#subtlety

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lilac stag
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so basically next tier at this point.

tepid trellis
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yeh its gonna be massive for early prog next tier

feral coyote
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obviously not the proc one xd

tepid trellis
void ocean
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i got eye of kezan 2 weeks in a row now in the vault

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i swear blizz has some ai shit that analyses ur gear and finds the way how to troll u every reset

lilac stag
tepid trellis
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well awful hc groups it will be good on gally as well

feral coyote
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well, i meant getting into PVE on my Rogue :P

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i do Tank mythic xd

void ocean
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first stix hc pug kill was 8 mins 😄

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for me

lilac stag
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can’t read your mind bruh

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“I’m starting to get into pve…”

feral coyote
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na man im just playing i just have no idea about Rogue in PVE thats why i needed the input

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thanks alot <3

lilac stag
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I joke

feral coyote
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ouch

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youre right. but ouch

lilac stag
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you can sim the upgrades but HoC worth it. Outside of that play around with what you can’t craft.

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Second trinket is for the most part whatever.

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Try to get an energy drink from delves

feral coyote
lilac stag
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Jastors heroic as a ring should be a big upgrade. Maybe second buy there.

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Craft a MH weapon. Get 4 pc. Get HoC. That’s the big 3 for sub. Everything else is kinda whatever.

void ocean
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eh... for me it was only like 2k dps and i had a heroic ring

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its huge for assa

feral coyote
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im crafting the HC wepaon atm

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and 4pc i hjave from PVP xd

lilac stag
feral coyote
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oh

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thanks for the reminder.

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i havent done Sirene isle on this char

neon walrus
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I hope we get another buff like arcane did 😦 5% is not enough

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I want to feel even more powerful

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Someone tell blizz for me

lilac stag
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5% is fine

feral coyote
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Gotta be happy with the small things. thats what my GF always tells me aswell LunasNod

void ocean
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im not sure i will switch back to raid as sub but deffo will do keys again

keen igloo
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anyone have a full BIS sim they can link? I can go create one, but like if you got one that'd be great

lilac stag
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Just don’t do keys. Ez

void ocean
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need those crests

feral coyote
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btw are the build on wowhead good ?

void ocean
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did 8x10 last night all as sub and more often than not wasnt the worst dps 😄

lilac stag
void ocean
wicked joltBOT
short radish
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but yes

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bis sims are memes

lilac stag
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Weapon & HoC are all that has major impact

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avoid haste

lilac stag
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Bis list complete.

raw rover
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another noob question: Thistle Tea has to be used manually right?

lilac stag
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Don’t spec tea

raw rover
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even tho it will auto trigger at low energy

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ever?

lilac stag
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Ever

raw rover
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in any spec or content?

lilac stag
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EVER

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For sub

raw rover
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then icy veins owes me an apology lmao

lilac stag
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Doubtful

raw rover
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or wherever i saw that

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i swear i saw a PVP Sub guide with TT in it but maybe i was tripping. ok so no TT for Sub

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but for other specs it's used?

lilac stag
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Tea does nothing for sub. We don’t need energy and the mastery isn’t worth enough to skip cold blood

void ocean
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oh boi

lilac stag
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#pvp for pvp and feelycraft.

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This is pve channel

raw rover
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apologies. im just setting everything up PvP and PvE so i just asked here

lilac stag
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in pve we don’t take it

raw rover
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will use the PvP channel for further PvP shenanigans

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gotcha never in PvE

lilac stag
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PvP idk what they have cooking

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You have to manually use it as a cd

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Or it will also auto send when conditions are met

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it’s a stupid ability. garf_sit

void ocean
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one of the victims of the great rogue confusion

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which Im sure is how blizz calls the design sessions

lilac stag
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pmuch

raw rover
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not only is rogue kinda confusing for someone who never played rogue before, but it's vastly different than Warlock or Blood DK

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The dmg comes from constantly re-stealthing mostly, or entering a mode where you can use stealth abilties, and constant CC (pvp wise)

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it's a very challenging change for me but i think i can really excel with this class. it seems like it has a ton of tools. damn near everything you might need

void ocean
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what tools

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u bring nothing but the dmg and it aint good one 😄

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some form of cc sure

lilac stag
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PvP I think u still have a good amount of stops

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But you’re still a support spec for the hero class (mage)

void ocean
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ye for pvp i guess...

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didnt pvp since 8.3

lilac stag
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In pve we don’t really have shit all to write home about.

raw rover
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LOL

void ocean
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i mean just in comparison to what dk brings

hollow spear
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Idk

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Don't think dk is a good example kekdog

void ocean
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why

hollow spear
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Because they don't have a raid buff

void ocean
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u bring AMS for 2 additional ppl, amz, cr, range interrupt, slappy hands, grips

hollow spear
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And get left out basically all the time

raw rover
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is there a benefit to not macroing Cold Blood and ST?

haughty mural
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aww

void ocean
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yes

tribal blade
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i think blizz explicitly said they know dk doesn't have a raid buff, so they design raids with that in mind

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so dk has use in raid

void ocean
tribal blade
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death grip being mandatory on some fights

hollow spear
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This tier that's kinda not true

raw rover
tribal blade
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to a certain extent yes, but dks were very useful on stix

hollow spear
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But usually there's a fight or two for that

tribal blade
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just less so this tier

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stix 100% was WAY easier with a dk or 2

void ocean
tribal blade
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they could have made grip more valuable by making the last 3 boss adds potentially gripable

raw rover
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i appreciate everyone who takes the time to help me with answers 😄

short radish
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glhf

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well except for assi i guess

tribal blade
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i saw someone write in trade chat today about how he couldn't play rogue because it was too hard

keen dome
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It's a common sentiment I see around.

keen dome
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Rogue is too hard / too complex / not worth the effort

void ocean
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i mean its a scale i guess

raw rover
short radish
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it is why we're the least played class

short radish
void ocean
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i dont think anyone would call assa hard

raw rover
keen dome
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Hell yeah

short radish
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yeah assi bleed build is the definition of random shit go

keen dome
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I also don't really think it's true. But it's a subjective thing that is due to perception rather than reality.

tribal blade
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i think people sleep on how many steps are involved with play sin in M+

keen dome
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Yeah.

tribal blade
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specifically playing around IC and DS

keen dome
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The content you play will detemrine a lot, too. Sub is really simple once you get used to it's CD cadence but then you get a weird tank and it suddenly becomes impossible lmao

short radish
tribal blade
void ocean
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Id rather call assa bleed in m+ cumbersome than hard but I guess Im probably not the best one to speak since never bothered to master it

tribal blade
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i've had a few people i know try playing sin and give up because they found it too punishing

raw rover
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as someone who played high end content on Shaman, Monk, Lock, BDK, VDH and HDH, i can tell you rogue looks the most complicated for me

tribal blade
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bleed is for sure a vibe in keys, it's not hard

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but the fundamental design of how sin plays in keys is unlike most other specs

short radish
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i will note that even after all i've said

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no class in wow is truly hard

keen dome
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truth

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It's all going to be relative to the indiviudal, too

tribal blade
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yeah i hear a lot of people say that too haha, compared to other games

keen dome
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Now pet battling

short radish
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at most you are reacting to procs

keen dome
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that's hard

short radish
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but there's very little forward thinking involved

void ocean
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bruh like last season arcane 😄

short radish
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even with sub

void ocean
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the amount of decision making

short radish
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you get 2 dances between first flag

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and 1 dance between 2nd flag

void ocean
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worse than outlaw reroll

short radish
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and one naked symbols somewhere there as well

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aint rocket science

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counting to 2 is hard or something

keen dome
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Have you seen the warrior discord

void ocean
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god no

tribal blade
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lol warrior

keen dome
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Their counting channel is one of the funniest, brilliantist things around

tribal blade
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i played arms earlier in the tier for splits, you can kinda just press buttons as they come up

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and in sort of whatever order

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mostly

void ocean
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fdk discord was an absolute cinema yday with a guy trying to make a steak in air fryer and mistakenly set it to 20 mins instead of 6-8

keen dome
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lmao

void ocean
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i was literally crying

keen dome
short radish
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tribal blade
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yeah fury is kinda like outlaw

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simpler outlaw i should say

lilac stag
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ability only stuns you. Doesn’t launch you into a fit of death mechanics.

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so smarter version of outlaw.

void ocean
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so war designer has one more braincell

lilac stag
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1/2

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Whirlwind is fucking stupid

tribal blade
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yeah from what i hear warrior is in a weird spot

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they also have a bunch of janky stuff going on

wind harness
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!sod

wicked joltBOT
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vale pine
round latch
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im so sad though,imagine the possibilities!!

short radish
void ocean
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i noticed that, when ss+vanish triggers tfd, if during the countdown I get out of combat, tfd is gone

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and those timer restarts drive me up the fckin wall

wild hornet
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would there be a possibility you yield different results between each enchant depending on gear or are the results usually consistent in favor of echoing void?

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i also saw this in outlaw pins, not sure how relevant that is, idk much about these enchants

magic glen
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is it in here i can ask about sub pvp things?

wild hornet
ember jetty
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Heyy guys, how are you sub comunity

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Im a big player of assa/outlaw but never rly played sub.
What do you think about right now in m+ and raid ?

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If you compare it to assa

short radish
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its dog shit

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in raid

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its okay

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still below assi probably

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but its more fun to play

ember jetty
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Not complicated to be more fun than assa ST ^^

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Why you feel bad in m+ ?

short radish
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You put in a lot of effort for little reward

ember jetty
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Lacking aoe , st ? Complex rotation ?

short radish
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assi is mongo bongo lol bleed lol do damage

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sub is juggle everything to maybe do 500k less damage overall

ember jetty
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Assa is not rly about bleed, and open is kind of complex actually

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On certain pull

short radish
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honestly

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you can almost press whatever you want as long as you 5 rupture

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and keep CT

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and its fine

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its really hard to fuck up assi

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but yeah

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sub is more fun to play though

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when you press damage buttons

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you see damage go up

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doing insane burst on pull is also nice

ember jetty
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Tier list is what it is, but i see some ppl putting sub A+ in front of assa/outlaw without explanation

tribal blade
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my guild's mugzee kill

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our 1 tank left alive at the end, text book finish

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for your viewing pleasure

short radish
tribal blade
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there's no shot a single person is putting sub ahead of sin or outlaw in any pve content

ember jetty
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Yes it is, petko and wowhead

ember jetty
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Petko is a great player of m+ all time

tribal blade
short radish
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unlimited TFD procs

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things die in 2 globals

tribal blade
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honestly sin feels better in delves gonna be real

short radish
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okay shut up just change your name to red

tribal blade
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you just exit stealth, spread with IC and everything dies

tribal blade
short radish
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fair point though

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i forgot mongo bongo blkeed

tribal blade
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yeah it's actually crazy good in delves

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feels like no effort, sub you actually need to press buttons

brittle plinth
tribal blade
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i've never looked at a wowhead tier list, got a link?

brittle plinth
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Average sin player

tribal blade
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oh ok found it i think

tribal blade
ember jetty
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Petkosham also put sub a+ , he say very good dmg

tribal blade
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i am maybe one of the all time die hard sub 1 tricks

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gonna be real

short radish
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petko is full of shit then lmao

tribal blade
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just this season i'm fed up

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this was S3 DF

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when outlaw was really good

brittle plinth
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I'm just teasing you bud

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No malice

tribal blade
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NO IM MAD

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(not really)

brittle plinth
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Lol

tribal blade
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haha

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i am a traitor though, fimbulvtr is right

ember jetty
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Prophet you feel sub is lacking of something m+ ?

brittle plinth
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Sub is fine for most players is the thing. If you aren't doing anything past 12s, you'll barely notice a problem.

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Except the effort to result part

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Which isn't a big deal for someone like me who is going to suck regardless

tribal blade
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the doing tank damage outside of cds

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it's weird because i think blizz doesn't want sub to have omega burst because then sub would be kinda broken in raid

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but then we fall off so hard outside cds so there's not really a way to keep up in higher target count dungeons

brittle plinth
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Damage amp fears

tribal blade
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sub was amazing at the start of the season, but then as we got more gear i started getting out dpsed by guildies who are not very good players

brittle plinth
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Basically

tribal blade
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and i didn't want to be in the same position as last season where i fell behind massively and was a burden in every key trying to run sub

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and make the same mistake of swapping to sin late

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so i just swapped quick

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last season i did swap back to sub after the rework it and it wasn't a troll spec to play anymore

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(and then quit pushing)

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to paraphrase casualaddict on someone asking why he was playing sin over sub early on this season- "why push a boulder up a mountain when you can slide down with no effort"

short radish
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not wrong

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its silly how little effort assi is

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and how much damge it does out of cds

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well then again

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you can sorta say that for every single othre class in the game

brittle plinth
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What CDs tho even

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The difference between using CDs and not is pretty forgettable

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(not counting vanish)

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Chain pulling is pretty crippling though

tribal blade
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you can work around it

short radish
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thats my point kek

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assi deathmark basically doesnt exist in aoe

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its cosmetic

tribal blade
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yeah sin can hold DM for pretty long periods of time

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it's the exact opposite of sub

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you hold cds as sub for any period of time you start dropping off enormously

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oh the wowhead tier lists are old

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by 1 month

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that's why sub is A-tier

short radish
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??????????????

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sub was A- tier a month ago?

tulip gorge
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maybe 2 months ago

short radish
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2 months ago???

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acutally yeah 2 months ago it was maybe okay

tribal blade
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maybe i can't count to 5, let me see

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yeah seems weird to me they considered sub A tier at that point

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also the way of doing dates year/month/day is chinese, so that's a weird thing too

keen dome
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I remember us going into S2 with Sub being pretty high up

keen dome
tribal blade
keen dome
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The most confusing way

tribal blade
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i'm used to the european way, so every time my guild puts out dates on stuff i get all messed up lol

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my guild being NA

keen dome
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We should just standardize it someday

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Like summer / winter clock changes

tribal blade
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YES

keen dome
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pick one and stick to it everywhere

tribal blade
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also remove daylight savings

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for the love of god

keen dome
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I think the EU was talking about it a while back haha

tribal blade
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we aren't farmers anymore

keen dome
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Also we should settle on a proper way to tell the temperature

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I propose using the one where water boils at 100 and freezes at 0 BECAUSE THAT'S SENSIBLE

tribal blade
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CELSIUS IS SO EASY

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IT'S SO LOGICAL

short radish
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makes sortings things so much easier

tribal blade
short radish
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US one makes no sense

keen dome
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Yeah

short radish
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day month year makes sense from a readability standpoint though

keen dome
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Yeah

tribal blade
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i bet you there's a really stupid reason why the US does month day year

short radish
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to be different from the english

keen dome
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Probably

hollow spear
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Yeah leave it to murica to make up the weirdest ass shit

keen dome
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Some of our ideas are pretty good in 'ol blighty. Not all of them are something to throw out

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Adding random letters to thee nd of words, however.

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Programme. ????

tribal blade
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oh apparently they borrowed it from europe

keen dome
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My dyslexic ass growing up did not enjoy the extra silent letters

tribal blade
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so europe changed it to make sense

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US was like "nah"

keen dome
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Ah, so the British ARE to blame

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All is right with the world again.

tribal blade
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well at least the brits changed it haha

keen dome
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Tempted to try and find all the documents proposing the change to see how angry people got at it

short radish
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another thing the british fucked up

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i hate the british

tribal blade
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i grew up with a lot of brits

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a LOT of banter

keen dome
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Apperently 1752 is when we swapped

void ocean
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arent the brits the one that say they use metrics but in reality they use imperials

keen dome
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Buddy I don't know what we use half the time

tribal blade
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cor blimey mary poppins

short radish
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tea and crumpets?

void ocean
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bo'wa'o'wo'ah

keen dome
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In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament, England and its colonies changed calendars in 1752. By that time, the discrepancy between a solar year and the Julian Calendar had grown by an additional day, so that the calendar used in England and its colonies was 11 days out-of-sync with the Gregorian Calendar in use in most other parts of Europe. lol, this rules

tulip gorge
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loicense?

tribal blade
short radish
tribal blade
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innit

void ocean
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yip

keen dome
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Gotta change the calender 'cos we've got 11 bonus days by accident

tribal blade
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i was in the british system, did GCSEs and A levels

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it was horrible

keen dome
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Hah

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Fucking GCSE's and A-Levels.

void ocean
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it was On CHEWSDAY, innit

tribal blade
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but apparently high schoolers in the UK are so dumb i didn't study at all for my GCSEs and got decent grades

keen dome
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My greatest accomplishment is having zero GCSE's and no A-Levels, but having two BSc's and an LLM

void ocean
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several AOTC's included

keen dome
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And 2200+ days worth of WoW

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Actually that's my greatest accomplishment, fuck the education

void ocean
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i mean, education is important but wow is importanter

keen dome
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A big isue with the GCSE / A-Level system is you teach to pass an exam rather than like, actually teaching useful skills. So the entire structure is now teach to pass, not teach to learn skills

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It's super frustrating

tribal blade
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that is education in a nutshell

keen dome
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Yep

tribal blade
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and they are confused why kids aren't able to focus

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like i had a really hard time in school, and at the time was constantly getting in trouble all the time

keen dome
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Thankfully I skipped it all. Taken out of school at 9. Adult city and guilds education at 16, University at 18. WoW from 19 and nothing useful since.

tribal blade
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but now i see it wasn't my fault, it was the system

keen dome
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Ye

keen dome
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We all learn differently and the idea you can have this one size fits all approach is just deeply frustrating

void ocean
tribal blade
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i mean who in the hell needs to learn sedimentation theory of fucking sand and dirt in geography class at 16 years old

void ocean
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and it was an engineering uni so that kinda of shit should be impossible but i guess some professors r just lazy

keen dome
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I did Psychology & Criminology as my first so it was all essay and practical stuff rather than exams. So actual practical stuff for the fields

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Which is super good as a way to grade those fields

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'Cos you've gotta demonstrate you can understand the theory and apply it properly

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Engineering seems cool as hell though

void ocean
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eh yea, thats what i tho as well 😄

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u do get disappointed ofc

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tho I guess its nice on high end universities like MIT n stuff

keen dome
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Yeah

void ocean
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when u do it in 3rd world country where uni struggles to get half the equipment they need, it kinda becomes rather underwhelming

keen dome
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Frustratign 😦

tribal blade
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it's hard to know how good you have it until you've visited a third world country

keen dome
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Agreed.

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Or slough, I guess

tribal blade
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just small things like walking through ancient temple sites

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and having dozens of kids run up to you trying to sell you stuff or begging for money

void ocean
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Now

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Lets go Monaco

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I must be the most loyal guy in the world, sub main and supporting Ferrari

fallow nimbus
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Seems like you are THE underdog

void ocean
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Naah, Im the updog

alpine wraith
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isnt ferrari cool

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it has a horse

full escarp
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!guide

wicked joltBOT
haughty mural
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Are horses that cool ?

alpine wraith
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yea they are fast and taste decent

latent finch
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And they are less scary then cows

haughty mural
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Taste decent??? monakOMEGA

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Is it a thing in spain?

alpine wraith
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no just in general

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horse meat is not that rare

alpine wraith
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and they are tame but not skilled

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so they oops trample you

latent finch
# alpine wraith yea people forget how strong cows can be

And underestimate how fast they can be for their size. I grew up in a place with more cows then people and i got chased some times by some angry cows. Its a sight seeing a animal weighing a few hundred kilo to run at you at full speed

lilac stag
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@tribal blade back to sub for reclears?

alpine wraith
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we never went out

twilit phoenix
nocturne oriole
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Started as Sub, been playing assa in raid and I’m ready to swap back. Assa is 🥱 and not fun. Wondering if the 5% buff will be enough to not troll my raid group. I doubt it, but it’s something

alpine wraith
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sub will be fine on all bosses now that mug zee kinda falls over

void ocean
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when we get that belt, its gonna be tfd season in mythic

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when bosses start dying in like 3 mins 😄

alpine wraith
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the belt is interesting with the ramping mastery

void ocean
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is it just me or it feels like we r gettin a bit too much

alpine wraith
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it is drip feed content

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to keep engagement

void ocean
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first half of the season bosses get nerfed, 2nd part we get fckton of dps boost

alpine wraith
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most midcore guilds are still in sprocket/oab

void ocean
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yea, that would be my guild

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but not bc of mechanical issues, but roster

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we done like one mythic night in past 5 weeks or so when stix died

alpine wraith
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well yea that is the void of like wr 700-1k+

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where everyone does not have time or other things

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and recruiting is a nightmare too

void ocean
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we should have the entire june I guess

alpine wraith
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new raid is likely in august

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to boost q3 so dont worry

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plenty of time

void ocean
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i hate raiding over summer 😄

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gaming at all

alpine wraith
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i dont mind it i have more time

void ocean
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im a shitty-weather-gamer

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snow storms, heavy rain outside mmmm

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but when the raid starts and its still daylight outside, feels weird

twilit phoenix
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Summer I gotta be outside

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Wow is a good wintertime activity

tiny sierra
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
thin sinew
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Well 4 masks actually seemed pretty manageable

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probably completely insane going for the 5th though

vale pine
#

think 5 is only possible with rly good gear and a bit of luck on your side

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unlocking more of the tree will make it more reasonable

brittle plinth
#

Is unlocking 5th mask pretty doable?

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It looked like a bit of effort I wasnt up to during work

fallow nimbus
#

Unlocking the masks is trivial

vale pine
#

my gf and me did unlock i think all masks you can this week, you don't need to do more than 1 mask runs for it so its easy doable

brittle plinth
#

Multitudes, kill everything in the vision and the objectives is the one I was worried about.

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Guess I'll try it tonight.

thin sinew
#

Ok that's actually possible i just messed up and got stunned

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Got to shaw with 2 orbs left somehow

left ledge
#

Have to kill everything for it

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Which defeats the whole stealth speedrun rogue has

thin sinew
#

yeh no

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those last few zones absolutely suck takes too long to kill stuff.

loved getting a below 50% sanity horror pulling 10 mobs from nowwhere that was fun ;p

#

long night is just too much with the drain rate we have. maybe doing some insane evasion secret tech nukes it might work

hidden spade
#

Will we need all the masks unlocked to get the best version of the enchant whenever it comes out?

void ocean
#

Doubt it

edgy socket
#

where to see incoming patch notes?

vale pine
#
#

if you mean these

old venture
#

SPEC SAVED

vale pine
#

ye, its a 4% buff

#

i did a rough estimate picture when it was released

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so sub is at best middle of the pack

#

still behind outlaw and sin

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which means, the entire idea of the buff was not to make anyone play sub

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but to make the remaining players on the spec happy

old venture
#

whatever happened to the 10% auras when a spec has been dogshit all tier

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they just forgot about those?

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or are those just reserved for mage and warlocks

vale pine
#

i mean it happens when sin is bad

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but subtlety either get no buff

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or a very minor mon to not change the balance between specs

echo ridge
vale pine
#

based on history

echo ridge
#

gotcha

vale pine
#

e.g. SL season 1

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sin was last, similar like sub is now

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and they buffed it till everyone exclusively played it

old venture
#

tbf assassination in season 1 of shadowlands was actually unplayable

edgy socket
#

i'm a new player, is that 5% buff substantial? ie moves as a tier?

old venture
#

like sub s2-4 of BFA levels of unplayable

echo ridge
#

outlaw has been playable for the longest time since it was first introduced in legion (correct me if im wrong)

vale pine
#

the thing is

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they did not buff it to still be behind the other specs

graceful osprey
#

Maybe the person implementing the buff will add an extra zero to make it 50% increase all damage for sub

vale pine
#

but over and over again

vale pine
#

till it was the best spec

old venture
#

shadowlands was such a bad spot for rogue overall

vale pine
#

for the etire tier

old venture
#

they never even fixed sub

vale pine
#

and this did happen multiple times now

old venture
#

sub got by with bandaids (EoN and shards)

vale pine
#

when sub was bad

old venture
#

it just rotted the entire expac

vale pine
#

it did rot on its position typically

old venture
echo ridge
old venture
#

Step 1. Remove Shuriken Combo because of Zul
Step 2. ?????
Step 3. ?????
Step 4. People still play this spec?

#

blizzard's approach to sub in BFA

vale pine
#

legion had the same happen

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s4 sin was behind

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then it was buffed to be the best raid spec

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besides tc's asking for similar buffs to all specs to keep them competitive

old venture
#

yeah but that would require them to care about rogue overall

alpine wraith
#

legion was a crime against combat and outlaw

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they nerfed them

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EVERY TIME

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it was about to be good

old venture
#

they just slap aura buffs on a class until 1 spec is really good and go "WELL JOB DONE THANKS EVERYONE"

alpine wraith
#

we meme about bfa but legion was also ruthless

vale pine
#

inherently, i am not even sure its intentional

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but with sin being the go-to for so long

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it might got more people outraged if its bad

old venture
#

because it's the easiest I think for them to just tweak

vale pine
#

so devs care more

old venture
#

right

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think about it, outlaw you if you tweak it too high is just obscenely OP in keys

vale pine
#

its never about balance but about perception

old venture
#

and I think they're scared to do that because of BFA

vale pine
#

ion mention it in his talk

old venture
#

when you ran 2-3 outlaw rogues in keys lol

vale pine
#

they don't balance the game for balancing reasons but to make the most amount of people happy

old venture
#

and I think sub suffers because blizz has no idea what to do with the spec

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so we get half assed bandaids

vale pine
#

so whatever they think achives that

old venture
#

to carry sub over the finish line

keen dome
#

I could design it to be cool.

old venture
#

it was designed to be cool

echo ridge
old venture
#

it had literally the coolest niche in the game

#

aoe -> ST

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with combo

#

then they ruined it because of one fucking boss

vale pine
echo ridge
keen dome
#

80% adding Ky'veza's animations. 20% finding the combo code from BfA and pasting it back in

vale pine
#

basically, the statement was somewhat around this

#

people are never happy

#

and balance will never be good

#

so they just wing it

#

based on how balance is precived

#

and how they want to change/impact it

#

(unless i missunderstood the talk)

old venture
vale pine
#

i mean he did not say this

#

directly at least

old venture
#

yeah he's a licensed attorney

#

he's good with words

#

he'll never bluntly say it

vale pine
#

i regret watching the talk

#

not to be disrespectful to ion

old venture
#

I don't even bother anymore tbh

vale pine
#

but it was like 1 or 1.5h i think

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and the content was worth 2 scentences

#

so much words to say nothing

old venture
#

the last 3 expacs solidified what I believed to be true over the last 2 decades

#

I don't need to hear his fluff

vale pine
#

i think wow repeats itself

#

classic came with detailed talent trees

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they had one point for each level, so you always got something out of leveling up

#

but these trees grow with every xpac

old venture
#

then we got the tables

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lmao

vale pine
#

so they became impossible to balance and maintain

left ledge
#

Is this some recent interview

vale pine
#

and blizz changed away to a system more defined

old venture
#

yeah

#

Ion gave a talk this past week iirc

#

or last week

#

idr

vale pine
#

with strong interessting perks, so you had capstones to decide between

lucid atlas
#

stilleto or stabber for first dagger craft?

vale pine
#

but seems like this was not a good approach, because DF changed back to the former

left ledge
#

Not the one with special effect

lucid atlas
#

Ok thanks

vale pine
#

but they never fixed the problem that made them move away from the talent system in classic

#

so what now?

old venture
#

they keep adding to the hero trees, never really improving anything

vale pine
#

do we just add more talents, people are already completely lost with what we have

old venture
#

and we get the same shit until people riot and we go back to tables

#

lol

vale pine
#

or do we again simplify and give capstones?

#

or maybe something in between?

left ledge
#

I think they just don’t understand how to scale the system but they also don’t really have community talks

#

It’s impossible to give actual feedback in this game

old venture
#

they tried that

left ledge
#

They tried the class forums

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Inevitable it got abandoned

old venture
#

they tried it with devs coming into class discords in DF

echo ridge
#

we used to have class dev in each class discords but it has been unsuccessful in its course

left ledge
#

Yeah like he who shall not be named in SL as well

old venture
#

then people started attacking blizzard reps who went out of their way to talk to the community, and then these guys just stopped because why would you subject yourself to random attacks

keen dome
#

Esp for the pay they got. I'm sure another part is a lot of talent just doesn't stick around so it's constantly re-learning the old issues and repeating shit.

old venture
#

yeah...

vale pine
old venture
#

plus from my understanding from what I've seen in the various class discords. I think they're also hamstrung by what they want to do vs what the overall team wants them to be able to do

echo ridge
#

im surprised that class devs decided to communicate with wider audience instead of spec rep like fuu, whispyr, foreverguy etc

left ledge
#

I mean what are they gonna do next expac

#

More hero talents?

old venture
#

add more hero talents

#

lmao

keen dome
#

Nah, man. I've already predicted it.

old venture
#

it's here to stay apparently

left ledge
#

That would be tragic

keen dome
#

They're gonna add a few Void choice nodes.

#

So you'll have like Void-tainted nodes and stuff which add an effect. You can just layer stuff on top fo them. Which is probably fine but eh.

echo ridge
#

i fear the talent system may just turn into PoE version of it

left ledge
#

Like many people said here I’m also of the opinion that hero talents are a band aid fix

old venture
keen dome
#

We're half-way through and a lot of hero trees still need full on reworks so this is how it is. Tons of reason why they aren't done and they're all depressing.

left ledge
#

Instead of fleshing out talents

old venture
#

realistically, there's no winning for them

old venture
#

so they just cater to the casuals who pay the bills now, and that's probably the best business decision

vale pine
#

i am def. not top X%

#

not playing hof or high wr

old venture
#

yeah but you're a theorycrafter, automatically places you in the top 1% sir

keen dome
#

If only they could just be left alone to make a video game they wanna make

left ledge
#

There’s just too much divide in the communities themselves sadly

old venture
echo ridge
old venture
#

everything's driven by metrics

left ledge
#

Like there were some people actually advocating for goremaw…

old venture
#

and $$$$$

keen dome
#

Ye

old venture
#

look at baldur's gate 3, took like a million years to came out

#

and was clearly the best game made in the last decade+

#

lol

keen dome
#

Nah, man.

#

Expedtion 33 is

#

Hands down. Game of the decade.

#

(BG3 is right up there though)

left ledge
#

It’s a good game it just doesn’t scratch the depth of bg3

echo ridge
#

I think BG3 was amazing in its own catagory

dawn summit
#

the factorio expansion lowkey kinda windmill dunked on every game release i can think of in the past 5-10 years

old venture
#

factorio goated

#

ngl

keen dome
#

But 33 is a super cool example of how around 60~ people can make a really fucking good video game. A mixture of really experienced veterans and completely new people

old venture
#

there's too much rigidness in the gaming industry atm

keen dome
#

The soundtrack being done by a guy who's never done one before and did music as his hobby. The writer being a VA who came on as a VA and ended up writing it.

left ledge
#

I think WoW is just being milked at this point fwiw

old venture
#

oh it 100% is

keen dome
#

All live service games are because that's their purpose.

old venture
#

I'd argue it's been milked since wod

keen dome
#

Since Wrath

#

Because that was it's peak.

left ledge
#

Def not since wrath

#

MoP was passion

old venture
#

when they ran out of story to follow and had to invent a new one?

echo ridge
#

I kinda disagree

#

I think Legion was peak

old venture
#

Legion was a break glass if disaster incoming expac

left ledge
#

You can’t look at MoP and say “being milked”

keen dome
#

Wrath was the peak of subscriptions, though.

old venture
#

unironically, shadowlands was 😛

left ledge
#

Yeah

keen dome
brittle plinth
#

They totally broke glass

left ledge
old venture
#

they legit released every emergency "oh shit" card they had for legion

keen dome
#

but if you want to talk like, just business? Wrath was their peak of the game being this GIGANTIC hit and that's when it would've been seen as a perpetual cashcow.

left ledge
#

I’m pretty sure MoP had the most content

#

Out of any expansion

keen dome
#

It didn't

lucid jackal
#

Housing will save world of Warcraft

#

Don't be a hater

old venture
echo ridge
#

I hated SL so much - 15min mythic sylvanas fight and it was my first ever CE... (+720 pulls in my guild)

old venture
#

LMFAO

#

I love you guy

left ledge
#

It also had arguably the best raid tier

brittle plinth
#

Timeless Isle was the best content in wow so he's not wrong

lucid jackal
#

I'm being so Fr tho

old venture
#

it'll keep the money rolling for sure

lucid jackal
#

Housing is actually as big of a feature as m+

#

It's gonna redefine the game

keen dome
#

Housing is extremely cool, though. I'm not sure why people are shitting on it so much. They're finally going back to their roots of taking something that works well in another MMO and taking it themselves and making it real fucking good.

old venture
#

they missed the ball on not implementing it sooner tbh

left ledge
#

Housing is a good feature

brittle plinth
#

Housing will be unused within 3 months, pin it

lucid jackal
#

U could say that about any feature wow gets

old venture
#

like you're not wrong, it'll be a huge hit

dusk stone
#

wow is very very very behind on this housing thing

keen dome
#

So much of WoW is Blizz taking stuff from other games and doing something really good with it

left ledge
#

It def won’t

#

Play ff

#

Housing is massive

lucid jackal
#

They try and fix the ui, "it's so late to being doing that"

left ledge
#

Better late than never

lucid jackal
#

They fix balance "why does it take so long"

dusk stone
#

other games have had housing for a long time already or longer tbh

left ledge
#

That’s Blizz

old venture
#

esp if you can customize it well

lucid jackal
#

Sub gets a buff "oh well why didn't it happen sooner"

old venture
#

housing is gonna revitalize wow

#

you get to hang cool trophies you earn, etc

keen dome
echo ridge
#

blizz's doing good things while also doing bad things to themselves....

left ledge
#

Oh wait

#

They’re still locked

left ledge
vale pine
#

had to quickly go afk

left ledge
#

I love recycled time gated content

keen dome
# dusk stone how so

Have you looked at the previews and shit? It's the best part of FF14's approach with like, Wildstar's influence, Lotro, etc.

lucid jackal
#

It's actually better than anybody imagined

dusk stone
#

i kind of did

left ledge
#

Yes housing looks great

keen dome
#

Like, it's a legitimate exmaple of Blizz taking what other studios have done AND doing it better due to learning from their lessons.

left ledge
#

If you disagree then you’re just a sour Andy idk

keen dome
#

Something they used to be known for and were very good at.

dusk stone
#

all i saw was decos and normal house stuff with vague ideas about neighborhoods

old venture
#

real talk though, as much as we meme blizzard. They do a really really good fucking job of taking something and improving on it

vale pine
left ledge
#

They literally can make jump mazes in your house

#

And obstacle courses

keen dome
left ledge
#

Idk what more you want

dusk stone
#

yeah thats not new

vale pine
#

sry i had to make the joke

left ledge
#

It

dusk stone
#

other games have done that for like 20 years

old venture
left ledge
#

It literally is new to wow

#

And no

#

Other games haven’t

#

FF is the other big mmo with housing

old venture
#

the ideas they steal from other games? when they implement them they do a good job of it

left ledge
#

It doesn’t have that

lucid jackal
dusk stone
#

yes they have runescape did this in 03 or something

lucid jackal
#

Is what it is

keen dome
#

Warbands are another cool example, actually

old venture
#

they took grifts from diablo 3 and made them way better/rewarding than grifts ever could be

left ledge
#

RuneScape is a low tick rate based game with much less control over what you can place or do

old venture
#

m+ is insanely successful

left ledge
#

Idk what that comparison even is

keen dome
#

Taking account wide progression and shit. And doing it in a real good way. Warbands, the Warbank, etc. They're all huge improvements to the game that a lot of other MMO's struggle with.

dusk stone
#

thats they had similiar house features 20 years ago

left ledge
#

No they just had housing features

keen dome
#

WoW's transmog system is one fo the best around, too. It's wholesale copied from other MMO's and I think only GW2 has it done slightly better.

left ledge
#

And the initial implementation was very minimal

old venture
#

and lmao

left ledge
#

And it’s also completely instanced

old venture
#

Ion would have to enter the identity protection program

keen dome
#

What, make WoW 2?

dusk stone
#

i dont think aesthetically it's going to be at swtors level though to be honest, because they did it really, really well with strongholds

lucid jackal
#

Absolute bastard company

keen dome
vale pine
#

isn't poe2 rly hard?

old venture
#

the problem was it was just bad

dusk stone
vale pine
#

okay fair

left ledge
#

The WoW housing is great I will be making mine sub rogue themed and have death traps if they allow me to kill people

dusk stone
#

game has dummies for you to parse in at your house

left ledge
#

I’m sure WoW will put dummies in too

#

Considering ff has them

swift tinsel
#

And they had them with garrisons

keen dome
#

Ye

left ledge
#

That too

old venture
#

bro garrisons could've been so sick

dusk stone
#

we will see what they do, but i dont think it will be S tier immediately

swift tinsel
#

Oh yeah they hyped them up so much

keen dome
#

Garrisons were rad

#

The original idea for Garrison was SO COOL

swift tinsel
#

And then put like seven minutes of effort into them

keen dome
#

And a technical nightmare

keen dome
#

Hey, have your base in ANY of these zones!!!

old venture
#

the original idea for x was SO COOL seems to be a common theme

keen dome
#

haha, yeah

swift tinsel
#

Torghast

old venture
#

the original idea for warfronts was insanely cool

#

torghast

#

just shells of what was planned

#

unlucky

keen dome
#

I mean, from a technial standpoint I absolutely understand why they cut them down. Absolute nightmare.

#

Did you know that there are two long running bugs in the Alliance garrison that still aren't fixed? One is outright game breaking.

swift tinsel
#

Lmfao

old venture
#

brother

#

all of wod can be considered a long running bug at this point

dusk stone
#

nice to see sub channel being pretty alive

swift tinsel
#

Best thing to come from Garrisons is the Lumberjack title

left ledge
#

Duuude when WoD came out

#

I was convincing my friends to hop on wow

swift tinsel
#

The horde bug

left ledge
#

15 of us went and watched the movie

vale pine
#

many of the systems had good ideas

left ledge
#

And then I quit the fucking game myself

swift tinsel
#

That bricked garrison building

old venture
#

twitter integration was a major patch in wod wasn't it?

keen dome
#

If you run down from your Garrison to the harbour when it is in stage 1 and hang on the right side of the path, the game will disconnect you. BUT! When you reconnect it will spawn you in the air above that spot, and disconnect you. You have to put in a ticket to get yourself moved lmao

old venture
#

lmfao

swift tinsel
#

Bc only one person could interact with the goblin spyglass at a time

vale pine
#

but never good implementations

swift tinsel
#

So bliz had to take down servers and auto-complete the quest for everyone

keen dome
#

lmao

swift tinsel
#

Legendary moment

old venture
#

I remember realz trying to separate iron wire and imp garrote from subterfuge

#

and complaining about how much of a mess it was

left ledge
#

Didn’t WoD cause the implementation of sharding

vale pine
left ledge
#

Or was that something else

keen dome
#

I remember WoD appearing on the BBC trading standards watchdog program 'cos of people complaining about it

vale pine
#

like if you game dev

#

its rare to get the first implementation right

old venture
vale pine
#

e.g. think of hades

#

they iterated for years to make a good roguelike

keen dome
vale pine
#

blizz thought they would nail it in one iteration

#

with torghast

#

and create a similar good gamepla loop

keen dome
#

Yeah - Island expedtions, torghast, warfronts. Ideas they toss as soon as they don't work instead of building on them and refining them

vale pine
#

and you realize how hard it is

#

if you look at hades 2

#

and it does not capture players as much as the first one

#

even tho its a good game

keen dome
#

I think a big part of that was it being in the Epic gulag for ages.

#

Like, that has a huge impact on people actually playing your game

vale pine
#

not rly

#

people go to games if they are good

#

its just a lot of pc gamers are married to steam

#

so they will be very loud if something is not on steam

swift tinsel
#

I think at one point I had steam, epic, origin, and another one idr

keen dome
#

Ubisoft's one probably

swift tinsel
#

For games I was actively playing

#

Oh yeah

#

Division I think I was playing

dusk stone
#

roguelikes were a fad though as a lot of stuff is

keen dome
#

EA have basically given up on Origin and it's now EA Play and most run on steam anyway. UBisoft seem to be clinging to it haha

dusk stone
#

like sub stuff with niches dies pretty quick

vale pine
#

roguelike is a very competitive genre

keen dome
#

Also a very broad one

vale pine
#

so you can't easy just replicate a good formula

keen dome
#

Like, the difference between sometihng like Rogue, ADOM, and I dunno, Monster Train. Huge.

#

I wonder what game introduced people to the genre more? Slay the Spire or Hades

vale pine
#

is tft considered a roguelike?

dusk stone
#

do the roguelikes have a sub specialization in them, is fuu telling us to go play those games sublimininally

vale pine
#

we talked about ttorghast

keen dome
vale pine
#

which is a rogulike design

#

autochess like i would say, but there are many names for the genre

#

autobattler

keen dome
#

Yeah

vale pine
#

deck builder

#

etc.

keen dome
#

I mean, Hearthstone had it's own roguelike mode so sure, it probably can be

vale pine
#

they still have ye

keen dome
#

But if you take something like ADOM and put it next to say, HS's roguelike mode. The world of difference haha

vale pine
#

wow tried something like autobattlers

#

with missions

#

but it did not succeed

keen dome
#

Ye

#

Legion best version of those

vale pine
#

they did a lot of stealing from other games that was not that good and dropped after a certain point

#

erliest i remember was thousendwinter in WOTLK

brittle plinth
#

Did someone have a list of fastest delves for rogues?

vale pine
#

sidestreed and fungal folly probably

#

you can use spores again to kill mobs in fungal

#

so its rly fast/easy

dusk stone
#

day 2 of saying sub community needs to come together and have a list of organized and succinct list of proposed designed changes

keen dome
#

Posion toggle

brittle plinth
#

I have fungal down to about 10mins. I'll try a rush run on street

vale pine
#

some of the underwater ones can also be fast

#

as you can depending on the play skip most of them

brittle plinth
#

Buddy of mine does dreadpit in about 2 mins

#

On shaman

vale pine
#

my s1 fungal folly record was a few minutes

brittle plinth
#

But that fun was ruined right?

#

As in you can't do it anymore

vale pine
#

they changed it back again

brittle plinth
#

Did you ever record how you do it?

vale pine
#

even tho spores are now more local, they now do damage again to mobs

#

and there are more of them

#

so you can speed up your delve by kiting enemies into spores

brittle plinth
#

I'll check it out.

#

Thanks

vale pine
#

idk if you can still do it in 4 min or sub 4 mins

vestal veldt
#

what are our bis trinkets if our main focus is m+ and what should we spend dinars on

vale pine
#

i haven't attempted to speedrun it this season

vale pine
#

2nd slot is quite irrelevant

vestal veldt
#

ooo

#

one last question

#

even if its heroic we want it ?

vale pine
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yes

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house of cards is bis

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so if you don't have it, its a good thing for your dinar or to farm in heroic raids

dusk stone
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jastors and ritual bone brand beat our circes reportedly but i do not think it is by much

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also understand sub is 30-50% behind other rogue specs in most cases

left ledge
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Probably the game that initiated the explosive popularity in roguelikes

vale pine
keen dome
vale pine
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(i am joking because it started as a flash game)

left ledge
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Originally yes

vestal veldt
keen dome
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Hell yeah more Sub rogues

twilit phoenix
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fancy pants was a dope flash game

dusk stone
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welcome to the club brother

twilit phoenix
dusk stone
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but yeah

vale pine
dusk stone
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i think those qualified need to do either need to have two lists for sub changes, one for proposed changes in short term that makes sub competitive with other rogue specs and the other is more long term with more in depth changes

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make an article out of it or something, it's at least something to set you apart from other class discord channels

vale pine
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there was an article on wowhead about it ^^

dusk stone
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i read the talent portion of it, didnt go in depth enough imo

vale pine
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i mean you can extend the content infinitely

dusk stone
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like you guys are into theorycrafting, you have access to all the stuff to know what we would need to be competitive

vale pine
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competitiveness is numbers

dusk stone
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the idea behind this is that if numbers can prove these things you just save dev time

vale pine
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only

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if you do a lot of damage -> you will be chooses over those who will do less

uneven scarab
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Its typically a mix between damage and util that makes a spec meta

vale pine
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only if the group needs it

uneven scarab
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Right ofc

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Different comps change that

dusk stone
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example of short term can for example be buffing sectec to make us more competitive in m+ but buffing one skill too much means it has to be nerfed later

vale pine
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the reason it got nerfed was basically the tier set

dusk stone
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we should just have a changelist on hand man

vale pine
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or well

uneven scarab
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Subs damage is just very lackluster compared to other specs rn

uneven scarab
vale pine
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blizz wanting sub to do less damage in general

uneven scarab
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Sub would probably be upper mid tier

vale pine
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shadowlands was rly good season 2

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all 3 specs ended up roughly equal

dusk stone
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things i dont think should be on the short term list are like moving talents or adding new ones or etc because its more in depth

vale pine
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so you could freely pick

dusk stone
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short term just needs to be numbers based

vale pine
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well the problem you miss is

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the feedback blizz searches is never solutions

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but problems

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so they can make their own solutions

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e.g. we suggested things

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but rarely did they ended up getting implemented

dusk stone
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what was an example or something that was suggested

vale pine
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developers often want the control over their systems, and bring their own solutions

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its with most games like this

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and as oxi mentioned earlier in DF

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even when developers ended up active in the chat

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it was rare to see solutions taken from the community

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outside of qality of life changes

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there is another problem of time

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you have one dev work on 5 or 8 specs

dusk stone
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yeah devs having control and not utilizing community changes if often a thing it can come with perception biases and stuff

vale pine
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so you don't have the time to make every spec in the game equally developed

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one will always fall behind