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good question
macroing symbols with dance is not something we recommend no
!macros
Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use House of Cards```
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.
its been so long since i played sub
you will lose out on Supercharging your 2nd sectech if you do it
Im not overly happy with the wording on this but idk what to change it to
Good to know.
I have the old muscle memory of using symbols with dance instead of holding it for 2nd tech lol
gunna take time
i never had them macro'd to begin with 
โDance and Symbols desync during sbladesโ
idk
Same I was just curious if it was worth it or not.
when do we have access to sims for 11.1, and if we already do where can i find them
!fuu
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S2 tab
light version
so is outlaw only bad in keys then?
!burst
During your Flagellation and Shadow Blades you want your second Shadow Dance to be cast immediately after the first one ends. You do not
want to cast Symbols of Death at the same time as your second Shadow Dance, but rather 1 or 2 seconds later when Secret Technique has
10 seconds or less remaining. This is to make sure you supercharge the Secret Technique instead of an Eviscerate.
Because of this a Shadow Dance+Symbols of Death macro is not ideal.
Hopefully thats better.
That sounds clear imo
Agreed.
do we know what causes the new 4set to not work? are you able to play around it?
We no not. My best guess is that the clones independently roll the "stack removal" thing from the 2p since they dont have shadow dance active
There does not seem to be any way to play around it.
bummer
honestly it was very annoying so I'll take it
do they ever do bugfixes over the weekend
Although with nimble buffed its gonna happen way less often
I'd think not, but I'm kinda bored lol
Sub in dungeons should slap now right?
Wonder if sin still will be better
Or sub will be good because we can aoe and st
Sub should be quite good yeah
and we don't have to spec for st or aoe to do either, def a plus (outside of imp storm)
With nimble buff does BP rules change
where is fuu simbots?
Nothing in that regard
!design
Subtlety is designed to be a spec with highs and lows. During your cooldowns you do immense burst and have plenty of buttons to spam but conversely outside of symbols and dance you do not do any damage whatsoever. This means that having some periods of "afk" downtime where you do not press a button because you're out of energy is the intended way the spec plays. As long as its not happening inside your cooldowns (flag/blades/dance/symbols) its not a problem at all, and especially nothing that having more haste would "fix".
Technically its fine to bp at 6 too, sims have it as being equal to eviscerating but why bother with bps since its more work and less prio 
for sure, making baby steps in the right direction
now if they just fix the nimble bugs too
(and remove all FW interactions)
is this sim even accurate anymore???? when you pull up the sim it shows the gear still having 6% on the 4set
they are not updated yet no
nimbe at 7, sick
i'm really digging nimble being stronger at higher target counts over BP
do you ever think there is a world where they make nimble work with shadow blades?
Not without tuning other stuff down to accommodate
Unless it worked at one point and was removed, I personally don't see it being a thing
they'd have to whitelist blades events from specific attacks and since blades is its own damage I feel like it would cause a lot of problems
How do you guys deal with no perma sprint
Just step
Does step have CDR?
Not as trickster no
"lack of movement"
Relative to outlaw maybe, but compared to most other specs sub is not a low movement spec
Fade to Nothing and Shadowrunner have us zooming around a good bit
Guess in 11.1 the trade off will be that sub has damage hehehe
!sims
Simulations:
Bloodmallet: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html
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I have 168% speed with dance/stealth. Sub is zooming
the day may come when blizz finally realizes outlaw has way too high uptime on sprint/evasion/feint etc
hrm it's gonna be visually tougher to quickly at a glance see your pack has 7 targets instead of 5
yah i had one before
so what's the problem???????
watching zac play sub on ptr
whenever he presses flag, I instinctively look for the little transmitter bullshit
geez chill
lol i'm just playing I love you
Don't forget the % speed from blasphemite and the +speed boot enchants. Lots of folks forget about those
stay strapped
i was debating using that gem instead of the crit one
Free 4% always on speed boost right there.
so is trickster supposed to be better in ST next patch as well?
or does DS still come out ahead
The boot enchant is something crazy like plus 1000 speed as well
it can be 8% right
I arguably notice the speed more than the tiny crit
i agree with that
trickster
nvm just saw info in pins
about to sim to see the difference
Sure, but who is using The gems that are not mastery and versatility? Well could be worth running a crit gem to get the extra two percent speed.
next season it has me mixing up some vers/mastery and crit/mastery-vers
Ah hell, it's almost certainly worth it. I'll have to change one of my gems.
changing 1 gem to subpar stats doesn't make a big difference
Movement speed is totally op. Worth changing a gem to a crit gem for.
now I'm curious about forcing 4 types lol
new swirlies on ptr look nice for sure
it was barely a difference for me last time i simmed
but that was with crit gem
Bracer enchant is a bit tougher. I take speed but I can see the argument for avoidance
oh yeah its like nothing
I always do myself
yeah the variance on all this stuff is tiny
so can just do w/e you want
i wanna try running speed gem
i think running high speed is underrated
oh yeah i'm zooming with the speed gem
movement speed is the most sexy stat because you can do more zig zags
movement rogue
https://mimiron.raidbots.com/simbot/report/vWG1GHJ9xaEwcBpu1jxvq1 is this a real sim? is this accurate??
YES
you're wearing a fist wep in your mainhand
sub links dont work ๐ฆ
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Any suggestions video or twitch for learning sub please advise
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We are the same.
Light spreadsheet. S2 tab
do we always want to have 2 dances for shadowblades even if it means we overcap for a bit?
You can have 1 dance and 40 seconds ready on the second one
oki, thank you
any idea why we use shadowblades AFTER secret technique in our opener?
it seems very counterintuitive
!cb
- Why is the Cold Blood and Secret Technique macro not recommended anymore?
When you macro these two together you often end up using it outside of your shadow blades window rather than inside of it, and since Subtlety gets so many damage modifiers inside its cooldowns its actually more damage use it only in Shadow Blades
(yes, even if you end up losing casts of cold blood). Ideally you use it on your second Secret Technique as it will be buffed by more stacks of Flawless Form and have higher Flagellation stacks.
- consuming the premed buff
- sectec currently is not buffed by blades
okay, that makes sense, thanks
Anyone's got hekili profile with black powder priority for aoe? It barely ever triggers in dungeons or enemy dummies (5 targets).
would HIGHLY recommend not playing with hekili
!bugs
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2 is fixed on PTR thankfully?
it is yeah
but we'll still be using blades at basically the same time
so long as you use blades after premed is consumed and before the clones hit you're gucci
He means Shadowblades when he says sec tec btw
oh right right yeah
jesus what a brain fart
is there a wya to make the tricks animation thing go away
no
not possible
!wa
I suppose you could make a weakaura that is permanently overtop of the tricks animation
but uh
that'd cause another problem
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more WAs and addons means i have more information
that ss doesn't have any was in it
Bit confused around dance timings atm.. at what point do you know not to send another dance/symbols so you have 2x for blades + flag? or am I misunderstanding
pretty much stop sending dances around 30 secs before your next cd set
so roughly 30sec before blades/flag comes up
I think I remember reading/watching something that its safe to send cd's with second dance on CD as long as its under 40sec remaining as well.. is that right?
due to CD reduction
yes that's correct
this is all situational, like if you're in M+ and your next cd set is 30 secs or less out but you're about to cap on dance+symbols charges it's safe to send em
More interested in raid ST than M+ currently, but I get what you mean
it's usually better to err on the side of caution to make sure you have enough dance+symbols for your next cd set
it's really bad if you don't
i mean, the spec is designed to do damage within those windows
if you'll have enough symbols charges before your next cd set you can symbols+sectec
or just naked sectec 20 secs out
honestly DS kinda started growing on me
in m+ how many ruptures should i throw out before i do burst for big pulls?
If it lives long enough and tank is gathering. If mobs are there you just send
Disappointment
!bugs
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D.R.I.V.E
any good loot farming avenues?
Delves no?
Should get one hero track piece in vault plus whatever you can grab from dungeons
Are bountiful delves open next week?
Reading the announcements post it looks like the new delves rotate in with s2
So in 1.5 weeks

Think so
thanks for the info odon
During Symbols, should I be pressing only BS/SS to generate in AoE with Inevitability talented?
no it's not worth it
but if you're in symbols+dance you should be pressing strike regardless of target count as tickster
so i read somewhere that with deathstalker, you don't have to worry about eviscerating / bp 30 seconds before your coolies come back like you do in trickster because of tier set? is that true
so close to being completely balanced
with the recent tuning you don't need to do that regardless of which tree you're running
oh nice. so no more ruptures
it'll still be worth doing if important moments are coming up and your cds will be ready soon
or say a pack in M+ is almost dead should just start saving tier set
that makes sense
but yeah overall don't need to think too hard about it ๐
If shadow dance is active and you are attack 5 targets in m+, do you go shadow strike eviscerate or shuriken storm eviscerate or shuriken storm black powder? On trickster

Ty sorry im new
could you link? really thought we'd be properly delve gaming next week... sadge
I'm also wondering if M0's get updated on reset or not.
hello
new sub changes are live on ptr?
!sheet
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yes
hey all! ive recently leveled and gearing a rogue, some lads told me that sub was the easiest one to learn and master, but looking at the wowhead article about sub it says its pretty darn dificult. so which is it? is sub the "easier" spec?
Assa is the easiest to learn fast and sub is the one you just Master by playing the game and getting experience
i though ass was the hardest esp in m+
used to be, pretty easy now
Sub isn't hard but it is complex and has a lot of quirks to learn. Which can result in a more diffiuclt experience. Assa is a lot easier to learn, but has some higher level complexities.
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Sub might take a bit longer to grasp than assa, which is more straightforward.
Play the one you personally think you'll enjoy the most, and if you are learning Rogue then you should just stick to that and get comfy with the spec.
Sub's complexities come from learning a lot of the why we do things, and planning out your cooldown usage and thinking ahead for big damage abilities, etc. We can't just press stuff, but have to put it all together effectively or we do no damage.
This, I started as a sub rogue and it was just so much fun. Did take a while for me (an utter wow noob) to do some decent damage, but it was a journey that I enjoyed every second of.
My husband keeps telling me I should play something easier like Ret or BM, but I don't want to ๐
PURPLE IS LIFE
Next season will be my first season in a mythic raid team so I don't know what he is complaining about tbh
So, yeah, @lime edge just try all of them and see which one is the most fun ๐
(it's sub btw.) ||/jk||
Also I wouldn't play what is easy if you have fun learning the spec that is way more rewarding and also will help you when you hit roadblocks
thats true, i guess. but im scared to underperform becaus i stress with a rotation, used to play enh pretty well but man it was tiring at times
All 3 rogue specs are among the most difficult dps specs in the game
You will underperform and that is normal
What kind of content do you primarily play?
m+ and raid
Sorry, I worded it badly: at what level? ๐
usually just curve and farm for raid though to old for mythic grinding now
High5, you'll be absolutely fine
for m+ goal is 3300 next season
Then play sub and enjoy the journey
Why not 3333
because thats two 3 too many
Like play the season sub and enjoy mastering it
sub is probably the hardest melee spec in the game
if you want a better learning curve, look towards the other specs
Yes and no
If you enjoy sth it will be easier
how if i may ask it is the hardest?
I parsed grey on sub for a whole month on heroic raid this season before I went to blue and purples
lots of buttons, lots of rules, lots of ways to get punished (especially in raid)
Hell yeah, amazing job with the improvement
i see, i can tell i was boozled when i was told it was easy then-.-
I got my first ever 95+'s this season too. Just gotta keep at it.
Learning the burst sequence is the easy part when to use it effectively especially in m+ comes with experience
We also can't really macro anything, so there's a lot of extra elements to consider. Also when to use something is just as important as the why we're using it in the way we do (I.e., Symbols to buff Secret Technique)
Also sub has ups and downs during its dmg. Outside its cds you can chill
Inside cds you gotta focus
The positives is that Sub never dies and is utterly absurd in it's tankiness, has incredibly powerful burst (and nothing between) and will delete bosses
I love going from 1 APM to 30 APM
sub is a ton of fun, people jsut need to be aware that playing it will tank their performance hard for a while
Ye. You've gotta put the time in to get the purple
That is with anything anybody learns and starts new
kinda, but its especially bad on sub
best feeling purple ever tho
Highly depends on the playertype
i disagree
I find outlaw more difficult then sub because of the high apm
I think Mapko is right on that. Some people will have a much easier time. It's very dependent on the indiviudal
high5, same
Outlaw rotation is omega easy in theory but it's so fast sub is easier for me atleast
outlaw is probably more difficult when going from top 5% performance to top 1% performance
but going from 0% to like 70% its way easier
thats how i view it anyways
Nah outlaw is imo harder if you screw up vanish with bte it's pretty punishing. But again someone like u might find that easier. Again depends on the person
It's reminscient of Dust sub in a way. Where if you mess your cooldowns up, it's going to tank your damage so hard in an awkward way.
Not to the same extreme, but it feels similar to me.
You will become the lord of the dance at the end of it however.
Before you know it, you run a dancing school.
Tho the fatality rate on the dance floor will require you to ask if your moral compass allows the death toll.
Imagine a glyph that makes you dance when you activate shadow dance.
haha
Id have that permanently slotted. I always tell my friends Shadow Dancing is my dance steps practice.
The dancing jokes are to die for.
I always picture it as this really weird dancing where the red rose gets replaced with a black one, and you and your partner just pop shadow dance.
Before you press it to start dancing, you hold one hand out to your dance partner, and one dagger held behind your back ๐
Just a whole dance sequence with you and the boss every 30 sec ๐
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Yes, and Spanish music playing in the background.
At the end the boss is on the floor, and you have to carry the boss to a seat so the boss can relax for a week when it is time again for the 'salsa'
But picturing it as you dancing the tango with the boss is even funnier imo.
Id pay real money to make that happen for the sheer comedy factor.
Same ๐
Think of all the dance memes.
Think i need to dress up as Don Carlos again and practice my shadow dancing in that everytime from now on.
!wa
Is sub one of the harder rogue specs to learn?
depends on how you roll it is in theory not super hard but it has some rules that make it difficult for many
yes
ok ill try and look at some guides see how the playstyle is
yes
this is the sub playstyle
Insurance is not a necessary
it is actually, cause you run the risk of a heart attack when you make a little mistake in your burst
If you have investment knowladge you can have a in case of emergancy fund
XD
as i dont the insurance is going to cover coup rushing the swirlies in blades
Does anyone have a good rotation guide link?>
!guide
actually 10.2 completely reworked sub ๐ค
Damn, can't believe Sub is down in the fourth quarter. We need to up the dance stocks.
recent regulations on our tier set shook investors
Damn, that's fair
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shoudnt 2piece only remove 1stack of winning streak? or is it meant to clear all stacks?
clears all stacks
;_; sadge when i read it thought i was 1stack, scuffed :C
It wouldnt break the streak if it only removed one stack
ye, i didnt read it correctly ๐
guys, i have a issue with my rotation. in the current sim it shows that i use my 3rd dance right after the second finishes.. somehow my sec tec does not come up if i use the 3rd dance after the second. is it just procc dependent or should i dumb some backstabs inbetween so my sec tech lines up?
!wa
from what ive been trying isnt as bad as people portrait it, but not as fun as i would hoped so
The sim is one iteration. Follow the rules and also realize we are very dependent on skyfury.
Short question, does some1 of you use a macro for tricks of the trade and could post it here ? ๐
!tricks
Smart tricks WA on tank, this require the following macro:
/click SmartMisdirect LeftButton 1
/click SmartMisdirect LeftButton 0
ty
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Do i have to always use sod on sectec or am i also able to use it on the previous evisc spender
One of the two must be Sectech
You always want to supercharge sectech. But you get two supercharger points per symbols
So you shouldnt be using symbols unless secret technique has less than 10 seconds left
I mean in a scenario where i use sdance symbol after pull when my next spender after evis will be sectec
So in my case its fine doing sod-evi-sstrike-sectec?
yes
Do i have to somehow move the sod cast after evis or can i keep it as is?
Once you press sod, one of you first two finishers must be Sectech. Thatโs it.
what if we just press symbols on cooldown and see what happens
surely if i press all 3 charges at once i have triple the energy gains
Is any weak aura to track 4p in season 2?
Just track the buff. Easy to make
it is actually quite easy, WAs has very simple to follow templates to make your own
even for an imbecile with computer stuff like me
@hazy breach any early thoughts about how we play around tier set between dances? worth to afk rupture?
How much different does the spec play with Skyfury and without?
Skyfury provides roughly 10% of our combo point generation
ouch
lowkey feels like the longer u manage to hold 10 stacks through cds the first non dance spender has a really high chance to remove streak.
So downtime in between burst will feel better
is there like anti good luck for PPM stuff
where are infos about the rupture spam between dances in the pins? i cannot find that topic in the new ones
its not a thing anymore iirc
got removed with the nerf of the tierset
guess it was unpinned beacuse its not necessary anymore
Do we play around the tier set in any kind?
doesnt seem like
maybe a little bit of consideration if ur approaching blades
and end of pack stuff
but pretty minor
ok thank you
From your expecience guys, is it worth it to track flawless form or the fazed debuff from trickster?
yes, dont wanna coup a target without faze or spend coup by accident
u cant sim shit for m+ so u just have to think for urself whether or not to drop stacks when it comes to that
Not really. unless you find pressing evic better. Dmg outside of burst is still basically getting CPs spent for CDR
i dont meant the buff that reaches 4 and you coup. i meant the stacking overlapping damage buff for finishers.
But okay i will track fazed
ah, those not really, maybe theres some slight optimization but would be new to me
comment was connected to skyfury importance.
itโs the same difference. Downtime is bad. Losing CDR. Not having skyfury bad.
atm its lowkey the hardest spec to learn in the game atm
fml
thereโs a reason no one plays this spec
But i see progress. i get within 50-75k of my sim DPS
Most people in here asking questions will be back to assa or something else in 2 weeks
I come from outlaw. There are also some reasons why no one plays that
yeah not everyone likes 90apm flat dmg specs
i do. But its not that good for prog and i dont want to be an outlaw otp forever
not everyone likes variable cd nothing lights up burst specs. They like the idea of burst, just not the ramp / management.
how's sub performing in s2?
like a rogue
godlike?
Roguelike
lmao
IIRC middle of the pack from testing, but testing results are worth shit
Enchance or Arms if you want meta
for how many secs is it okay to hold ST to align CB and ST?
you donโt. It should be ready for your flag cd window
i mean in between CDs. there is a situation where you use Dance, SoD and ST. any my question is if you delay that for CB a couple secs or just send it
I think you stricly use CB for the 2nd ST in flag windows
wait. does that mean the spreadsheet from Hachedino with the ~ CD alignments isnt up to date anymore? ๐ญ been practising on that basis
ah nvm
With 100% uptime? Sure?
If you need to start delaying CDs it can steamroll. CB as second Sectech in Flag is the big worry.
uptime isnโt going to be black and white in an encounter or where you actually need to send CDs
you are right
and i always used CB on first ST in opener. Need to change that i gues
and this is what usually frustrates folks. A lot of it is not hard, some stuff is.
if the just learning leave it macroโd and full send it
Small optimisations can come later. Get comfy with the overall style and buttons and sequences and logic, imo.
problem i have rn is that i dont get it always right when to send and when to gold dance. RN i stop using dance around 25to30 is secs before flag and that usually plays out good
i dont have my keybinds all sorted out rn. Not comfy with how my buttons are, but there are so many xD
I believe it's around 40s~ left on Flag you wanna start pooling charges, but a better player than me can confirm this.
but wasnt macroing not recommended
I do know what Dinoโs sheet has. Havenโt looked at it in a minute. Best thing you can do is be one of Pavlovโs dogs. Put an audio alert on Sectech when itโs CD is 10 seconds. Youโre then safe to send SoD.
ah that would explain why sometimes i got 5 secs left on 2nd dance CD in CDs
Itโs a 1% difference. It also melts peopleโs brains.
You can make this much simpler for yourself, you'll typically send 2 dances inbetween opener cds and your next flag window due to having 2 dances on pull
after that I think you typically just fit 1/2
thats a good call. will do that
The audio que helps a lot
so just macro CB and ST and call it a day? Dont want to make a bad habit if its that impactfull
Youโre not using CDs if flag is 40 seconds.
I'd say go for it initially, and once you are very comfortable with everything else, focus on learning those.
You don't have to master everything all at once.
All of us had it macroโd. Some of us have swapped off. I donโt know what you can or canโt handle.
i guess youre right
you fucking up other shit way more impactful than that macro
Absolutely
It's not going to be the make-or-break difference initially, and often making something a little simpler to grasp or smoother to play will result in you learning the other elements more consistently
And then once you've gotten those down you can introduce some more optimisation and complexities.
Building on a foundation, basically.
Just wait til everyone finds out how hard parsing is with no one playing the spec and those that do have been playing it for expansions.
i know that from outlaw. luckily im quite good at the spec but its sometimes awful to play in prog
Weโll save that surprise for a few weeks into mythic.
im not under the illusion that i will get good parses in my first ever season playing sub ever
Never say never
not you specifically, but there will be tears in here
if people are having fun, idc what they play. Except deathstacker sub. Out back you go.
!wa
Is it okay if i have a macro for SD + SoD for the 1st Dance in Flag+Blades? And have seperate KB for Dance and SoD for the "normal" ones like 2nd in CDs or every other time?
Terrible question, season starts 2/25 (m+ n raid) or following Tuesday?
Sick Ty!
No real point except to sometimes accidentally press it.
get the muscle memory
down for both presses
okay... back to dummy
During your Flagellation and Shadow Blades you want your second Shadow Dance to be cast immediately after the first one ends. You do not
want to cast Symbols of Death at the same time as your second Shadow Dance, but rather 1 or 2 seconds later when Secret Technique has
10 seconds or less remaining. This is to make sure you supercharge the Secret Technique instead of an Eviscerate.
Because of this a Shadow Dance+Symbols of Death macro is not ideal.
Honestly, I personally found it easy enough to learn without the macro. You won't have to unlearn it later either, which is a plus.
didnt notice that and explains why sometimes my presses didnt do anything. good to know.
About SoD i did know ๐
You can't stealth while dancing, either, which can sometimes feel a little awkward, haha
dance just overwrites
BUT
you can't use dance while dance is active
so it does not matter
it was a problem in patches this mechanism was broken
Sub meta in next patch?
Sure
It'll be very purple.
And a lot of dancing.
Practice makes perfect
hit a dummy while listening to the Rocky 3 soundtrack
and you'll be ready in no time

@alpine wraith prob have been asked a million times already but timings still accurate? I know no changes really, just wondering if ur spreadsheet still up to date timing wise , tyy!! Also any info on delve build or just run m+ build?
yea afer the tier set head split timers have not changed
playing around not resetting is almost neutral do be aware mechanics in bosses like adds spawning or phases etc will warp things
i will recommend to change one thing but in sims it is at most neutral
just moving the 30 secs dance to like 60-70
are trinket sims for s2 up to date?
So you'd yank out sod + sectec without dancing first?
after cds after sec tech comes back yea then dance with CB then dance with sec tech then cds come
to not lose tier set but it is not a huge win
with tier being noodler now
a little bit sad we dont play around new tier at all. Although the 2-3 Rupture felt weird is wasnt bad and the payoff would have been cool.
But i still have many other things to learn before complaining about that type of stuff
anyone know if there is a chance we play siphoning stiletto dagger with the buffs to it ?
0 chance
Hi guys, just out of curiosity how are the rogue specs doing so far ? Don't want a precise answer i'll probably play the 3 of them but is there any that looks really bad or really good ?
you cant really know
Prot warrior looks pretty good dps wise 
all 3 seem fine in regards to damage but some people hate one or the other
Yeh and fire mage looks really bad
Almost gets beat by prot warrior

Kira beat gingi one ToP
Do we know if the rogue specs all want similar or opposite stats?
its the same as this tier
sub wants vers mastery assa ilvl in general outlaw caps haste then vers crit
and even then it is kinda whatever even for sub unless it is aoe where haste is a bit worse
is there a place where id prefer using sstrike/bstab over sstorm with the witness buff
!guide
inside of dance
only consume it outside of cds
like the period where youd usually just spam bstab/evis?
yeh
alright ty
!macro
Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use House of Cards```
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.
no more cb sectech macro?
It's less optimal these days as manually using CB with SecTec is a bigger gain than just sending it. I think it was said to be around a 1%~ increase or so when used properly?
!cb
- Why is the Cold Blood and Secret Technique macro not recommended anymore?
When you macro these two together you often end up using it outside of your shadow blades window rather than inside of it, and since Subtlety gets so many damage modifiers inside its cooldowns its actually more damage use it only in Shadow Blades
(yes, even if you end up losing casts of cold blood). Ideally you use it on your second Secret Technique as it will be buffed by more stacks of Flawless Form and have higher Flagellation stacks.
Oh, that's really nice.
thank go dmy aversion to macros wins again
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!wa
so on your opener you don't use cb on the first sectec into sblades?
No, you use it on the 2nd
Hi sorry Iโm confused about the CB and sectech macro not being recommended. Donโt they have the same cooldown though? I know Iโm missing something. Can anyone explain?
!cb
- Why is the Cold Blood and Secret Technique macro not recommended anymore?
When you macro these two together you often end up using it outside of your shadow blades window rather than inside of it, and since Subtlety gets so many damage modifiers inside its cooldowns its actually more damage use it only in Shadow Blades
(yes, even if you end up losing casts of cold blood). Ideally you use it on your second Secret Technique as it will be buffed by more stacks of Flawless Form and have higher Flagellation stacks.
Sectech has cdr and cb donโt
Thanks!
@vale pine
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u guys told me eviscerate at 7, pin says 6 targets, any updates on that
bp on 7
btw why did the finisher rule change from 5 cp to 6 cp inside dance from DF to TWW
@vale pine are we doing the degenerate rupture forever till cds now
no
you can if u know a big pack comes up and you have just a few guys left to kill
its neutral on a single target sim
I've seen different answers now, is it BP > Evis on 4,5,6, or 7 targets
BP on 7 as trickster
WA related question! Trying to make a premade aura for shadow technique to only show if =<7 but its always showing, any common fixes?
using the default texture (2 wings around char)
@tepid trellis do we always consume coup in dance? and never outside?
doesent matter
think of it like this
if it doesnt matter then i think i know how it should be used
the tank gathers a group, you have a few seconds before stuff is gathered -> there is no harm spreading a few ruptures
consume when up, dont want to waste a window when you can get another up quickly, if u have one good to hold for mini burst phase
you just rip it whenver its up
ya
if you have a pull gathered -> you don't want to spend your time using rupture before going into cooldowns, and just send
shouldnt holding coup for dance be a gain if you only need to finish once with BP in ST?
We always running trickster every boss next raid?
it was, but was neutral in the last patch
so not rly worth the effort anymroe
what you care about is the flawless form stacks
shit makes sectech hit like a nuke
wait like
if i were to eviscerate
i can just send it and it wouldnt matter if i want to use it later yea?
consume it whenever its rdy
strikes/backstab
you get stacks from backstab/strike - with a internal cooldown of ~20 seconds
and you get 2 stacks guaranteed after using secret from your next strike/bs
it has an ICD and we have 2 talents that grants you free stacks free from that ICD one being from Sectech other being from random resets through SnD
it is why using secret first is also good, you stack it up
i see
only thing you need to be careful about with Coup
is it HAS to be used on fazed target
otherwise do not press it
supercharge Sectech
To supercharge sectech
all you care about
even the 2nd one?
yes
very important yea?
supercharging coup does nothing
even if i lose symbols midway
@vale pine I've been sending flag then finishing then dance/sod > ss > blades and sectech
its whatever still ye?
thats correct
you extend symbols when you strike
you can flag-finish-cooldowns
it lasts long
or flag-dance-finish is fine too
The wowhead guide has a section on cds with flag and symbols
!cds
Cooldown Use:
Every 90 seconds you want to cast Flagellation and subsequently Shadow Blades. When these two are up you always want cast 2 Symbols of Death, 2 Shadow Dances and 2 Secret Techniques.
To ensure you have enough cooldown reduction on your Shadow Dance to attain that you need atleast 1 charge and roughly 40 seconds left on your second charge before casting Flagellation.
Should be close to being in pandemic range when you hit your 2nd dance
!dance
haha
Lmao

we still use secret technique then blades in season 2 yea? idk if things changed on that 

1 second after ya?
My question is it worth it I'm subsequent windows to symbols then flag or just keep it as is
ideally
As long as you blades before the clones hit
o/
Yea
!burst
During your Flagellation and Shadow Blades you want your second Shadow Dance to be cast immediately after the first one ends. You do not
want to cast Symbols of Death at the same time as your second Shadow Dance, but rather 1 or 2 seconds later when Secret Technique has
10 seconds or less remaining. This is to make sure you supercharge the Secret Technique instead of an Eviscerate.
Because of this a Shadow Dance+Symbols of Death macro is not ideal.
so i can press blades 0.1 seconds before the 1+1.3 second happens?
essentially you use shadow blades one global earlier, afer consuming premed, but before pressing sec tec i imagine
!wa
@tepid trellis !!!
are we pressing secret technique then 0.9 sec later shadowblades?
doesent really matter can press just before or just after you press it
all you care about is having both sectechs land inside of it
I kinda just โrollโ the key presses and it works well
yes the shadowblades 20% dam buff applies to sec tec in 11.1
so need to use in the window
I wish they would swap goremaw and dark brews spot in the tree :(
pretty free to get off regardless, blade is 15sec and 2x dance is 16
Would it make sense to macro blades to the sec tec without cold blood?
if you want to min/max you wouldn't even macro cold blood to secret
using cold blood for your second secret is a optimization
I have two macros
So i would macro blades only to sec tech not also to cold blood
hello fellow backstabbers, noobish question but I can't seem to find an answer. I haven't played sub since SL, but if memory serves, you use SecTec with 4 danse macabre, and now you don't? looking at rotation guides, seems like it's not the way anymore? if so why not?
We dont play around danse stacks
hero talents and cdr changes
Anymore
that explains a lot then, ty
@tepid trellis can we flag early?
and removal of shadowdust
Yeah dust changed alot
and make double secret techniques hit big
it lasts 24 sec
so yeah you could
doesent work that well on single target since you dont really generate cps that well outside of dance
but also flag stacks quick
i usually just do flag-finisher-dance+strike
shit
so is the play now to do conflag stacks, like ol venthyr?
How is sub compared to assa difficulty wise?
its a different type of difficulty
subtlety should be harder to initially learn, but as stealthi mentioned it is all about good cooldown management
Assa st feels very simple, but aoe sometimes becomes a hassle
Me, an Outlaw, who never really heard the word CD management aside from maybe holding vanish or AR for a downtime phase
dw about it
its all fake
Outlaw just doesnt look like it has the numbers next patch, tho my biger issue with it is not using daggers
cd specs like to jerk themselves off about cd management
in the end you just press on cd

jorkin it
go press bte 8 times in a row
no i dont thiunk i will

im a sub one trick now
What a time we live in
Lol what a time to be alive
That's very real
no wae man
I swear !
1h !
ye
i was about to go ptr
i just need to take a shower quick
say 10 then we play ?
Sin rotation is fucking bland. Like a boiled chicken with no seasoning
Envenom: The game
Adrenaline rush
That's why I kinda lived nightstalker snapshotting
No?
Any coupe de grace on fazed WA?
Made Kingsbane fun
Like imagine if you could rupture mouseover with 3 more yards
How is acro any more fun 
Banger no?
Cringe tbh
I just came up with that idea
Blindside is the only fun proc in sin now. But it's not played in M+
wow Acro. What an awesome idea. Maybe Blizz will implement it. wait oh they removed it? sucks

nah that sucked hard. Was the reason i never tried to learn sub
it was so fun when you figured out good ways to use it tho
But it was definitely unhealthy
For the game
as much as i get that it was a nightmare if you wanted to learn the spec
ok
okok
wanna double sub rogue
i wanna compare our dps
@leaden prairie
@random hare lol put him in the ground
we always play together thats why we play on a similar high level
u can learn what ur doing wrong
Yeah competition is nice sharpens your skills
i fear the moment i play sub on a new boss and all that i learned the last couple of days will just poof and vanish and leave me with a blank mind
What are the chances of a one trick assa main (last 4 expansions) learning the current sub and NOT doing aug evoker level damage?
How's the skill cap?
not bad
idk idc rly
Are there any dungeons in season 2 that are nice for the first dance, like dawnbreaker or city of threads?
too bad we lost one the absolute greats when it comes to sub rogue after DF
wish i had friends i could do that with even though i dont do m+ near your level
theater has lots of portal travel/walking TFD up on a lot of packs
ok sounds nice
your damage is fine once you learned the core cooldown management
The thing about tfd is that Wm is not good on ST and does nothing on aoe
So most dungeons are gonna have enough resets just by virtue of how the dungeons are
is there a dungeon in S1 that ISN'T good with TFD? it's in on all dungeons right?
Like grim batol for example, youll get it after dragons and after each boss
At absolute worst
the more the better..I really like that talent from many points of view
Is the Rupture application of Replicating Shadows smart? so does it prefer targets that to not have rupture on it when spreading to 1 additional target?
Yes
nice
How many rupture do i spread on average in m+ while fighting the pack? while gathering the pull i guess as much as possible
Yeah pretty much just do it until the group is gathered
Better to go into cdโs asap
so we back at eviscerating till 8 targets
after CDs are over and the pack still lifes. just Shuriken > BP / Evis or try to re rupture? or does that even happen?
If youll get actual value out of rupture than rupture
But otherwise just storm evisc ya
i dont quite get that
if the mobs will live a majoirty of the length of the ruptures duration
Otherwise its not worth it
ah okay sry
Nah np np
7
Am I wrong to assume I just run the same gameplan that I've had for past month when 11.1 drops
Its still good though
Like no rotation changes
thats correct ye
But isnt it better to be better baseline than have an OP tier set you'll lose after the season ends?
then they just buff it the patch after it
maybe but they can always buff it next patch
doesent really matter
Yeah
i guess youre right. as long as they dont nerf baseline to "fix" it with tier
I think the assa buffs are funnier though
completely just 0 goals in mind
buff random abilities
Buffing bleeds but not so much that they really matter
Arterial change makes basically 0 sense also
The arterial one is even weirder than the precise cuts buff for outlaw
At least you know what they were trying for with that one
even with tier nerf is it still worth to try to preserve high stack counts at like the end of a pack or if the situation calls for it?
like not degen sending 25 seconds of rupture but if a pack is dying super soon or something and we're not sending another shadow dance send some ruptures?
aight sounds good
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@upper plinth still at the dummies?
is it just me or is tricks bugging in PTR?
multiple people have said so. Report it
is it really true i should hold cold blood for second st during flag, even though i lose out on cooldown uptime?
- Why is the Cold Blood and Secret Technique macro not recommended anymore?
When you macro these two together you often end up using it outside of your shadow blades window rather than inside of it, and since Subtlety gets so many damage modifiers inside its cooldowns its actually more damage use it only in Shadow Blades
(yes, even if you end up losing casts of cold blood). Ideally you use it on your second Secret Technique as it will be buffed by more stacks of Flawless Form and have higher Flagellation stacks.
until an hour ago yeah. little pause to learn a bit for my university exam tomorrow xD
the trinkets all seem so meh for us this season
there are 2 good ones
Best way to get that muscle memory is to hit the dummy (for hours xD)
Be glad we got a 90 second trinket
Studying for Rogue and studying for Uni? Hell yeah, nice going
There wasnโt one until a few weeks ago
they're all barely better than transmitter
and transmitter will get nerfed again more than likely
Transmiter will probably get nerfed again, yeah
And also no minigame which, in sims, isn't an issue but in reality can be a huge pain
or itโs one less item to farm. Win either way.
& a s2 hero track shadow binding knife is like in our top 5 trinket comps in s2
and?
At least we'll have easy bracketless trinkets eventually since both of the 'best' are raid drops iirc
hero ritual knife shouldn't be better than so many myth trinkets but w/e
people say hero track like itโs a bad thing, but then want to farm a dungeon 60 times for a hero track trinket or pray for a mythic all season from the vault.
We have two very good trinkets.
And they're actually, if the Dinar system comes in at a reasonable timeframe, accessible this time.
assa literally playing two hero dungeon trinkets and praying for vault in s1
Ask me about my normal Transmitter
If youโre not clearing last 3 bosses in mythic, guess what hero track is gonna be your life
Until the dinar, anyway
mmhm
And then you'll actually be able to get an ilevel capped trinket. Priase be.
Huge gains
assuming the dinar is even coming 
havent seen the trinket all season long (not that i was interested as outlaw but still)
let me pray
๐ซ
@upper plinthi feel you just a hero track transmitter
I've killed Ky'veza every single week on Heroic this season. I've done every single TW and dungeon event. I've 6/6'd my vault every week. I have seen: 2? 3? transmitters drop in the entire season. The normal one I have is from a timewalking box lmao
The loot system is such trash
Also valorstones suck. This isn't connected to trinkets. Just they suck and I hate them right now.
can't wait to get get passed for house of cards because I'm a trial raider 
The problem is you didnโt do the plunderstorm loot box
I DID
Noted
It's really funny
I had it happen a few weeks later too when I took some gloves from vault for transmog. And then the timewalking box gave me the same fucking item
Some how my mythic raid is for queen didnโt lock me. Ended up pugging first couple. Finally got mythic shoulders.
this is why you first open the box, then pick vault item
I hope that i get House and Eye just because im the best player in my guild. Not that this is a flex in a 6/8 guild...
when do i get to a guild thats CE capable...
Yeah absolutely, it's just so funny
when you join one?
got turned down every time because i dont have a 7/8 or CE under my belt
And beeing german is not a helpful factor
I don't have them either but I still get messaged by CE guilds 
just gotta keep trying, if your logs are good there are definitely CE guilds that are willing to give you a try
As Outlaw my logs are good. Havent played the other specs. Want to change that the upcoming season
found the problem 
You'll get there. Just keep at it.
that kinda breaks my heart a little ๐ why everyone hating on my pirate. Its only because your jealous of my 0.8gcd
Being outlaw logs is likely more of a factor than being zerman
I am an outlaw enjoyer too, but unfortunately that spec is not that great in raid
You'll get some blastin' sub logs this season 
its like applying to a guild with survival logs
as a rogue I think you should strive to master all 3 specs
meant that as a limiting factor in my search for guilds. im not that fluid in speaking english. am better in writing
if youโre legit looking to get in, crank your assa logs since sub can be hit or miss due to population size
@leaden prairie btw i think
we have to stack full vers
because this is my first time not stacking full vers
i kept dying from random shit i didnt expect to die from ngl
want to start that by playing sub this season. lets see how it goes
thats cause its a 15 and you dont know the keys yet
also cheat death is ass
its normal to die
nah i know the key
not with this low vers tho
kinda tried it for first time
usually i play elusiveness
elusiveness with no gcd feint is too good




