#subtlety

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swift tinsel
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And now Voodoo in fel hammer pinned a purple meta icon from wago tools

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Saying it’s all confirmed

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So the keyboard droolers over there are convinced

keen dome
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Haha

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I think Shaman Tank is more likely because at least they have more than two hero talents.

haughty mural
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Really ?

keen dome
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With DH you'd have this awkward situation. And then again Purple Vengance or Green Vengance.

short radish
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they had some threat generator thing

swift tinsel
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It was

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Rockbiter had threat modifiers and they had shield talent

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And earth shock had increased threat modifier

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So the foundation was there

runic trail
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And earth shock did a tonne yeah

swift tinsel
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Then SoD

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Made a literal tank spec

runic trail
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I did some low level tanking on my shaman in classic

swift tinsel
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Which was actually pretty nice

keen dome
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Also Shaman tank NPC< etc.

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There's absolutely room for it and a mail tank would be cool

runic trail
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It worked until level 30 or so

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Then fell off a bit

keen dome
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Whereas a third melee DH spec is just ???. If it was clearly ranged I'd be going "yeah sure" or a suppot.

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The only reason I'm not 100% certain they won't do it is we're getting Legion Remix and the timing would be interesting.

swift tinsel
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Yeah I think the melee play space is a bit too crowded for another spec

keen dome
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But I think it's more likely we get Void Elf DH's

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Maybe also uh, nightfallen or w/e they're called

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the purple wine elves

hollow spear
haughty mural
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Sorry I did let you down

tribal blade
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might be 108 sub logs in 2 weeks time

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after my guild's break week

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because sin kill times suck now

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so sub time

haughty mural
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109 if I manage to pug him this week 2ez

tribal blade
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daaamn is locken puggable?

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i suppose it's a lot easier with turbo boost and raid buff

hollow spear
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if my guild kills it in less than 5 tries, it should be omegalul

tribal blade
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since you completely skip the final phase

runic trail
hollow spear
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yeah

tribal blade
plucky parrot
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honestly the hardest part about that fight is ensuring your bomb assignment WAs work

swift tinsel
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Meanwhile my guild prog ended yesterday without being able to kill it after 10 hours of prog

haughty mural
swift tinsel
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Yeah, five weeks of two hours of just sprocket prog

short radish
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bro

keen dome
hollow spear
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What happened

swift tinsel
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Yep

short radish
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change guilds

tribal blade
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so yeah if you have monkeys on your raid team

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locken is a hard boss

swift tinsel
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Idk I stopped raiding before then

tribal blade
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because a LOT of personal responsibility

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1 person can very easily kill everyone

keen dome
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Personal responbility bosses are always really funny

swift tinsel
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The guild isn’t the most mechanically sound

keen dome
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Because you immediately find out who isn't focusing

swift tinsel
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Which is why I meme on them for pushing ilvl over actually learning to handle mechanics

tribal blade
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yeah i had to suffer through a lot of people walking into bombs

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not being able to read the WAs

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not knowing blue from red

swift tinsel
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Because then they get walled hard when fights like that pop up

short radish
tribal blade
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i didn't miss a single bomb the entire of prog

short radish
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i dont fucking why that was so hard for some people

keen dome
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I've been helping some guilds kill Gally for AotC and I saw a guy die to the lightning circle in P3 for like, four pulls and then go "what's killing me"

short radish
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to realise that the countdown resets itself at 2/4 seconds

swift tinsel
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It happened with Hungering Destroyer and that drove a third of the guild to quit

tribal blade
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the only time i messed up a bomb soak was because both the locks took forever to get theirs and i was last

short radish
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if the thing is late

runic trail
tribal blade
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and i had like 0.1s to get mine

keen dome
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that's the worst

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That's not your failure at all though

short radish
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but absolute fucking monkeys see 6 second countdown then just close their eyes or something and walk over it at 6 seconds

runic trail
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We had 200 pulls on sprocket uglyassdog

tribal blade
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i'm usually bad at that kind of stuff, but the locken bombs were hella chill with the WAs

swift tinsel
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Had people inting rik prog bc ranged were aoeing the melee stack to pad instead of killing the ranged one

short radish
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yeah

tribal blade
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you just see your assignment, look at the map to see the order

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then identify your marker

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and easy peasy

haughty mural
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My raid disbanded this Tier again so i am only pugging atm Sadeg

swift tinsel
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So melee had to kill ranged barrels

runic trail
short radish
swift tinsel
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Tank positioning made barrel cleave annoying, they’d pull him away and he ran at mach speed

short radish
haughty mural
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„My darkglare will get fucked if I switch to range barrels“
classic

runic trail
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This tier made me distrust warlocks, because they sit there formulating the most complicated portal transit network known to man in order to avoid walking 5 steps to the left

keen dome
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Hahha

short radish
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Mission: Don't stand on melee on rik
Difficulty: Impossible

swift tinsel
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Yuuuuup

tribal blade
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i swear to god, ranged are some of the most coddled players of all time, ESPECIALLY in keys

haughty mural
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I’ve heard it all this tier

tribal blade
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this season is crazy different between melee and ranged

keen dome
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Ranged love sitting at max ranged doing their own thing except when sitting at max ranged is the thing to do. In that circumstance, they're now melee.

tribal blade
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being melee is like dodging the missiles being fired between gaza and israel

haughty mural
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„I need to cleave of rik as arcane mage sorry“
classic

tribal blade
swift tinsel
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We have maybe two or three ranged players that I’d say are reliable but the others are just

short radish
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Mission: Pull the boss at 0 seconds
Difficulty: Impossible

tribal blade
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any other spec nah

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maybe fire mage too

swift tinsel
keen dome
haughty mural
swift tinsel
haughty mural
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This mage plus the warlock killed me this tier classic the 2 best excuses right there

short radish
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the first hit of every boss needs to be a ranged hit

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so it kills the stupid fucking idiots that cast 3 seconds before pull

tribal blade
swift tinsel
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I made a joke about tanks pulling early the other day and our rl was like “it’s funny you think it’s the tanks doing it” so I screenshot almost a dozen logs showing the tank as the first hit

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Like dude

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I see his giant cow ass charging in

keen dome
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Every raid boss should work like Fyrakk, prove me wrong.

runic trail
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But court prog last season we had like a fucking hour of the boss being pulled at 3-5 seconds

hollow spear
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Kinda ridiculous

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How do you even do that

runic trail
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I dunno. Eleshams were jumpy apparently

hollow spear
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if you have a 3 second cast, just start it at 2.5 or so on the pulltimer

runic trail
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And we had 4 of the fuckers uglyassdog

hollow spear
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4?

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dang

short radish
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i hate boomkins

hollow spear
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yeah, they're actually chickens irl

runic trail
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Our roster was super scuffed. We didn't have a warrior for last 3 bosses uglyassdog

fallow nimbus
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Also that prepull lust rendering your goon squad trinket useless

hollow spear
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my last guild didn't have a warrior or monk

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pepega

tribal blade
hollow spear
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I'll never understand prepull lusting

tribal blade
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i think boomy might take 2nd place to aug for my most hated M+ specs of all time

hollow spear
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there's so many fotm boomies

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doing tank dps in keys

tribal blade
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yeah it's annoying

hollow spear
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"tank is not pulling around me"

runic trail
hollow spear
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don't get me started on that one

runic trail
tribal blade
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the fact that boomys single handedly enable you to do things otherwise not possible in every key

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is stupid

haughty mural
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The biggest menace are demo locks in keys

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Skips are impossible

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With some of them

runic trail
tribal blade
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i haven't seen a single demo lock

runic trail
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So, you've not seen any cos we've been hoarding them all

tribal blade
haughty mural
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They are more than us

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They tripple sub at sprocket

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Iirc

keen dome
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I did a Cindermead week 1 with a Demo lock who blasted, and we almost timed it on +10 but there was an impcident before the third boss.

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It's hilarious what they can pull

runic trail
keen dome
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YEP

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We all jumped. There was a "..no" in chat and we looked behind us as like, 40 imps just jogged through every trash mob down to us

runic trail
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End of mechagon skip does the same

keen dome
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The group found it very funny, 'cos we were doing it for vault

runic trail
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Can pull it off mostly flawlessly, then a lone imp just strolls through

keen dome
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Plus I had realized earlier that we were all stuck in there and I could subject everybody to bee puns the entire run so it fit the mood.

void hound
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sprocket the most annoying boss to parse on, its pure RNG 😭

tribal blade
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i can't BEElieve that happened to you

runic trail
hollow spear
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78% FW uptime on sprocket

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urgh

haughty mural
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Lovely backstab design

swift tinsel
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Imps should hide in your pockets out of combat

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But make it a visual

keen dome
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Agreed

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Just 40 imps clinging to you

runic trail
swift tinsel
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You can’t tell me they aren’t 10 imps in a trench coat already

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Have you talked to one in disc before

swift tinsel
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Literal menaces most of the time

runic trail
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There were so many imps

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They were fucking EVERYWHERE

swift tinsel
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Yikes did you guys lose a bet or what

runic trail
swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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i feel scuffed rosters have

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ret paladins usually

swift tinsel
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Idk if I’ve ever seen two, let alone four

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We had two rets for most of this season

shrewd lantern
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two too many*

swift tinsel
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Two ww, two hunters, two dps and two tank warriors, two mages,

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Noah’s ark lookin ahhh

shrewd lantern
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two tank warriors

swift tinsel
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Yeah we originally had a bear but they had to quit early on and had really spotty attendance

shrewd lantern
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i feel pwar in raid is like

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its either underwhelming or

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theres one boss shield block does super well against

swift tinsel
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They were mostly fine, only real gripes were they’d leap away and the boss would Usain Bolt 30 yards

shrewd lantern
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like they basically dont get impacted

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by ego check on gally

swift tinsel
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There was some bug apparently early on where one of his other mechanics was just ignoring our bear tank and was one-shotting one of the pwarrs

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The stacking one idr the name I don’t pay attention to tank stuff lol

iron roost
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some says if you have more crit there is a chance that your charged bolts crit more is that even true ?

tribal blade
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i also assume it's affected by vers

iron roost
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electric current feels safer pick for us

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since charged bolts ninja pulling mobs left and righ

tribal blade
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in M+ yes, bolts is giga troll

iron roost
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I'm using Oathsworn's on wep's since versa sims higher than main stat for me its kinda good for m+

tribal blade
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yeah could be the move

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i'd consider the same thing, but i swap between sub and sin

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so radiant power is the best all round

iron roost
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just get 2 set of weps

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have 2x rick weps and have 2x oab weps

remote shuttle
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Mastery very good

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Crit uptime not so good like 20% on my tests

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Versa idk.. Goes down really fast... Also need to proc, not cycling as mastery does

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I mean, in m+

tribal blade
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mm yeah x2 vers equal to radiant power in dslice as sin (which means it'll be even better for sub), which additionally comes along with DR, easy

tribal blade
remote shuttle
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Guess u were talking about weapon enchants atm, which one u run as sub as pref Proph? I mean m+

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I stay with radiantx2

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For main stat

tribal blade
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i was just running x2 radiant power

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but seems like vers is on par

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after sims

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so i'm swapping all my enchants to vers

remote shuttle
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Ah

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What's ur versa basic?

tribal blade
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might as well get the additional benefit of DR

remote shuttle
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Im on 27% like 20k

tribal blade
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uh as sin it's somewhere around 20ish%

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sorry as sub

remote shuttle
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Ah ok

haughty mural
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Just stack mastery like hacha

tribal blade
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my mast is very high, like 21k as sub

haughty mural
remote shuttle
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Maybe with more versa like i have radiant still better, need to sim

remote shuttle
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22k

tribal blade
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i think taking a small dmg loss is worth getting more DR from vers

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i did that for my sin set

remote shuttle
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Y sure, that's why i gi around with 27% vers

tribal blade
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i have 15% vers unbuffed in my sin M+ set, which is relatively high

remote shuttle
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As i met a dudu i go straight softcapped 30%

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Ye

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Sins are like 5% vers more or less

tribal blade
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yeah, but the dmg difference is negligible

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it's not that crazy

remote shuttle
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Smart choice

tribal blade
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i remember back during... S2 of DF i think

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i got flamed a lot in here for saying i was statting more vers for DR instead of going full crit/mast as sub

remote shuttle
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U mean sin now?

tribal blade
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nah during S2 of DF sub was going full crit+mast

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esp for keys

remote shuttle
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Aaah ok

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I landed wow on df s3 so idk

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So for me was always mast vers

tribal blade
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sub had access to this talent from sin in the class tree

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which was fucking insane for sub

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massive impact

remote shuttle
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(played couple months on warmane tbc in 2k16 then other games till landing on retail df s3)

remote shuttle
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Sounds huge

tribal blade
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it was big

remote shuttle
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Ye

tribal blade
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made sub have 0 cdr issues

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0 energy issues

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you could fill every gcd easily

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we also ran 2/2 vigor and tea at that time

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so infinite energy

remote shuttle
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Ye i see... Pvp i use tea, zero energy issues

left ledge
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Yup and we pressed gloomblade for 90% of every st pull

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And in aoe we pressed storm bp on repeat forever

tribal blade
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lol yeah we had a stupid amount of dmg in gloomblade

remote shuttle
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Can imagine tea+ free cp...

left ledge
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One of the most boring iterations sadly

tribal blade
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that was when sub was press on cd

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kinda like outlaw

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you jsut pressed blades on cd

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dance on cd

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symbols on cd

remote shuttle
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Not planning at all?

tribal blade
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nah

left ledge
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Plan what

tribal blade
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a little, but not really

remote shuttle
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Mmmh k i like the actual planning thing

left ledge
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You only really had flag and a big part of your damage came AFTER your cooldowns

remote shuttle
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Kinda like hate, but mostly like

haughty mural
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You didn’t even have to play with flag

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And blades did not much

left ledge
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Gloomy times

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Literally

tribal blade
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yeah we played DB at that time

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since DB had the double dipping bug too

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probably the "hardest" part of that rotation was dance gave you 6 secs of symbols from the tier set

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and then pressing actual symbols to properly pandemic the existing one

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and min maxing your tea around after dance so you could spam gloomblade with max lingering stacks

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that was about the rotation

left ledge
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No the hardest part was proccing Sophic devotion

remote shuttle
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Got it

tribal blade
left ledge
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Yea yea funny enough

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I might remember that too

remote shuttle
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So as u told me sub haa been more rng than now in the past

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(ws ub reset procs, back to back dep on shadowcraft)

tribal blade
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the worst time in recent memory for sub rng was the tier set during S3 of DF

haughty mural
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rng not so bad right now

tribal blade
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shadow rupture gaming

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was miserable

haughty mural
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Oh god

remote shuttle
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Had all wa to track

haughty mural
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Shadow rupture

obtuse nebula
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If i wanted to switch sub from Fire mage for 11.2. do you think that i have a time to learn it ? (last time played assa in BFA) i think that Fire APM starts to F me over...

tribal blade
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if you proccing it during dance you were going to the moon

remote shuttle
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Was my welcome in wow that thing 😂

runic trail
remote shuttle
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Iirc we were sending double / triple ruptures to proc it

haughty mural
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But yea you’ll be fine

tribal blade
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but yeah you would be going from the most iterated on class in the game to the least

runic trail
tribal blade
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fyi

obtuse nebula
tribal blade
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sub is not a "simple" spec to play

haughty mural
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Assa is slower

tribal blade
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sin would be more your pace

haughty mural
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Kinda

tribal blade
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sub does have lower apm outside cds yes

swift tinsel
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I mean our downtime is very slow

tribal blade
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but you need to be keeping track of several different cds that all refresh at different rates

swift tinsel
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Even between-flag dances aren’t that fast paced

tribal blade
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sin is just- send all cds on pull

obtuse nebula
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i don't have issue with complexity as long as i'm not "forced" by class design to be punished for every single little mistake

tribal blade
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and then kingsbane off cd

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then go into cds again

swift tinsel
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The cd refresh part ends up kinda scripted

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At least in raid

remote shuttle
swift tinsel
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Flag - 2 dance - flag - 1 dance

tribal blade
swift tinsel
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Shift things around as needed for boss timers

tribal blade
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having been a 1 trick sub for so long

haughty mural
remote shuttle
haughty mural
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Since cdr is so tight

tribal blade
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yeah sub is quite punishing

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if you mess it up

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very punishing

obtuse nebula
remote shuttle
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And so fun and enjoying when u do good 😊

haughty mural
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Yes

tribal blade
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sub has so much damage in cds

swift tinsel
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If you don’t get your burst window essentially gcd-perfect

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It’s a big loss for sub

tribal blade
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so making mistakes in cds has a big impact

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so much so that i plan using immunes like cloak+evasion around cds

obtuse nebula
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Like it's not a problem short term, problem is if i'm basically in that hyper focus state like 80% of fight

swift tinsel
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Fire combust uptime is way higher than our dance/flag uptime so mistakes for them aren’t as bad

remote shuttle
tribal blade
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you could legit play ret or bm

swift tinsel
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Sub hyperfocus state is 24 seconds every 1.5 mins

remote shuttle
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And abusing feint

tribal blade
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if you wanted to turn brain off and focus on mechanics

haughty mural
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I’d argue sub is more punishing than fire tbh

obtuse nebula
swift tinsel
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And arguably it’s only 16 since blades is the big one

left ledge
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So if you pop cds and get fucked

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You’re fucked

obtuse nebula
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😆

swift tinsel
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Getting every gaol set

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Ggwp

left ledge
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You will experience moments where you pop cds

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And get cucked

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That is basically gg

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You’ll have to learn your timings

tribal blade
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on one of my last reclears of stix i fucked up a final cd set

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and that destroyed my parse

left ledge
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The complexity of sub is not rotation, it’s cd management

obtuse nebula
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Like last tier as fire i felt quite confident, this tier it got so bad even with my gameplay....

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and i don't feel like i have fundamentally changed something

tribal blade
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you can try sub and see

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but i feel like there are specs that are infinitely easier to play

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sub isn't quite as hard as it used to be though

obtuse nebula
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I definitely enjoy complexity, but i think that High APM is what kinda chews my attention too much

tribal blade
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i found having higher apm not to really be an issue

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when the cd timings are very easy to track and use

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but i would still suggest trying sin

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as sin in ST you can miss gcds and it'll mostly be fine, even a good thing

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since energy pooling is a thing for sin

obtuse nebula
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I guess i will give it a try... I remembered that i have played Sin briefly in PVP in Shadowlands

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😄

tribal blade
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cd management as sin is also quite simple overall

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you have deathmark, x2 shivs and kingsbane

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basically send everything on pull

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then 1 min later kingsbane with x2 shivs again

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then 1 min later all cds again

tulip gorge
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Isn’t sub kinda simple too

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You send 2 dances with flag

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Then 2 separate dances

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Flag again with 2 dances

swift tinsel
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More or less yeah

tulip gorge
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Is the extra cdr from trickster tier set going to change anything?

swift tinsel
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Initial thought is it’ll make 2x dances between each flag a thing

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Instead of alternating 2 and 1

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Might be some other stuff but can’t test yet

tulip gorge
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Sounds good

swift tinsel
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The extra cdr is a potentially exciting gameplay element

tulip gorge
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Is deathstalker dead on arrival? lul

swift tinsel
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Hopefully

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The tier bonuses are not good

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And make zero sense

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At least for sub, maybe they make sense for sin lol

tulip gorge
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For sin it’s quite good

swift tinsel
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That spec’s a bit outside my wheelhouse lol

tulip gorge
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It would have been nice if black powder worked with darkest night

hazy breach
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Lots of things would make it better, but none of them seem to be happening

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Our aoe rotation overall needs to be looked at, its kind of a trainwreck

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On low target cleave its fine as trickster because you just pretend its singletarget

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But in high target counts its constantly choosing between options that all feel bad, either you storm and dont get coup stacks but you get to (randomly) apply find weakness or you strike and get coup but no find weakness

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Tornado during cds wastes shadowcraft refunds etc

haughty mural
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Just remove tornado please

swift tinsel
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idek what I'd want for an aoe playstyle for sub anymore

vale pine
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tornado is something in need for a rework since df

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was never that good

swift tinsel
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fantasy would be shadow clone jutsu

vale pine
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aoe also has the problem of being not obviouse

swift tinsel
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but that's already SEF

vale pine
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when is it better to evis instead of bp?

swift tinsel
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the FW problem

vale pine
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before target cap you would assume

swift tinsel
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bc of SF

vale pine
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but thats not alwas the case

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alsowhe to use BP

swift tinsel
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being a part of it

vale pine
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when to use storm instead of strike/bs?

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if you are on 8 targets, our aoe with bp is not that good

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all while we trade off single target

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and if we funnel

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we arn't good at it while losing a shitton of aoe

swift tinsel
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idk personally I like the idea of being a prio target destroyer

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since single target burst is a strength of the spec

vale pine
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well thats the niche of assassination now

swift tinsel
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right, since they got all the niches from the rework which is frustrating

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funnel, prio, execute, aoe

vale pine
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assassiantion got most niches rogue had

swift tinsel
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yeah, which is a mistake

vale pine
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subtlety was the most mobile class offering 2 shadow steps

swift tinsel
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but it's whatever ig bc that's how they want it

vale pine
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now all 3 have the same mobility

swift tinsel
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strike teleport during dance would be nice

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nothing big but kinda neat

vale pine
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would be a dissaster

mighty citrus
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dead

vale pine
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there is a reason they removed it

mighty citrus
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same with coupoe

vale pine
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because you initially had the teleport always

swift tinsel
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ig pay more attention

runic trail
vale pine
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yes

runic trail
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(it wasn't fun times)

vale pine
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a classic was on the roomba boss

haughty mural
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Atleast I was able to teleport from add to add during krosus prog. 2ez

vale pine
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you would strike and teleport behind him, getting killed instantly

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i had a lot of fun optimizing the bridge boss

#

with spring vanish

runic trail
#

Also the sprint -> vanish thing fucked me a few times. Get mechanic, sprint to where I need to go, vanish procs and the mechanic goes elsewhere last second.

vale pine
#

but back to the topic

#

the reason aoe is meh on sub is

#

there was not effort put into it

swift tinsel
#

yeah, and it shows

#

from available aoe abilities to aoe talents in the tree

vale pine
#

assassination got an entire patch in DF of attetion to make it good in aoe

swift tinsel
#

and I use the 'talents' part loosely

vale pine
#

outlaw was historically the aoe spec for rogue

#

subtlety just got BP as a band aid

swift tinsel
#

yeah and that was recently too

#

relatively

#

SL?

vale pine
#

BP was SL yes

#

also keep in mind secret

#

did no damage for most of its existance

swift tinsel
#

painfully aware

vale pine
#

so as much as people love to make statements about sin having no aoe

vestal escarp
#

i'll make the channel cringe with one single move

vale pine
#

for most of the history, sub had worse aoe than sin

tribal blade
#

sectec used to be one of the most made fun of sub spells

vale pine
#

ill give you an example to highlight what i mean

#

BP was added

#

and you know how assassiantion has ct

#

ct was a two part attack

#

an initial damage hit and a damage over time effect

#

the initial damage hit did more damage than the entirety of BP

swift tinsel
#

that absolutely tracks lol

vale pine
#

thats because of how damage scaled

#

but BP was buffed multiple times

#

so it wasn't a complete meme

#

e.g. if you look at DF

#

season 1 and 2

#

subtlety was actually the aoe spec of rogue

#

its just

swift tinsel
#

its so boring

vale pine
#

it was nerfed

swift tinsel
#

storm - bp

vale pine
#

unintentionally

swift tinsel
#

barf

vale pine
#

like reals was in here

#

assuming the spec changes had no impact on aoe

#

one thing i still have issues understand

#

if the design goal was to keep the aoe output of subtlety the same

#

why haven't we seen buffs to correct for the diffrence like at all?

#

there is likely no bad intention

#

but logically

#

if i would rework parts ot all rogue specs

swift tinsel
#

the design of sub during and post rework has felt a bit aimless

vocal wolf
#

Really couldn't be bothered to fix it I guess LMAO

vale pine
#

and i even publically basically say i want to keep one part equal to before that

#

wouldn't it make sense to then also buff things back to get to the goal?

#

reality is

#

it was because subtlety was good in raid

#

it creates a dynamic, where you can't make something thats good in raid even better

#

making it hard to ask for buffs when you are good

#

but also going with recent discussions in here

#

even if subtlety is the worse performer statistically, at least going from some individuals

#

we are also not allowed to ask for buffs

haughty mural
#

If some things get fixed eventually don’t even need many buffs

swift tinsel
#

I think the aoe discussion is less about buffs but more gameplay-related

vale pine
#

but most things are balancing problems

#

lets say aoe vs. prio damage

swift tinsel
#

well yeah, at the end of the day that's usually where the issues lie

haughty mural
#

Didn’t someone discover that sectechs target scaling does not work properly

swift tinsel
#

but those are knobs that can be adjusted

vale pine
#

if BP did a LOT more damage in aoe, and the prio damage was higher

haughty mural
#

As well as the tier problems with it

vale pine
#

you actually had a trade off

#

you would need to decide, do i want to be rly high in overall

#

or do i need the extra prio to speed up the dungeon

swift tinsel
#

isn't that a choice sin can currently make?

vale pine
#

sin gets prio for free

#

you don't lose aoe damage for it

#

your "decision" is in talents

#

and your weakness only exist if you can't pull extra mobs to targets

swift tinsel
#

yeah, wasn't the tradeoff most recently going for more overall at the cost of ST

lilac stag
#

Assa gets to choose what damage type will be better for the targets of sorts. (Full Bleed vs KB)

swift tinsel
#

I'm not the most familiar with how they're working atm

vale pine
#

its like this

#

you trade off single target

swift tinsel
vale pine
#

but if you have more than one target

#

you gain enough prio to make this fairly irrelevant

#

creating a dynamic in which you absolutely are worse

#

but only

#

if the dungeon design has a lot of pure single target

lilac stag
#

Assa basically has talent option that you can adjust for dungeon difficulty

#

and now you’re going to empower everything

vale pine
#

which is why certain dungeons benefit from changes of talents or well specs

#

mid dungeon

#

(if anything i said was wrong, feel free to correct me)

lilac stag
#

Bleed build loses value say at 18+ keys. Ok. Change it a bit and you’ve got a build you can run that’s more effective.

#

Sub… garf

swift tinsel
#

yeah the lack of meaningful choice for sub is extremely annoying

vale pine
#

its not that bad

lilac stag
#

It’s not even meaningful choices. It’s absolutely dead talents.

vale pine
#

again i think its more a tuning problem

swift tinsel
#

as in talent tuning or ability tuning

vale pine
#

having the ability to custoize to keys is only relevant if you are already the strongest tuning wise

#

if assassiantions aoe was a lot worse

lilac stag
#

WM very meaningful choice in m+

swift tinsel
#

because like scath said we legitimately have dead talents

vale pine
#

people would not play it even tho you have the talent options

lilac stag
#

TFD taken and played around annoyingly because everything else is shit

vale pine
#

tfd design made no sense

#

the timer was just added for pvp

lilac stag
#

which is back to dead talents

#

Not just tuning

vale pine
#

and it just adds a lot of complexity for no real reason

#

what did we gain from it?

swift tinsel
#

WM, PV, GMB, Shadow Focus

lilac stag
#

A longer dance opening on reclears in raid. garf_sit

swift tinsel
#

Warning Signs, Master of Shadows, Lingering Shadow, Silent Storm, Night Terrors/Terrifying Pace,

lilac stag
#

Tornado

swift tinsel
#

essentially wasted nodes

#

yeah

lilac stag
#

literally no use with trickster

swift tinsel
#

that's almost 25% of our talent nodes being effectively or literally dead

swift tinsel
#

if that wasn't required I would have listed it lol

keen dome
#

Fair. It's just a tax node.

swift tinsel
#

if you swap it and Swift Death positions you'd never talent it

#

so I'll count it nvm lol

vale pine
#

i mean there are nodes like

hazy breach
#

Silent storm is actually quite decent

swift tinsel
#

its just in a place you can't really get it

hazy breach
#

Its just in a cursed position

swift tinsel
#

reasonably

#

yeah

vale pine
#

PV was even before beta mentioned as a very poor talent option

swift tinsel
#

which makes its existence in the tree worse

vale pine
#

and is still rly bad

#

its only a node to shortcut

#

so you would only take it to get other nodes

hazy breach
next briar
#

Is there any other stipulation for getting the vanish macro/bug to work. Or is it normal for it to be like 50% of the time.

vale pine
#

sadly

#

but thats a lot of things

hazy breach
vale pine
#

and then there are things like tornado

#

tornado is not bad

#

but also not good

next briar
#

Ty

swift tinsel
#

it doesn't fit sub anymore

vale pine
#

and its such a complicated mess of a ability, its just not a fit for modern wow anymore

swift tinsel
#

same with goremaws

keen dome
#

Ye. Relics of an older design ethos.

vale pine
#

goremaws was never good

swift tinsel
#

or lingering shadows

vale pine
#

i up to this point don't understand why it was brought back

#

because the only person i saw hyped about it was push

swift tinsel
#

our tree is a grab bag of old legendaries, azerite traits

vale pine
#

and maybe one or two persons on the wow forum

#

and every damn time someone mentioned a way to "fix" goremaws

swift tinsel
#

previously 2 but now just 1 old covenant ability

vale pine
#

he compeltely redesigns it

#

and just keeps the name

swift tinsel
#

just get it of it

vale pine
#

which ye... maybe its good if you do that

#

but whats the point in bringing back something

swift tinsel
#

if its not that thing anymore

vale pine
#

to then create something completely diffrent

swift tinsel
#

yeah

#

like a janky ship of theseus

vale pine
#

just to keep the name?

swift tinsel
#

but the boards are just piles of shit

#

and the nails

#

are smaller piles of shit

vale pine
#

goremaws is by design not bad

#

its just, it solves issues we don't have

swift tinsel
#

finisher energy cost is such a nothing element

vale pine
#

and we have other talents to do the same thing

lilac stag
vale pine
#

its redundant, and as such isn't that great

#

you can make it do a lot of damage

#

but you can do the same with any other ability and it would feel good

swift tinsel
#

unless it makes flag/blades windows functionally better I don't really see the point

lilac stag
#

tbf I don’t understand why we can’t just have all the abilities except maybe melee be shadow dmg.

swift tinsel
#

Yes

#

please

#

god

lilac stag
#

Add talents that buff builders or finishers

vale pine
#

to be fair

lilac stag
#

And not 50 energy talents.

vale pine
#

one of the extremely hard to understand things

#

of subtlety is

#

how layered stuff is now

#

why do we apply find weakness to deal more damage ?

swift tinsel
#

unnecessarily layered

vale pine
#

why do hero talents then not work with find weakness but apply fazed

lilac stag
#

if someone says can’t be shadow because pvp and ignoring armor, delete pvp

swift tinsel
#

it should be 100% uptime by design, or as part of our burst window

vale pine
#

why is fazed and unseen blade a diffrent thing

swift tinsel
#

why is nimble phys and converts shadow damage to phys

vale pine
#

and why is there another thing called flawless form

swift tinsel
#

and flawless form and fazed having different durations

vale pine
#

so you now have 4 spells which do simialr things to track

lilac stag
vale pine
#

and its also in aoe

swift tinsel
#

why 2 sec difference

#

immersion?

vale pine
#

as eleem mentioend having find weakness secured on all targets

swift tinsel
#

oversight?

vale pine
#

is a good thing

vale pine
#

things like this are often done intentional

lilac stag
#

@swift tinsel they actually need to play the spec

swift tinsel
#

FW, if they want it that impactful, should be like a personal version of Mystic Touch

vale pine
#

like realz mentioned

#

he does not want things to align natrually

lilac stag
#

They layering of flag and blades. Fml

swift tinsel
#

active perma once applied

vale pine
#

so players need to think about the use

lilac stag
#

yeah why have something fluid and make sense

vale pine
#

then after that he changed the cooldown of shiv to perfetcly fit natually

swift tinsel
#

lmao

vale pine
#

which was also cinema

swift tinsel
#

ass

lilac stag
#

just for the sake of friction

#

Is terrible fucking design

swift tinsel
#

agreed

#

it is anti fun

vale pine
#

i mean its like with the first dance

swift tinsel
#

by design

vale pine
#

if there was no 6 sec restiriction

swift tinsel
#

and using that to prop up decisions

#

is ass

vale pine
#

the talent would be insanely good

#

but with the 6 sec

lilac stag
#

choices in finishers, when to use major and minor CDs, sure.

vale pine
#

every time i talk to someone not maining sub

#

he has no fucking clue how good it is

#

and asumes its trash

#

because "bro you can't restealth in keys"

naive mantle
#

i think they just have to many nodes to fill with the new talents trees and hero talents, every spec has like 10 different procs you dont actually care to track because playing around them all is just not possible

vale pine
#

"so why should 6 sec more than that ever be good"

swift tinsel
#

both DK specs just got 2 2pt nodes for tuning knobs

lilac stag
#

Juggling multi CDs with non-aligned timings is a clown show in design.

vale pine
#

and i am sure they know that

lilac stag
#

People don’t want to play that shit

vale pine
#

i mean

#

inherently

lilac stag
#

People want their swifty macro

vale pine
#

subtlety having only one talent combination you can play everywhere

#

is great

#

it is what a lot of people want

swift tinsel
#

I actually disagree

vale pine
#

but turns out, they also want a simple to understand rotation and good tuning, else we would have player numbers like ret paladin

lilac stag
#

people, except outlaw players, don’t want temu outlaw with CDs

swift tinsel
#

one universal talent combination is not a great thing imo

#

look at sin and being able to choose a damage profile

lilac stag
#

Id love to play deathstalkermark as sub, but the base spec and the hero spec both suck

swift tinsel
#

friction

naive mantle
#

sub was pretty popular in shadowlands when it was dead simple iirc

vale pine
#

subtlety was popular in df too

lilac stag
#

I’m really curious what the play rate is for 1 button in mythic raid

vale pine
#

if i learned one thing looking at statistics, its that tuning is for rogue the biggest factor of what people play

hazy breach
#

A lot of popularity is just tied to powerlevel

lilac stag
#

we’re also the smallest class populous

vale pine
#

^

lilac stag
#

So we’re good about swapping as needed

#

vs Hunter and mage. Fuck you I’ll play what I want.

vale pine
#

like one of the reason people loved assassiantion in Legion/BfA for raiding

#

was simply, it was the strongest rogue spec for 4 years for raiding

#

so there was no other choice so to say

lilac stag
#

assa on 90 seconds. Does sub have a slot to fill?

mighty citrus
#

if you are open to what spec you take, you might favor sin, as it has many advantages during progression right? i mean if specs pull similar numbers, why not take the one spec, which gives you room to do stuff, due to limited energy, having execute etc

haughty mural
#

That I don’t understand

#

At all

lilac stag
hazy breach
haughty mural
#

The 90sec takeover

runic trail
lilac stag
#

Assa has more priority

lucid jackal
swift tinsel
#

last boss having vuln window that almost matches blades

paper mortar
#

doesnt sub work better with damage amps?

swift tinsel
#

will almost certainly play a part

vale pine
mighty citrus
swift tinsel
#

no

haughty mural
#

No

swift tinsel
#

because outlaw is mostly flat

lucid jackal
mighty citrus
#

yeah

#

thats true

vale pine
#

assassiantion filling the same niche as subtlety still does not mean all fine details are the same

lucid jackal
#

Sin sims the lowest, performs the highest or equal to sub rn

#

The reality is u just play the spec that's tuned slightly higher on prog. Most of the time on early prog if nowhere else, sub is the best.

vale pine
#

to be fair simulations are for pure single target, and also more times than not did fit very well within what you see in the raid

haughty mural
#

Sub will be the prog spec again

lucid jackal
#

Sub and sin both of perks

vale pine
#

subtlety was the best on progress many times in the last tiers because of certain things, not nessecery design but i give some examples

swift tinsel
#

none of its gonna matter though bc dev engulf exists and is getting buffed

vale pine
#

first tier DF, Subtelty did help in all phases of the fight instead of being essentially dead weight with execute in the last phase. This was one of the few tiers assassiantion would not be good by talent design.

lucid jackal
#

It doesn't really matter what the external reasons are

#

Bottom line is sub has a lot of perks on prog, and tends to be tuned the highest

#

This tier it fell off for sure

swift tinsel
#

we got our power spike super early which also helps positon on prog

lilac stag
#

it’ll be interesting to see what the power spike is for all the dps classes with tier sets. A few seem goofy good on paper.

#

or what their target % is

#

After the crap we got this tier 🎲

swift tinsel
#

there's been a few specs saying theirs is wildly overperforming

hazy breach
swift tinsel
#

I think sprist, enh

hazy breach
#

Compared to the 10% or so of this tier

swift tinsel
#

I'm really hoping the season 2 experiment is never repeated, the hero tree idea is quite nice though

swift tinsel
#

lol conceptually

mighty citrus
#

for me personally i like sub the most, but i perform worst on it. i try to follow all the basic rules, like 8gcds per dance, 2 dances per flag/sb window, still dmg sucks especially after progression

lilac stag
#

Fair

vale pine
mighty citrus
#

and on top set bonus

#

sucks ass

#

losing stacks etc

vale pine
#

the dynamic of dust however got removed

swift tinsel
#

not having your hero tree locked in bc of your tier set dictating which one is healthier, it still leaves the door open for one to be better but at least there's a choice

vale pine
#

which means it will be very interessting to see how subtelty holds up

lilac stag
#

I love having 2 stack of tier for CB Sectech in TFD opener. friction

vale pine
#

when assassiantion has also 90 sec and 120 sec dynamically in raiding

swift tinsel
#

lol I think the longest I saw to get max streak stacks was still close to a full minute

vale pine
#

subtlety still has better target switching

swift tinsel
#

which is insane

#

fastest was 9 seconds

#

50 second disparity HOLY

lucid jackal
#

Rogue didnt do jobs in shadowlands, rogue just did damage

vale pine
#

rogue was also shit in SL

lucid jackal
#

Uh

#

We forgetting sanctum

sweet turret
lucid jackal
#

Yeah rogue also was good in keys

lilac stag
#

Sun king shield was about the only job I remember.

lucid jackal
#

Sub specifically OMEGALUL

#

Like idk, sub was a half flat spec for most of sl

#

No burst, gloom blade

vale pine
swift tinsel
#

then it was flat bc giga blades uptime

lucid jackal
#

And none of the fights did rogue Cd's actually did anything

vale pine
#

basically even tho rogue was overtuned in the 2nd raid

#

you barely saw it played in the wfr even

tepid trellis
#

id agree that sanctum rogue was good and it had nothing to do with cd timings

#

but that was also cuz rogue had 0 burst

lucid jackal
#

Rogue Cd's didn't do anything all of shadowlands

swift tinsel
#

wasn't old blades just +1 cp on builders

#

or was it 2

#

idr

lucid jackal
#

Also idgaf about rwf

swift tinsel
#

god fuck that system

lucid jackal
#

Neither of us are rwf

vale pine
#

my point is

swift tinsel
#

dom sockets and gems were so fucking bad

short radish
vale pine
#

rogue was absolutely overtuned

tepid trellis
vale pine
#

and you at most saw one if even one palyed

short radish
#

It was so dog shit lmao

swift tinsel
vale pine
#

which is a statement

#

of how "good" the class was

#

in my opinion

short radish
#

When was the last time more than 1 rogue was brought to rwf

vale pine
#

also lets talk about sepulka

lucid jackal
#

We played double rogue in both sanctum and sepulcur

tepid trellis
#

Rogue was played on every boss in sanctum apart from 2

swift tinsel
#

that sounds right

short radish
#

Other than smold

tepid trellis
#

which was the last 2

swift tinsel
#

Amir

runic trail
#

I never got that about class player numbers, like, rogue is consistently pretty good but the overall numbers are low

lucid jackal
tepid trellis
#

cuz you didn't need boss dmg

runic trail
#

Which is weird

lucid jackal
#

They played double or triple rogue on every fight m8

short radish
#

Oh did they?

tepid trellis
#

yeh

lucid jackal
#

Yes LMFAO

short radish
#

I dont follow rwf much

#

So I actually didn't know

lucid jackal
#

Valid

short radish
#

I only follow rfwl

runic trail
swift tinsel
#

they're kinda eh in terms of entertainment value

tepid trellis
#

gromnak on the cast

swift tinsel
#

watch parties are usually more fun to listen to

tepid trellis
#

on tindral

#

was peak

swift tinsel
#

I only listen to JB for wow events

hazy breach
#

"i fucking hate boomkins man"

runic trail
short radish
runic trail
short radish
runic trail
#

Nobody needs to see that

short radish
#

I don't think rfwl is as good content this time

#

Feels like it'll just be watching to the raid randomly wiping because they forgot to do one mechanic

#

Though I suppose you can say that about any fight

vale pine
#

RFWL sounds entertaining

#

i never watched it

tepid trellis
#

last time i watched race to worlds last

short radish
tepid trellis
#

was fyrakk

swift tinsel
#

do they do like a simulcast of the fights or what

#

idk if I've heard of race to world last but it sounds funny

short radish
swift tinsel
#

ah

runic trail
swift tinsel
#

I'm like never on twitch anymore

runic trail
#

I just want a break man

#

I'm tired

tepid trellis
#

there is a fix for that

short radish
#

Than whoever the fuck cares about liquid or echo

runic trail
tepid trellis
#

next rwf

#

method vs echo

runic trail
#

Because that's a compromise I'm not willing to make

tepid trellis
#

could be interesting

short radish
swift tinsel
#

bruh wowhead dropped a void meta dh article, this shit needs to stop

short radish
#

That's the secret

tepid trellis
vale pine
#

RWF was a bit weird last times, mostly because of how bosses got nerfed/hotfixed

runic trail
vale pine
#

and because of how bugs played a big role for progress

runic trail
#

Also, the vibes are good

keen dome
fallow nimbus
keen dome
#

they just painted meta purple "Yeah man look this shows we're getting the spec!"

swift tinsel
# keen dome it's funny because it's such a low effort model

"This Metamorphosis model is certainly another of those abilities, but it does make one question the effort being put into the class fantasy of a style of Demon Hunter not currently available to players, and if we might be able to get similar void-themed abilities of our own in the near future. Could this be related to the speculated third Demon Hunter spec?"

#

or

#

hear me out

#

they're designing a raid fight

#

also

fallow nimbus
#

It was just a dh with rogue helmet and new glaive model kekw

keen dome
#

Vengance and Havoc both have unique Meta foms. If it was real it would be a unique form and not just Vengance But Purple

swift tinsel
#

referencing your own Speculated Third Spec article that's purely bait

#

is so cringe

#

omg

vale pine
swift tinsel
#

3rd spec plus 3rd hero tree

vale pine
#

true

swift tinsel
#

a bit of extra complexity that I don't see panning out outside of an expansion launch

alpine wraith
#

they will be a support spec

#

so people can riot with aug too

swift tinsel
#

lol if we see another support spec in the next decade I'll be a bit surprised

#

from how disasterous aug has been

keen dome
#

Support spec would be the funniest outcome

swift tinsel
#

100%

keen dome
#

"Here's the new spec: purple aug"

swift tinsel
#

so I support it

#

if that's the case

#

the tears would be so sweet

#

also

#

the biggest huffs

#

"none of it is real, but it still possible bro, trust me"

vocal wolf
#

New spells: Purple Might and Purprescience

lucid jackal
#

Okay but hearthstone art is not an argument against something

#

A lot of art in wow is hearthstone based

#

The sub background art is of a card called smoke bomb

fallow nimbus
lucid jackal
#

And outlaws is from Edwin defias kingpin

vale pine
swift tinsel
#

the admission of the AI though is what gets me

lucid jackal
#

Smokescreen my bad

keen dome
lucid jackal
swift tinsel
#

valeera for sin

#

hngggggg

#

my muse, my flame

vocal wolf
keen dome
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It being a recolour though. That's the bit I'd doubt

fallow nimbus
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Damn, sub is draw 5 cards but our deck is empty and we lose

swift tinsel
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bold of you to assume

vocal wolf
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Xd

swift tinsel
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"hey ChatGPT buff all the bottom performing specs that specifically aren't subtlety"

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"okay they're mad buff it by 5% but do it twice then reverse one of them"

vocal wolf
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"While you are at it can you reintroduce a couple game breaking bugs just for flavor?"

swift tinsel
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that sub-agnostic bottom performer buff pass still pisses me off

vocal wolf
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I told myself I was gonna pick up sub again this tier to freshen up (been playing sin/law almost exclusively since df s1) and then I see the numbers KEKW

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Maybe next tier

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Doesn't help I honestly don't like trickster sub

lucid jackal
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U shud play sub in keys rn

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It's good in raid

vocal wolf
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Been pushing as outlaw tho :p

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Maybe I'll try it on reclear

hazy breach
vocal wolf
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Fair, I think I'm just taking the weekly rankings at face value since we're still Progging

swift tinsel
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I'd mostly ignore those personally

vocal wolf
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I'll try it out on reclear then, we're almost out of p1 gally deadge soon I hope

swift tinsel
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if you aren't already looking at it, lorrgs.io is nice to see sub timers

vocal wolf
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Just glad our disc priest is back next week so I can stop healing xd

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Ye I love lorrgs