#subtlety

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hazy breach
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Sub also blasts boss damage though, its pretty much identical to sins boss dps

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All 3 specs are good really

tribal blade
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BIG

hazy breach
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nw and cot 14 Comfy

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Havent completed any 15s yet though

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I really like sub in CoT though

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Having full cds on every eye feels so crisp

raven sluice
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In m+ do you use your shorter cds between packs or save for big burst windows?

hazy breach
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You want to make sure you always have 2 symbols and 2 dances for every flag window

tribal blade
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yeah i prefer playing sub in CoT

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CoT is also a dungeon you actually want to have good survivability too

hazy breach
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You go from that and then try to squeeze in as many dances+symbols you can without missing out on that

tribal blade
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because the bosses in there are really hard on the healer

hazy breach
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(enhance died from aggro during all his cds on a big pack, but still)

tribal blade
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when i was trying to time 13 CoT it was a huge struggle using sin

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and then i swapped to sub for the next one and timed it

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granted there was an actual healer with a brain in there too

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but being sub helped a lot

hazy breach
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The ol swappero of changing to sub right before the key starts kinda sucks though

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Because then you cant prep 7 superchargers sadge

tribal blade
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haha damn

hazy breach
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For some reason starting the key doesnt reset them to 2 like pulling a boss does

tribal blade
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i actually didn't know that

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that's huge tech

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did you see me repping sub in 15 DB with yoda?

hazy breach
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I did not

tribal blade
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my buddy and i were doing our 15 DB

hazy breach
tribal blade
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and his chat before the key started were saying "oh a sub rogue, what a troll"

hazy breach
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And you'll have lingering as assa

tribal blade
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and then after i was top dps in 1st pull everyone had their minds blown haha

edgy zenith
tribal blade
hazy breach
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"did sub get buffed? Wtf is that boss dps"

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When i pug

tribal blade
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yeah i got the same thing in a different DB i did

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i beat the dk in damage

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and he was losing his mind over it after the key was over

hazy breach
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Sub is just unironically strong, not stronger than sin, but really strong

tribal blade
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i definitely play sub better than sin

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the few things i wish would get changed are reducing storm and stab energy costs

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and maybe bumping up deepening cdr a bit

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plus being able to proc UB on storm

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my wishlist

hazy breach
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replicating bugfix kek

tribal blade
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oh i forgot about that

hazy breach
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I do not have any insider information, but i am kinda convinced sub is gonna get a non-burst related tier bonus next patch

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And its probably gonna be dance uptime related

tribal blade
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having more dance uptime is kinda a burst related bonus no?

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that would be interesting

hazy breach
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Not really

tribal blade
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oh right i get you

hazy breach
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Like our current bonus makes our big burst bigger

light imp
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you think? didnt they just give that to us with the updated first dance?

tribal blade
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yes you right

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more dance uptime doesn't increase our burst in cds yeah

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that would be very nice, being outside dance is depression atm

hazy breach
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Idm being outside of dance

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What i do mind is the non-dance symbols

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Those feel real bad

tribal blade
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yes those are pretty cringe

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i'm always worried about them fixing spec problems using the tier sets though

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like how we lost S3+4 tierset

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and then suddenly our cdr is in the toilet.

pliant topaz
light imp
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you mean like how Spriest was carried by their artifact in legion lol

pliant topaz
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i havent seen a single 15 in lfg yet. i dont even know if anyones pugging anything at that point lmfao

light imp
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i can barely get people to stop inting in 10s

tribal blade
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and it's really hard to get into them

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i have the problem of having everything timed on 14

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but haven't timed a single 15 yet

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because every 15 i've attempted people have fucked up

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me and my buddy even lost our 15 DB because yoda accidently pulled trash on his fdk and wiped us twice >_<

hazy breach
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I felt like reducing the amount of circles and the amount of web blades was probably enough already but ig they wanted to go harder

pliant topaz
pliant topaz
tribal blade
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those are some crazy nerfs

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i didn't expect them to be that big

pliant topaz
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is hof even closed?

tribal blade
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no idea

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must be close if not

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don't they usually do these types of massive nerfs after HoF is closed

pliant topaz
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nah i checked not even close to being finished

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probably next week then

spiral needle
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Big nerfs generally land around 100 guilds killing

pliant topaz
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theres like 114 kills so far

spiral needle
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hof changed to top 200 so that's a bit long to wait

tribal blade
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lol damn they must have recognized it's just way too much then

short radish
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probably filled next week

lilac stag
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Wonder if sub still needed after the nerfs

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Or if we’ll see more assa logs

grave abyss
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would y'all ever go exhilarating execution over ephemeral bond? some quick napkin math says it's comparable amounts of raw healing with the added benefit of some shields

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though not as helpful in emergencies I guess

lilac stag
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I take it all the time in keys

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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

hazy breach
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But unfortunately execution got a lot weaker when were not spamming black powder

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Since nimble is contributing towards the shield, its only the pure ST evis

frail sequoia
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is sub more up front and bursty than sin in keys? I've been playing sin for a bit but I'm thinking about trying out sub

hazy breach
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Yes, sub is way more bursty

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In aoe assa is mostly sustained damage

frail sequoia
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gotcha, makes sense!

hazy breach
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Assa is gonna do more on big aoe pulls, but sub has absolutely insane boss damage

wooden kernel
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carried by aug but sub feeling good ++11 Mots

spring torrent
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anyone in here use a specific talent build for the Queen?

tepid trellis
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just went imp sht instead of RS, cuz the RS bug makes me uncontrollably mad

spring torrent
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wait what is the RS bug?

hazy breach
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It makes it so your shadowcraft refunds can happen across the entire gcd after finishing, rather than whenever you finish

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So if you eviscerate > proc sht to 7 sht 0.6s after you pressed evis it will refund it

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Which means youll sometimes end up casting shadowstrikes with full cp because you werent expecting the random refund 0.4s before your strike

spark tusk
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it's not predictable or consistent either

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sometimes it doesn't happen and the refund is quick, sometimes it's like 0.9 seconds after finishing

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it's pain

tepid trellis
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as mario wouldve said

hazy breach
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It is consistent

tepid trellis
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ITSA SHIT

spark tusk
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I've had it happen all over the place

hazy breach
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Its always when you proc sht up to 7 in the gcd after finishing

spark tusk
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inconsistently peeposhrug

hazy breach
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It can just happen all of the gcd

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The sht procs arent consistent sure

spark tusk
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I see

hazy breach
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Its still sometimes impossible to play around it if you get unlucky and get the refund like 0.1s before your strike

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But it is what it is

tepid trellis
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thats not true tho

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i just tested it

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ruptured, waited 3 sec

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pressed sod

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got cps

hazy breach
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Ok well, in practice you'd be using your sht stacks on the next gcd

pliant topaz
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theres another bug too btw for it

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u could have 12 sht stacks

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sod up

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it wont refund

hazy breach
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Thats not only with replicating though is it

pliant topaz
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yeah

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i meant sht related bugs

hazy breach
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Thats some vanish/just pressed dance/dance just ended stuff

pliant topaz
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its actually pretty bad btw

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because it means you need to re sod to get them

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but that also means u get 3 back to back finishers early in dance

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which means u dont get to consume disorienting strikes

tepid trellis
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funny thing tho

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it can only do it once per SoD

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even if you refresh rupture

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it wont do it again from my testing

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but if i recast SoD as well

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it consumes em again

hazy breach
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Ye its all just weird and janky

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But nobody plays the spec so no prio on bugfixes sadgesipjammies

spring torrent
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wait RS is relentless strikes right?

hazy breach
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No replicating shadows

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Which should have literally nothing to do with it

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But for some reason it does

spring torrent
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oh ok

tepid trellis
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that was my weekly wow journey now we afk again until reclear in 7 days

spring torrent
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wait so what is the build you guys are using for ansurek? because that's not on the single target build?

hazy breach
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It is

spring torrent
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this one?

tepid trellis
spring torrent
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this is my build for ST

tepid trellis
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well you are DS

spring torrent
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oh, I've been using the deathstalker one is that one worse?

tepid trellis
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realistically they are about the same on pure ST

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but Trickster also has free cleave

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and is more bursty

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  • more fun
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until Coup charges you into a web blade on ansurek and you die

spring torrent
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ah, I

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I see, so because the heavier aoe we should go trickster on this fight

tepid trellis
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anything that isnt 100% single target

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you would play DS

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trickster*

spring torrent
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also what is Imp sh then ?

tepid trellis
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improved shadow technique

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thatfucker

spring torrent
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ok so take that instead of RS

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ty

tepid trellis
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thats what i do

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very slightly less dmg, but removes the tilt factor for me

spring torrent
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I see thank you!

short radish
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🙃

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why are we still fighting against the bugs

lilac stag
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always and forever

tribal blade
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@hazy breach when you do the 1st pull of a key with 7 stacks of supercharger do you try not to spread too many ruptures before going into cds

hazy breach
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Ye

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Most first pulls things just die right as flag ends anyway

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or even before

sinful sluice
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Wait how do you build 7 supercharger stacks?

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Doesnt they reset to 2 when you put the keystone in

tribal blade
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only raid bosses

alpine wraith
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it does reset to 2 for keys too

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but just as they begin

edgy zenith
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We don’t care about pressing bp in ST anymore right? Just send the coup?

alpine wraith
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only hold in very special ocasions

tribal blade
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does anyone know off the top of their head how much dps skyfury buff gives us in M+

golden kelp
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Why do we eviscerate once before cooldowns? I also see some people in logs doing it before the flag

wind canopy
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Get Slice and Dice going

golden kelp
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ah yeah true

gaunt finch
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Does anyone have a weakaura to show how many charges on symbols you have?

uncut socket
fierce minnow
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pls remove

vale pine
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its good to charge you into shit on queen

fierce minnow
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it wiped me on zekvir ?? aswell, stupid dash, never ever have i caught myself saying "ye that is really useful!"

keen dome
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It's very powerful. So powerful it can charge you offline.

scarlet heath
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Coup not giving slice n dice is stupid also

fierce minnow
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spaghetti code

scarlet heath
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it does make sense from a coding perspective since you are pretty much casting another spell

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but if I press Evis I would like to get benefits as if I actually casted Evis

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so they can just add coup's flag to cut to the chase and be done with it

native zodiac
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It puts you on the ground into the nova

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Also a classic

tribal blade
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wait a second, can you just step princess immediately as soon as daggers go out

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and you're immediately safe from her shotgun blast

tepid trellis
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from her what now

topaz raptor
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I think it’s not that simple

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They kinda cover the whole room

tribal blade
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that shotgun action

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BAM

tribal blade
tepid trellis
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they spawn in sequence and go off in sequence

tribal blade
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more so the spread on it

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the ones that come off her

tepid trellis
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well what happens when you step her, and 1-2 are baited right behind her?

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like each clone targets someone with the same exact pattern as the boss shoots out

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so

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somebody could be standing in way where some lines up right behind her

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so its def not a guarantee safety

haughty mural
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
sly shore
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but you'll only be safe for the first one

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still gotta move

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just helps with pre-moving tbf

haughty mural
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are the combinations in your spreadsheet up to date @vale pine ? (sorry for the ping)

sly shore
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not sorry for the ping @vale pine

haughty mural
haughty mural
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thought transmitter would be ahead more % wise

vale pine
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transmitter is rly good

haughty mural
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i know. thats why i was wondering

uncut socket
mint swift
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How good would master assassin be for sub

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Just curious

vale pine
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you mean the origianl 100% version or the nerfed one

sly shore
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the original was too good

vale pine
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both probably good

mint swift
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Yea

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I rmemeber thinking last night what Assa talents would rock on sub

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Ofc envenom would be nice, path of blood would be good, MA would be rlly nice

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Poison bomb would be nice

vale pine
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we have PE

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which is a more uptime MA

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so you could stack both

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if it was a talent on sub

mint swift
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Yeye

tribal blade
mint swift
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Would it be that good? It only splatters nature

tribal blade
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oh you meant talents that had no change whatsoever

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oh seal fate

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100% seal fate

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sub with seal fate is so good

mint swift
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Yea

tribal blade
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that would be the pick every time

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our cdr would go through the roof

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in aoe you basically generate close to or full CPs on low target counts

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it was a pretty big blow to sub when we lost seal fate

bright fable
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Hello, do you have some streamer or video of sub doing high keys? (i cant find rn x_x )

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seems like they're non existant (only assa sadly...)

mint swift
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True

vale pine
bright fable
tribal blade
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it's crazy, i only use sub in half the keys i run

bright fable
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not even one streamer who doing sub keys on stream ? Sadge

tribal blade
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and i'm the #18 world ranked sub rogue

tribal blade
bright fable
vestal escarp
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This season sub ladder is compromised

tribal blade
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but i don't know if anyone is streaming atm

bright fable
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seeing them everywhere is tiring

mint swift
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How much sub is played

tribal blade
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i don't think they'll nerf sin at all, and if they do it won't be big

bright fable
tribal blade
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because they don't want to make people feel like they made the "wrong choice" to push with

bright fable
tribal blade
bright fable
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between that and dk or sham

tribal blade
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more and more people are starting to slowly see sub as a decent spec

vale pine
tribal blade
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but there's so few of us it's very slow getting the word out

vestal escarp
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Freed up vanish and 90s cds are good

bright fable
vale pine
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there is just little reason to switch of assassination ever since season 4 DF

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in fact you ended up as the best choice in all content most of the time

vale pine
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there are like 2 fights sub can beat sin on which end up being the later ones in raid

mint swift
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I mean I played sub
Didn’t like my dps
Swapped to Assa
Still Assa

vale pine
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yes, thats tuning

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sin is easier and better tuned

bright fable
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Cringe still the gameplay of assa

vale pine
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also has way more options to chose from talent wise

tribal blade
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yeah the talent choices sin can make are very good

vale pine
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which is game design, and depends how much effort was spend to make talents diverse/useful

still trellis
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this is the thing holding me away from sub

tribal blade
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you can utilize almost the entire tree

vale pine
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sub atm needs transmitter kinda

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and its even then only rly better on last 2 mythic

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and e.g. silken sin is still rly good

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queen i would argue sub just has better cooldown alignment

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sub got buffed by a lot in 11.0.5

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it is why its now rly good in raid

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and better in m+

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but it does not mean it beats out other rogue options noticable enough to make people switch

tribal blade
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yeah the changes to sub were very impactful

vale pine
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keep in mind you can on sub also switch talents

fast cloak
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is there any way i can make use of skardyns when im missing the transmitter?

vale pine
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*on sin

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sure you can use other stat trinkets

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but transmitter is what makes sub so bursty

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it is why you rly want it

vale pine
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so it ended up more overall

tribal blade
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was it just the coup bug fix?

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i don't remember if that was the only one

vale pine
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yes

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cdr and damage from coup

tribal blade
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that one meant a lot

vale pine
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sin also got less buffed than you would initially assume

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because there was a bug introduced, i think wasn't fixed

tribal blade
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the ttk bug?

vale pine
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ye

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so sub got better with downtime in keys

tribal blade
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easy, you ask a friend to play trickster sub for you so the boss never parries you

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heehee

vale pine
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and got like 8% buff

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sin got like 6% buff but lost like 1-2% from bugs

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means sub overall got a massive buff

fast cloak
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mh got 639 sacbrood and 626 contract/queens mandate as alternative trinkets, which of them would u suggest to substitute transmitter untill i get it?

tribal blade
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yeah the numbers in keys is way higher

vale pine
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supercharger is just rly good

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especially if combined with tier

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and transmitter

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its not a discussion worth having atm

tribal blade
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i love supercharger

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on sub

vale pine
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but season 2 could be rly bad due to these 2 dependencies

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tho season 2 is a while off

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so not rly a concern today

vestal escarp
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Tier should impro tho right?

tribal blade
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hopefully we get a good S2 tier set

vale pine
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season 2 tier sets in DF ended up with the aim to give people something new to play

vestal escarp
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Current tier is just dmg, as soon as it switches on a positive interacion it should be better

vale pine
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so they introduced mechanics on tier

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to make unplayed talents good

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e.g. for subtlety it was the rotten focused

vestal escarp
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My prediction on s2 tier is a form of more danfe uptime

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To balance sod uptime

vale pine
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and if they didn't fuck up some other things, we would probably have played rotten

tribal blade
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i would rather them fix our cdr problems outside of the tier set

vale pine
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so a not unrealistic scenario would be to make tier sets better for the "not played" hero talent

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which wouldn't synergize that well

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90 secound stat trinkets with big stat boni are also not that common for agi

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this seaosn is more a exception to the norm

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2 minute trinkets are fairly common

tribal blade
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incoming needing to use pvp on use trinkets

vale pine
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but do align rly poorly now

tribal blade
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since they're 1 min

vale pine
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both is like, a future discussion

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because right now we doing good

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and discussing problems if you perform well is always looked down on

tribal blade
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the problems i'm more fixated on are the immediate ones

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the biggest one for me is storm+backstab energy cost

vale pine
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think backstab cost is fine

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but storm i still don't think is good

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i understand the idea and thought process behind it

tribal blade
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yeah i would much rather have a bit more flow during downtime

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it doesn't have to be crazy

vale pine
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but with how sub is deisgned, it does not feel rewarding or good

tribal blade
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i think that is where sub is not keeping up with sin in terms of aoe

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because the downtime is so horrendously bad you lose the momentum you had during your cds

vale pine
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the way i atm picture it

tribal blade
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that's what i feel is cutting off sub from doing really high end dps

vale pine
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is that 11.0.5 is the new baseline to work from

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and from there try to see what needs improvements

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and there is A LOT of things that could be updated

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even tho, if they want to make rogue better

tribal blade
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yeah after the new update i have hope for the future

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i'm not dooming over sub anymore

vale pine
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i rly think the main priority should be

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to rework killing spree

tribal blade
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haha yeah that spell is so bad

vale pine
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trickster is so centered around killing spree

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so making the ability actually good

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gives outlaw a entire 2nd talent option which it currently ignores

tribal blade
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i think they should keep the name, it sounds cool

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but change how it fundamentally works

vale pine
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yes, exactly

tribal blade
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no loss of character control

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for starters

vale pine
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the camera shake is a big problem too

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its super annoying

tribal blade
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yeah it's very disorienting

last ether
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It wasn't that bad back in the days, right? Like in Wrath. The camera.

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Or is it just me being old now? HaroldCringe

vestal escarp
vale pine
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but the spell is just...

scarlet heath
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I had a showerthought.. wouldn't making killing spree send a clone that does the attack for you solve a lot of problems? no camera shake, no jumping in frontals

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or just make it be delayed attack that resolves on its own witbout the movement

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something like SecTech

vale pine
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possible but you run into the problem of making things too similar

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outlaw has other problems currently too

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they have too much uptime buffs

vale pine
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and they are 100% uptime with ramp time

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so going off target is more punishing

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on top of their damage pattern problematic, which is harder to solve

scarlet heath
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the problem as I see it is that they have no burst, they have a pretty flat dmg profile

vale pine
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like outlaw playes decently well, people who play outlaw like it

scarlet heath
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and many bosses involve around burst windows

tribal blade
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the thing is flat damage profile can be good

scarlet heath
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but outlaw has none, he needs uptimes that gets canceled

tribal blade
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like in M+ when outlaw was tuned high

vale pine
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its just some design decisions don't work well in raid enviroments, and it punishes the player too much

lilac stag
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Flat dmg is by design

tribal blade
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it was insanely good with a flat damage profile

scarlet heath
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yeah it just feels bad on many raid fights

tribal blade
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because then outlaw just did damage no matter where you were in the dungeon

vale pine
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flat damage profiles are great in m+

tribal blade
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it was the most consistent dps by a mile

lilac stag
vale pine
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think the main concern for the damage profile rly is

lilac stag
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you do realize assa is the anomaly being good at fucking everything.

vale pine
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that the spec isn't good on end bosses

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which typically have shields or adds where brust can help

vale pine
lilac stag
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everything is dependent on tuning

vale pine
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see season 3 DF

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yes

lilac stag
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The fning kit allows them to swap to just about everything

vale pine
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i mean that was the design decision the dev team wanted

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its on them if one spec stands out

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to either reduce power somewhere

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or also make the other specs stand out in a similar fashion

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or fix it by tuning the spec worse to reudce the impact

tribal blade
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it is true, you can change what you need with sin's talent tree by quite a bit, it's kinda crazy

vale pine
vestal escarp
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^

vale pine
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but its the same topic i keep iterating over

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the talent tree rework lead to a change in design direction

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now the focus is to make everyone good at everything

tribal blade
vale pine
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so the specs that got the most attention during DF

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got the best baseline

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and given that wow development speed up in TWW

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the new focus is on iterating on the popular specs

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so the ones that already got good trees get more of their bad talents replaced

vestal escarp
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Like nobody expected the ttk rework

vale pine
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while the ones that got the short end, wish for a bigger rework or hope that tuning will be in their favor

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its just, odds are not in favor of that

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its kind of a death cycle in both directions

tribal blade
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resisting the urge to link a hunger games gif

vale pine
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e.g. ret has one of the most well recived talent trees

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but TWW had a lot of paladin/ret changes

#

just logically spoken

static juniper
#

tbh i could pick resto shaman spec talents on random and still heal a key or mythic boss competitively

vale pine
#

it would make sense to focus on other classes

static juniper
#

its soo good

vale pine
#

but focusing on other classes

#

means spending less time keeping paladin players happy

#

so if you have a hour of dev time

#

who would you put it on

#

the least played spec in the game

#

or the most played

#

with a diffrence of around 8x or more on players you reach

#

wow became more and more a game of

#

"who do i want to make happy"

tribal blade
#

i feel like the kid sitting at the back of the auditorium raising his hand

#

being drowned out by all the people in front of me

vale pine
#

but its fine

#

the baseline of subtelty works good

#

its good enough to keep us relevant

#

and the burst damage profile is a advantage over other classes with more flat ones

#

even if its not about popularity

#

it might be about what is precived to be the biggest problem area

#

i mentioned this the other day

tribal blade
#

the best feeling was being able to see light at the end of the tunnel after the anniversary rework

vale pine
#

11.0.5 it was seemingly subterfuge and reducing button count by making ER passive

#

but subterfuge is like...

tribal blade
#

it needs to be completely redesigned for sub

vale pine
#

still completely ass on sub, which was extremely weird

scarlet heath
#

tbh I kind of like where Sub is rn, anniversary fixed bunch of issues I had with Sub's design before

vale pine
#

if there is no bias in development

scarlet heath
#

what annoys me is that it's hard to get into groups as sub

scarlet heath
#

everyone just screams at you for not playing assa

hazy breach
#

Queue as assa

#

Then swap Surebud

tribal blade
#

i do that for the keys i want to play sub in, i just queue as sin

vale pine
#

yep sub is def. better on queen

tribal blade
#

and swap to sub

vale pine
#

11.0.5 and supercharger ended up a big qol and fun improvement

last ether
hazy breach
scarlet heath
#

that always carries a risk of some crybaby quitting after start tho

#

I wish this whole fotm mentality stopped

vale pine
vale pine
hazy breach
#

Idk its only really rashanan and blood where assa is better

scarlet heath
#

I get that, if a spec is poopoo I wouldn't wanna bring those in my push keys either

tribal blade
#

fotm makes perfect sense when you consider how much easier it is to do a key with all fotm specs

vale pine
#

a player fotm chasing is on average quite a bit better than somone who stays on their main

tribal blade
#

it's lightyears easier

scarlet heath
#

but I dont feel that sub is that far behind assa in m+

vale pine
#

simply because tuning changes are not agressive enough usually

#

so even if you don't perform on the other class at 100% efficiency

#

the gain from switching is typically worth more than the efficiency loss

hazy breach
vale pine
#

and for m+ its even more

scarlet heath
#

like unless that spec is just poopoo

tribal blade
vale pine
#

mythic+ pugging is extremely time consuming and getting into keys on off meta is extemely annoying

scarlet heath
#

I guess I was unlucky in the people deparment kekdog

tribal blade
vale pine
#

but yes, fotm is just a consequence of people wanting the highest chance to time their keys and do it in the fastest possible manner

#

also what is meta is rly diffrent depending on how much time was spend on balancing things out

#

you had seasons like DF s1

#

you could play a shitton of combos

hazy breach
vale pine
#

and then seasons like s2 after avoker

#

you palyed absolutely only 6 specs

#

and everything else didn't matter

tribal blade
#

i actually had that exact reaction from a fdk in 14 DB

#

he didn't shit on me, but at the end of the key i had beat him in overall and it blew his mind

vale pine
#

tbh i don't think its sub that makes the diffrence there

#

but rather the palyer expertise and better execution

#

if you did 400k more on sub

#

you probably would be even higher on sin

hazy breach
#

Not that much

vale pine
#

(ofc depends on key)

hazy breach
#

Is the point

#

In cot or dawn

tribal blade
#

i feel like sub is better than sin in DB

hazy breach
#

Its fairly close

tribal blade
#

or at least it feels way better to me

hazy breach
#

Sin might do more overall because you can pad on the smallies

tribal blade
#

than sin

#

yeah it's mostly pad damage

#

or aoe damage in pulls that aren't really that dangerous tbh

hazy breach
#

But the boss dps is way better for timing that key

vale pine
#

people don't filter out pad damage

tribal blade
#

yeah exactly

vale pine
#

so overall is what matters

#

you will always be judged on it, reguardless of context

tribal blade
#

DB does feel like a dungeon where boss damage matters a lot

hazy breach
#

And then you check the damage breakdown of you doing 80% to the boss and the others doing 50%

tribal blade
#

i never actually checked the difference, i imagine sin is just padding on the adds

vestal escarp
#

Well if you rupture the webbed guys sin can do a lot on that boss

tribal blade
#

feels infinitely better as sub

scarlet heath
#

sadly cant really put that in your join request

tribal blade
#

that's kind of been my M+ experience so far, play sin and feel great in aoe and shit in st

keen dome
tribal blade
#

and kind of the reverse for sub

hazy breach
keen dome
#

Both the first and second boss really beenfit from massive boss burn

raw arrow
#

Can someone please tell me the talent where I get full combo points outside of Shadow blades, I am getting crazy

keen dome
#

Premeditation?

tribal blade
raw arrow
#

But ty jesus

scarlet heath
keen dome
#

Could be, yeah.

hazy breach
#

(so you dont come up mid comet+shield)

tribal blade
#

dude the last boss is so, so bad as sin

hazy breach
#

Ye

tribal blade
#

like the worst possible M+ experience this season

raw arrow
#

So we have 2 ways to get full CP? After stealth + after symbols (but only with stored CP)

tribal blade
#

yeah i'm gonna swap upstairs the next time i do it

#

@hazy breach does garrison hearth work?

#

garrison hearth for the fast hearth, and then use NW port to get back

hazy breach
#

Just use nw port immediately no?

tribal blade
#

i'm mostly worried about screwing up the timing and getting combat locked

#

can you just run off the mobs right before they die

#

and start the cast?

hazy breach
#

Or vanish and start the cast kek

scarlet heath
tribal blade
#

i play sin with double vanish charge anyways

hazy breach
#

Idk i sometimes swap before even going up if i ended up using deathmark on boss right before it died

#

(dont hold a spear when you zone out)

tribal blade
#

mmm ok

#

does the group have to wait for you then?

#

because upstairs is a monster pull as 1st pull usually

hazy breach
#

Ig but we didnt do the monster pull if nobody had cds. Kinda depends on how the second boss timings with cds go

#

Ive only done 14s fwiw

tribal blade
#

i'll have to see when's best

hazy breach
#

Cuz what i found was that either:
A: deathmark+ascendance was ready (or had like <20) and we did big pull > swap
B: deathmark+ascendance had a lot left because we used it on the boss and we do a small pull until theyre ready, in which case i swapped right after boss

#

(ive done unironically like 15 tries on nw 14 before i timed it 🙃)

vale pine
#

dedication

tribal blade
#

because with how that dungeon works, it just takes 1 mistake from someone

#

and everyone dies

#

and it's REALLY easy to die in NW

hazy breach
#

People not being ported up when they die downstairs

#

On last boss

tribal blade
#

the last boss is just horribly designed

hazy breach
#

Is my least favourite way to brick the key

lilac stag
#

Bugging out the encounter because I forget to drops tricks is my favorite.

tribal blade
#

i have a cancel aura macro for tricks on my bars just in case now

hazy breach
#

He doesnt insta snap though, he walks a bit

tribal blade
#

if you cancel tricks quick enough he'll stop evading

#

and stay down

#

at least 1 time that happened for me

hazy breach
#

Ye you have like 5 or so seconds until he evades

lilac stag
#

on god I ran something besides db/mists. it was my city. Hunter invites a 3100 brm. Mother fucker apparently forgot what affixes were. Didn’t ToD until 5 minutes left in the key.

tribal blade
#

he starts like walking up the side of the wall

hazy breach
#

If I had tricks up i just kidney asap

lilac stag
#

pulling like it’s a 3200 group when we are carrying a shitty ret.

hazy breach
#

Then he wont move and everything is safe

lilac stag
#

ended up .5% short and bricked it.

#

tank blames everyone else

#

I hate keys

tribal blade
#

oh no, the classic being half a percent short on last boss

#

and no time to do trash after

#

being off count is on the tank

lilac stag
#

I told the hunter to invite the 2750 druid. “I don’t like their server”. fml

#

dude had a 12 timed

#

starting to question my desire to play in s2

tribal blade
#

wait did you mean 2100 brewmaster

lilac stag
#

Played like it

tribal blade
#

HAHA

#

fair enough

lilac stag
#

Didn’t check holy pali mana once

#

She’s screaming over discord

#

time to pull everything to first boss and ignore affix

#

all 4 of us assumed TOD. Shame on us.

#

back to just running 8 DBs

#

Maybe 4 idk

#

Maybe 1

tribal blade
#

yeah that is a really shitty thing tanks sometimes do

#

they do pulls that the people in the key are not prepared for

lilac stag
#

I get it if you’re running with your key group

tribal blade
#

like pulls that are several hundred points of IO of experience that group does not have

lilac stag
#

fuck off with that shit during a weekly vault

#

just a terrorist at that point

tribal blade
#

i lost a DB this week to a tank i know doing some pulls that you would expect to see at maybe 3300+ level

#

so we naturally wiped several times

lilac stag
#

db has so many pulls to. I don’t think I’ve run the same route twice

tribal blade
#

it starts becoming quite consistent

#

mostly depends on lust timer

lilac stag
#

it’s the grouping.

tribal blade
#

and where you want to put your lust on the trash after 1st boss

lilac stag
#

and what they’re comfortable with. At least in the 10-11 range

tribal blade
#

yeah you definitely don't need to do crazy pulls to time DB on 10-11

lilac stag
#

I’m just glad when they know how to land on the ship. My standards are low.

tribal blade
#

those ships are just criminal

remote shuttle
lilac stag
#

swap to old flight mode. No issues.

tribal blade
#

yeah steady flight is way better in DB for sure

#

you have less burst speed

#

but you can hover

#

it's a good tradeoff

lilac stag
#

I think I’m running Assa for Ovi tonight. We missing a trash padder for dps.

tribal blade
#

damn you get to parse tonight then

lilac stag
#

rather play sub. Caustic lags the hell out of me at times.

#

Idk if it’s nameplate or something else

tribal blade
#

that fight is just super laggy in general when the adds come out

#

at least for me

lilac stag
#

I haven’t had an issue on sub with it

#

If it’s bad I’ll swap back to sub

bright fable
tribal blade
#

HM if it's actually a caustic issue i might try playing sub instead

lilac stag
#

20% vers assa is fine. kekdog

tribal blade
#

because the lag is unreal sometimes until at least half the adds are dead

#

ok sweet, that's really good to know

lilac stag
tribal blade
#

and the warr on my raid team was BEGGING me to play sub on ovi this week so he wouldn't get parried

lilac stag
#

I’ll lag as soon as I send DM every time.

tribal blade
#

even when it's not lagging i'll sometimes get intermittent lag outs randomly

modest river
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
haughty mural
#

are you still running RS ?

#

i can't get used to the bug

#

it seems

#

idk why

lilac stag
#

Drop rs

#

Love sub again

haughty mural
#

even in m+ ?

lilac stag
#

depending on key level yes

haughty mural
#

i guess so yea

lilac stag
#

Shit dies soo fast in 10-11 I just send cds

#

And rupture if anything left after the fact

#

That it would be useful on

haughty mural
#

maybe i'll drop a transmitter if i love sub again

#

(next reset)

lilac stag
#

vault luck

#

🍀

haughty mural
#

3rd mandate last week kekdog

#

it doesn't even drop when i do my weekly princess runs

#

can't even loose the roll like a real one

#

do you go imp sht instead of rs ?

tribal blade
#

the upside of the RS bug is when you get refunds that behave normally it feels AMAZING

#

that's like the trope of "the upside of being in pain all the time is when you're not in pain it's orgasmic"

haughty mural
#

based

#

but i'd rather cut off my leg then to experience the bug any longer

tribal blade
#

it's pretty bad

haughty mural
#

yes

tribal blade
#

it's so bad it had kush drop in here randomly with "rs bug fix when"

#

during S3

haughty mural
#

pretty sure it's as annoying for him

#

as it is for the most of us

tribal blade
#

it's probably more annoying for someone at his level

#

because they min max their rotations to an insane degree

#

and it sticks out more

clever delta
#

im giga bored so i start to "push" and this is overall of sieage of boralus 12 before 3rd boss 😄

#

insane people doing those keys

haughty mural
clever delta
#

and i think replicating shadow sux w/o DB or finality, would you take weaponmaster or smg else instead

hazy breach
#

All of those talents suck so shrugeg

#

But wm and imp sht are completely useless on aoe

vestal escarp
#

Improved sht for placebo

hazy breach
#

RS is pretty good

clever delta
#

its like

#

and im trying to rupture

#

i mean i rupture more outside the cds but still

hazy breach
#

Ye so its like 4-5%

#

Whereas WM or sht is like 1% max

clever delta
#

i smell some sub rework comming soon

#

ish

hazy breach
#

Could use nado too if you want ig

clever delta
#

i play sub in those lower pull count keys

#

and assa elsewhere

haughty mural
#

maybe this and pretend imp sht is good

clever delta
#

i saw that repúlicating beat imp sht even in st

haughty mural
#

ye

#

but one drives you crazy when it bugs

clever delta
#

i still keep forgeting what does the bug does

#

i know it delay cp return somewhow

#

but dont know how exatly to plkay around

vestal escarp
#

Thats it

#

Delayed craft refund

haughty mural
#

you can't play around afaik

vestal escarp
#

You can predict

clever delta
#

yeah sometimes i press builder when i got cp same time back and im like wtf

vestal escarp
#

It was a talk last year

hazy breach
#

Dont spam if you are at 5 or more sht after finishing

vestal escarp
#

At 5sht

clever delta
#

5 sht stack you mena

vestal escarp
#

++

#

Hmhm

clever delta
#

yeah that sux

#

i dont really check my stacks closely

#

i just know it will refund when it glows

latent finch
clever delta
#

I mean you are 620 and he is 631

latent finch
#

yea... he was not the best player

haughty mural
#

washed up

clever delta
#

the new sub withnout dust is actually pretty cool

#

im only running into issue that i forget not to use dance before next cds

#

and than im one dance andy during cds

haughty mural
#

ya same

hazy breach
#

Missing a dance is way better than not having your second dance during flag atleast

clever delta
#

yeah it just muscle memory not there yet

spark tusk
#

Yeah I made a WA and keep forgetting to look at it

#

I think it's because A) I placed the number of expected charges on flag, I really should place them on their respective cds

#

like on dance and on symbols

#

and B) beacuse I don't reliably predict dance because I don't do anything to account for CDR

#

and it's hard to understand directly what it means

#

like is 0.9 charges at flag ok for dance if in reality it will be 1.4? 1.7? I don't know

#

how much it will actually be because of cdr

#

so then I over-use

hazy breach
#

~40 seconds left on second dance is enough

#

Whenever you press flag

spark tusk
#

Hrm, that's a good marker

#

I'll try to remember that

hazy breach
#

On aoe you can get away with some extra if you do some eviscerates after flag before dancing

#

Like if do flag > evis > storm > evis > cds instead of flag > evis > cds

#

Its probably slightly less if youre not playing a shaman tbf, but you pretty much always have a shaman right now

vale pine
#

shamans are our best friends

clever delta
#

yeah thats for sure

haughty mural
#

shaman exists

terse spindle
#

Why we are dont use SOD by pandemic?

#

its cos of charger?

hazy breach
#

We have charges of symbols now

#

So we dont need to use it asap

terse spindle
#

but is it mistake use it on pandemic on dif situations?

hazy breach
#

We can time it for when its the best

#

You shouldnt be focusing on the pandemic timer no

terse spindle
#

so better use it when 1st SOD go down

hazy breach
#

During your burst you use it when you have 10s left on sectech

#

So your eviscerate will reduce it down to 0 for the next finisher

terse spindle
#

aw oki thx

hazy breach
#

That should be in pandemic

#

But youre not really thinking about using it because of pandemic

terse spindle
#

understand

#

best way to use

#

and 1 more q when we have coup de grace and SD and sectech not on CD we usind SD+SoD and what better to do, use sectech with supercharger or coup?

hazy breach
#

Always use sectech with supercharger

terse spindle
#

tywm

plush roost
#

Im gonna relearn sub today in reclear, whats the main differences between now and dust sub, besides obviously not using dust

#

I scrolled up and saw some good info there

#

But like, i heard you don't use shadowblades right away, is it after first builder in shadow dance or after sec tec?

vestal escarp
#

In pins or directly in threads you can find useful stuff

plush roost
#

Since premed exists i get why, but is the 20% amp from sblades applied to sec tech

#

Oh i see the little more info tab

#

Missed it on my first browse through tyty

haughty mural
#

afaik blades dont work on sectec and the duration is shorter now

chrome fern
#

rofl 8 Cot, rat 592

hazy breach
plush roost
#

Just no more triple danves

#

I also see we're using tornado again in m+

hazy breach
plush roost
#

Oh m+ section on fuu's guide has it

#

Whats the alternative?

idle aurora
#

Real talk…..is our hit box range just redic low it feels like I lose range on mobs all the time

spark tusk
#

It happens

#

I don't haev a good solution

plush roost
#

For reference I'm currently aiming for +14s/15s to use sub on good spots like first boss of Mists and NW 3/4 boss

hazy breach
haughty mural
idle aurora
#

I’m standing right next to pack and can’t hit anything sometimes

hazy breach
#

It feels ass and wastes sht stacks often

plush roost
#

Got it got it

hazy breach
spark tusk
#

I really wish that sectec could be cast

#

without a target

#

or if out of range and just hit mobs around us

plush roost
#

Tfd looks fun glad its viable

spark tusk
#

in case mob inches out of range during burst

hazy breach
#

Can swap replicating to wm if you really hate the bug but i think its worth to keep replicating even if it munches cps sometimes

plush roost
#

Veiltouched over wm?

spark tusk
hazy breach
#

Cant get flag

plush roost
#

Interesting

#

Oh

#

Yeah

hazy breach
#

But yes veiltouched is also way better than WM

#

Wm does almost nothing on aoe

plush roost
#

Ye, I'm mostly using it for niche spots and then gonna port and swap sin so I figured WM pretty good boss dam

leaden prairie
plush roost
#

But since flag is blocked

#

Doesn't matter

gray zephyr
#

Sup subs.
I have just got my transmitter and I am getting used to it.
I use lash+trinket macro and I have noticed that the CDs of lash and trinket get separated. Is it because of the time used to finish the task?

spark tusk
#

about acroo

#

zacro zacro

leaden prairie
#

if its relevant to acro

#

im always listening

leaden prairie
hazy breach
gray zephyr
#

Ohhhhh

hazy breach
#

That reduces your cooldowns

#

It doesnt work on trinkets

gray zephyr
#

Thanks! So we get reduced cd but it's still worth waiting for trinket for bigger burst right?

hazy breach
#

Yes

raw bluff
#

quick question, don't see a lot of black powder being used even on bigger pulls, is it because we are trying to funnel or am I missing osmething?

hazy breach
raw bluff
#

fair enough, thanks for the quick answer!

dry belfry
#

Is it worth to equip 4 different color of gem for the proc of meta gem? Or better stack poly masteries gem?

spark tusk
lilac stag
#

take the speed gem

spark tusk
#

but yeh I also use elusive for speed

#

and go for all 4 because I wanna move fast

hazy breach
#

You can use one of the other (aka one vers+mastery instead of all mastery+vers)

spark tusk
#

I like that we use versatile onyx

#

when I was looking over which gems to spec deeper into first, I googled wowhead guides to see how many guides recommend each gem

#

And low and behold

#

hello fuu

vale pine
#

it seems like google picks up my images, which is funny

strange chasm
#

Oh interesting we aren't using symbols with pandemic timing anymore?

vale pine
#

still

#

but we center the rotation more raound secret technique now

#

because we have the dynamic

#

due to multiple charges

spark tusk
#

It's not that we aren't using it during pandemic

#

it's just that we aren't really thinking about pandemic anymore, we only cared with dust because not using it in pandemic meant the Cd was sitting unused if you waited until symbols faded

#

but now there's no penalty to waiting because of the charges

#

you still don't want to symbols early, though

#

but, there aren't many times when you'd be in a position to do so anyways, anymore

#

but like, you can cast it in pandemic now, it's fine

lunar bluff
spark tusk
#

don't delay your sectec

lunar bluff
#

okay that was my next q, so youd just consume 2nd sec tec without super charger?

spark tusk
#

oh right supercharger

#

is tied to symbols

#

I was more talking outside your burst

#

inside burst you want that 2nd sectec to have supercharger

lunar bluff
#

yeah, ive been just sending the 2nd symbols with sec tec regardless of pandemic

#

i couldve clarified too

spark tusk
#

yeah

shrewd monolith
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
spark tusk
#

I just don't even think about it anymore

lunar bluff
#

same

#

i dont think ive thought about pandemic once yet

hazy breach
lunar bluff
#

yeah i bet it is, i just dont even think about it

#

im look ooo big button up lets make it even bigger button with symbols!!

pliant arrow
#

!bugs

wicked joltBOT
remote shuttle
summer mica
#

!up

solemn lance
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
fair stump
#

is this "going back to assa" move?

sharp ivy
#

as someone who is switching between sin and sub for m+ and raid respectively, what are your thoughts on embellishments? dawn + ascen? do I keep my double elemental focus?

tulip gorge
#

if you don't have any shadow dance charges and they won't come back any time soon, is it correct to just send a naked symbols + sec tec?

wind canopy
#

Yes

#

As long as you've got your CDs covered with 2 dance and SoD charges, you're fine to send

mighty citrus
#

whats actually the reason that we delay blades in st?

mighty citrus
#

but does sectec not benefit from blades?

wind canopy
#

Nope

vale pine
#

the clone attacks don't work on it

#

so most of it does not

mighty citrus
#

i see

#

thanks

#

so i need new macros no

vale pine
#

if you are lazy

#

you can just macro blades to secret

#

its not perfect tho

mighty citrus
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cb sectech should be fine. in your guide i read sod and second trinket

vale pine
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yes cb secret is fine

thick temple
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new ring today fellas

vale pine
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you can macro transmitter to flag

mighty citrus
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is blades offcd? so i may do blades and ss?

vale pine
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just try to activate it during dance

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yes blades if off gcd

mighty citrus
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i always want to follow my blades with ss right? so it might be worth?

vale pine
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you ideally blades after secret

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but again, can macro both if you rly want to

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its not that much worse

mighty citrus
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i dont want worse 😛 thanks

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i try to learn new rotation now

vale pine
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if you want to min/max

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its slightly better to cold blood on your 2nd secret

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instead of the first one

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but this means even more keybinds ^^

mighty citrus
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well ^^

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now its finishing with 6 cp regardless of dance, if i read it correctly? no exception

vale pine
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yes, always 6+

mighty citrus
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so accurate timing for sd is always 2 during flag and 2 outside?

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oh wait this might wont work

vale pine
mighty citrus
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is there stuff like trippledance and stuff a thing?

open vortex
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
vale pine
mighty citrus
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okidoki

hollow snow
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With the removal of dust I believe

vale pine
wild hornet
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so i dont just shit out every single cd i have at the opener

vale pine
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you dance 2 times, then one time again with secret back up

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but no, subtlety does not just shit out cd's asap