#subtlety

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alpine wraith
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that was unlucky

clever delta
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We did not see single hoc jastor or kezan first 4 weeks to drop

native zodiac
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i used transmitter on mythic gally

alpine wraith
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we still havent seen jastor or kezan

clever delta
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Bro

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I give up on transmitter after first night of bandit, I said I can't and switched to assa

alpine wraith
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i used badge for a while it was more dps than playing trnasmitter not perfectly

tribal blade
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my guild got at least 1 hoc on every bandit kill on every difficulty on the first 4 weeks

clever delta
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I was mentally drained by that trinket

native zodiac
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ye i crashed out a few times over transmitter aswell

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sprocket was also an experience with it

clever delta
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I played pvp trinket on sprock

native zodiac
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they just need to make competetive trinkets

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from m+

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and more raid trinkets that are usefull

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that big red button trinket for strength users on 2 mind cd when all strength users are 1:30

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is fucking criminal

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whoever desiged that gave 0 thoughts

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and we end up with 16/20 ppl wanting house of cards Okay

clever delta
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Yeah

native zodiac
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a 1:30 trinket also shouldnt beat a 2min trinket on the same itemlvl (for a 2min classs)

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like priory vs hosue of cards

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atleast imo

night sparrow
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can we do the macro last dance thing with shadowmeld ?

alpine wraith
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not that i know

remote cedar
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So we recrafting for sub for raid next reset?

trail furnace
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Yikers

limpid sage
trail furnace
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Balance has been bottom LOU for a long time

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But top M+

fiery pewter
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Balance is struggling, never played

short radish
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true

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druids arent the most popular class in wow

lucid jackal
long marlin
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the trick is to have never switched

keen dome
fiery pewter
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If you don't stay with Sub in its worst, you don't deserve to stay with Sub in its mid

humble jolt
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Guess who is back boys

alpine wraith
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big crit

fiery pewter
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Cant wait for the 12 million Eviscerate crits

alpine wraith
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those are rookie numbers

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unless you mean phys hit then oh boi

rocky ocean
wide sonnet
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Hey guys I'll be here this weekend

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My name is ryu

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Ryukage

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I'm going to take a break from dying to killingspree.

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I was on dummies last night before bed and it felt pretty good on rotation just need to get used to it

random hare
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no thanks

vestal escarp
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yeah....

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i should have replied no thanks to every ross post before too......

fiery pewter
kind bluff
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I can't figure out outlaw at all

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Way to hard for me brain

fiery pewter
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It seems hard at first but its not bad, you just gotta be quick

kind bluff
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I'm not, I'm dumb.

fiery pewter
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At least you're pretty

tulip gorge
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you just have to get into the flow of outlaw

bright elk
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I like the idea of having cds all the time with outlaw but actually playing it and not having big burst moments like with sectec feels bad

fiery pewter
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That was the other thing for me

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Once you get to where you should be, your dps does not decrease or increase ever, unless there is down time where you cant attack

bright elk
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Yeah the outlaw in my guild pumps over time and usually creeps up by the end of a fight but being top during the opener is big dopamine lol

haughty mural
valid marsh
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
vestal escarp
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How can you mute ross, funniest poster

haughty mural
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Ask whispyr

vestal escarp
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He must have exhausted him

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Understandable

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||the wait is killing me chat||

vale pine
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do some visions to pass the time

clever delta
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imagine if that tfd bug worked on bosses

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or was it like that intended

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so we have use for vanish

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that would be hilarious

honest saddle
vale pine
vestal escarp
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We dont want strict uses for vanish for dps rotating_skull

vale pine
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so it worked just like with the bug

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without a bug

clever delta
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dust enjyoers disagree

vestal escarp
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They bit the dust

clever delta
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can i use that ss vanish tech withnout macro

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just press ss and vanish at same time

shut ridge
rose crag
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how sparing am i supposed to be with Shadow Dance?

i basically press it on CD, but I keep encountering pockets where I don't have any Shadow Dance or Symbols charges available, so I'm just Backstabbing and praying for combo points

dusk stone
wicked joltBOT
pliant topaz
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its not a use on cd button

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sub is very reliant on damage windows, and the activators for those arent when dance is up. its a mixture of your larger cds (flag/blades) timings + sod / sectech as activators. dance is the button you press when all other conditions are met.

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the gudes do a great job explainin this with pictures

rose crag
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ahhh sure, sure. thanks!! kitty_clap i'll take a look!

dusk stone
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its like this

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if you are 40~ seconds from flag being up dont press dance in raid

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if you are 23-30 seconds from flag being up in keys dont press it until you are super comfortable with the spec

vale pine
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!design

wicked joltBOT
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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".

pliant topaz
# dusk stone if you are 23-30 seconds from flag being up in keys dont press it until you are ...

im not a fan of specific numbers, becaue theyre meaningless ont heir own and just confuse someone whos newer to the spec. I much prefer concepts and ideas. why ~40 second during raid? because the goal is to use 2 dance charges during flag. This is a general acceptable concept. but ~40 second is a specific number reliant on cp income. what if you dont get to hit boss for 20 seconds? then it should be ~60 seconds, what if there are ads? then its ~20 seconds. u get my point

dusk stone
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i didnt want to type out the 5 paragraphs associated for a new person

pliant topaz
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fair enough. I just think concepts are generally more useful, but I could be straight up wrong, idk tbh. regardless appreciate all of you guys helping out each other. its what makes RH so based ❤️ :3

dusk stone
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the thought occured to me too

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there's a lot of information newer players need

vestal escarp
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Bro felt he had to let out that yapp

pliant topaz
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i do be enjoynig ocasional yap

dusk stone
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i mean armin isnt wrong

pliant topaz
# dusk stone there's a lot of information newer players need

yeah, this is afaik one of fuus bigger gripes with the spec. its not very intuitive. There is a lot of burden of knowledge on the players to pick it up just to be able to perform at a bare minimum level. but then theres not a lot of mastery to be gained after that (this is more so for all specs in wow not just sub but yea)

dusk stone
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problem is is that its also like 1.6 or 1.7 dances sometimes and its 2 flat other times

fiery pewter
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I used to find myself short on shit when I first started all the time

dusk stone
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bro his gripe should be that we are 30% behind the best spec in raid on some kills and almost twice that in keys

fiery pewter
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Or instances where no dance, but 2 charges of symbols

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Or SecTec is up but no symbols

pliant topaz
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tuning is w/e. sometimes youre tuned like amirdrasil sometimes youre tuned like azshara it is what it is

shut ridge
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sextec HOLY

dusk stone
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yeah ik

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wanted to get that out tho

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i looked at logs last night, felt badge

shut ridge
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what if we deleted CDR

pliant topaz
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I will say though, it never feels good to perform very well and just be at the very bottom because of tuning. kinda kills peoples enjoyment of the game specially during farm

dusk stone
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we will be better after tuning supposedly

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i said this last night though

shut ridge
pliant topaz
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kinda one of the reasons i quit. in 11.1 I got my parses done early, then during farm, u couldnt try to go for 100s anymore because oh well, theres a new buff every week, parsing kinda dead, oh well i cant even blast in raid because spec sucks, oh well, im not even excited about gear because my entire gear caps out at daggers + trinket.

dusk stone
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in blizzard other abandoned project, starcraft2 they basically had no balance developers and they eventually let the community do it

pliant topaz
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getting title as sin i guess was my next option? but that shits boring so i quit

dusk stone
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it would not hurt if the more educated people of this channel came up with proposed changes

pliant topaz
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they did

shut ridge
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they definitely have

dusk stone
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well if thats the case, where is it and why isn't it pinned

pliant topaz
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what do you think of shadowcraft right now?

dusk stone
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the intern needs to see it

shut ridge
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proposed changes were not really implemented

pliant topaz
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because that talent is what it is because of us

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and it was one of the only times they ever listened to our suggestions and changed the spell

dusk stone
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i understand that portion yes that sometimes we are listened to

shut ridge
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they’re not monitoring this place like that I’m sure

dusk stone
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my point is if we suck coming up with less complicated proposed changes have a bigger chance of being implemented and thus us balanced

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than not if dev time is limited

pliant topaz
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the changes to deathstalker, you can read my post on the forum during beta, and track the changes to dethstalker as a hero talent vs the first iteration. it was litearlly line by line what I asked in the forum (which was a compilation of suggestions by TC and other members here)

shut ridge
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realz is locked in blizz hq basement (free him)

pliant topaz
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so sometimes they listen

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but also, 99% of times they dont

pliant topaz
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so we gave up wating time

dusk stone
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yeah giving up the issue tbh

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if i gave up i'd just go play havoc rn because it isn't 50% behind

wispy bolt
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5% doesnt seem like it'll change anything in m+ whelp

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Still bleed

dusk stone
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being competitive isnt tho

shut ridge
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in what regard? farm? can’t say I care too much beyond not being in the basement

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keys? sure but we have a very viable spec

dusk stone
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i am not particularly qualified

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but i would say that there is a issue with how our talents work in so much that you can't balance m+ and raid properly

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combined with the complexity of the class which probably keeps it away from the higher tiers and balancing

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for example we're like almost a flat million behind other specs in raid compared to like dev? and marksman for some fights. In keys we're 50% behind outlaw on brew and somewhere between 30-50% behind in other keys

pliant topaz
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I dont play the game anymore but I dont think its that bad from screenshots Ive seen

dusk stone
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so its actually a two fold issue

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it is though

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on cinderbrew the highest sub parse is around 4.1 and outlaw is seen doing over six million

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the wcl logs participation or w/e it is is also misleading sub is not great in raid

pliant topaz
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m+ logs have always been kinda xD dont take it seriously

swift tinsel
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What that doesn’t show tho is burst peaks, which sub absolutely dumpsters outlaw on

dusk stone
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they are actually consistent

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i looked at stuff that was s1 df last night and stuff that wasn't and 30% is a pretty frequent number so far

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yeah but there's no niche for that in keys and none in raid really

swift tinsel
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Huh

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There is typically a place where burst is valuable

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Which you saw sub excel in earlier in the season

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OAB, Rik, etc

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But then bc of tuning got outpaced

cold kernel
vale pine
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mythic+ was never rly tuned around

pliant topaz
vale pine
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tuning is mostly done for raiding

dusk stone
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well it cant just not be considering how big of a part of the content of endgame it is

vale pine
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this is wh bigger diffrences exist when you push keys

dusk stone
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other specs also get tuned for m+ like uhdk, arcane etc

vale pine
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for what its worth, you can play everything if you are doing 14 or 16s

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assuming your gear is good

swift tinsel
dusk stone
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sorry i dont mean to come across as so doomer

pliant topaz
swift tinsel
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lol there’s typically at least some dooming going on here

pliant topaz
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any other comp was like 3-4 keys behind

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anyways

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but the emta was burst (kinda)

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they played around spriest 2 min cds.

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people would litearlly run around and afk

dusk stone
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the other problem we have kinda is that we as a physical user in a world of castercraft comp typically

swift tinsel
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Oh yeah the Exodia season

pliant topaz
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then pull like 45% mob count for priests 2 minutes. then litearlly afk again

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but the concept was you were pulling the dungeon in like 4 pulls

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all around priest 2 min cds

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because the cds were impactful

swift tinsel
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Yeah I vaguely remember watching streams with that gameplay loop

pliant topaz
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but if you remember that meta, the difference was that sub could do okay burst, but then its damage would drop to 0

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whereas priest would do the same damage as subs peak burst, sustained for like 3 minutes)

swift tinsel
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And got almost weekly Link tuning

pliant topaz
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the thing is, u can have burst, but if burst is too high, it breaks the game because u end up with boomie meta in shadowlands

swift tinsel
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But never reined in

pliant topaz
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they dont want burst to be so high that it litearlly breaks the games mechanics

swift tinsel
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Oh yeah, that’s what they were worried about this past ptr cycle

pliant topaz
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but if your entire damge is burst. and then sustained drops to 0, youre not really functional in m+

swift tinsel
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Bc the tier set led to some substantial burst

dusk stone
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so what i said earlier was true then

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we just need more damage outside of cds

pliant topaz
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damage is just a tuning thing and a curve.

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they want u to do idk 1 bil damage over 5 minutes lets say

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they can make u do 500 mil damage over 30 seconds. then 0 for 2 minutes, then another 500 mill over 30 seconds

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o rhtye can make u do litearlly flat damage constant the entire time

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it depends how u want the curve to look like

swift tinsel
dusk stone
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they did that to us too apparently

dusk stone
pliant topaz
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hes not wrong

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sub players as a whole want the spec t be bursty

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that was the whole dilemma in df rework

dusk stone
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thats probably part of why we aren't tuned that greatest, because if we burst like we need to it breaks the game

swift tinsel
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Yeah it’s just a matter of what concession to make in terms of burst

pliant topaz
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in s1 and s2 of df, sub was flatter than my ex

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and people didnt like that

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so the reworked put substantially more power in cds

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removed resources (energy / cp) outside of cds

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and gave you this

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but then blizzard came and said okay mr realz i see what youve done, but we cant have a spec be this bursty.

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and then the tuning problems began

lilac stag
dusk stone
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was it something they actually said that they were concerned some classes would do too much burst?

swift tinsel
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It was evident by the tuning decisions

pliant topaz
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not sure if directly said but def implied

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and also yeah, pretty obvious based on decisions made

swift tinsel
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Bc they want to avoid like armin said SL boomie

dusk stone
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well that explains why sub bad a bit

swift tinsel
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And dust let us move stuff around to take advantage of our burst

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But that added ‘complexity’ that didn’t sit well with some people

dusk stone
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what is it that was actually broken in SL that boomie did

swift tinsel
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Venthyr ability

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Gave them insane ramping burst

dusk stone
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like are we talking that it just deleted adds or something that made dealing with a raid boss phase not a thing or?

swift tinsel
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They would do far and away the most damage in the game, then literally afk

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There’s plenty of vids where you can see the damage disparity

dusk stone
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ok will check that out

swift tinsel
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Similar to uhdk’s recent performance the last couple xpacs

dusk stone
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but worse?

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i was actually thinking that is what we should look like in keys

swift tinsel
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Boomie was a combo of it was wildly powerful and felt extremely shitty to play

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Unholy packed their damage into garg windows but got their burst nerfed and baseline buffed

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In mid df I think?

dusk stone
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and then like there's this patch where uhdk was doing half of its damage in blood beast

swift tinsel
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The rng of that makes it a bit less egregious because they’re still quite strong without it

pliant topaz
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like during the raid

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u would get like 3 boomies

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then they would burst

swift tinsel
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Yeah it’s something that shouldn’t ever exist again

pliant topaz
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and litearl phases of bosses would be skipped

dusk stone
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i was talking like uhdk specifically

vestal escarp
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realz was typing in chat but we scared him away

pliant topaz
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hi to him anyways, hope hes doing well

dusk stone
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like if we did 30-35 mil openers in keys and then zero thats actually fine

pliant topaz
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thats not fine though

north schooner
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a damage profile that extreme is very difficult to work with in m+

lilac stag
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Realz tweak dance CDR. It’s too tight. feelsloveman

pliant topaz
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youre too tight

dusk stone
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yeah we would be within the top 5 specs for sure, cant have that

pliant topaz
pliant topaz
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sub has been great many many times

lilac stag
pliant topaz
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theyre not sitting there tiwrling their evil mustache that spec must suck

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even if it feels like it sometimes

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although, wouldnt be surprised if they dont want sub to be the optimal rogue spec

dusk stone
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i havent looked at all the logs, but so far i havent seen that we have been good since we were as stealthi put it 'flatline abominations'

pliant topaz
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we were the best spec in the game in df season 3 post rework

vestal escarp
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as if it sint any more obvious

dusk stone
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what was the issue in df s3

swift tinsel
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It’s funny though, when sub was looking to be strong going into this tier people would pop in and talk about how much fun they had playing trickster sub

pliant topaz
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what issue?

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the spec was great

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but it had this thing called "shadowdust"

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kekw

dusk stone
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well if it was great why did they make it no so great

vestal escarp
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collateral greatness

pliant topaz
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okay so in season 3 2 things happened

round latch
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the nerfs came thats why

pliant topaz
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no thats not what happened

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  1. the spec had a giga tierset
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like our tier set was so much better than everyone else

swift tinsel
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I miss her

round latch
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sub nerfed brother

pliant topaz
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not only in terms of raw damage, but also in terms of resources

round latch
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what tier sets

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ofc tier set was good

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nerfs happened

pliant topaz
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the tier, felt great to use, was really fun, enabled some (maybe borderline degen ) gambling scenarios

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was super great

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  1. the bosses design.
swift tinsel
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1cp ruptures Classic

pliant topaz
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in season 3 , sub had this thing called shadowdust (some hate some love it)

pliant topaz
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back to bosses

swift tinsel
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Yeah I remember that

pliant topaz
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last 3 bosses were basically perfect for sub

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sub could move its cooldowns around to perfectly match all damage amp phases / important boss timers

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so it ws just giga good

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but this is raid

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in m+ sub was the least played spec in the game

vestal escarp
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last 2 were very good for sin too

pliant topaz
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pretty sure the only people in title range plauying sub were kush eleem myself and prophet

dusk stone
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realz is the intern they keep locked in the basement?

pliant topaz
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u were playing outlaw coper

swift tinsel
tepid trellis
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i got title as sub

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pushed higher as outlaw

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Raz got title as sub

pliant topaz
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eh thats fair ig

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oh yeah raz too i forgot

dusk stone
pliant topaz
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it was very hard to make work

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dust was very unintuitive because it basially had a spreadsheet

sullen hare
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Didn't zeross get title as sub?

tepid trellis
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no

pliant topaz
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like stealthi litearlly made a spreadsheet for dust in raid

dusk stone
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raid might be your set piece but it is not your main bread and butter for play time

swift tinsel
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Dust in keys took a fair bit of experience and not many folks wanted to put in the work

pliant topaz
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and people lost their minds because waaawaaa too complicated too op

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but in keys, u cant make a spreadsheet so u really needed to understand wtf was going on to make it work

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also since df s3 blackpowder got buffed by almost 70%

vestal escarp
dusk stone
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holy hell put me in a time machine and send me back and sign me up

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being overly complicated and powerful sounds nice

round latch
swift tinsel
round latch
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was it on last season

tepid trellis
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mid season 3 it was nerfed by 5%

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single target that is

void ocean
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dust is shit and deserved to be deleted.

tepid trellis
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Assa got overbuffed into season 4

round latch
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it was 2 nerfs though right

tepid trellis
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so it just made sub look worse

pliant topaz
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sub s4 was a disaster

tepid trellis
pliant topaz
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was awful + log bugs that lasted 2 months

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holy fuck

old venture
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Just powerful by rogue standards after they took assa out back and beat it with the nerf bat 80 times

pliant topaz
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but also, regarding m+, this is a litearl comment from myself at that time

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in 2023.... and guess what. I was right

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bp has been buffed by 70-80% since then

vestal escarp
dusk stone
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it sounds like an awful design phase

pliant topaz
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sure but not healthy for a game like wow

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other games can accomidate that. but not wow

tepid trellis
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@pliant topaz which one do you wanna do?

old venture
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It was fun, but also a nightmare

swift tinsel
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Hisssss

pliant topaz
vestal escarp
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
old venture
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Why make me relive this

swift tinsel
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I think I have that saved on my pc somewhere lol

swift tinsel
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Had the MRT notes

old venture
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Same

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I think I still do

swift tinsel
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I might too lol

tepid trellis
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i added mrt notes to the sheet

pliant topaz
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okay but lowkey dust on tindral felt sooooo fun

tepid trellis
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had to make em by hand

pliant topaz
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the double vanish opener

old venture
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I was manually entering that shit for prog

swift tinsel
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I learned this tier you can export lorrgs timings to MRT

pliant topaz
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the flag blades vanish intermission into blades vanish flag intermission

old venture
pliant topaz
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was so cool that every part of the fight you were doing something different

vestal escarp
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tindral was just so silly

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fight had a 40s forced downtime that somehow synced with the spec downtime

lucid jackal
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Dust bad Baseg

pliant topaz
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but also i remember s4 going back to tindral and over gearing the fuck out of it, and nothing timing up annd me being miserable LOL

old venture
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As someone who pulled rwf nerfed tindral, Man fuck tindral

vestal escarp
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as sub it was fun

pliant topaz
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boss was aids but i enjoyed the sub gameplay on it

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fuck man i miss scana

old venture
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Y’all are coping

pliant topaz
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wheres he when u need him

vestal escarp
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unload opener do chikcen chill and fly

old venture
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That boss was literally mechanic diarrhea

dusk stone
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so what im seeing so far is there's always been pretty large design issues for at least awhile

old venture
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You know the only reason dust was hated

vestal escarp
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yeah since forever

old venture
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Was because sub’s CD spreads made no fucking sense

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They literally just needed to adjust flag and it would’ve been fine lmao

pliant topaz
dusk stone
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sc2 was in a shithole of the worst designed metagame for like over 2 years because it was also a red headed step child of blizzard

old venture
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That’s the only reason it became an issue

pliant topaz
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we said dust was fine, it was solving problems with the spec that otherwise would fuck the spec over really hard

dusk stone
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community got to step up and help fix the problem

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that should be done again

pliant topaz
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but flag being weird timer, vanish not reseting its own cd, shit not lining up was the main issue

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regarding the issues with subs design @dusk stone realz himself said this

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so i dont blame him

old venture
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Dust in keys was actually SO sick btw

pliant topaz
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there are many people in here who all want differnt things

old venture
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You could literally destroy an entire problematic pack single handedly

dusk stone
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there are right and wrong answers

swift tinsel
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Eh

dusk stone
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you don't use the wrong ones

pliant topaz
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not really

old venture
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You felt like you could swing a bad pull into your group’s favor

pliant topaz
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there are no wrong answers

dusk stone
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well yes we actually heard one of those earlier

old venture
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Because dust also reset kick garf

dusk stone
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like burst being so strong it breaks the game

pliant topaz
#

just because u like something and prefer it, doesnt mean others dont get to disagree and want different things

vestal escarp
#

yeah there's still people that miss aberrus design i dont blame em but it's understandable

pliant topaz
warm goblet
pliant topaz
#

as an example, rengar can kill you in litearlly 0.04 seconds right now. but that doenst break game. its context dependant

dusk stone
#

like i get the point

dusk stone
#

but i feel like we could definetely make it work cause we all center around sub not being awful to the point we use spreadsheets

pliant topaz
#

that is a wrong answer for sure

dusk stone
#

as was just shown

pliant topaz
#

if there ever was

pliant topaz
swift tinsel
#

I skipped that tier, was that the super high dance uptime season

pliant topaz
#

idk how blizzard works, idk how much time is allocated to design for specs

dusk stone
#

I'm not qualified tbh otherwise i would

pliant topaz
#

idk how much they even care about it

dusk stone
#

too new

tepid trellis
#

also Venthyr ramp boomy burst was not an issue on normal fights

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like its single target burst was high

tepid trellis
#

but not game breaking

dusk stone
#

thats why i mentioned sc2 specifically, they had an intern that was basically an absent father

shut ridge
tepid trellis
#

the issue it had was it had a 40 yard fcking AOE burst

vestal escarp
old venture
tepid trellis
#

u typed before reading the rest

old venture
#

Because when I was progging that fight with a boomkin that wanted to play fae

#

I’ve actually been terrorized so much when I was a cutting edge raider

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No wonder I hated my life

#

Fae on sylv. My brewmaster spinning off platforms on sylv. Being forced to prog anduin as a rogue. Indiscriminate carnage on dathea

pliant topaz
#

poor oxi...

#

thats just cyberbullying

old venture
pliant topaz
#

IC deathea sounds actually illegal though

#

just go sub + boon inshallah

old venture
#

Our prot paladin couldn’t hold toll for 2s bro

pliant topaz
#

or pull a stealthi (i think) and just sit on bos

old venture
#

We needed the silence not the damage

#

Lmao you think I did it for damage?

tepid trellis
old venture
#

At least I went out on a happy ending

#

Back to back hall of fame

pliant topaz
#

oxi u still playing POE?

old venture
#

Wdym

#

It’s been 3.25 for 10 months lmao

pliant topaz
#

oh is game deadge?

old venture
#

We get 3.26 June 13th

pliant topaz
#

eksdeee

old venture
#

I’ve been playing wow actually

pliant topaz
#

oofff

old venture
#

Hit 3k on Tuesday

pliant topaz
#

ey lets go!

old venture
#

Which means I’m done for the season lmao

teal prawn
old venture
#

Maybe get aotc for funsies

pliant topaz
#

bro is in land of toast and beans

dusk stone
#

if you put beans on toast you are a savage

teal prawn
#

he got voluntold he's going to the netherlands this week

old venture
#

Are you a savage

#

IT AINT CHEWSDAY INNIT

#

ANSWER

pliant topaz
#

nah he actualy makes good food

old venture
#

Armin the office closes at 3 but I’m gonna go home and work lmao

shut ridge
#

gotta get those billables in before the end of the month

vale pine
#

"make bakcstab the heaviest hitter of the spec"

pliant topaz
#

I mean who am I to say they dont get a say

dusk stone
#

i mean we can do that

pliant topaz
#

they pay as much as you and I do, and can share their opinion

dusk stone
#

you change the name of flagellation to 'back stab'

pliant topaz
#

and realz can take that input and do with it what he thinks is best

north schooner
#

50% auto attack damage Bedge

dusk stone
#

thanks for the history less on sub

lilac stag
#

Armin did you lift today?

vale pine
#

absolutely

#

my point was, people felt a lot more vocal about subtlety

#

diffrent parts of the community

#

where for e.g. assassiantion it was mostly one group of experts

#

so the feedback did feel a lot more chaotic compared

lilac stag
#

Mystler and his love of shadowstrike / dance being focal point of dmg.

hollow spear
#

Well, based on how things stand rn, sin has to be the "easy" spec

lilac stag
#

and it’s still very complicated for most players

dusk stone
#

thats what blows my mind

#

spec is 5x as simple and its complicated for people

hollow spear
#

Sub's cooldown Management is complicated for a long time before you "get it" and outlaw is generally hard to pull off/punishing on top of being high apm

lilac stag
#

wows player base is old and no one wants uber complicated shit. They want to sit down and just play the game. Why classic still works.

pliant topaz
hollow spear
#

Jesus, on an empty stomach?

pliant topaz
#

yeah usually

lilac stag
#

I lift fasted

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feels the best

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for me

pliant topaz
#

except sundays. Sundays I do deadlifts and so i have some protein shake before that and go later around 8:30 - 9 m

vale pine
#

also cooldons doing the most damage feels like a very powerful idea/concept

#

so i don't see a big issue in both of these ideas

placid arrow
#

guys im sorru bout noob question but how sub in m+ rn?

vale pine
#

sub is playable, its not the best but you can make it work even in higher keys

#

there is iirc a russian guy who brings it to very high key levels

#

its not easy to make work tho, so if you are new to the spec expect some troubles

pliant topaz
vale pine
#

cooldown management is your most important thing to optimize

dusk stone
#

lashga quit

lilac stag
vestal escarp
#

it's alex

lilac stag
#

And that was what certain people in this discord who had an ear of the devs wanted

dusk stone
vale pine
lilac stag
#

And it resulted in the spec ping ponging back and forth design wise

#

looking like a poor version of assa

placid arrow
vale pine
#

my concerns are more about the layers of abilities we have and how some don't even seem logical after reading the tooltip

old venture
pliant topaz
vale pine
#

look at assassiantion

vale pine
#

it has ct scale per target hit

old venture
#

They could easily do the same scaling for sub aoe

vale pine
#

so assasisantion is allowed to do massive sustained damage

#

while not sacraficing for it

pliant topaz
lilac stag
#

assa ramps with dots, what are we going to ramp out of cds?

pliant topaz
#

sub cds give flat mastery + infinite resources

old venture
#

The extra cp doesn’t do shit for sub in aoe

hazy breach
#

DM doubles amp poison, which makes envenom bigger, so its not nothing

pliant topaz
#

blades still gives a 20% + shadow amp damage amp

#

so its there

hazy breach
#

But its not an amazing aoe cd no

pliant topaz
#

and blades is bad

old venture
#

Blades is very bad

vale pine
#

you could also make secret do more aoe

old venture
#

Which is why they cut its CD and it’s still mediocre lmao

lilac stag
#

disable BP in dance. Buff BP

vestal escarp
#

it's 20%

hazy breach
#

Blades is fine. Assa had some intentionality with how theyre playing in aoe

vale pine
#

which would make burst higher but also make overall aoe stronger

dusk stone
#

to a degree our aoe is the problem

old venture
hazy breach
#

Sub hasnt had anybody try to make sub aoe work

vestal escarp
pliant topaz
hazy breach
#

Its just been left to rot

lilac stag
#

or just give us combo back and let cleave do its thing

paper iron
#

eleem

#

you said happy eviscerating

paper iron
#

but we wished for a bp buff, we wanted to be happy blackpowdering

#

!!

dusk stone
dusk stone
#

if the damage is 0 outside of that

paper iron
#

🤭

old venture
lilac stag
#

Sub doesn’t need monster aoe

old venture
#

Sub needs a niche that fits

lilac stag
#

Combo and cleave would be tits

old venture
#

The BP bandaid is a failure

keen dome
#

Combo and cleave would rule. Proper identity and very strong prio

old venture
#

You either buff it so its oppressively good and people bitch that it’s a two button spec in AoE or it just sucks

vale pine
dusk stone
#

what im saying specifically

#

is that i need to see 30-35 mil in a pull like p1 cinderbrew to make the damage outside of it worth it

vale pine
#

its just that as eleem mentioned, assassination got a lot of dev time for talent updates and focus to make it good in m+ and raiding

#

this hasn't happened to an equal amount on sub

dusk stone
#

yeah thats a problem too

vestal escarp
vale pine
#

so obviousely we can't assume similar outcome

dusk stone
#

we are currently in an area where we're twice as bad in keys as we are in raid

#

that needs to be fixed

vale pine
#

that said, sub plays 100 times better

old venture
#

I think making sectech scale with target count up to 8 targets and heavily leaning into sectech as sub’s aoe fits the finisher niche. Versus something infinitely spammable that just sucks in either damage or gameplay loop

vale pine
#

(opinion, ofc very biased)

pliant topaz
vale pine
#

bp spam was popualr because it was easy

#

you did have a very high skill floor

#

so even if you did not know sub much

vestal escarp
#

BP at 4cp at 2 targets Laughge

vale pine
#

storm + bp and using your cds did give you good results

dusk stone
#

BP is particularly our ability for keys is it not and evis leans more into raid

keen dome
worn merlin
#

noob question

worn merlin
#

is this pressing backstab after sdance for a danse macabre stack?

#

how is it pressing backstab same global as dance

hazy breach
#

Dance isnt on global

worn merlin
#

do u need a macro to do this

hazy breach
#

No

worn merlin
#

or can u just not be perfect

#

i think i have too much ms to do this consistently lmao

vestal escarp
worn merlin
#

i think im trippin

pliant topaz
#

whats your ms ? <100 i think itll be fine

worn merlin
#

usually around 90

pliant topaz
#

you should be fine

vestal escarp
#

chat leaf user is talking about two different buttons off global that cant be macroed

dusk stone
worn merlin
#

sorry for breathing

#

ill blow my brains out and ur going in the note

#

!

keen dome
#

Well this took a turn

pliant topaz
#

dont listen to him ask away, we are here to help

#

he just angy

dusk stone
#

we are here to help yes

worn merlin
#

i understand it now tbh

#

i just have to backstab first

#

i was looking at apl too literally and dancing b4 the stab

vestal escarp
#

? kek it was an inside joke

worn merlin
#

ty for help

pliant topaz
#

yeah, logic is if you have premeditation, backstab gives you full cps. so u can get full cps + dm stack ez

dusk stone
#

putting symbols and dance on the same macro is fine for learning

#

just be able to press it outside of that macro

old venture
worn merlin
#

Thank u oxi im trying my best for u

pliant topaz
#

i love oxi and hippo

old venture
#

We all started somewhere homie

old venture
#

You’ll get it

#

I know you will

worn merlin
#

i played sub in a clear the other day and i did ok dmg but i did genuinely 0 on galywix and idk why

#

so i started reading apl and getting stunlocked

pliant topaz
#

its a big unintuitive yea

old venture
#

Yeah… reading apl will do that to you

pliant topaz
#

but once u get the baseline its not that hard

worn merlin
#

im rlly bad at overspending dances in cds

old venture
#

I just let Fuu, whispyr and Eleem do the apl thinking

worn merlin
#

cause im just so hyped 2 press evis

vestal escarp
#

Sod + dance usage is a problem all newbies approach

hazy breach
#

Reading the APL is generally not recommended instead of guides

old venture
#

Me unga bunga press buttons

keen dome
#

Same

old venture
worn merlin
#

sub probably owns now tho after 5%

keen dome
#

Also, Heroic gally? Dropping a SecTec as the add spawns is some juicy damage.

dusk stone
worn merlin
#

yea like after my sblades drops

#

and i have a dance and a symbols im literally like

#

"what if the dopamine didnt stop"

dusk stone
#

that is how you sub yes

worn merlin
#

and next sblades i get like 1.5 dances

#

worst shit ever ...

dusk stone
#

using 2 charges with blades is ideal

worn merlin
#

also what the fuck is up with maghgar and this spec

dusk stone
#

a simple rule i use it to not spend dances after 40s remaining on flag in raid, but there is more to it than that

worn merlin
#

it was 40k dps for me

pliant topaz
dusk stone
#

the distinction is actally 3 dances per flag and 2 dances per flag

#

the 3rd one is cdr

worn merlin
#

yea my gear is like lowkey goated after recrafting

#

sub is my calling

vale pine
worn merlin
#

sin is dreadful in raid

vale pine
#

so simple is not always bad

keen dome
#

More Sub rogues hell yeah

dusk stone
keen dome
#

Dozens of us! Dozens!!

dusk stone
#

which is why i also say do his work for him

pliant topaz
dusk stone
#

and we might get somewhere

pliant topaz
#

errr shadwotechniques

vale pine
dusk stone
#

stuff like moving talents in the tree is probably a lot of work

#

as an example

#

buffing numbers is probably not as complicated

pliant topaz
worn merlin
#

am i just doomed to circlet forever btw, jastor mythic doesnt even beat it in my gear

#

or just pray i get a myth track m+ ring with vers mastery on it

dusk stone
#

you need ritual bone brand and jastors to beat it

hazy breach
#

Or craft

dusk stone
#

like fazed might not be a bad target for tuning

vale pine
pliant topaz
keen dome
dusk stone
#

yeah but i'm mostly talking about inbetween major patches

pliant topaz
#

i mean sub single targets fine in terms of gameplay and damage distribution

dusk stone
#

i would expect them to do more on actual patches given we see redesigns and stuff

#

its not really fine in raid no

hazy breach
#

Its is though

pliant topaz
#

only issues i have / had with sub is every talent is either mandaory or dead. there are no options.

#

just replace the dead talents, maybe add something that actually helps with the specs aoe and its w/e

dusk stone
#

we are at the bottom of raid, single target is 90% of what you do in raid

pliant topaz
#

taking RS in single target just shows how awful the design is

#

the gating of talents

#

the deisgn

#

w/e

#

anyways i gotta go sit in a meeting and listen to someone yap for an hour

dusk stone
#

have fun

#

you could just give us more shadowcraft procs thats an option

dusk stone
#

that ones actually versatile too

#

game loop is less bad outside of cds

#

but maybe too much difference between cds and not to make that work

#

fuu what would be your preference for bringing sub in at least the top half of competitiveness overall for both game modes meaning m+ and raid

#

also OMG OMG OMG they fixed my renown!!!!!

keen dome
#

Hell yeah

small juniper
old venture
dusk stone
#

i am no longer 12% behind everyone else for no reason

pliant topaz
small juniper
#

fking hell

#

im flattered

fathom gazelle
#

for mugz and gally mythic fight do u think sub after buffs will be good for those? or stay sin?

bright elk
#

Does sectec cleave adds on gally when he’s in the middle? I remember feeling like that was wonky during heroic but it’s been a while

dusk stone
#

does sectec not just go through the floor

vale pine
vale pine
#

secret is up a lot more so you would do insane damage at the start of most packs

lilac stag
vale pine
#

and can cleave adds more efficiently in raid passively

dusk stone
#

doesnt tfd undersim

vale pine
#

gameplay wise i think a lot of qol changes would be nice to not have so many weird situations

tepid trellis
vale pine
#

tfd only triggers once in the sim

lilac stag
tepid trellis
#

not on patchwerk

vale pine
#

in raid sims it sims correct

dusk stone
#

yeah sectec sounds good

#

how much was it nerfed by

lilac stag
#

4 min sim

#

time to pack more juice in the opener

lucid jackal
sly shore
limpid sage
vale pine
dusk stone
#

people made it sound like it was more

lilac stag
vale pine
limpid sage
#

I’m simming like 2565k

lucid jackal
limpid sage
#

Oh

dusk stone
#

how much would you have to buff sectec specifically for it to make sub aoe more respectable in the short term

lilac stag
#

5 min was 2.67 dracthyr_shrug

lucid jackal
#

I'm missing OAB bracers and a real neck or a ring

lilac stag
#

Get gear. Sim high

lucid jackal
#

2.7 isn't that insane

limpid sage
#

Though I haven’t gotten everything upgraded yet

lucid jackal
#

thatll do it

vale pine
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
limpid sage
#

No time to spam gilded

limpid sage
limpid sage
#

Nvm I can’t read

#

Ye saw as I sent xd

sly shore
#

wonder what I sim as sub now

lucid jackal
#

and like I said, I'm missing a lot of random gear

#

4 crafted items

limpid sage
#

You’ve gotta be in top 0.1% in terms of gear no?

lucid jackal
#

probs

lilac stag
#

I need to replace energy drink

#

Need a mugz kill first

limpid sage
#

We got mr mog to 20% the other day

#

How many pulls did it take you guys from that point?

#

We struggled with dps check on OAB, so I’m scared we’ll be stuck on that phase

lucid jackal
#

Play assa and the fight is free Baseg

lilac stag
#

Why Smol HoC?

chrome palm
#

Any thoughts on dusk thread lining vs ascension vs focusing lenses? They all sim very close on pure ST which makes me think the first two get ahead with any aoe.

lilac stag
#

none of them matter. Focusing is safest

chrome palm
#

Duskthread in particular maybe gains value from exhil execution

lilac stag
#

Other rely on healers

#

embellishments are nothing worth worrying about

haughty mural
#

Ascension rely on crafted weap

dusk stone
#

i actually wonder if the dagger set is better than the embellishments themselves lol

#

theres a set bonus for crafted daggers

chrome palm
#

Duskthread on armor only is the worst offense imo

lilac stag
#

time to ascend

dusk stone
#

i mean if i get to do that every 3 minutes i wont complain

#

please overload my blackpowder plz

lucid jackal
#

Lens is better for st

chrome palm
lucid jackal
#

by like 0.2%

dusk stone
#

did they give shaman shadow dance or something?

chrome palm
#

That’s why I’m thinking duskthread for cleave

lucid jackal
#

Do it then

chrome palm
#

I’m cloaking when adds spawn Cheesin

limpid sage
#

And halving queue time for 12s

#

Sudden Demise is kinda metal

keen dome
#

Sudden Demise is a lot of fun

dry plank
#

I do not even notice this talent. What is fun?

keen dome
#

It's an Assa talent. Sadly.

bright elk
#

It’s op in the new visions

alpine wraith
#

sec tech is more op

#

you pull whole zone then they go poof

bright elk
#

Yep but cd

vale pine
#

lol

bright elk
#

That’s true make it count

alpine wraith
#

yea only need 1

lilac stag
alpine wraith
#

why do you want masks on

#

to get 200 more mementos

lilac stag
#

I mean why run anything now if you’re not either collecting masks or trying to challenge yourself?

alpine wraith
#

rn you farm mementos or not much else tbh

north schooner
#

no one care who you are until you put on the mask(s)

alpine wraith
#

so just do 4 min clears or less

#

fast

#

i actually wonder if you can 3 mask pull everything

#

maybe dwarven

dusk stone
#

cosmetics tbh

lilac stag
#

One of the warrior streamers did a 5 mask full class as fury. Boy was it sweaty.

vale pine
#

5 mask with current traits is kinda hard

lilac stag
#

Yep

#

Someone posted an outlaw rub and that was pretty smooth. Still really close.

upbeat cradle
#

first Rik Reverb in mm done, two daggers dropped, i'm the only rogue in the raid

#

life is good

hexed sluice
#

Haven't done 5 masks yet cause I need to still unlock multitudes. But 4 and 3 are pretty comfy as. Sub

#

My friend who's a caster was kinda tilted watching me just run through it all without a care

left ledge
#

Or else it’s kinda cooked

#

You also need soridormi to not be a dumbass

upbeat cradle
#

or don't use soridormi ?

#

she hasn't been any useful whenevr i saw her

alpine wraith
#

yea i never used her

serene notch
#

lol caught up on all the celebratory conversations over the last 24hrs over the 5%. It’s like watching the effects of Stockholm syndrome live.

left ledge
upbeat cradle
#

she also doubles the hp of the enemies lmao

left ledge
#

Wait what

#

Is that real

#

Or is that a meme on how much she pulls

alpine wraith
#

no it is not a meme

#

mobs have way more life

thin sinew
#

plus how many extra mobs you're being forced to kill as the dumbarse doesn't stealth like brann does

upbeat cradle
#

she counts as another player

brittle plinth
#

Ya don't use her

dusk stone
haughty rose
#

have all keys on 12. 1 13 missing for 3k. guess who doesn't get picked for 1h straight application spamming lmao

serene notch
fiery pewter
north schooner
#

or tell them that you are getting +5% (don't tell them it's less) next reset so it will be fine

dusk stone
#

13s are hard keys

brittle plinth
#

Just ++12

dusk stone
#

Not because it's difficult but because groups relieve an instant debuff upon entering the key where there is a 90% chance the key fails instantly

haughty rose
#

just got an inv to cinderbrew. we wipe on first boss an lowest dps left instantly lmao

distant rapids
#

are we back

alpine wraith
#

we are mid but very back

severe vapor
#

mid is better than bottom

dusk stone
#

We are very not different In keys

#

Buff can be an order of magnitude larger and that only ties us with outlaw

#

An order of magnitude is 10x

lone halo
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
brittle plinth
bright elk
#

does the latest raidbots build include the 5%?

alpine wraith
#

not likely

hazy breach
#

It wont until its live on NA Surebud

lilac stag
#

Where’s Fuu’s override. kekdog

hazy breach
#

Theres basically nothing changing anyway, we just do more damage, but if you really want to you can add this in expert mode.

override.spell_data=effect.191060.base_value=15.5```
bright elk
#

gotcha

lyric lily
#

Sub is back!!

steady dune
#

i always swap to ass/out to sign up for groups and then pull the ol switcheroo when im in. works pretty well

flint parrot
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
exotic kelp
#

is wow analyzer any good for sub?

steady dune
#

I dont think so, it rated my opening uses of SD as bad for some unknow reason

exotic kelp
#

Im looking to improve in general my parses, do I just drop logs here and hope someone better gives me pointers?

steady dune
#

you can do that or compare your pulls to the top handfull

exotic kelp
#

How do I see the top logs of other sub rogues. Ive not really poked around WCL too much in regards to others logs

steady dune
#

its in rakings > Timeline > actions

lilac stag
steady dune
lilac stag
lapis plinth
#

a 5% buff, nice

#

but did they fix any bugs is the real question 🙂

steady dune
#

sub is back bby!

dusk stone
#

Anyone know of a good place to recruit for an m+ team

short radish
#

pugging and making friends

lilac stag
#

raider.io m+ discord (no I don’t have a link use google)

tribal blade
swift tinsel
#

Best I can do is Bing

#

Possibly AskJeeves

dusk stone
short radish
#

its the most reliable way

#

you push keys

#

and then add people who arent shit

#

and hopefully they add you

round latch
#

called it 24/5/2025 07:00

fiery pewter
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"After some more internal testing, we have identified that 5% is too much of a buff"

round latch
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!guide

wicked joltBOT
round latch
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@vale pine lord fuu sir,EV or TD dont interact with Sub's shadow amps right?

dusk stone
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If it was 14/15 yeah

round latch
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cant have them amps and meme a little

worn ivy
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How big is 5% u think !

wicked urchin
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it's 5%

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(4.6)

wicked urchin
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crazy how math works

chrome palm
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I guess enchants embellishments etc don’t count

lilac stag
worn ivy
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5% is like and extra deeper talent 🙂

round latch
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cheese them mfk@rs in shuffle for the lols

tribal blade
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@leaden prairie was chatting with the boys in a key and a former rogue player quoted you saying only bad rogues need restealths

plush roost
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Its true and also real

tribal blade
leaden prairie
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I said that

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It's true

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Real quote

tribal blade
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quoted in 4k

tribal blade
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because i'm playing sin atm

random hare
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Well it does need restealth in certain areas

tribal blade
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yeah for sure

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the most tilting part is pug tanks who pull a new pack when the last mob has like less than 3% hp

raw rover
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noob question: do we ever have to manually apply slice and dice anymore? just got back and I'm not sure if I need a WA for this or if it became non factor because it activates by just doing rotation

vale pine
lilac stag
raw rover
keen hare
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i usually just make sure my stealth and non stealth bars are identical

raw rover
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so what do you put on that bar? i know you always use Shadowstrike instead of Backstab when available, but thats not the case for Cheap Shot and Kidney Shot

keen hare
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i mean whatever you want tbh, the reason i do it the way i do is because i don't like having my buttons switch up conditionally

raw rover
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ahh i see

keen hare
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sometimes i lose track of weather my stealth window has worn off, and if im trying to spam shadowstrike while im unstealthed then i look stupid

raw rover
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do you have a different keybind for Shadowstrike and Backstab?

hazy breach
raw rover
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because I use the same keybind

hazy breach
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"need" is an overstatement ig

raw rover
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why so?

hazy breach
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But its used once per dance

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When playing optimally

raw rover
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so i need to use different Keybinds for them

lilac stag
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We don’t have a crazy amount of binds so just duplicate your non-stealth bar and stealth bar layout. Be sure any macros you may use are also duplicated.

keen igloo
lilac stag
lilac stag
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And the rest of the dps ignores the last mob to run after the big fresh shit. omegalul

jaunty heath
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Cinderbrew Measery indeed

haughty rose
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how and when to use the new bug vanish+shuriken macro?

void ocean
feral coyote
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Heyo

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ive got a quick question

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im starting to get into PVE and my question would be, is it smarter to get my second Heroic weapon or to get one of the bis trinkets ? im currently full Conqquest gear and dont have any PVE trinkets

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only PVE item i have is the crafter Heroic weapon from the Undermine quest

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and if i get trinkets which would be stronger eye or house of cards ?

tepid trellis
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off hands dont really matter all that much

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they are just stat sticks

feral coyote
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so trinket it is

tepid trellis
void ocean
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probably by a mile even if u do have another 90sec trink 😄

feral coyote
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i dont have any PVE trinknets

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atm im using the Primar stat PVP trinket xD

void ocean
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pvp trinket is a good trinket

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but the on use one

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i had it for the most of the season 😄

tepid trellis
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Eye of kezan is also only good on fights there are longer than 6min