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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.
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Hello, switching back to sub because KS is making me crazy. Sub support dungeon slice?
For gearing yes
fwiw, assa bleed build outperforming.
just depends on what you’re looking for
Taking it easier this season probably max around a 15 key. At 665 ilvl just want stats to be right.
Stack mastery and vers where i can get it?
at your ilvl all three remaining are good options
gameplay gonna beat out any worrying you do over stats
If you haven’t played current sub in keys, just make sure you’re ok with downtime doing less dps than the healer
Frick, mines too high

Any tips for bandit mythic team?
Well 😅
watch stealthi vod for cd timingsd
Move back every dance/sod for when reel assistants come out
You can time dance/cd windows perfectly with reel assistants + coin.
just depleto +17 workshop coz no damage
its actually impossible to play without shaman
as subtlety sadge
Sup team, I have a question about stats, especially about the siren isles ring snapshot with alchemical chaos flask.
***Without any buffs/consumables, I can have either : ***
21 K Mastery / 17 K Versatility or 16.5 K Mastery / 20 K Versatility
***With Alchemical Chaos, I can have either : ***
24 K Mastery / 17 K Versatility or 18 K Mastery / 23 K Versatility
***Now, having House of Cards, I am unsure as to which stat I should prioritize with the Siren Isles ring snapshot, here are my thoughts : ***
1 - I would logically go for higher Vers, since House of card's gives 9 K Mastery during cd's, which would add a nice balance between Mast/Vers.
2 - According to Sims, I should go for higher mastery (even with House of Cards).
3 - Sims also make me use Alchemical Chaos, which then allows me to snapshot either of higher Mastery or Vers.
So what all of that in mind, what do you guys think I should go for Unbuffed / which stat of Alchemical Chaos ?

I'm super confused, hoping the discord gods can help 🙏
Sounds like a lot of mental bandwidth for something probably not worth it
Not sure what you're trying to optimize. Are you asking if you should snapshot ring on vers or mastery? I don't get how the alchemical chaos gets involved in that though
Siren Isles's gem gives 3.2K of your highest secondary stat
The difference between choosing either higher mastery or vers is quite huge
bro, just sim your gear and go with the result
House of cards giving 9K mastery during cds + flagelation
That's the thing
you cannot tell which stat the sims snapshots with siren isles +3K secondary stat
You can
going for higher vers on top of HoC + flag, gets me i'd imagine like 170% mastery
But it also doesnt matter
seems counter intuitive
The sim already calculates with it
^
The sim doesnt tell you which stat is chosen as the higher one i don't understand
Like to some extent, as I said with CD's additional mastery, I feel like it has to have an impact at some point u know
if it had impact, it would be in the sim result
and there would probs be a pin talking about it
Hey guys, just came back to rogue and started with sub for dungeons.
Anyone has a quick hint for me where sub, assa and outlaw excel in comparison on dungeon ?
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It does
But again, the sim knows about this and its included in all the calculations it does
in m+?
assa high consitent aoe dmg, boss dmg is not that great
sub has good boss dmg but less aoe dmg/dmg on adds, depeends more on CDs
Fury Warrior is Fury Warrior, i dont touch i with a 30meter pole
So which one is being used ?
So anything is fine I guess, just a flavor thing ?
The ring snapshot only happens on login and if you reequip it from my understanding, I don't understand how in a quick sim it would use both version of the Siren Isles stat gems ?
wtf is everyone on a secondary stat copium in dagger channels today.
I thought about stats a lot today
Fairly sure its also when you start a key, when you change zone or when you die
Is it good to macro secret techique with coldblood? I'm not sure im doing rotation correctly. Im currently using this macro
But again, it doesnt matter
You can, but ideally you'd have one without them macroed
You want your cold blood to hit the second sectech in your cooldowns rather than the first (and nothing outside of cds)
ooooh whaaat
chat chat
Like either dont macro
this is funny
Or have a macro and another bind
Do i only use coldblood 2nd technique and not on other spells/cds
Yes
You can technically use it inbetween if you use it literally on cd so you dont need to delay flag
a guildie made me notice a thing looking at dataforazeroth: despite playing by a long time im not a player that does much side content (aka ""social"" stuff no offense given) so the rarest title i got is just Shadowblade and apparently this is a rare title just by virtue of playing rog because rog is so underplayed globally
But its iffy and sucks real bad if you screw it up




!wa
i feel they need to do something for rogue. like compare how amazingly paladins cd's all line up with each other and abilitys turn into other abilitys. then theres sub where you have multiple macros for the same abilitys
i just feel the smoothness of ret is what's made it so popular. All 3 rogue specs are pretty rough comparatively.
Do we even have class devs anymore? Put whoever did the ret rework in df on rogue for a patch cycle.

Ret and BM are the easiest classes in the game by far.
DH rework was quite good, wouldn’t be mad if Dad came back and shared some of that love
on stix do we hold cds on pull?
We will get nothing and be happy with it.
Sub doesn’t really need much anyways
poison toggle
That and combined flag/blades are on my list lol
Besides the obvious More Purple Lemme be Kyveza
Nightblade, Edge of Night, etc etc
What % does mastery dr for sub?
Is there any reason why Raidbots sims seem to have Shadow Blades very high in overall damage output? I've played around with rotation on dummies in Dorn and found that it's about 5.5-7% of my damage but Raidbots is showing it as 10.5%.
Youre probably not doing your burst sequence correctly if its doing that low
For big momma is there enough time to send all cds on pull if they're up before damage amp?
Amp is when adds die though so probably depends on key level
On 12+s are you all sending on pull or holding flag?
I miss the timing but .5 second always and end up using cold blood for my shadowstrike….
Do you mind looking through this a bit? Second day playing Sub after a long period of playing Outlaw and Assassin. I know I am making mistakes.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/4qpCQMRvBt9FTfbN?fight=15&type=damage-done&source=1
Just slapping Kelpfist around
!mistakes
Here are some common mistakes and how to spot them in your logs:
- Go into your log, press Timelines and Casts to the right like this
- Every single Flagellation & Blades window should look like the opener in this picture. Coup, shadowstrikes and eviscerates can move around a bit depending on procs, but all the other spells should be used exactly like this.
- Make sure you always get 8 globals of during your shadow dances. You can hover over your shadow dances to see the exact times they start, and then see if your 8th spell is within 8 seconds of that.
- If your shadow dance and/or symbols wasnt ready in time to be used like in the picture above you used too many in between your burst.
Guys, do you sometimes have issues with boss fight environment sounds jamming other sounds like dbm or wa?
I have my wa sounds in master channel but sometimes they just dont go through
how do you guys do your cooldowns for rik swapping from sin...
I hold dance if I know the adds are coming up in 10 seconds or less
hmmge

grats!
hell yeah, congrats!
Crazy
Colour me shocked
gzgz
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seem boss has blackhand vibes
kinda fun but nothing crazy happening
just do things well and it dies
42 pull kinda banger
colour
Ah yes your vids pop up in my YouTube recommend (no glaze) lol
95% of that is just prep work
we had 16 people yesterday sit on discord going over everything
i see
so we had like 0 struggles with the hard soaks in p1
i feel like we didnt do as much prep
we just breezed through it
as for the other bosses
like this what it looked like
Weve had 8 pulls yesterday and then we have raid on sunday and monday, surely it dies right
we have a 34 page raidplan for the entire fight
that we went through
getting invited to 15s is straight up pain XD
!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.
Can you send it to me Stealthi now that you've killed boss? 😄
Or did you guys not end up making your own
!bs
Backstab/Shadow Dance Macro:yaml #Showtooltip Shadow Dance /cast [bonusbar:1] Backstab; Shadow DanceThis will cast Shadow Dance on first key press and Backstab on second key press.
is there an option to remove the cp that u see unde ryour character profile?
spocket today I want to cry
Wait there is a macro for that?lol
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What guild are you again @tepid trellis
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this tier was kinda funny
Our Rik Reverb rekill today was kinda funny. It made our Drud heal quit the guild and we trolled for like 2hours, but when Discord went down and we didn't have any calls from our raidlead, we killed it in 2 trys.
"so what is it exactly you say you do here?"
Our raidlead got mad at our druid heal for fcking up the opening of the speakers. She kept asking him multiple times to speak up. He just wrote something in raid chat instead, so my raidlead benched him, making him ragequit the guild... And I think not having constant nagging for not standing pixel perfect on a mark made everybody play better, once voice was down.
sometimes you need the nagging voice
sometimes that nagging voice needs to know when to get out of the way
tuckmans model of team development
also the rest of you sub rogues, can you stop outperforming me by so much? my parses are making me self conscious
stop log shaming me
i'm impressed you guys 4 shot cauldron
cauldron is ruining us, we're only like 30 pulls in but people cannot stay alive
we 1 shot vexie but we just started mythic last week
so we're quite a bit overgeared
but you can't overgear stupid
Been playing my sub rogue on and off again for a few last xpacs and recently picked him up again and I have a question - the downtime between dances, especially the time before SB and flagellation come off CD so I can line them up, feels super slow/weak and super long... I know that's kind of the whole point of the spec but I didn't get that feeling back in Dragonflight for example, at least not on this scale. I literally feel like I'm doing 0 dps, waiting for my stuff to come off CD. Anyone else have the same feeling or am I doing something wrong?
that's just how the class plays
downtime is literally downtime
it's not "oh you do a little less for a while"
it's "go get coffee, take a piss break, quickie with the wife"
no time for foreplay though, its' not THAT long
😄
this graphic (from the method sub rogue rotation page) kind of sums it up nicely:
from 12-35, 41-55, 61-90 you're just throwing finishers for the cdr, not so much for damage
at least that's my understanding
makes keeping rupture up nice and easy
yeah, you should have more than enough time to plan to make sure you aren't having to rupture during dance (don't do that) or having it fall off (sadge but let it happen if you misplay)
Gotcha, so yeah, I'm not doing anything wrong, it's just how the spec works (I mean, it's always been kinda like this, but it seems this xpac they've doubled down on this - the dance windows feel much stronger now, but downtime feels much slower now in turn)
if you look at any good sub rogue parse it's BEEG spike, flatline, medium spike, flatline, medium spike, flatline, BEEG spike
haven't done the math but it feels like rupture falling off in dance is kinda punishing, since rupture is our way of shifting damage from an outside-of-dance GCD into dance
p sure it's better to let it fall off than waste a dance/symbols finisher on it
(obviously don't rupture in dance regardless, that's counterproductive)
but yeah i haven't done the math
i mean rupture ends up being like 10% of your overall if you manage it well
oh and by "medium spike" i mean "still big but not quite as yuuuuge"
it makes me sad to look at the top rogue parses for some fights and see them getting beat by like 80 parses for other classes
Theres nothing wrong to refresh early rupture
and these "medium spikes" are ofc dance but without the big boi cds right?
yeah
yeah. I'd go as far to say "small spike"
how dare you!
example. you can even tell when I fucked up on the big cooldowns 🙂
it's not the size... it's how you use it
dang that's a perfect kill time for you
haha
mine are always right before the big boi cds come back
like literally "shadow blades is back in 3 seconds and... kill"
I blame heroism making me fuck up
then they're like "why'd you only green/blue parse?"
"why can't you fuckers kill the boss faster or slower?"
i dont like sub rog this season so many proc aperntaly
the playstyle is fun but parses and stuff feel a little out of my control
i do like that the 3 specs feel pretty competitive with each other right now though
or maybe that's my copium so i don't meta chase and go back to sin
i got them rockin' purple and orange LFR parses though, let's gooooo
Im so fckin depressed rn, I tinkered a bit with sims of outlaw st, with a few recrafts and what I found lying around my bags, I got like +100k dps
How tf is that possible
Change you circlet gems if you didn’t.
Now the question is should i respec ffs
does killing spree every 15 seconds make you nauseous ?
Well... I guess Id have to build some tolerance 😝
Problem is, outlaw channel is the inly channel i didnt follow, like at all this season 😢
So I guess Id have a lot to catch up
Yea but chat often has some important bits...
Like pvp trink for sub, one afternoon someone wrote here smth about it and it turns out it was a huge upgrade for me 😆
Also the pvp trinket is mentioned in the guides and the pin here too 
it's called outlaw, not follow-the-law
So its not like its solely from the chat
Worse case you ping Zac in the assa channel and ask there
It’ll break up the stat / haste needed questions
@hazy breach were you running forced induction
or the tea setup
Mostly tea, but FI is fine
yo, someone know if nimble flurry give more dmg if all target's have find weakness debuff?
Yes it would do 10% more damage
But its not worth storming for, strike does more damage overall
Is it still about a 1% difference if I just keep ST macrod with CB and use it during my first finisher?
Roughly yes
remember you lose a lot of swag points
when other sub rogues peep your logs
and see the CB on the first sectech
you're gonna lose a bit of street cred
guys im actually mad
same patern always
sub strong and than assa overtake
how is it allowed
Sub better in most dungs atleast 
smile
anyone know how i can shadowstep out of the mug zee gaol? saw a rogue do it on a vod but i have no idea
@tribal blade that was easy
HELL yeah
Can’t upgrade til next week
you are funny guy
i've seen 3 rik daggers so far 😉
if the dagger from bandit dront drop im about to lose it
!sod
Macro to prevent accidental uses of extra charges: #showtooltip Symbols of Death /castsequence reset=2 Symbols of Death,null /cqs
im doin 2.4m overall at 640 ilvl in a +8 flood am i doin alright?

YO @twilit phoenix THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR LOG ANALYSIS DUDE
NOT SURE IF YOU SAW MY MESSAGE THANKING YOU SO HERE IT GOES
YO @twilit phoenix THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR LOG ANALYSIS DUDE
any relaters? 
I'm guessing holy priest dropped a screw directly on to melee and then walked off while y'all got blasted off by beta launch?
but i like this version more
Why are you so far back
bomb
WHY
sometimes colours line up in a way where you get the far one
but it should only be at the 3min one
like NEVER NEVER
IN OPENER!?
tell them to fix their shitty note
Yeah
First ones are healer ones
and Warriors are better for far mines
than rogue
Evoker
Getting 1st bomb in 3 min set 
Only melee to get it was our Warri
think i had the the 2nd soak on the 3min one
maybe 7 times
in total
where you just stay behind when they move the boss
That thing brakes a man
funny thing, dont think ive ever played so bad cooldown wise as i did on gallywix last night xD
lost like 2-3 sec of every cd set in p2/p3 xD
cuz im an absolute idiot
Sometimes it is what it is

did only see p2/p3 4 times
🙂
what good prep does to a mfer
Were you already at the tight beams with magnet?
ye couple of times
how many pulls did you guys need?
rik pull count is high cuz we did him week 1
with like 3, 4sets
was very fun tho
probably our most hype kill
we were locked in
dw i have cursed tech for you on rik aswell
delay cds till 10 sec into the fight because we need the add dmg because raidlead said so, and then get assigned to soak turret on 1:40

assigned as in pre planned
ye
idk man
give that shit to a 2min class
tbf we only soak on 1 pilon
each phase
like assigned soak
we just have the people that break it
right click it as well
when they walk out from it
then you dont need to drain any of em
outside of the first pilon that spawns
nah you dont, you tell em to stop being idiots
and make the fight easier
Can't argue
Im arguing 
because everyone thinks im just parse hungry
there is only 1 topic

that i wont argue
on
and that is PI
i say my peace once
then i shut up
let the fiends, fiend over it
I know that feeling
That reminds me btw on week 1
Where i had to raidlead, because our raidlead healed
People with good logs always are parsehungry in some peoples heads
that is the soaks i did on first rik kill

soaking that shit feels like the spongebob meme where thaddeus watches spongebob and patrick having fun outside
We just use 4 tanks and let them deal with it 🤷
4 tanks. 
2 tanks are dummies and just run around clicking the shit
The rest ignores everything
Pretty easy
No matter what you do that fight can just be super easy
we needed dam week 1
so this what we came up with
and we killed it with 2sec left on enrage xD
the 2 people that break drain the thing down to 0 then just ignore rest of the phase
only one you gotta actually drain more than that once
is the first in each phase
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For the pylon at 1.40 it's not even about soaking
It's just losing three or four globals during blades that completely ints you
Until the paraplegic warlock made his way to break
why did even stealthi play sin on mugzee? what is so bad with sub on that fight?
or only executereasons?
execute
you are holding dmg in p1 anyway
so only time dmg matter is p2
and Assa SMOKES sub
in p2
assa does like 3mil boss dps in p2
mhhh even if i have full mast vers gear? i mean i am willing to switch, just need to find out if it makes sense with my gear
recrafting will probably be around 20-40k
dps
it was around that for me
im in the midst of doing a recrafting sim, cuz im mostly just going perma assa for farm
unless they buff sub
thats so sad
i mean its my first subtier since a long time
and its really fun
beside numbers 😄
now i need to go back as well and see what assa currently is doing
FWIW for most people the spec choice wont matter
dont think guilds will see enrage anymore on mug'zee
unless you got people dead
it still feels bad if i do a 99 on a boss and are mid of the pack in my raid ^^ (not saying i will do on mugzee, but happend on other bosses)
Big buff with 11.1.5. 🙏
I usually try to compete with my raid
But now it's more about parses as a comparison
It's like S1 again. "man, Sub is so weak. Please, Blizz. oh well, I guess I'll play Assa for a bit".
Bp buff incoming
we did not have a ww for the whole season
thats 3rd season this is true ^^
yesterday first time. bursts almost as high as me and has like much more inbetween dmg
lol
😄
^^ blizz wants you to play it
Each day we stray further from God and closer to Sin
Blizz wants money
I don't think blizz gets less money if specs are competitive and its up to user choice
but it is easier for them to develop in a way to have one spec they put in more effort
so they can keep development costs lower
besides being able to have diffrent variations of rotational depth, assassiantion always was the "easy" spec and remains in this position
Gonna gear my monk soon and see how it feels in alt raids
I would love to know if they prioritze based on the amount of people playing a spec. Something that would make total sense from a design standpoint. Or if it's a different, longer-term design approach
Seems like it if you compare blueposts and notes between specs
Yeah
I can't really fault that approach because it's a logical way to priortise resources.
Even if I, the OTP Sub fool, suffers.
A suffering of my own making.
I think the biggest complain i got from people trying subtlety
is the endless amount of bugs
From my own friends who I have tried to convince to play it: Bugs, weird lack of damage outside of cooldowns, weird reliance on cooldowns to do anything and knowledge gap.
even tho some are fixed, the design decisions made give soo much room for problems
ill just give some examples
Btw
Wierd relience of cooldowns is bs. Cause it plays i to the fanatasy of a rogue from the shadows abiding his time to strike
I didnt check it
I do enjoy that
But does anything get parried, even with fazed up
Gives an ez downtime outside burst as well
Yeah, I mean same. But if you look at it from the perspective of someone coming from a "push cooldowns on cooldown" spec
Sometimes i get the Sound Queue for it, but im like huh? how?
nope
It's a pretty radical shift to how they've been playing the game.
at what stat numbers do they start DRing?
None
Thats not true 
I mean you shouldn’t care about dr
i thought the DR went up by 10% every time you hit a threshold?
i just want to know the number i sall
Something Something 22K afaik
the 10% dr kicks in around 22k?
Ye
oh lol
I think Mastery is 25,000? But you shouldn't care about DR because Flagellation is % (which doesn't get DR. Only raw stat does) . And also our Sim's account for it so you can just ignore DR and not worry about it.
My Sim wants me to get more Crit and Vers now
yeah im just curious is all, i just get stats that my sim tells me to anyways lol
that i reached high mastery
Same buddy
My sims still want mastery iirc
Do you have hoc
Because thats when my Sims wanted me to get more crit/vers
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Resimming soon, cuz I regemmed
where would we even find the resource for DR thresholds if we wanted to see them?
quick examples:
- Secret technique can have some hitbox problems/weirdness, so certain boss phases or positions can make it do noticable less damage
- Shadowstep is not always "behind the enemy" and especially on fights like gallywix hard to predict
- The tier set bonus still does not work correctly every time
- Cloak does not prevent all magic damage (tho thats a general problem with blacklisting)
- Rupture spread logic/distance is not intuitive
...
And lost a fair bit of vers
Does anyone know how to best use Junkmaestro's magnet on a rogue?
Cloak getting more useless
There are addons iirc which show them on you character screen
sublety just has a lot of quirks you find out over time
it is rly just certain things
but if it does not work, its weird
especially on certain mechanics that would tehcnically work
The amount of times this expansion I've gone to cast Sec and it's been JUST out of range
It's so frustrating
oh ye
hot take, but secret should probably drop the target requirement
and just work like BP
100%
you still need to make sure to hit everything
I think they should rework Secret. Make it at least 15y. Make it a singular hit. Give it a cool animation (Kyveza)

And make it baseline
I am fine with the 2nd /3rd part
its just
flag and secret range requirement
both is kinda annoying
Esp in 20+ mob pulls
My problem with the 2nd/3rd part is that it's just weird how it's all put together. Take it out and just design a better ability imo
So we avoid issues like this tier set one.
the reason it was designed as multi part attack is
to allow similar gameplay patterns to dfa
the problem was, the initial hit was too strong to ever consider that ^^
Yeah
Shadow Danse? 😮
Oh, also! Bake Cold BLood into SecTec if it used during Dance.
And replace CB on the class tree with something else
i am for it
Sounds like Dave has a new enemy.
change cold blood to something like
your next finishing move critical hits after entering stealth
Should you save sectec for symbols even when symbols is 15 sec on cd?
CB is a weird talent. It's interesting but so very niche. And it creates a (imo, anyway.) needless complexity with SecTec/CB interaction. When you could streamline it, buff it a bit and lose nothing.
or just make it so secret always crits
That'd be useful for Sub / Outlaw but I imagine Assa would struggle to find use for it?
I like that idea though
you could make it
next 2
and its fine if a talent is not immidiatly useful for all 3
True, true!
The main upside would be the removal of complexity
cold blood + secret is still a macro a lot of people want to use
besides the 1% dps loss
Yeah
its just very inconvinient to use cold blood like it is used now
it is. It's needless complexity, imo. It doesn't really add anything interesting except an extra button you ideally need to think about every 1:40ish
Or you do less damage.
Or you go to the other extreme where it's always macro'd together and you aren't thinking about it at all anyway.
I mean you can macro it but as an extra button for second dance
yes, sub design has a lot of useless complexity
Yeah agreed
Also: posion toggle
I'm waiting for the day when PV and LS are taken out of the tree forever because I hate them and they hurt me.
I think Dark Brew should be higher in the tree these days, too.
and revert all nerfs to it, week 1 ohh sub is doing good damage nefr sectech for 500% week 6 sub is spanch bob spec aura buff 5%, every season, fish memory in blizz dev team
I do wish we had the OG set, yeah.
For all the dooming, I do think the 11.0.5 changes were stellar and I'm a big fan of how they changed Anima-charger combie points and how they interact with our kit. It's cool.
So they can cook some really good stuff.
Even if it isn't sub specific. It's still real good. And I stand that the S&D change was really cool.
everytime I feel happy with how sub is being played they go NOPE and just warp how it plays
part of me misses Shadow dance being the prime cooldown
It was the blessed times
What was even was the point ? To make us good in rwf?
Would have liked it more if we didn’t get that buff but a strong set
Anyway it’s not too bad
We could be arcane mages
How are your pugs going btw?
Pls why
we are arcane mages
but last time we were top was... i do not remember to be honest, s1 df?
Fun fact:
On our vexie rekill this week my arcane friend and me were #1 and #2 in our raid 
I'm more interested in what's going on with survival hunters whisker there lmao
Just to understand, how did sub go from like top 5 to bottom most spec for raid from week 1
People got gear
dont think we got any nerfs since raid went live
We were strong early because we had an aura buff and did good damage. Then people got tier and gear and overtook us (again, this happens a lot)
Plus some classes got buffs.
damn
same thing happened in uh.. DF S3? I think?
Are we pressing shadow dance with full combo points straight into sectec, or are we pressing it at 0 combo points straight into backstab?
As I said above, it wasn’t really surprising.
They made us good in week1 by giving us a good baseline buff but gutted our tier set - so it was always a matter of time till we get „outscaled“
You could have even compared „bis“ sims back then
Some specs were 500k ahead of us
They nerfed transmitter
Also that
Ask transmitter
Early season we had a op trinket on burst
house of cards is still p decent
but yeah we just got outscaled and silly me missed the first few weeks to planned vacations/trips
should have prioritized wow parses over that stupid once in a lifetime stuff
the big thing is there will always be specs at the bottom of the charts, that's just the way the game is
and sub might just be destined to be that spec this tier
good on some fights, but overall pretty meh
as more good players play assa sub parses will be lower
what happens
sub will go down and down
i feel like melee used to be stronger to compensate for the downtime in fights
true that too
like i remember simming way higher than mage/warlock friends but most fights you couldn't come close to your sims because of mechanics
but they were closer to their parses
yeah that's just melee vs range stuff
but now we sim equally or lower than ranged but have the same problems
like they balanced around patchwerk sims and not the reality of the fights
it feels like
They dont balance around patchwerk
they'll tune according to the data from raid
or m+
and i suspect we see M+ tuning around the .5 patch
do they though? i feel like the lower performers last tier stayed low
And like, ranged (that arent BM or fire) lose way more due to mechanics than we do
we got nerfed week -1
they definitely do, it's just the meta specs were hard gapping everyone quite a bit and the buffs weren't enough to bump people above them
yea frost mage is not in a bad spot
but fire is just ADHD no casts
while frost has to cast
so they suffer more
and lets not talk about arcane even
i hear arcane is making a resurgence in M+
does insane prio
i mean i'm enjoying sub in terms of rotation now
it is like the outlaw of m+
our burst windows are silly fun
some people just play that forever
we dont even burst that hard
that is the sad space
i can't believe i'm about to say this, i feel dirty
@alpine wraith yeah... but i've been a rogue since classic and i don't see me changing now so forgive my copium
but bleed sin is making me lose interest in sub in keys
take off your blue name
be gone
see you next tier
i still love sub, but it's been amazing playing bleed
makes sense who wants to do bad dmg even in cds
hahahaaa
YEP this
i know this is an odd thing to say in a place for rogues
but man prophet, that's just a knife in the back
haha fair enough
well at least he just didnt reroll dk
like a lot of people did
there is a reason rogue is just plain unpopular
i've always had a dk alt but he's still s1 geared
i have a monk and dh at cap too that i can probably swap to and get geared quickly if i HAD to
any time i raided sub 50 wr the times i was able to play rogue was so low
but right now i'm not the weak link in our raid
feels weird because i have gotten title as sub 3 times, 2 times when sub was not good in keys
enha
outlaw had it's heyday
uhdk right now
uh is so mindless
outlaw in bfa s2
nah outlaw in legion got destroyed
so guys if I am constantly third dps in overall at the end of the key sitting between 2,8 mill to 3,2mill dps I am fine?
nerfed time and time again
coz I feel miserable about my dmg
@ripe moon with 0 deaths, then yes
depends on the key but
depends on the key
did you time? if yes then youre okay
and how much you were prioing
i mean depends a lot more on the tank and comp
i think people over emphasize the meters
if you have no shaman you get -10% dps
yeah think about sub utility and all of our cc that we have
i think not dying and timing the key are way better indicators than dps
it's brutal playing without skyfury
i mean i've been goofing around in keys and when i'm not on a priority target it sometimes dies last
which is hilarious
well the big mobs usually will die last depending on your comp
so while we might not do the most overall/cleave we're definitely important
if you can open from stealth or have your vanish 😛
it's quite easy to plan vanish charges as sin
well not easy, but with reps it's not bad
most complicated place for me is cinderbrew
which isn't a guarantee with these pug tanks these days
that's a problem that starts going away with higher key levels
you don't have tanks doing complete monkey 0 brain pulls
and chains
i'm only 2400 so i can barely get in 10s even
i'm not getting in high keys atm
i saw groups posting 2k requirements for 2's yesterday
LOL tf
the 1-10 range is full of mouthbreaking, lint eaters
bad players + elitists + other insult i'm too tired to think of
just mill Your own keys thats my strategy
yeah that's how i've gotten anything done
but with my rating i'm not drawing the best talent either
timing 10s, sure
but an 11 is a dead key basically
and +2'ing a 10 with randos is a coin toss
people who are pugging into 12+s are playing a different game completely right now
bad players are focused on ksm and portals really, so the people even applying for 12+ is typically a different kind of player
might be higher than 12 now even
forgive the double meaning, but being ahead of the curve has a lot of value/benefit
actually that works too, if you have aotc in week 2 you can get in nearly any raid group, if you have it now it's a lot less meaningful
and in 4 weeks... who won't have it?
getting back on topic, it does suck though to get like a 90-95 parse and be like 5th on meters with people above you in the 70s and 80s heh
!trick
i'm at 3200 IO right now which is behind because i'm not degen pushing like i used to
also playing with a group who have less experience
but i pugged keys the past 2 days
and the players in 14-15s right now at around my IO are not great
in every rookery i've bricked i'm doing like ~2mil more overall than the other 2 dps by the time we brick before 2nd boss
so even players at that level are not exactly the brightest bulbs in the shed haha
I think 11s are terrible to find people for since it’s one below the cookie of not bricking your key rewards
yeah but it's much worse the lower you go
obviously the line moves up as the season goes on
10s seem like they always have.
are you mainly still using sin in these keys @tribal blade or sin and sub?
Actually a bit easier to pug
i'm still using sub in some of the lower target count dungeons
u guys think sub need a buff?
but the last 15 ToP i attempted playing sub we had no skyfury
it was miserable
horrible experience
don't think i'm gonna do that again
sub needs more than a buff
Ngl sin is pretty fine in top
we play st build for sin in top?
Bleed is fine everywhere
i hear yeah, every boss also has at least 1 extra target at some point in the fight
which is a big win for sin
so next top i'm gonna try sin out
nah play hybrid or bleed build
fuck kingsbane
it's not that great in top
Bleed has more or atleast the same St as hybrid
what is sin?
But def higher
For some its the same, for some its more.
for me it was higher aswell
The spec of rogue that gets the most attention from devs
oh I see
you would think sin without kingsbane would be turbo dog ST
but it honestly feels better, i do more with it too
blindside goes hard
also having execute is juicy
!wa
makes you wonder if you nerf kb by more than 60% suddenly it is not that better
same as our burst

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you can see all the split dmg
and we would all turn around in circles
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how about the ultimate classic
yeah but now it feels like the tier set nerfs before raid released were unjustified no?
no. The tier was too strong. Fix the spec.
Tier & Transmitter were propping up sub like a pair of crutches. Both got hit, though transmitter was still ridiculously good. Sub on its it isn’t tuned well, but we get random ass buffs to BP to fix the issue.
@random hare how does it feel using magnet instead of pacemaker
I sim 678 magnet and pacemaker. Magnet ~0.5% ahead in ST and ~0.2% behind in dungeon slice
Bp buff when
Yes buff bp again. Let me finally use it in st instead of evis 
Make it heal instead if it only hits 1 target
Same
What is DS?
Deathstalker
The forbidden hero spec
It’s alright on some keys I save it for bosses usually
I’ll eventually use pacemaker once I get more crests to get it up to 678
Pacemaker should be better overall
i think the big hope is that the same thing happens on this .5 patch as last time
and they make some big changes to sub
but i wouldn't hold my breath on that happening
So just baseline us up whenever new patch drops ?
last season we got a significant change
🙏
blades lowered to 1.5 min, symbols charges, supercharger and no more dust
Hmm can’t think of something that big coming for .5 again
Didn't everyone cry about it, especially the dust change?
most people were happy
there were some who were sad to see dust go yest
but i would say vast majority were very happy
We were initially concerned and skeptical but then they did it and it was pretty good.
Maybe a tweak to deepening and cdr in general would be the biggest thing I can think of they can do in 2 weeks
At best they do nothing, at worst they buff BP

Im one of those ppl... But now i'm happy with new TS sub... We just need some attention from devs and will be superfine (hope so...)
all we can do is hope 🙂
And play bleed in the meantime ? 
SL sub, 1 dance + 1 sod every 30s no matter what happens

coziest but shitiest sub iteration imo 
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The dust change is good but i do miss being able to get both sec tech into all dmg amps
so we're currently able to get both sectecs into all dmg amps right now 😉
Floodgate is very tight
I loved the 1 min big dances
Currently big-ish 45s dances would probably feel best imo
No cdr
Inb4 they haste the dance cooldown
Warning signs angle
you know what would feel great? Not balancing our abilities CDR and dmg around a shaman
Impossible
Give us back the tricks damage amp so people want us in keys 
(this is a bad idea but would indeed make us more wanted)

One crumb of skyfury please
Just convince a Shaman healer or DPS to be your friend, then have them be a vastly better player than you, and also like you enough to bring you to keys.
Absolutely
Make rogue buff that makes target take 3% more dmg instead of 3% reduced dmg done
Just bake it into sub as a passive
and give us the Crusading Strikes treatment for ShT
Slice and Dice raid buff
If it affected casting speed AND scaled with mastery (again)
yeehaw
we huge gaming
I feel like they just need to make the bonus hits not interact with things that proc on auto attacks
that would feel butt
Not if they compensated
Let’s see. Need a Shaman. Can’t tell natty if lust was pressed or not. CDR reliant on hero talent to not feel terrible.
CLEARLY the baseline of sub is perfect. Buff BP.
buff shiv
I see your Buff BP and raise you Buff BP
AND
nerf sectech by 5%
just for the sake of immersion
Delete Sectech at this point
Sectech becomes Secret Black Powder
if you make evisc do 100% shadow damage I wouldn't be mad
while deleting shadowed finishers and fw
Team No Split Damage Events on One Button Press
Redesign secret technique to just be a buff to eviscerate, like "your next eviscerate deals 100% more damage, only does shadow damage and has 100% crit"
(also remove cb)
and/Or make cb automically apply the 100% crit to sectech
have it buff evisc but give it sectech's target 'cap'
we’re kinda reliant on nimble as well so… dfa no animation.
where would the aoe portion of sectec go to then
Sectech is cool
big dam to main target, uncapped reduced to all others
Nimble, deathstalker isnt real and cant hurt you
haha i like it
Make it a toggle node. Aoe or higher shadowdmg idk
Incomimg 2% black powder buffs
it's kinda wild that BP was buffed by 55% this expac and it's still not strong enough
if you get rid of it, it also gets us back to seeing big single hits which seems to be requested
It's just a bad aoe bandaid ability
"sub doesn't have an aoe finisher, we deleted Combo, what do"
Delete BP, give back Nightblade
The bugs suck
What was combo?
we seek and destroy spec
shuriken combo
Ah
Could make Nightblade like Wounded Quarry
have the trigger be flurry'd evisc/strike damage in dance or something
could come up with something more elegant though so its tied to base kit instead of hero talents
OR
actually nvm was gonna suggest something that felt kinda derivative of fel scarred
'dance changes finishers to sectech-cb-flavored evisc/nightblade with special effects'
i feel like they could bring back a toned down version of combo and it wouldn't make sub super OP
Delete tornado. make combo a buff
like sin has crazy good funnel and that's perfectly acceptable to blizz to exist
Sin is their rogue baby
They can’t balance it for sub hence they deleted it back then
the only 10.2 finished rework we got
so obviously their whole philosophy on that is non existant
Accidentally deleted sub as a whole back then but yea
funnel, prio, execute
Why is speedshroud even in the tree and why is swift gated behind those 2 nodes
Maybe we could start there
Make combo work in nimble
Why is half our tree the way it is
between odd pathing and nodes that are purely cosmetic
could delete almost half and not notice
they could do the mega cursed thing like what they did to sin (which ended up being good)
and buffing the nodes we don't play
we aren't
0 patch notes
very likely we get nothing
I'm 100% faithful we will get a buff
Unless they're not posting anything like with the bug fixes from 11.1 ptr
🙏
that we literally had to test whenever a patch dropped to see if they fixed stuff
BP
So speed shroud buffed to 120%, and shadow dance giving 40 emergy instead lf 25
(which they def aren't doing)
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