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Haha
I think Shaman Tank is more likely because at least they have more than two hero talents.
Really ?
With DH you'd have this awkward situation. And then again Purple Vengance or Green Vengance.
well shaman was initially designed to be able to tank i'm told
they had some threat generator thing
It was
Rockbiter had threat modifiers and they had shield talent
And earth shock had increased threat modifier
So the foundation was there
And earth shock did a tonne yeah
I did some low level tanking on my shaman in classic
Which was actually pretty nice
Also Shaman tank NPC< etc.
There's absolutely room for it and a mail tank would be cool
Whereas a third melee DH spec is just ???. If it was clearly ranged I'd be going "yeah sure" or a suppot.
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.
Yeah I think the melee play space is a bit too crowded for another spec
But I think it's more likely we get Void Elf DH's
Maybe also uh, nightfallen or w/e they're called
the purple wine elves
107 sub logs on sprocket, sub is dedge
Sorry I did let you down
might be 108 sub logs in 2 weeks time
after my guild's break week
because sin kill times suck now
so sub time
109 if I manage to pug him this week 
daaamn is locken puggable?
i suppose it's a lot easier with turbo boost and raid buff
if my guild kills it in less than 5 tries, it should be 
since you completely skip the final phase
Probably killable before second knockback now
yeah
yup
honestly the hardest part about that fight is ensuring your bomb assignment WAs work
Meanwhile my guild prog ended yesterday without being able to kill it after 10 hours of prog
I will see
For real?
on sprocket?
Yeah, five weeks of two hours of just sprocket prog
bro

What happened
Yep
change guilds
Idk I stopped raiding before then
Personal responbility bosses are always really funny
The guild isn’t the most mechanically sound
Because you immediately find out who isn't focusing
Which is why I meme on them for pushing ilvl over actually learning to handle mechanics
yeah i had to suffer through a lot of people walking into bombs
not being able to read the WAs
not knowing blue from red
Because then they get walled hard when fights like that pop up
soak bomb when it says soak bomb
mission difficulty: 9/10
lol it really is
i didn't miss a single bomb the entire of prog
i dont fucking why that was so hard for some people
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"
to realise that the countdown resets itself at 2/4 seconds
It happened with Hungering Destroyer and that drove a third of the guild to quit
the only time i messed up a bomb soak was because both the locks took forever to get theirs and i was last
if the thing is late
Because we have a ritual 30 minutes before raid of eating glue
and i had like 0.1s to get mine
but absolute fucking monkeys see 6 second countdown then just close their eyes or something and walk over it at 6 seconds
We had 200 pulls on sprocket 
i'm usually bad at that kind of stuff, but the locken bombs were hella chill with the WAs
Had people inting rik prog bc ranged were aoeing the melee stack to pad instead of killing the ranged one
yeah
you just see your assignment, look at the map to see the order
then identify your marker
and easy peasy
My raid disbanded this Tier again so i am only pugging atm 
So melee had to kill ranged barrels
We had a warrior do less barrel damage than a healer one pull 

with the way the WA is set up, you always get the sameish one every time as well
ranged aren't people
yeah it's very easy
Tank positioning made barrel cleave annoying, they’d pull him away and he ran at mach speed
fuck ranged
„My darkglare will get fucked if I switch to range barrels“

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
Hahha
Mission: Don't stand on melee on rik
Difficulty: Impossible
Yuuuuup
i swear to god, ranged are some of the most coddled players of all time, ESPECIALLY in keys
I’ve heard it all this tier
this season is crazy different between melee and ranged
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.
being melee is like dodging the missiles being fired between gaza and israel
„I need to cleave of rik as arcane mage sorry“

that's actually a fair point tbh haha
We have maybe two or three ranged players that I’d say are reliable but the others are just
Mission: Pull the boss at 0 seconds
Difficulty: Impossible

These people!!! THE WORST.
Yea one barrage or arcane blast into barrels would be too much
fair point
Omg our tanks are so paranoid about getting threat on pull it’s literally any moment between 2 and 0 seconds left on pull timer
This mage plus the warlock killed me this tier
the 2 best excuses right there
the first hit of every boss needs to be a ranged hit
so it kills the stupid fucking idiots that cast 3 seconds before pull
that got fixed real quick on gally
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
Like dude
I see his giant cow ass charging in
Every raid boss should work like Fyrakk, prove me wrong.
Gally is beating that out of people for us
But court prog last season we had like a fucking hour of the boss being pulled at 3-5 seconds
I dunno. Eleshams were jumpy apparently
if you have a 3 second cast, just start it at 2.5 or so on the pulltimer
And we had 4 of the fuckers 
tell that to druids and their fucking travel times
i hate boomkins
yeah, they're actually chickens irl
Our roster was super scuffed. We didn't have a warrior for last 3 bosses 
Also that prepull lust rendering your goon squad trinket useless
TRUUUUEEEEE
I'll never understand prepull lusting
i think boomy might take 2nd place to aug for my most hated M+ specs of all time
yeah it's annoying
"tank is not pulling around me"
Fotm boomies doing nothing to boss 1 DFC
don't get me started on that one
the fact that boomys single handedly enable you to do things otherwise not possible in every key
is stupid
The biggest menace are demo locks in keys
Skips are impossible
With some of them
Those damn imps
i haven't seen a single demo lock
We had 3 on Mugzee prog
So, you've not seen any cos we've been hoarding them all
damn
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.
It's hilarious what they can pull
Jumping over the little barrier?
YEP
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
End of mechagon skip does the same
The group found it very funny, 'cos we were doing it for vault
Can pull it off mostly flawlessly, then a lone imp just strolls through
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.
sprocket the most annoying boss to parse on, its pure RNG 😭
i can't BEElieve that happened to you
On our kill pull I got put on a mine in fucking Narnia 
that sucks
Lovely backstab design
Demo locks should race change to just be 10 imps in a trenchcoat
You can’t tell me they aren’t 10 imps in a trench coat already
Have you talked to one in disc before
Literal menaces most of the time
Mate our raid team had 3 at one point 
There were so many imps
They were fucking EVERYWHERE
Yikes did you guys lose a bet or what
Our roster is in a state of perma-scuffed. We had 4 eleshams last season

two too many*
Two ww, two hunters, two dps and two tank warriors, two mages,
Noah’s ark lookin ahhh
Yeah we originally had a bear but they had to quit early on and had really spotty attendance
i feel pwar in raid is like
its either underwhelming or
theres one boss shield block does super well against
They were mostly fine, only real gripes were they’d leap away and the boss would Usain Bolt 30 yards
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
The stacking one idr the name I don’t pay attention to tank stuff lol
some says if you have more crit there is a chance that your charged bolts crit more is that even true ?
i assume so, haven't looked into it at all
i also assume it's affected by vers
electric current feels safer pick for us
since charged bolts ninja pulling mobs left and righ
in M+ yes, bolts is giga troll
I'm using Oathsworn's on wep's since versa sims higher than main stat for me its kinda good for m+
yeah could be the move
i'd consider the same thing, but i swap between sub and sin
so radiant power is the best all round
Yup buddies, tested yesterday versa mast and crit
Mastery very good
Crit uptime not so good like 20% on my tests
Versa idk.. Goes down really fast... Also need to proc, not cycling as mastery does
I mean, in m+
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
yeah everyone is just running mast now
Ye... Still vers 7k sounds huge for def... But more rng on sub right now? Idk, there's a lot already
Guess u were talking about weapon enchants atm, which one u run as sub as pref Proph? I mean m+
I stay with radiantx2
For main stat
i was just running x2 radiant power
but seems like vers is on par
after sims
so i'm swapping all my enchants to vers
might as well get the additional benefit of DR
Im on 27% like 20k
Ah ok
Just stack mastery like hacha
my mast is very high, like 21k as sub

Maybe with more versa like i have radiant still better, need to sim
i think taking a small dmg loss is worth getting more DR from vers
i did that for my sin set
Y sure, that's why i gi around with 27% vers
i have 15% vers unbuffed in my sin M+ set, which is relatively high
As i met a dudu i go straight softcapped 30%
Ye
Sins are like 5% vers more or less
Smart choice
i remember back during... S2 of DF i think
i got flamed a lot in here for saying i was statting more vers for DR instead of going full crit/mast as sub
Just to clarify is like 18k (24/25%) + versa flask
U mean sin now?
sub had access to this talent from sin in the class tree
which was fucking insane for sub
massive impact
(played couple months on warmane tbc in 2k16 then other games till landing on retail df s3)
J fkn C
Sounds huge
it was big
Ye
made sub have 0 cdr issues
0 energy issues
you could fill every gcd easily
we also ran 2/2 vigor and tea at that time
so infinite energy
Ye i see... Pvp i use tea, zero energy issues
Yup and we pressed gloomblade for 90% of every st pull
And in aoe we pressed storm bp on repeat forever
lol yeah we had a stupid amount of dmg in gloomblade
Can imagine tea+ free cp...
One of the most boring iterations sadly
that was when sub was press on cd
kinda like outlaw
you jsut pressed blades on cd
dance on cd
symbols on cd
Not planning at all?
nah
Plan what
a little, but not really
Mmmh k i like the actual planning thing
You only really had flag and a big part of your damage came AFTER your cooldowns
Kinda like hate, but mostly like
yeah we played DB at that time
since DB had the double dipping bug too
probably the "hardest" part of that rotation was dance gave you 6 secs of symbols from the tier set
and then pressing actual symbols to properly pandemic the existing one
and min maxing your tea around after dance so you could spam gloomblade with max lingering stacks
that was about the rotation
No the hardest part was proccing Sophic devotion
Got it
i actually remember people linking logs complaining about sophic devotion proc times
So as u told me sub haa been more rng than now in the past
(ws ub reset procs, back to back dep on shadowcraft)
the worst time in recent memory for sub rng was the tier set during S3 of DF
rng not so bad right now
Ye
Oh god
Had all wa to track
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...
if you proccing it during dance you were going to the moon
Was my welcome in wow that thing 😂
I've recently started learning it and it isn't that bad, you'll be fine!
Iirc we were sending double / triple ruptures to proc it
ofc absolutely
Why would you switch from mage to sub if I may ask
But yea you’ll be fine
but yeah you would be going from the most iterated on class in the game to the least
Got called a sub too much and they took it to heart
fyi
I start to feel that APM is slowly fucking me over and i have to focus on rotation more and don't pay attention to mechanics in raids
sub is not a "simple" spec to play
Assa is slower
sin would be more your pace
Kinda
sub does have lower apm outside cds yes
I mean our downtime is very slow
but you need to be keeping track of several different cds that all refresh at different rates
Even between-flag dances aren’t that fast paced
sin is just- send all cds on pull
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
How long till this get u bored?
Flag - 2 dance - flag - 1 dance
i'm enjoying it, change of pace
Shift things around as needed for boss timers
having been a 1 trick sub for so long
Id argue you’ll get punished hard as sub
Ah fair so, to me sounds like a lil boring but may be wrong
Since cdr is so tight
as much as fire ? I mean, can 1-2 gcd mistakes fuck me over as much ? and completely shift off my cd for entire fight ?
And so fun and enjoying when u do good 😊
Yes
Yes
sub has so much damage in cds
so making mistakes in cds has a big impact
so much so that i plan using immunes like cloak+evasion around cds
Like it's not a problem short term, problem is if i'm basically in that hyper focus state like 80% of fight
Fire combust uptime is way higher than our dance/flag uptime so mistakes for them aren’t as bad
Same 😂 is a must
you could legit play ret or bm
Sub hyperfocus state is 24 seconds every 1.5 mins
And abusing feint
if you wanted to turn brain off and focus on mechanics
I’d argue sub is more punishing than fire tbh
sounds decent to be fair
And arguably it’s only 16 since blades is the big one
You are in a state of managing your cooldowns the whole fight, the actual rotation is pretty easy to autopilot, the difference between sub and fire is, sub is melee and can’t blink
So if you pop cds and get fucked
You’re fucked
i'm not gonna say i blink to death but i will
😆
You will experience moments where you pop cds
And get cucked
That is basically gg
You’ll have to learn your timings
on one of my last reclears of stix i fucked up a final cd set
and that destroyed my parse
The complexity of sub is not rotation, it’s cd management
Like last tier as fire i felt quite confident, this tier it got so bad even with my gameplay....
and i don't feel like i have fundamentally changed something
you can try sub and see
but i feel like there are specs that are infinitely easier to play
sub isn't quite as hard as it used to be though
I definitely enjoy complexity, but i think that High APM is what kinda chews my attention too much
i found having higher apm not to really be an issue
when the cd timings are very easy to track and use
but i would still suggest trying sin
as sin in ST you can miss gcds and it'll mostly be fine, even a good thing
since energy pooling is a thing for sin
I guess i will give it a try... I remembered that i have played Sin briefly in PVP in Shadowlands
😄
cd management as sin is also quite simple overall
you have deathmark, x2 shivs and kingsbane
basically send everything on pull
then 1 min later kingsbane with x2 shivs again
then 1 min later all cds again
Isn’t sub kinda simple too
You send 2 dances with flag
Then 2 separate dances
Flag again with 2 dances
More or less yeah
Is the extra cdr from trickster tier set going to change anything?
Initial thought is it’ll make 2x dances between each flag a thing
Instead of alternating 2 and 1
Might be some other stuff but can’t test yet
Sounds good
The extra cdr is a potentially exciting gameplay element
Is deathstalker dead on arrival? 
Hopefully
The tier bonuses are not good
And make zero sense
At least for sub, maybe they make sense for sin lol
For sin it’s quite good
That spec’s a bit outside my wheelhouse lol
It would have been nice if black powder worked with darkest night
Lots of things would make it better, but none of them seem to be happening
Our aoe rotation overall needs to be looked at, its kind of a trainwreck
On low target cleave its fine as trickster because you just pretend its singletarget
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
Tornado during cds wastes shadowcraft refunds etc
Just remove tornado please
idek what I'd want for an aoe playstyle for sub anymore
fantasy would be shadow clone jutsu
aoe also has the problem of being not obviouse
but that's already SEF
when is it better to evis instead of bp?
the FW problem
before target cap you would assume
bc of SF
being a part of it
when to use storm instead of strike/bs?
if you are on 8 targets, our aoe with bp is not that good
all while we trade off single target
and if we funnel
we arn't good at it while losing a shitton of aoe
idk personally I like the idea of being a prio target destroyer
since single target burst is a strength of the spec
well thats the niche of assassination now
right, since they got all the niches from the rework which is frustrating
funnel, prio, execute, aoe
yeah, which is a mistake
subtlety was the most mobile class offering 2 shadow steps
but it's whatever ig bc that's how they want it
now all 3 have the same mobility
would be a dissaster
dead
there is a reason they removed it
same with coupoe
because you initially had the teleport always
ig pay more attention
That got me killed a bunch back in legion, it was fun times.
yes
(it wasn't fun times)
a classic was on the roomba boss
Atleast I was able to teleport from add to add during krosus prog. 
you would strike and teleport behind him, getting killed instantly
i had a lot of fun optimizing the bridge boss
with spring vanish
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.
but back to the topic
the reason aoe is meh on sub is
there was not effort put into it
assassination got an entire patch in DF of attetion to make it good in aoe
and I use the 'talents' part loosely
painfully aware
so as much as people love to make statements about sin having no aoe
for most of the history, sub had worse aoe than sin
sectec used to be one of the most made fun of sub spells
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

that absolutely tracks lol
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
its so boring
it was nerfed
storm - bp
unintentionally
barf
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
the design of sub during and post rework has felt a bit aimless
Really couldn't be bothered to fix it I guess LMAO
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
If some things get fixed eventually don’t even need many buffs
I think the aoe discussion is less about buffs but more gameplay-related
well yeah, at the end of the day that's usually where the issues lie
Didn’t someone discover that sectechs target scaling does not work properly
but those are knobs that can be adjusted
if BP did a LOT more damage in aoe, and the prio damage was higher
As well as the tier problems with it
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
isn't that a choice sin can currently make?
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
yeah, wasn't the tradeoff most recently going for more overall at the cost of ST
Assa gets to choose what damage type will be better for the targets of sorts. (Full Bleed vs KB)
I'm not the most familiar with how they're working atm
yeah this was my thought behind it
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
Assa basically has talent option that you can adjust for dungeon difficulty
and now you’re going to empower everything
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)
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… 
yeah the lack of meaningful choice for sub is extremely annoying
its not that bad
It’s not even meaningful choices. It’s absolutely dead talents.
again i think its more a tuning problem
as in talent tuning or ability tuning
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
WM very meaningful choice in m+
because like scath said we legitimately have dead talents
people would not play it even tho you have the talent options
TFD taken and played around annoyingly because everything else is shit
WM, PV, GMB, Shadow Focus
A longer dance opening on reclears in raid. 
Warning Signs, Master of Shadows, Lingering Shadow, Silent Storm, Night Terrors/Terrifying Pace,
Tornado
literally no use with trickster
that's almost 25% of our talent nodes being effectively or literally dead
Shot in the Dark
if that wasn't required I would have listed it lol
Fair. It's just a tax node.
if you swap it and Swift Death positions you'd never talent it
so I'll count it nvm lol
i mean there are nodes like
Silent storm is actually quite decent
its just in a place you can't really get it
Its just in a cursed position
PV was even before beta mentioned as a very poor talent option
which makes its existence in the tree worse
and is still rly bad
its only a node to shortcut
so you would only take it to get other nodes
According to my math the 50% could be active at all times on all builders and it would still be a quite bad talent
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.
yes, its just by design bad
sadly
but thats a lot of things
Thats just how it is im afraid
Ty
it doesn't fit sub anymore
and its such a complicated mess of a ability, its just not a fit for modern wow anymore
same with goremaws
Ye. Relics of an older design ethos.
goremaws was never good
or lingering shadows
i up to this point don't understand why it was brought back
because the only person i saw hyped about it was push
our tree is a grab bag of old legendaries, azerite traits
and maybe one or two persons on the wow forum
and every damn time someone mentioned a way to "fix" goremaws
previously 2 but now just 1 old covenant ability
just get it of it
which ye... maybe its good if you do that
but whats the point in bringing back something
if its not that thing anymore
to then create something completely diffrent
just to keep the name?
finisher energy cost is such a nothing element
and we have other talents to do the same thing
Relics of incomplete spec designs and adjustments. Quite literally a garage sale of abilities found at your neighbors.
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
unless it makes flag/blades windows functionally better I don't really see the point
tbf I don’t understand why we can’t just have all the abilities except maybe melee be shadow dmg.
Add talents that buff builders or finishers
to be fair
And not 50 energy talents.
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 ?
unnecessarily layered
why do hero talents then not work with find weakness but apply fazed
if someone says can’t be shadow because pvp and ignoring armor, delete pvp
it should be 100% uptime by design, or as part of our burst window
why is fazed and unseen blade a diffrent thing
why is nimble phys and converts shadow damage to phys
and why is there another thing called flawless form
and flawless form and fazed having different durations
so you now have 4 spells which do simialr things to track
They ran out of shadow word combos
exactly
and its also in aoe
as eleem mentioend having find weakness secured on all targets
oversight?
is a good thing
@swift tinsel they actually need to play the spec
FW, if they want it that impactful, should be like a personal version of Mystic Touch
They layering of flag and blades. Fml
active perma once applied
so players need to think about the use
yeah why have something fluid and make sense
then after that he changed the cooldown of shiv to perfetcly fit natually
lmao
which was also cinema
ass
i mean its like with the first dance
by design
if there was no 6 sec restiriction
choices in finishers, when to use major and minor CDs, sure.
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"
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
"so why should 6 sec more than that ever be good"
both DK specs just got 2 2pt nodes for tuning knobs
yes
and i am sure they know that
People don’t want to play that shit
People want their swifty macro
subtlety having only one talent combination you can play everywhere
is great
it is what a lot of people want
I actually disagree
but turns out, they also want a simple to understand rotation and good tuning, else we would have player numbers like ret paladin
people, except outlaw players, don’t want temu outlaw with CDs
one universal talent combination is not a great thing imo
look at sin and being able to choose a damage profile
Id love to play
as sub, but the base spec and the hero spec both suck
friction
sub was pretty popular in shadowlands when it was dead simple iirc
subtlety was popular in df too
I’m really curious what the play rate is for 1 button in mythic raid
if i learned one thing looking at statistics, its that tuning is for rogue the biggest factor of what people play
A lot of popularity is just tied to powerlevel
we’re also the smallest class populous
^
So we’re good about swapping as needed
vs Hunter and mage. Fuck you I’ll play what I want.
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
assa on 90 seconds. Does sub have a slot to fill?
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
Besides lower 1/3 of details
Well that would be sub, not assa
The 90sec takeover
Possibly, depends on fight design. If there's a bunch of fights where there's high prio adds sub might be needed
Assa has more priority
You play the spec that's tuned the highest on prog. And more often than not, sub is the better prog spec because of raw tuning and also having a better profile
last boss having vuln window that almost matches blades
doesnt sub work better with damage amps?
will almost certainly play a part
i already mentioned it the other day
then you would take outlaw no? as it always sims highest?
no
No
because outlaw is mostly flat
Sims aren't the game
assassiantion filling the same niche as subtlety still does not mean all fine details are the same
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.
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
Sub will be the prog spec again
Sub and sin both of perks
subtlety was the best on progress many times in the last tiers because of certain things, not nessecery design but i give some examples
none of its gonna matter though bc dev engulf exists and is getting buffed
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.
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
we got our power spike super early which also helps positon on prog
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 🎲
there's been a few specs saying theirs is wildly overperforming
Probably like 15%
I think sprist, enh
Compared to the 10% or so of this tier
I'm really hoping the season 2 experiment is never repeated, the hero tree idea is quite nice though
If you don’t play rogue. 
lol conceptually
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
Fair
it most of the time came down to the diffrences in cooldown timers (90 sec cooldowns) or some very specific benefits like having 2x vanish
the dynamic of dust however got removed
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
which means it will be very interessting to see how subtelty holds up
I love having 2 stack of tier for CB Sectech in TFD opener. friction
when assassiantion has also 90 sec and 120 sec dynamically in raiding
lol I think the longest I saw to get max streak stacks was still close to a full minute
subtlety still has better target switching
I'd say the entierity of shadowlands cooldown timers for rogue played 0 part in the equation
Rogue didnt do jobs in shadowlands, rogue just did damage
you think?
Sub had some good performacne in m+
Yeah rogue also was good in keys
Sun king shield was about the only job I remember.
Sub specifically 
Like idk, sub was a half flat spec for most of sl
No burst, gloom blade
did mainly talk about raiding
then it was flat bc giga blades uptime
And none of the fights did rogue Cd's actually did anything
basically even tho rogue was overtuned in the 2nd raid
you barely saw it played in the wfr even
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
Rogue Cd's didn't do anything all of shadowlands
The only reason it wasn't played in rwf is because he didn't get domination gems
Also idgaf about rwf
god fuck that system
Neither of us are rwf
my point is
dom sockets and gems were so fucking bad
+1
rogue was absolutely overtuned
+1 and shadow dmg on builders
and you at most saw one if even one palyed
It was so dog shit lmao
ah ty
When was the last time more than 1 rogue was brought to rwf
also lets talk about sepulka
We played double rogue in both sanctum and sepulcur
Amidrasil..?
Rogue was played on every boss in sanctum apart from 2
that sounds right
Other than smold
which was the last 2
Amir
I never got that about class player numbers, like, rogue is consistently pretty good but the overall numbers are low
...?
cuz you didn't need boss dmg
Which is weird
They played double or triple rogue on every fight m8
Oh did they?
yeh
Yes LMFAO
Valid
I only follow rfwl
The true race
they're kinda eh in terms of entertainment value
gromnak on the cast
watch parties are usually more fun to listen to
I only listen to JB for wow events
"i fucking hate boomkins man"
We might get CE before the RFWL channel this year, can't call ourselves a RFWL guild any more
You won't make it up on the multi stream!
Probably for the best given our mechanical play 

Nobody needs to see that
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
last time i watched race to worlds last
Its so good man
was fyrakk
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
Nah you just tune in randomly during the day. Put all the streams up on multitwitch
ah
Possibly less fun as someone playing in one of those guilds, going straight from queen prog to undermine was... Painful
I'm like never on twitch anymore
there is a fix for that
It's also more fun cheering on "underdogs"
Than whoever the fuck cares about liquid or echo
Does it involve eating less glue?
Because that's a compromise I'm not willing to make
could be interesting
Yeah you eat some sprinkles with it as well
bruh wowhead dropped a void meta dh article, this shit needs to stop
That's the secret
nah its called joining another guild that clears faster
RWF was a bit weird last times, mostly because of how bosses got nerfed/hotfixed
I'm sold
and because of how bugs played a big role for progress
Nah I don't think I'm good enough to move up on ranks, I know my place
Also, the vibes are good
it's funny because it's such a low effort model
Farming the clicks
they just painted meta purple "Yeah man look this shows we're getting the spec!"
"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
It was just a dh with rogue helmet and new glaive model 
Vengance and Havoc both have unique Meta foms. If it was real it would be a unique form and not just Vengance But Purple
referencing your own Speculated Third Spec article that's purely bait
is so cringe
omg
I don't know, maybe we will see a 3rd dh spec
3rd spec plus 3rd hero tree
true
a bit of extra complexity that I don't see panning out outside of an expansion launch
lol if we see another support spec in the next decade I'll be a bit surprised
from how disasterous aug has been
Support spec would be the funniest outcome
100%
"Here's the new spec: purple aug"
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"
New spells: Purple Might and Purprescience
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

And outlaws is from Edwin defias kingpin
dps spec ^^
the admission of the AI though is what gets me
Smokescreen my bad
lol, it is just a HS portrait https://cdn.hearthstonetopdecks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/hero-aranna.jpg
Inb4 tuning passes managed by AI /jk
It being a recolour though. That's the bit I'd doubt
Damn, sub is draw 5 cards but our deck is empty and we lose
Xd
"hey ChatGPT buff all the bottom performing specs that specifically aren't subtlety"
"okay they're mad buff it by 5% but do it twice then reverse one of them"
"While you are at it can you reintroduce a couple game breaking bugs just for flavor?"
that sub-agnostic bottom performer buff pass still pisses me off
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 
Maybe next tier
Doesn't help I honestly don't like trickster sub
Idk nothing wrong with subs numbers, in raid especially
Fair, I think I'm just taking the weekly rankings at face value since we're still Progging
I'd mostly ignore those personally


