD during opener?

vale lagoon
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and trying to hit 7 CP outside of blades window feels really bad

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so when ur just sending a normal dance + symbols, you get what

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2 BP casts in the dance window

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and u just wonder if it's really even worth it

short radish
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lmao yeah

vale lagoon
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but also also

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on a lot of bosses it's kinda meh

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when it's heavy movement

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idk

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the auto attack thingy

short radish
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true

vale lagoon
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loses a lot of uptime

short radish
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sub feels like budget outlaw a bit

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punished by downtime

vale lagoon
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trickster just feels a lot better in general

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it's bursty right

fair stump
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eh...

vale lagoon
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as opposed to getting like another 5% of their damage from white attacks

fair stump
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Kinda?

vale lagoon
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so movement doesn't hurt it quite as much

fair stump
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Sub in general isn't as bursty as it used to be

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Envenoms are dealing more burst than eviscerate can ever do

vale lagoon
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i pull about 1.3 ~ 1.4 million dps as trickster

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and as DS

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just 1.1

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and it's such a shame bcuz i rly like the idea of having dark brew buffing all my DS magic damage procs

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:(((

hazy breach
fair stump
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Is evisc dealing more dmg than envenom atm?

hazy breach
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On average its about the same, but during burst eviscerate is higher

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Eviscerate is just split into multiple hits

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So it doesnt look as high

barren plume
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Which is dumb

fair stump
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oh, due to the shadow dmg

hazy breach
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Ye and blades

fair stump
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that explains things

sick jackal
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Do we cast more evis than assa casting envenom?

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Overall leta say like a 5 min fight

fair stump
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I'd say so

hazy breach
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Iirc yes but not a lot

fair stump
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hey, I found Eleem parse on princess

hazy breach
fair stump
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Around 20 ish casts difference on that fight on top parsers

sick jackal
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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

short radish
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you are right

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they are less valuable

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when not in dance

vale lagoon
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i feel like they're just not valuable period lol

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it's all about sectech now

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but even that is cheapened bcuz ur doing it twice during flag

barren plume
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Typically is 2 whetstones better than 1 stone 1 wax? I tried the sim thing but I’m too boomer to figure it out

golden totem
rugged condor
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Are there any early data showing how sub will perform with the shadowdust removal?

hazy breach
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About the same numerically from initial impressions

vale pine
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but early looks its about exactly the same output

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hero talents might be more restrictive

hazy breach
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Idk im not liking what im seeing when trying to test stuff

vale pine
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yes

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same

hazy breach
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Unless your literal first gcd of your first dance during cds is sectech

vale pine
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armin shared me his sim

hazy breach
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You cannot fit 2 sectechs into your cds