#subtlety

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tepid trellis
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shadowed finishers + nimble makes a fucked up cocktail

ornate current
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Someone said this a long time ago just gonna quote it "Ninjas ruined this spec"

hard ember
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sectec is fine madgeSit

ornate current
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Can we just go back to armour reducing non shadow bs

hard ember
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is FW working on it?

tribal blade
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i'd like to see evis and BP turned into purely shadow damage

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why not

haughty mural
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yesyesyes

hazy breach
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Lets assume fw is up on all targets and no fazed for the comparison:
Your eviscerate does 100 damage before armor, 50% of that will cleave.
So to your main target it will do 100*0.77= 77 physical
It will cleave 100 x 0.5 x 0.77= 38.5 physical

To your main target it will do 30 shadow damage (assuming no VT/DD/DB)
And because nimble is physical it will cleave 30 x 0.5 x 0.77 = 11.55

hard ember
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ah

ornate current
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Makse sense since nimble isnt a finisher it just takes all the dmg and 50% converts to physical

hard ember
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i feel dumb that i've never thought about armor for this but does blade flurry work the same way

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for outlaw

vale pine
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i think nimble flurry damage should be shadow

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problem sovled

ornate current
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If we went the Shadow dmg fantasy since legion than keep it up

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Why even make it physical

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Guess cuz outlaw shares the hero talent?

tribal blade
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iirc for outlaw it just increases BF damage

ornate current
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Wouldn't make much sense for them spec fantasy wise

vale pine
tribal blade
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something like +15% bladeflurry damage or something like that

short radish
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yeah

vale pine
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even worse

hard ember
vale pine
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11.0.5 increases blade flurry damage

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*range

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while it does not for nimble

ornate current
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Ok than just make it shadow for sub

hard ember
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LOL

vale pine
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which seems like a oversight

hard ember
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NO WAY

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is it like a second on-hit

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that's a separate dmg event

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or something like that

ornate current
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For outlaw it would have made MUCH more sense to make nimble increase the target cap of bladflurry by another 5~7 targets

vale pine
upper narwhal
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for some reason Nimble on Sub hits a second time based off post-mitigation damage and gets mitigated again

ornate current
# vale pine

They just don't wanna admit that all 3 specs have bladeflurry

vale pine
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well assassiantions cleave works diffrently

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but i am rly surprised why nimble isn't shadow

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it would make sense for subtlety

upper narwhal
ornate current
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It aint

ornate current
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Isnt spatter caped

upper narwhal
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"soft" capped

hard ember
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5t sqrt

hazy breach
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Soft capped at 5

ornate current
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Yea

hazy breach
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Which is worse than hard capped at 8 in most situations

upper narwhal
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watching warriors pretend thie class is ruined going to soft cap at 5 is silly tho

hard ember
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taht's how i explain it to my tanks/to my guildies etc, "mutilate in aoe flurries my poison dmg"

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sure it's not exactly like that but effectively that's what it does yeah

upper narwhal
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yeah but it opens them up for singletarget buffs

hazy breach
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Its like -20% dmg to those abilities in aoe

vale pine
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subtlety has BP which should hit noticably harder

upper narwhal
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Fury has the Outlaw problem

ornate current
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I find nimble fun for sub since sub has the best ST rotation but the way ita just a hard copy of actual BF is kinda lazy and 0 imagination

vale pine
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so nimble is for sub only a in between

ornate current
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At least the assa one is kinda diff

wispy pebble
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Biggest nerf for warri was Add dmg being remnoved from logs lmao

ornate current
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Its still bf but it has a cooler designe

hazy breach
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At 13 targets soft capped at 5 is better than hardcapped at 8 btw

hard ember
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like if sectec cast would have like started a flurry window or something

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but as it is, it's just always on

upper narwhal
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yeah I was not expecting the uptime on the buff to be this high when I 1st read the tree

wispy pebble
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Btw hero talents being linked to non baseline talents is absolute disgusting design

short radish
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i dont understand why sub needs to jump through so many hoops

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just to get bflurry up

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it's the actual theme of sub holy shit

hazy breach
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What

short radish
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having to prayge for proc

ornate current
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Imagine if every stack of nimble was likea bomb that ticks cleve dmg based on the ST dmg you do and it speeds up its detonation the more dmg you pump into it, finally exploding and doing accumulative dmg to all mobs, kinda like tristana bomb from league if anyone knows what im talking about

short radish
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or keep spamming it until you do

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instead of pressing the button once

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to activate

wispy pebble
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tbh sectec forces prog its not that bad

ornate current
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It's still bf but much more imaginative

vale pine
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nimble has a high uptime

upper narwhal
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not being able to track resets on backstab activations can be annoying

vale pine
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so not rly that big of a deal

hard ember
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yeah imo the uptime is too high

wispy pebble
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what i dislike is that i cant track the cooldown of hidden blade

short radish
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is it too high?

hard ember
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I would have preferred it to be more powerful and to be limited

short radish
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if its not 100%

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i think thats too low

hard ember
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yeah that's also true

hazy breach
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Wouldnt surprise me if the backstab activation thing isnt even worth it anymore after the bp buffs

upper narwhal
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probably not worth fishing

hazy breach
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It was like 0.4% before

hard ember
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like either it should be 100% or it should be like tied to some cd and reflect that in terms of dmg probably

wispy pebble
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i dont fish anymore i just bp until 2 targets left then i backstab evis again

hard ember
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it feels more natural that way, even if it's a loss

wispy pebble
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tbh i think storm -> bp feels meh. I always energy starve

hard ember
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well that depends on target count yeha

ornate current
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Remember when backstab wasnt a wet noodle

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I member

hard ember
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i do find myself missing seal fate

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like unless i'm completely tripping we had it for a portion of dragonflight iirc

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i think it was where vigor is now or something

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or roundabouts that area?

short radish
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i cant remember when we lost it

hazy breach
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I think seal fate is better of as an assa exclusive talent, but ye we had it for a bit

haughty mural
hard ember
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yeh i think it's better assa exclusive

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i just wish that like, 2-3t didn't feel so anemic

short radish
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i wish for a lot of things 😦

random hare
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OK

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!

raw wadi
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!up

fleet maple
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
sinful sluice
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for the ST of dark brew build, do we always evis on full combo points? (for deathstalker mark)

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I feel like i have to use way too much backstab to get full combo points which takes so much energy

hazy breach
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If you have darkest night you need to get to 7 cp yes

sinful sluice
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im lv 626 and can barely get 800k single target dmg on boss.. this should be normal right?

fallow nimbus
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Storm should proc hidden blade and we would never worry about bs in aoe again

fallow nimbus
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It costs 45 energy, as much as strike, and is our aoe builder

lilac stag
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Just let backstab die already.

keen dome
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Every day I wish for Backstab to be gone.

fallow nimbus
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Gb is right there

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Why not baseline?

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Like you start with bs then evolve it to gloomblade

ornate current
keen dome
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You could do something very fun with BS for PvP, too.

steel zinc
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale lagoon
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is it possible for us to look at like

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target dummy logs or something lol

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been messing with DS on the 5 target dummy and im just casually 300k dps behind my sim

hazy breach
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Ye dont be in dornogal or valdrakken

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And its gonna match up better Surebud

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For some reason theres some open world jankiness that makes some spells do less (like nimble or shadow blades)

vale lagoon
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WHAT THE FUCK

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HUH???

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WHAT

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how does that even work man

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doing different dmg in different places

fallow nimbus
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Nobody knows, not even blizz

hazy breach
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So ive been kinda lying because i was a silly goose and tested stuff like nimble on those dummies+some mobs outside to confirm it wasnt just dummies

vale lagoon
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ngl tho i feel like im not doing that much dmg even in keys

hazy breach
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But ye nimble is 50% in dungeons

vale lagoon
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OOOOH

hazy breach
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Not 40%, thats only on certain dummies and in the open world

fallow nimbus
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Mobs have extra armor, we do less dmg, the aliens did it, choose yourself

vale lagoon
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jesus christ

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but again, even in dungeons

hazy breach
vale lagoon
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giant pulls with like 20 mobs

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im doing 5 million dps with trickster and 5 million with DS

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and i feel like that CAN'T be right

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and i dont think im playing DS wrong right, like prioritizing DN unless im about to sectech, im facerolling bp at 6 cp

fallow nimbus
vale lagoon
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i have deadly momentum and not follow the bug

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idk

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is it literally just tornado gap?

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like DS will do the same big aoe as trickster

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unless i drop inev + wm and get tornado?

young path
vale pine
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flawless form does not work on nimble

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*fazed

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thats the bug

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and its just complicated

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because find weakness and fazed exists

young path
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so all that "use the advanced code" stuff when simming we don't do then when dungeon slice simming trickster?

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cause my trickster sims pull ahead of deathstalker, thats for sure

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(and honestly plays 1 billion times more fluid)

vale lagoon
young path
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well, haven't simmed in over a week, but lemme take a look, will share results

vale lagoon
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LUL

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yeah my ds sim is like

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5% ahead of my trickster sim or something

vale lagoon
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nvmnd

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the wowhead m+ build is 8% behind ds db

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lmao

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im so done with sims

plush roost
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Hehe how could you kekdog

lilac stag
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The good news is there’s only like 40 people or less that are affected by this.

plush roost
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How do I cope with my BBH log being less than I want though

lilac stag
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Eat a snickers?

plush roost
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Hmmm

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Maybe a Mars instead

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Not much for peanuts

olive mural
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Seems I've picked a great time to try and get updated info on my sub alt that I haven't played in months

vale lagoon
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i still wanna know why im doing 0 dmg with DS in keys man

cursive vapor
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
vale lagoon
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like the sim tells me i should be doing 8% more than my trickster sims

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that'd be like viable dps

vale lagoon
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not nearly on sin's level but mayb just a bit below ret

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instead of abysmal 1.3 million overall in a +11

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and it's just not there even on the huge pulls

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i dont get it

lilac stag
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strap it in, about to witness a meltdown. concernedpopcorn

vale lagoon
plush roost
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Could be a lot of things, spreading ruptures correctly, using DN correctly, ensuring you have FW up in big packs for BP value

olive mural
young path
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well, DS simming higher now... I literally linked sims from a week ago comparing my trickster vs DS builds on dungeon slice showing trickster winning... Got told i was wrong and have to run some 40% advanced script, then DS won...

At this point, I've lost all confidence in any accuracy of the sims and will use my in-game performance details meters which almost always has DS losing in keys

vale lagoon
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like how is me facerolling BP over and over with FW everywhere

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the same dmg as cleaving 5 targets only

vale pine
lilac stag
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Fun fact. Dslice (and sims) are not perfect. They are an effort to recreate something that has many variables. Typically dslice is great for gear choices and talent decisions.

With how krangled sub cds, cdr and gameplay is currently it’s not out of the realm of possibility that optimum talent choices maybe extremely difficult to generate via dslice.

vale pine
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i think

vale pine
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just a matter of opinion

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but a big diffrence in a fight style

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like

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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
olive mural
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What's the verdict for Tuesdays updates?

vale pine
lilac stag
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you’re also taking one or two instance of details vs 5000

vale pine
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^ is fairly obviouse that one of the specs might be a bit undertuned

olive mural
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Good for sub? Seems overall good for rogue

vale pine
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or that there is a problem with the fight style

lilac stag
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Shit @vale pine

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Whoops

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Shit @olive mural

vale pine
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XD

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💩

olive mural
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Rip

lilac stag
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You snuck in and I fat fingered.

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Haha

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Happy Saturday.

vale pine
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subtlety is not bad or terrible

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it gets a marginal buff in 11.0.5

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still behind sin in m+

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also because sin is honestly just overtuned

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and sub possibly undertuned

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but fear not

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i discovered the pinacle of gameplay for sub

opaque marten
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in raid will do better than now?

vale pine
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find weakness waving seems to be a thing

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at least on 2 targets

vestal escarp
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uncertain if sin is overtuned, there are a couple of specs that can easily surpass it in overall

keen dome
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oh no

vale lagoon
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wow

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insane numbers

vale pine
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also only on trickster

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its 0.8 iirc after some other changes

vale lagoon
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wtf is fw waving

vale pine
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even

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waving is a other word for tab targeting

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means

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you keep find weakness up on multiple targets

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because its only worth on 2

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in any situation you play trickster and have 2 targets

vale lagoon
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o that's 2 target patchwerk sim?

vale pine
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its a small optimization, so nothing to do by default

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yes

vale lagoon
vale pine
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trickster is quite a bit better on 2 targets

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🙈

lilac stag
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Please delete this.

plush roost
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On 2 target its not a big deal, even 3. Tab targetting FW at 4+ targets is cursed tho

vale pine
plush roost
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LOL

olive mural
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Tab targeting on that many targets generally sucks lol

vale pine
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you are correct, i should post the correct (up to date) result and not the one i run earlier

plush roost
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This is why Im playing sin rn smh

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On my knees in a walmart

vale pine
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i mean, we still work on the sim

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so take anything with a grain of salt in terms of optimizations

plush roost
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Yeah I'm just shitposting ngl

vale pine
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we always find some nice edge cases

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and if you follow the chat you have the burdon of knowlage

hazy breach
plush roost
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Lambos and knowledge

vale lagoon
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even if it's REALLY rough

hazy breach
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4

vale lagoon
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👍

plush roost
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Plays worse does more basically

hazy breach
ornate current
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yea and how much did sin get ???

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6

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lmao

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what a joke

hazy breach
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Enhancement got like 25%

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so

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Theyre gonna hotfix stuff right after release anyway

vale lagoon
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yeah so im going to kms soon

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or worse

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swap OL

olive mural
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Fdk is getting like 7-8% st with the deathbringer changes

vale lagoon
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can blizzard just send out their employees to actually shoot us sub players in our homes already

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bcuz at this point that seems like what they WANT to do

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and they're just being phony and disingenuous

hazy breach
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Idk people overreact too much, raid balance is good right now

vestal escarp
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enha already ahead of everything with fdk

hazy breach
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And it almost always is

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DK st isnt amazing, its very mid

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Theyre cleave is what makes em good in m+

vale lagoon
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...but raid isn't even the main mode anymore

olive mural
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Fdk st is terrible

vale lagoon
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it's to fill out specific slots like trinkets

vestal escarp
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i meant m+

vale lagoon
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and they're hard failing M+ balancing

olive mural
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Its strength is in cleave and aoe

hazy breach
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Thats kinda the definition of mid innit

olive mural
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Tends toward lower and I think that's because kyveza has a bunch of stuff to feed rp through ams

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Was just looking through wcl data

vestal escarp
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timers for kyveza might just be nasty, first dashes are mid pillar

olive mural
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You mean Sikran? That fight is ass with the movement

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Kyveza is nicer

ornate current
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oh wait

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we dont have to imagine it

topaz egret
wild vine
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a friend mentioned he had an unholy with 2.6m overall on a stonevault without aug

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but duh stonevault ig

olive mural
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Unholy needs big pulls to excel

wild vine
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yeah but thats kinda what people are doing whenever possible

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I kinda hope they go for some buffs instead of nerfs this time around tho

fair stump
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Isn't enh topping the raid charts?

hazy breach
vestal escarp
topaz egret
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wät

vestal escarp
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enha fdk boomie

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you play with enha

topaz egret
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no class does even close damage to assa from my experience

hazy breach
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Even if you lose overall by a slight amount, the prio assa does is insane

pliant topaz
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i dont think its posssible to lose overall as assa eleem

tepid trellis
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in higher keys prolly not

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only thing i could see be slightly up there would be Fdk / enhance

pliant topaz
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the only thing stopping assa from turbo gapping others is keys not being high enough

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its litearlly spriest in s4

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once keys get high eough you cant even get close to it

timber nimbus
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
pliant topaz
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the only time i feel gapped as assa is in pure pure single target fights vs an arcane mage

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and even then if i get a good kill timer im chilling

vale pine
wild vine
hard wren
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how much better is sub next patch ST and AOE?

strange chasm
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Yeah I've very rarely been beaten as sin in a key on the overall

hazy breach
wild vine
hard wren
hazy breach
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Definitely not

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Nothing is kek

hard wren
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does ass get more benefit than others from aug?

hazy breach
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Not really

hard wren
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like BM gets a lot from PI

hazy breach
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Well PI is haste

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aug is mostly just +dmg

hard wren
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guess the fly thing goes well with deathmark

hazy breach
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Aug doesnt really matter though

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Like youre not playing something because its better or worse with aug

hard wren
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I see

hazy breach
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Theres tons of top keys without aug

hard wren
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is there m+ achievement for +15 right now?

hazy breach
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No

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Rewards stop after 10

vale lagoon
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man i dunno wtf im doing wrong

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ret is still a middle of the pack spec right

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im 625 ilvl, i should be doing more in overall no?

edgy zenith
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ret is OP as fuck in keys

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you won't beat a ret in overall ever if the ret has a brain (impossible challenge)

jaunty heath
vale lagoon
edgy zenith
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i mean, what key was that?

lilac stag
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you can't beat tuning

edgy zenith
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yeah, just pick assa do double everyone else while also having never played the spec before

pliant topaz
lilac stag
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legit not saying it to be cute or edgy. I'd love to be playing sub right now and not feel like I'm an inting asshole

vale lagoon
edgy zenith
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looks about right for an overall

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Sub just sucks bud

vale lagoon
vale lagoon
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are they just doing that with this dps?

vestal escarp
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Third wheeling most likely

hoary lotus
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Just wait next week

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Sub stonks rising

keen dome
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We'll hit so hard the boss will explode.

pliant topaz
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bro thinks hes a shaman

keen dome
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explode

pliant topaz
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this goes hard

violet torrent
lilac stag
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ain’t no way I’d pug keys as sub. If you can orchestrate pulls probably in better shape but shit is rough.

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assa just slaps which makes it even more inting

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and you’re losing whatever extra defensiveness you had as sub in a few days.

timber breach
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I must have missed something. It feels like sub was doing well in raids and has since fallen off. Sin seems to have gained a lot of ground looking at the heroic raid dps parses

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was there some tuning buff that I missed?

violet torrent
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Probably just time and gearing

jaunty heath
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the bosses that majority of playerbase get to

edgy zenith
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Sin got a ST buff, Sub didn't.

bronze turret
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Didnt sub get a minor dps increase from the changes?

pliant topaz
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u mean 0.5?

alpine wraith
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yea something like 3 to 4%

lilac stag
alpine wraith
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but the changes are a bit a loss on some bosses

old socket
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale lagoon
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worst part is, that pali is my bro lol

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it's 2 of us against the world and im falling further and further behind every reset

pliant ledge
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is deathstalker worse numerically in m+?

jaunty heath
alpine wraith
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nice

vale lagoon
sly shore
jaunty heath
vale lagoon
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and i can't help but feel like this is bullshit lol

jaunty heath
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boss dam doe

strange chasm
sly shore
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ur loot basically the same as what we got

jaunty heath
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yes

alpine wraith
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you need to next week

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anyway

strange chasm
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Why next week?

alpine wraith
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no double vanish

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rn you can vanish cloak vanish vanish

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you lose some p2 dmg

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but it is whatever

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after patch it is donezo

sly shore
strange chasm
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With the sin buffs

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Ima just be playing sin

alpine wraith
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that too

alpine wraith
jaunty heath
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yea hopefully the roots are fixed when i we rekill in 1month+

alpine wraith
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or just sit last one kekw

sly shore
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you get benched or go gnome (you go gnome)

alpine wraith
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pray to alla

jaunty heath
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there were like one or two

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non rogue kills no?

strange chasm
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We get another 2% buff next week or the week thereafter

jaunty heath
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for queen

sly shore
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ours had no rogue

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I was benched

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😄

alpine wraith
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yea some had none

jaunty heath
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L

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idk

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i dont think its that bad

sly shore
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3 minutes faster than you PepeLaffA

jaunty heath
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yea

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its fine anyway

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my last best was like 109 wrank

sly shore
drowsy stone
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So sub is effectively dead in 11.0.5?

alpine wraith
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not really the standing wont change much just more annoying to play

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oh and way more squishy

pliant ledge
sly shore
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It's an achievement

alpine wraith
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yea they try their hardest

lilac stag
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They’re only putting attention to assa while throwing random shit at sub. One of the dagger specs works. Good enough for the 2nd to last played class.

alpine wraith
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think rogue is only ahead of evoker because you can have more than 1

pliant ledge
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isnt realz around these days to give an explanation?

alpine wraith
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he came here when death's perception was revealed

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we indicated it was too weak and needed more

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so now you get some % extra dam

pliant ledge
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so basically, no

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I dont know, rogue changes make 0 sense

alpine wraith
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rogue changes make sense

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they want you to play sin

pliant ledge
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This is something that i will never get

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why blizzard plays favorites in terms of specs

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why is feral so neglected

pliant topaz
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like u really thought about it and came to the conclusion they dont make sense?

pliant ledge
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and theres more

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like there are constantly SO MANY bugs

pliant topaz
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so when they removed acro and ALL other range increasing abilities that was a rogue only thing?

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or like, rogues the only class thats buggy?

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have you seeen the 11.0.5 enhancement interactions?

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like, im as unhappy with the dev team as anyone here

pliant ledge
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im not saying that only rogue changes dont make sense, a lot of changes dont make sense

pliant topaz
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but like, the changes made sense why they were made

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its just that they didnt spend any time fixing the spec once the changes were made

pliant ledge
#

fine, still plenty of reasons to complain

clever delta
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im just reading tc post by eleem and i got the feeling im not playing sub this tier again

alpine wraith
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as for the no ned to min max before boss pull

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you can still SoD at 20 pull timer for 2 rotten charges

clever delta
#

i find it hilarious how they make already chill spec more chill and the one more "complex" fucking dogshit 😄

alpine wraith
#

well as you get used to it not a huge change

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the surv hit you notice fast tho

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soothing was kinda good

clever delta
#

look very cursed on paper

alpine wraith
#

this is a random nexus princess kill i looked for

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losing 10m healing

clever delta
#

yeah idk our hps is so low dat it barely matter i think

alpine wraith
#

you notice it

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play on ptr a bit vs tank dummy

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and then on live

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you die like 1 or 2 mins earlier

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also idk why this guy had no exil execution but maybe 8% healing was big for him

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this is one with exil

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either way we lose like 20k+ hps

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thanos snapped

clever delta
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
toxic knoll
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Will DS be better in m+ after anniversary patch or trickster Will come back?

alpine wraith
#

trickster dead

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10%+ behind

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unluck

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also coup has weird bugs with charger

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havent confirmed all of them

vale pine
#

trickster is not dead

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its more like 3% between the two

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or 4

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but deathstalker still benefits from the ds mark bug in sims

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so they are even closer

alpine wraith
#

really when i put it on the situations you would use trickster for

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it got rinsed

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dont need to do much just hit the 5 by 5 dummies a bit on dorn in ptr

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or the 3 by 3

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trickster should be better on 2 targets tho

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one thing is true DS is still annoying to play

vale pine
#

the other ones are buggy

alpine wraith
#

damn now even dummies are bugged

vale pine
#

thats actually nothing new

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we had this problem in bfa and sl with dummies

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just means we might draw wrong conclusions if we don't use the main city dummies

tight bison
#

Hello peeps!
I am going to start Mythic Progging and i can choose between Sub Rogue and Feral Druid. Got and tips what to do? I am REALLY torn..

vale pine
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practice

willow shadow
#

at this moment sub is pretty weak

tight bison
#

Ye Ofc… But what are the benefits of Sub? Sin? Na, not my jam

lilac stag
#

Sub dps is mid at best. Assa is top boss dmg.

tight bison
#

Ye But its not as fun 🙂

alpine wraith
#

sub is a little more durable than assa

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but not for long

lilac stag
#

If you only care about fun no one in here can help you

alpine wraith
#

so enjoy it while it lasts

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you have 3 to 4 days

tight bison
#

And Sub is getting buffed on the 20 anniversary right?

lilac stag
#

Fun is subjective.

alpine wraith
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well it will do some more damage if played correctly

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but playing it is a bit more complicated

tight bison
#

Ok so play better = do better xD like it should

willow shadow
#

honestly i have been playing feral recently, and its funny as hell to play, imo

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the druid of the claw hero talents are awesome, not very strong but i have been having a good time running keys

tight bison
tight bison
vale pine
willow shadow
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in my opinion

hazy breach
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Its just 1 naked symbols every rotation

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Except the first after opener

vale pine
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i do like sub

abstract skiff
#

i think it plays fine as it is now except for the flurry being the opposite of what i wanna do and deathstalker feeling super underwhelming

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oh and coup de grace feeling like youre having a lagspike

vale pine
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trickster is probably the most fun

abstract skiff
#

yeah i think so

vale pine
#

11.0.5 plays a bit diffrent

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some things simpler, others more complicated

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overall still very much the same tho

abstract skiff
#

how is the damage profile

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similar?

willow shadow
#

guys i have a question

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do you still use cold blood only with tech or do u use it also with coup

#

?

pliant topaz
#

sectech

vale lagoon
#

imagine if that realz person somehow comes thru for us against all odds

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and at least patches us up with a 5% aura buff or somehting next reset

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just to make us playable for now

alpine wraith
#

well 5% would help but i dont think many people would be happy with that

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because almost no one "plays" sub

pastel rampart
#

yea i think if ur happy with an aura buff you should just reroll to a meta spec

alpine wraith
#

they just go into it if it is better than assa or outlaw

pastel rampart
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cause ur priority is on dmg over gameplay

clever delta
#

im not happy about sub after dust removal

alpine wraith
#

like we are not happy with these changes

clever delta
#

and i was big sub enjoer

alpine wraith
#

it is a 3% buff or 4% buff to dmg

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but

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that is it

clever delta
#

ijust rarther play assa where its even

alpine wraith
#

we lose agency surv and fun

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and for normal people it is impossible to know

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you want to use x or y bug to do more dps

bleak wind
#

I have a feeling sub will just go back to BFA levels of players

#

that new playstyle looks horrid

alpine wraith
#

likely it is like that on player count but tuning a bit better

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we were 20% behind assa in bfa

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we are now midpack or whatever after the changes

barren wren
#

Guys, do you think it’s worth switching to assa for broodtwister prog ? I have no stats at all…

alpine wraith
#

you will do more dmg likely

strange rover
#

trixter sub might be actually decent in m+ with changes ? thoughts

alpine wraith
#

nope

rough sigil
#

Just tried assassin, why does envenom do over 1m and Eviscerate does almost nothing, I know we spam it, but overlal they can spam env too with multi target, I am confused.

alpine wraith
#

it is worse but hey

abstract skiff
#

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa why am i cleaving as a sub rogue

bleak wind
#

remove dust which was press vanish every 1min 30 which was confusing people apparently to the playstyle of juggling symbols charges with naked symbols and holding symbols Surebud

strange rover
#

is it though pretty high uptime on symbols + supercharged cps kinda benefit most sub out of 3 specs

abstract skiff
#

i hope it plays better than it sounds

glad marten
#

hey guys, haven't really checked in in a long time here but i was curious if anyone thinks sub will be viable in m+, i really enjoyed the gameplay in bfa, shadowlands and DF, but now it feels like way too much effort for little payoff

strange rover
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it is viable rn dependin on range of keys u doing if you are fine with being 3rd on meters

glad marten
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well i swapped to assa then i kinda stopped because im not a huge fan of the playstyle, just got keystone master today on a different char

strange rover
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yeah i hate assa playstyle too but before patch assa is ahead of sub by miles not sure if patch will change something

glad marten
#

yeah, i saw that in m+ this week there were like 6k assa rogues and 27 sub

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i'm not even expecting it to go #1 dps, i just don't want my mid burst top dps to be lower than my assa overall dps

vale lagoon
#

u think they gonna fix how shit dance alone feels in like

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3 days

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fact is they don't care about us so im hoping they at least slap on bandaid on the stab wound

wind canopy
#

@tepid trellis

pliant topaz
hazy breach
#

Idk maybe i should reword the post

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Because i dont think its as confusing as people seem to think

pliant topaz
#

maybe but naked sods could sitll be confusing

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or like "dance if u can fit a sectech in your dance but also sod on darkest night" could be confusing

hazy breach
#

Ye i guess

pliant topaz
#

trickster is quite confusing tbh

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because you also have the <20, >40 rules

#

u have the extra stack rules

bleak wind
#

its definitely more confusing than vanish after blades

pliant topaz
#

but regarding the changes and dust

#

i think its easier to tune the spec without dust

hazy breach
#

And its back to being very confusing

pliant topaz
#

but also, adding the sod charges gives you freedom on when to dance insetead of having to dnace on sod cd

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you can move things around. specially with the new sectech rules

bleak wind
hazy breach
#

Or whenever we get back to having a 2 min trinket

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And we do that all the time

pliant topaz
hazy breach
pliant topaz
#

and u end up with right now. where its really good on heroic, and some mythic fights, and awful on others

hazy breach
#

I agree with you fwiw

jaunty heath
#

Taking out dance cdr would’ve helped more than removing dust I feel

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Im also dumb so i could be very wrong

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But having a button that reduces a flat amount sounds easier to manage than variable cdr

pliant topaz
#

idk depending on the button that reduces the flat dance/sod/sectech cdr it could be very problematic

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and very confusing

bleak wind
#

its also if you get a new player on rogue 90% of them will choose assa or outlaw and will think sub is hard / confusing, and I feel like its gonna be even more confusing without dust

jaunty heath
#

Dunno I meant that being paired with looking at those cds I guess

shrewd lantern
#

Sub has always had cdr

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its just you generate much more nowadays with shadowcraft

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and blades

#

throw a brick at whoever designed the lingering/pv/gloomblade side of the tree

jaunty heath
#

Ye idk the cdr being tied to cp generation and cp generation being pretty different pull to pull is something I had many problems with when I started playing sub

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It gets easier over time for sure

shrewd lantern
#

Like in my eyes sub’s design has gotten problematic

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ever since they started making

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sustained damage talents

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for a burst spec

pliant topaz
#

i do agree that having multiple charges of dance and sod

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and dyanmic cds of dance and sectech

#

and needing to align these

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is very confusing

bleak wind
#

I think they need to do a little bit more for double dance, if anything dust made that feel good to do

pliant topaz
#

like if we didnt have the sims to test things we would never know

shrewd lantern
#

I just want to go back

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to post legion rework sub

#

is that too much to ask for

#

I seriously dont think they thought blades and shadowcraft rework

#

with dance cdr

haughty mural
#

Worked really good before

pliant topaz
#

i dont think it did

vale lagoon
pliant topaz
#

when did u have multiple charges of sod?

vale lagoon
#

multiple charges of dance = having to deal with how many charges to send and when = cancer

haughty mural
#

I mean dance charges

pliant topaz
#

having just multiple ance charges is very very very different

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than multiple dance AND sod

haughty mural
#

That I agree with

pliant topaz
#

like its not even similar in concept

haughty mural
#

That’s why I think the sod charge talent is a horrible bandaid

pliant topaz
#

thast why i disagree though

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i thnk its healthier for the spec to be able to move dance around with more freedom

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than to move flag and blades around

#

i think sod charges create a really unique and interesting (and a bit more complex) playstyle

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specially for trickster

#

my issue is with the placement of the talent

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and the profile it creates

haughty mural
#

Fair point

vale lagoon
#

i think if we ever want to change the situation where ppl bitch about having to learn sub whenever it's at all viable

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making us send everything on cd like OL is the nly way

haughty mural
bleak wind
#

with dust you essentially had double sod with blades/flag and it seems that is what they were trying to do with the sod charges but it just doesn't really work the same way

shrewd lantern
#

i mean they did that in sepulcher

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and i hated playing sub

#

every minute of that

pliant topaz
shrewd lantern
#

legion sub your dance was up roughly every 30

pliant topaz
#

but even with 2 sods, the idea of having multiple sods during cds, but also freedmoe to send your extra dance outside depending on when u want is a good idea

vale lagoon
#

i remember df s1

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ppl were SO salty that sin wasn't hard shitting on sub in keys

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and that sub was even an option

bleak wind
pliant topaz
#

thats just tuning on deepening

#

but also kinda works out well

vale lagoon
#

conspiracy theories are usually cringe but like

pliant topaz
#

because u would need to hold sod anyways

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to pool charges for cds

vale lagoon
#

i rly feel like blizz is purposely keeping us dogshit

#

to appease the bigger playerbase

#

lke there is NO WAY they dont have time to give us a quick aura buff to at least make us not completely worthless

pliant topaz
#

okay but like thats kinda cope tho

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is sub so bad it needs an aura buff here?

#

what about here?

#

its only really bad on mythic and m+

bleak wind
#

holding symbols is the most horrible thing you can do with current sub, you might as well go afk, you do negative damage outside of sod/dance

pliant topaz
#

m+ is kinad design problem / kinda tuning but also they dont really tune for m+

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mythic is hwoever, stuck because sure its the worst spec in the game, but also its doing really well on normal and heroic.

#

and why should they tune for mythic when more players play normal and heroic?

#

and this disparity in performance is caused by dust, which theyre removing

#

so they can tune the spec

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(this is my cope they might just be aasking chat gpt for what to do next i cant know - but this is my thought process if someone was taking logical decision in there)

pliant topaz
wet echo
#

oh god

bleak wind
#

nah, blank symbols is somewhat fine

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holding it though

#

cursed

pliant topaz
#

i guess, but i dont think he sees that as problematic either

#

he was fine with holding flag

#

he likes the friction usually

shrewd lantern
#

idk

#

i hated df s1 and s2 sub

wet echo
#

df s1 was fine imo

shrewd lantern
#

it was outlaw

#

with daggers

bleak wind
#

holding flag is not as impactful, playstlye wise, its symbols and dance that affect your gameplay

#

and blades I guess

vale lagoon
bleak wind
#

holding symbols makes you press backstab for a minute

vale lagoon
#

not tuning for M+ when M+ is where most of the gears come from

#

is pretty bad imo

bleak wind
#

while probably being the slowest class in the game for that 1 min

pliant topaz
#

most player base will only do < 10 keys

#

and sub can easily do 10s

#

so like, by the defenition of what theyre aiming for. specs fine

vale lagoon
#

by definition of what they're aiming for they literally don't need balancing lol

#

u can crush heroics with ilvl

#

and +10s too

#

like so what if sub is dominating in heroic raids lmao, are heroic andys gonna be forced to reroll over it

#

pretty sure and heroics only RL demanding that would be laughed out of the room no

vale lagoon
#

yeah so balancing only exists for ppl trying to push 3k+ anyway

#

and that's where sub's having massive issues

pliant topaz
#

thats not true...

#

if youre doing heroic raids and u see a sub rogue doing a billion dps and they get buffed

#

youre not gonna be happy

#

it has nothing to do with rerolling

#

you play the game to feel reward for your good play

vale lagoon
#

they should just go into a mythic raid for once in their life no

pliant topaz
#

and if u dont get that, youre unhappy

vale lagoon
#

idk

shrewd lantern
#

m+ is a stupid game mode

#

cringe forced content

vale lagoon
#

lol

#

raid

#

is a 20 year old mode and it shows

tawdry belfry
#

!STAT

#

!stats

wicked joltBOT
#

The following is a general recommendation, but you will always get more accurate results through simming your gear through Top Gear.
Mastery >= Versatility > Critical Strike > Haste

bleak wind
#

one good thing at least is that with sod charges downtime would be a bit less punishing

vale lagoon
#

honestly as cringe as Riot nerfing champions for gold and below lol

shrewd lantern
#

sub design is just terrible

#

half the tree doesnt make sense

vale lagoon
#

yeah but we obviously dont have the player count to justify a full rework

#

so again

shrewd lantern
#

sin actually has a coherent tree

vale lagoon
#

slap a bandaid on our stab wound now

#

so we arent literally forced to rr if we wanna go anywhere beyond rick fox low

shrewd lantern
#

i mean

#

being an otp on a pure dps
class

#

is weird

vale lagoon
#

dont get ppl swapping all the time

#

change is cancer

shrewd lantern
#

They literally change how the spec works

#

like every patch

vale lagoon
#

which is why i've oinly played like 1 tier per expac since legion lol

#

rly fking annoying

shrewd lantern
#

well thats on you

#

I havent enjoyed any iteration of sub truly

#

since legion

tribal blade
#

what if they made M+ it's own content

#

so M+ gear scaled like pvp gear

vale lagoon
#

what if ppl just accept that having to get 20 ppl together is fucking cancer and nobody even wants 20 friends irl

#

beyond ppl who are like 40+ years old xDDD

tribal blade
#

and all abilities could be tuned seperately between raid, M+ and pvp

tribal blade
#

because if you don't have a bench if 1 person calls out of raid you're boned

shrewd lantern
#

yep

vale lagoon
#

would honestly prefer raiding to be purely for cosmetics lol

tribal blade
#

i think my raid team right now is 30

shrewd lantern
#

we had a 21 roster in legion but like

#

almost every player had

tribal blade
#

and it means doing heroic queen fucking blows with the fps

shrewd lantern
#

perfect attendance

#

so

#

also why you dont play tank

tribal blade
#

that's really rare

shrewd lantern
#

lowkey

vale lagoon
#

i mean the basic fact of society is that

shrewd lantern
#

and technically a downside of playing the 1 of raid buff classes

vale lagoon
#

the more ppl you involve in an effort

shrewd lantern
#

like dh

vale lagoon
#

the worse it feels

#

therefore fuck raiding

shrewd lantern
#

That’s also a consequence of social media

vale lagoon
#

nah

shrewd lantern
#

people want more instant gratification

#

nowadays

#

there are much better games for if you only have

#

20-30 mins to sit down

#

and play something

vale lagoon
#

lol didn't armin JUST say that ppl wanna play games to be happy

#

so all gratification should be instant lol

#

nobody wnts to sit on a call with 20 other ppl and wipe for hours

#

let me get into a key and give it my best shot

shrewd lantern
#

”No one”

#

you just equated your own enjoyment to instant gratification

#

some people literally play just to level alts

#

or flip the ah

vale lagoon
#

also there's literally nothing wrong with instant gratification lol

#

it's not like keys are loot pinatas with 0 effort

shrewd lantern
#

Yes but its not everyone’s cup of tea

#

and there’s much better genres of games for that

vale lagoon
#

being able to see the results of your effort sooner

shrewd lantern
#

armin is right that most of the playerbase raids normal or heroic

#

at best

vale lagoon
#

is most people's cup of tea

shrewd lantern
#

and realistically same logic can be applied to higher keys

#

the content doesnt change at all

#

only numbers go up

vagrant sinew
#

alot more people raid mythic than than the amount that does high keys so you just cant see past your bias

shrewd lantern
#

I can see how keys with the same 4 people can be rewarding

#

but if you’re a pug hero

#

you’re really just a moba player

#

in the wrong game genre

vale lagoon
#

who tf pugs lol

#

beyond streamers trying to use it as a badge of honor

shrewd lantern
#

most people in m+

#

thats why they circlejerk meta so much

#

the people who say you cant get title as a “B tier spec”

#

most certainly do pug

wanton bronze
#

at least in a bricked key im not locked into an hour-long campaign of suffering with a heavy leaver penalty

vale lagoon
#

insane ppl are that inbred

#

even in league u always duo to rank up no

wanton bronze
#

i mean

vale lagoon
#

having 1 guy who you KNOW isnt a dog on ur team

#

is a big deal

#

when the team is only 5 ppl total

shrewd lantern
#

look at people asking

wanton bronze
#

i have a mythic raid team, a full guild, and a static i run keys with on my tank

shrewd lantern
#

what is meta in m+

wanton bronze
#

but i pug on my MW monk and rogue

shrewd lantern
#

most of those people are pug andys

#

like i genuinely think m+ with a real constant team is rewarding

#

but get help if you’re pugging m+

wanton bronze
#

most people do pug and realistically having a static just isnt in the cards

shrewd lantern
#

for anything besides gear

wanton bronze
#

5 people with the same goals and gaming schedule can be tough

#

but i imagine it doesnt seem that way if youre young or have few responsibilities

shrewd lantern
#

honestly in some cases

#

raid rosters are easier imo

#

if your healer for m+ has an emergency

#

yoy cant just slot someone else in

#

usually

wanton bronze
#

yeah 2-3 days a week at set times to raid, whereas keys are just when everyone happens to be online with no other priorities

shrewd lantern
#

its not like key teams

#

ever have a bench really

wanton bronze
#

but yeah i dont duo climb in dota

vale lagoon
wanton bronze
#

it can be counterproductive

vale lagoon
#

then raids are undoable lol

wanton bronze
#

nah its just that raid takes priority and you have ways to hold people accountable

#

people want to have a structured raid team with a schedule

#

nobody wants that shit for m+ unless youre literally just a key hero and nothing else

vale lagoon
#

lol are you not playing for title if ur focused on M+?

wanton bronze
#

and if im already raiding 2-3 days a week, i dont really want to commit 2-3 more nights to run keys

snow girder
#

Should authority of the depths used on both weapons. from what i can tell you dont get 2 separate dots with 2 enchants.

shrewd lantern
#

it just does more damage

#

with two

vale lagoon
wanton bronze
#

i just mean its usually 1 or the other

vale lagoon
#

and just play the mode where you need less ppl who are willing to follow the structure

shrewd lantern
#

the comparision would be alot easier if all raid teams ran on only 20 members

snow girder
shrewd lantern
#

which is never the case

shrewd lantern
vale lagoon
#

the comparison is even better becuz u need even more than 20 ppl for non dog level raiding

wanton bronze
#

i think in reality most people pushing high keys like 12+ arent pugging more than 1 or 2 people per run, if that

#

but thats like 2% of the playerbase if i had to guess

wind canopy
#

Very much less than 2% of the player base

shrewd lantern
#

in any respectable guild

#

m+ its hella flakey

#

understandable when m+ gives literally nothing

#

for non title players

#

tbh

vale lagoon
shrewd lantern
#

This sounds like you’re projecting

vale lagoon
#

Has the prerequisite that u dont want to shoot everyone present when it's a bunch of ppl talking at once

shrewd lantern
#

your own time commitment issues

#

or you’re antisocial

#

idk

vale lagoon
#

bottom line is

#

why do u think ppl play MMOs nowadays lol

shrewd lantern
#

The fact you immediately think

#

you’re going to dislike people

vale lagoon
#

is it rly to work together with others, or is it so they can have people to beat

shrewd lantern
#

Means there’s likely something with you that’s the issue.

shrewd lantern
#

pvp games namely

vale lagoon
#

dont shit on wow lol, this game is insanely comprehensive in terms of what u can do

shrewd lantern
#

comprehensive he says

vale lagoon
#

u play any fighting game, ur only options are faceroling and changing skins

wind canopy
#

Yeah, at some point, if you're constantly struggling to find a group to be a part of and going from guild to guild or group to group, might need to change your standards/perception on things

shrewd lantern
#

while insisting on playing one patch of a spec

#

the entirety of the game

#

LOL

vale lagoon
#

meanwhile u get to fking beat a key and then go do fishing

#

or play literal pokemon

#

in this crazy game

shrewd lantern
#

I feel most fighting game players who dedicate their time to it

#

would disagree

#

extreme bias is showing

vale lagoon
#

they'd disagree that they don't have nearly as much options in a fighting game as they would have in WoW?

#

seems pretty cope lol

shrewd lantern
#

i mean if you ask better players they will say most specs in wow

#

play very similar

wind canopy
#

I mean, fighting games, you're playing for like championships and prestige. And a lot more money

shrewd lantern
#

when super simplifying it

vale lagoon
#

but idk

#

there's always a few ppl i want dead in every guild lol

wind canopy
#

Can just queue up in fighting games in ranked

shrewd lantern
#

Then why arent you doing it

vale lagoon
#

wait what

wind canopy
vale lagoon
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did u think i pugged my way to where im at

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Socially inept zoomer

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is all im getting tbh

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but in a verbal conversation i can make goofy noises as i do to give context lol

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Yeah, pretty much Xiani

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idk in any game like this there are always builds or specs that are

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numerically better

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there are games where its not relevant

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kinda disgusting

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there should be no games where its relevant

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BUT ur absolutely right that there's always gonna be a shittiest spec and a greatest spec

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just saying blizz can always respond to it with an aura buff for now, and then get back to true gameplay overhauls later

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i personally dont see the negative repercussions of them doing that

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i mean sub’s problem is the design

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ofc

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it is

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but liek FOR NOW

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like i literally called sin being the best spec