#subtlety

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hollow spear
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You guys didn't buy a 2500 € supporter package for ashes of creation?

vale pine
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and it is why we see more content re-use than ever before

brittle plinth
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What was that Amazon one a few years ago?

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New World?

swift tinsel
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yeah

bleak night
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ffxiv is weird because they somehow seem to coexist as the two largest mmos without massively competing for the same player base

brittle plinth
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Its still going?

bleak night
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its still there

swift tinsel
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Kind of, I think they do updates here and there

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a few guildmates play

bleak night
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i wouldnt call it an active mmo though

brittle plinth
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FFXIV fanbase overlap with WoW fanbase as a venn diagram would barely touch

vale pine
bleak night
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new world kind of just exists to fund the lotr mmo lmao

swift tinsel
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people thought Aion would kill WoW, same with Swtor

bleak night
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that will also be ass because its the same devs making the same mistakes

vale pine
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that aged as well as milk in the summer sun

swift tinsel
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or 'insert 50 other mmos' here'

bleak night
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swtor couldve been big ngl

swift tinsel
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one of the kings of hot takes gave a hot take

bleak night
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its actually a really good game

brittle plinth
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there were a lot of wow killers

north schooner
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wow has been killed like 10 times by now

bleak night
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just not given the resources it would need to thrive

swift tinsel
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yeah I liked the gameplay but it just didn't have enough to compete

brittle plinth
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only Blizzard can kill wow

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and they're doing it slowly

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Blizzard managed to kill Cata with content droughts 2x, don't underestimate them

vale pine
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The problem is, you rly need to improve on multiple things to get people to play something not blizz

swift tinsel
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the class stories were fantastic, as just a star wars rpg it is a great game

vale pine
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the blizz fandom is extremely loyal

swift tinsel
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stockholm syndrome

vale pine
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and many stay within the blizz ecosystem

swift tinsel
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sunk cost fallacy

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combination of the two

vale pine
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I think its not only that

brittle plinth
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for ppl in my generation, Blizzard is synomous with quality and games made by gamers for gamers. That hasn't been true for decades but its hard to shake the first impression.

bleak night
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how much of it is people being loyal to wow and how much of it is just every mmo release for the last two decades being ass

brittle plinth
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Seeing the blizzard logo triggers some nostalgia for me

bleak night
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like genuinely the last mmo i can think of releasing that can be considered big atm is like

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eso

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and that was a decade ago

brittle plinth
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New World had a massive launch

bleak night
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a lot of mmos have massive launches

brittle plinth
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that korean game was kind of a mmo no?

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Ark?

bleak night
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its the cycle

swift tinsel
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and my perception of blizz has changed to "it might be a good game but I know I'm going to get frustrated with it pretty quick"

brittle plinth
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throwing in the ol WC2 CD and seeing the blizz logo 🧑‍🍳

vale pine
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There are certain other factors to it.

  • The Warcraft Univers (not thanks to world of wacraft tho) is a generally loved one, there are few others with similar large fanbases.
  • Many alternative games are either too close to WoW or too diffrent to appeal.
  • Many players are not MMORPG players but WoW palyers, so they will stick with the game even if the formula does not change or the content amount and quality is low.
bleak night
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hype up your new upcoming mmo as the best thing ever>content creators ride the hype wave for a quick buck>game releases and everyone realizes after a month or two that its massively overhyped and does nothing good

swift tinsel
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booting up the definitely-not-pirated WC3

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Torchlight 2

bleak night
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new world did have a fantastic leveling experience though, i'll give it that

swift tinsel
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was a fun one

vale pine
fallow nimbus
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@vale pine this looks like it's working for topgear

vale pine
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
hollow spear
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What's that

vale pine
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the changes should be in

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so you should not need the overwrites

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but

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same in top gear

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the warning is mostly to make sure you don't do things accidentally

swift tinsel
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now I wanna play Gauntlet too lol

vale pine
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gauntlet was turn based iirc?

swift tinsel
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they were hack n slashes

vale pine
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oh okay

swift tinsel
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I think it started as an arcade game but had some console ports in the early 2000's

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would bike to the movie theater as a kid and play bc they had the cabinet there lol

vale pine
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looks a lot like roguelike

lilac stag
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It was a game that was coin op in the 80s

swift tinsel
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yeah it kinda was similar

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no permadeath

lilac stag
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Green archer needs food badly

swift tinsel
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well, depending

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I played a lot of jester and knight lol

vale pine
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I only know a few arcade games

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Stoneage and Metal Slug are the ones i remember being the more popular ones

swift tinsel
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oh man Metal Slug was so much fun haha

vale pine
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its a bit of a shame that stone age did just die out, i found it to be a somewhat unique ip

swift tinsel
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can't say I've ever heard of it

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looks quirky

vale pine
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think Caveman Ninja was the original title

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there seems to be a reboot even

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i only knew because we had this one (and probably still have) at one of our bath beaches.

swift tinsel
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Idk if we have any arcade games around here besides the literal arcade bar another town up

fallow nimbus
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did you know that you get cp from storm when you hit nothing but have sht stacks?

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all these years of playing

vale pine
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you don't get cp if you hit nothing (to my knowledge)

solemn lance
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macro

fallow nimbus
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you get your sht stacks as cp

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when hitting nothing with storm in dornogal

swift tinsel
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did you hit a critter

fallow nimbus
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no

swift tinsel
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hm, will have to look into it when I get home

fallow nimbus
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test it, autohit something, make sure nothing is around and use storm

vale pine
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will need to test that tomorrow ^^

steel zinc
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aka being batman is fun 😄

latent finch
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to be fair it kinda does say that. But i always thought i would need to hit something for it

swift tinsel
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right, since the attacks don't generate combo points unless they hit something

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interesting development

runic trail
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Did a 10 minute target dummy session, forgot to turn logs on garf_sit

quasi mantle
runic trail
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In terms of damage breakdown, this seems about right, yeah? Nothing seems massively out of place.

swift tinsel
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looks pretty normal

runic trail
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Sweet, thanks! Did have one cooldown window where I pressed flag and then my brain just completely forgot the rest of the sequence.

runic trail
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But, its feeling a LOT more consistent

swift tinsel
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nice! glad things are clicking more

runic trail
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Its a fun spec, need to actually take it into content now, because executing it on a dummy and executing it in a raid are completely different things.

plush roost
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Any ptr enjoyers check to see if our tierset works?

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Hoping to play sub keys today on ptr

swift tinsel
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will be able to look in like 30mins

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was there a new build?

hollow spear
runic trail
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At least for sub purposes

hollow spear
runic trail
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Not a massive issue but yeah, I've got like 15 sparks and a couple hundred gilded so I might just craft some replacements

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I also have pacemaker so, that number will be boosted a fair bit of the time

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2,400 vers garf_sit

hollow spear
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I am sitting at 10k crit rn#

warm marlin
hollow spear
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your haste is the issue, not the crit 😄

runic trail
warm marlin
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maybe munching a lot of sht procs in cds so you're shadowstriking more

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or lack of mastery ya

runic trail
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Cos thats 6,200 haste

runic trail
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And I trust the robot

hollow spear
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For some reason my vanish sometimes resets details

runic trail
hollow spear
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Stop being geared for sin mate

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That's high treason

runic trail
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3.8% even, but yeah.

hollow spear
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Yeah, pretty decent

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I like vers anyways

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It adds up and gives some decent DR

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I am at 12% DR just from vers

runic trail
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Yeah, so gonna sort that out, but at least the rotation is looking like its in the right order.

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I just need to not forget how to function when I press flag

hollow spear
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yeah, that doesn't get affected by stats

runic trail
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I also need to find a friendly shaman for a buff, because apparently that alters the feel of the spec a bit?

warm marlin
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skyfury buff is quite large yes

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especially over a 10 minute period it is going to amount to quite a bit of extra cdr/energy

runic trail
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Yeah, so wouldn't mind trying dummies with that for a bit.

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I really need to bite the bullet and take the sub spec into a raid, but I really don't want to do that without being comfortable.

warm marlin
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over a span of 10 minutes from my little test it probably amounts to at least 1 extra dance worth of cdr

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maybe 2 if unlucky

swift tinsel
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precisely why I keep a shaman parked at the org dummy on an old separate account lol

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get skyfury at lvl 16, gg

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don't need an active sub

hollow spear
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haha

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Unrelated question: what do you guys have your spell queue window at?

runic trail
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Whatever the default is

warm marlin
hollow spear
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I watched some videos telling me to put it back to 400 ms

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Changed it, felt wrong

warm marlin
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technically 250 is like the lowest you should go

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depending on how fast you are mashing your buttons

hollow spear
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I have it at 230 rn

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3 ms ping

warm marlin
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if i make it higher than 150/200 i start having odd things happen, which, while should not be the result of spellqueue, go away once i decrease it

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just means you really have to press your stuff fast to queue it

haughty mural
runic trail
warm marlin
haughty mural
runic trail
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I just need to fix my 2000 vers probably garf

warm marlin
runic trail
warm marlin
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im back at the point where pacemaker proc + alc chaos rolling crit can make my maghar racial roll crit but sims don't want me to swap so Shrug

haughty mural
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Im a Vers flask enjoyer

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Critical chain might also sim higher for me

warm marlin
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the extra stats in the tfd triple dance opener in lust though sadge

hollow spear
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from alchemical + tempered?

warm marlin
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ye

haughty mural
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True

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But cba seeing a haste proc

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But I should swap some time to alchemical for bigger bursts

hollow spear
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are the updated belt values already implemented or do I have to override still?

swift tinsel
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ptr down?

patent lichen
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REEEEEE no sub content

clever delta
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well maybe they fixed tier set

swift tinsel
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fingers crossed, logging in

runic trail
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Hopefully!

clever delta
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yeah its fixed

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tier set working so i can play sub on raid test

runic trail
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Hell yeah!

swift tinsel
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did they change the buff at all

wary cloak
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
runic trail
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I thought it'd take them another week

steel zinc
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Tier ist fixed

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hype

swift tinsel
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time to go through the bug list

clever delta
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two coupes one dance not bad

swift tinsel
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still wastes a stack tho

clever delta
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well

swift tinsel
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but at least the cdr portion is working

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of the coup

steel zinc
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your sure?

warm marlin
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holy moly

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cant wait to test

swift tinsel
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yes

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will check some more, but had a reset proc during 5sec buff

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and when I cast 2nd coup I had zero

clever delta
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bro this extra cdr feel so good

swift tinsel
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which is why I'm asking for the 4pc to be a separate buff

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but yeah the cdr is tidy

steel zinc
clever delta
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very true

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it would not be first time they got inspired with talent change by tier set

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what kind of trinket i play anway, the stacking one and what else

swift tinsel
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1.5min dungeon or sigil

steel zinc
swift tinsel
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this sigil

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not priory

clever delta
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the new hoc is not avaible isnt it

swift tinsel
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its from the dungeon that's testable today

steel zinc
limpid sage
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Oh are you guys on the ptr

clever delta
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oh shit

swift tinsel
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yeah tier works

limpid sage
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I thought changes were out

swift tinsel
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ds bug still makes that set feel bad

clever delta
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tbh just play pacemaker 😄

steel zinc
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does GB work with coup?

swift tinsel
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the energy cost part?

haughty mural
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Wait they fixed it that fast ? hyperpog

swift tinsel
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the extra coups in flag feel real nice

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not 100% sure on double dance between each flag, will need to play a bit more

haughty mural
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Are we fast as fuck boys now ?

steel zinc
swift tinsel
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also the extra sod uptime for shadowcraft feels pretty necessary for non-flag dances

steel zinc
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also holding coup imo doesnt make sense except its right before dance just send it

hollow spear
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Hell yeah

haughty mural
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I need to install ptr tomorrow and test

swift tinsel
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holding a double coup for flag is juicy as fuck

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bc you also stack sht so you can omegablast

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I'm liking this a lot lol

haughty mural
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Still no indicator on 2p resets right ?

swift tinsel
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nah its the same as thousand cuts resets

steel zinc
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But you can get now triple dance in the opener

swift tinsel
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you don't know you have it until you see it proc

haughty mural
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Does unseen blade truck now as aswell ?

steel zinc
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With shamy buff you get easy 3 sectechs into the flag window

warm marlin
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you can probably 4x sectec in opener with triple dance right

swift tinsel
haughty mural
swift tinsel
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critting for 2mil

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on a 4:30 quick test

steel zinc
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but 3 is np

warm marlin
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with tfd it will for sure be easy

haughty mural
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Sandbag a bit more pls

swift tinsel
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we're gonna get nerfed anyways gonna have some fun while I can

haughty mural
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Before they gut it again

steel zinc
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but idk if we play tfd

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depends on fight length I guess

swift tinsel
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but yeah only gripe is EB waste during 5sec, they fix that and the set is golden

warm marlin
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tfd stonks are so high rn

swift tinsel
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Oh yeah I can see it being bis in pretty much any fight length

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outside of like

steel zinc
swift tinsel
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15mins

steel zinc
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yeah

swift tinsel
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maybe exaggeration but still

steel zinc
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in the opener its insane

swift tinsel
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def agree stonks are high

warm marlin
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tfd sims better on 5mins for me

steel zinc
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on live?

warm marlin
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yes

swift tinsel
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yeah it was originally like 3-4ish but Eleem fixed stuff in sims

steel zinc
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thought was still 3min

warm marlin
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with predisorienti

swift tinsel
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now its closer to 5

steel zinc
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oh nice

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ok so every boss except last 2

runic trail
warm marlin
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meh i played it on mugzee too

bleak night
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trust

swift tinsel
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I'll do a bunch of dummy logging tonight and get a better idea

hazy breach
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Then tfd is really hard to get usually

runic trail
warm marlin
steel zinc
hollow spear
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How would the tree look if we did that?

steel zinc
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since you have so many cds already

hollow spear
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Like the rookery build?

warm marlin
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no way you can remove 3x symbols with all the extra cdr

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thats cooked

swift tinsel
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drop danse time

steel zinc
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LOL

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ok omega cook remove shadowcraft because why not

hollow spear
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Would make coup less annoying kekdog

steel zinc
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or sth like this

runic trail
steel zinc
runic trail
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Then just turn up week 1 and annihilate things

hollow spear
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I mean, if we look at other specs' tier set it generally looks like they're going for broke

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So it's not like our stuff is out of the ordinary

swift tinsel
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isn't enh like 40something percent

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buff

hollow spear
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This season we're also not cursed by having a turbo trinket like transmitter

warm marlin
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well they gutted enh 2p

steel zinc
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yeah

hollow spear
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Making us look like gods

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When we're not 😅

steel zinc
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also dh tier set is to busted close to 25%

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but thats also current tier is omega ds

hollow spear
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They'll definitely have to do some tuning

swift tinsel
steel zinc
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yeah but first of all I am happy that not like in 11.1 we have a working tier set during ptr cycle

hollow spear
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Still unsure how they'll deal with fatebound tier set for sin

steel zinc
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thats a thumbsup

steel zinc
runic trail
steel zinc
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played a bit with fatebound

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I mean cds are a bit out of wack but its pretty op

swift tinsel
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haven't touched sin on ptr yet, might give it a go tonight

clever delta
hollow spear
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Could lead to dry dances HOLY

hazy breach
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This is the best current db build

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Which is like 0.6% behind or so

hollow spear
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On 5 min?

hazy breach
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Yes

hollow spear
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Dang

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Didn't know it was that close

warm marlin
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no triple symbols with extra cdr NOOOO

swift tinsel
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1x Death Perception makes me uncomfortable

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lol

tender frost
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doesn't fatebound still do 0 in aoe

hollow spear
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By they way: how do we sim pre disorienting strikes?

hazy breach
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I think ive posted it here so you could probably look through my mountain of messages for it

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(im on my phone so cant copy it for you)

hollow spear
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Okay, will have a look tomorrow when I'm not on my phone 😅

warm marlin
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raid_events+=/buff,buff_name=supercharge_1,first=0,cooldown=999999
raid_events+=/buff,buff_name=supercharge_2,first=0,cooldown=999999
raid_events+=/buff,buff_name=disorienting_strikes,first=0,cooldown=999999

swift tinsel
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I’m sure it’s searchable

hazy breach
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Cant copy from my saved simc profiles

warm marlin
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throw in expert mode

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well that is also presymbols

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but if ur doing disorienting might as well

hexed sluice
swift tinsel
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Not still on vacation are you

hollow spear
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Pre disorienting is still a little unreliable for me, but eh

clever delta
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surely we dont play that cooked db build

hollow spear
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WTB pre disorienting baseline

steel zinc
warm marlin
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trueeee

swift tinsel
hollow spear
warm marlin
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this is my guess personally but maybe PE is just goated

hollow spear
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2 free ub on pull

swift tinsel
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Ugh PV

hazy breach
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Ye pe is really good

steel zinc
hazy breach
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Imp sht sucks ass

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But pe is like 2x the alternative

hollow spear
swift tinsel
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Make imp sht choice node with shadow focus

hazy breach
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On a 5 min

swift tinsel
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PE into swift death

shy scarab
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
hazy breach
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Well see

steel zinc
warm marlin
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at least we can test 4p now even if its not on simc

hazy breach
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🇮🇹

swift tinsel
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😂 missing all the non-changes

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Ah very nice

steel zinc
swift tinsel
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I’m actually pretty excited to play around with timings now that it works lol

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All the more reason to stay away from cursed DS set

warm marlin
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I will test pooling like you have never seen before

swift tinsel
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Dude I literally auto attacked for 20sec sitting on double coup into flag

steel zinc
swift tinsel
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And I’m not afraid to double that

clever delta
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the biggest winner for me is not playing 4set from S2

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fucking hate that shit

swift tinsel
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Wym gamba fiesta was stellar design

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That you could entirely ignore and was basically indistinguishable from playing around it

clever delta
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i dont need to stress about it is super chill

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all i care about is to not use coupe outside the dance now

slim anchor
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Should I be trying to spread nimble flurry in aoe pulls?

clever delta
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its funny how were are excited about fixed ptr tier set when we play assa on progress anyway :))

lilac stag
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you mean outlaw

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pirate tier inc

steel zinc
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I could see with this tierset pooling an option and during pull get to 3 stacks of unseenblade and some shadowtech stacks

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could be some oldschool stuff

clever delta
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coup go hard

swift tinsel
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Unless you can find a way to be in multiple places at once

steel zinc
slim anchor
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I wasn’t sure if I should be get it on one target and move on to another target once it is applied. I’m only asking cuz like when I play demo I have to spread doom around in a similar way so I was just curious if I’m suppose to be doing that as well

swift tinsel
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Ah, nope. It’s just automatic

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No maintenance required to nimble besides keeping up flawless form buff on yourself

hazy breach
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Its not on the target

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Its a buff on you

hollow spear
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With outlaw's damage profile, I'm not sure if we'll ever have an outlaw tier

steel zinc
swift tinsel
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That would be a hilarious move

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Killing spree revamp, hype is high, BAM tank spec

hollow spear
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Could you already compare the average coups per 5 min with and without tier?

swift tinsel
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Can probably compare logs

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Or just take a retail log and double the coups to get a rough idea

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And add a few more from the extra UB

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I’m gonna look at it later

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also, EB insurance would be nice

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But is what it is

bleak night
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geico might have that

hollow spear
swift tinsel
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Might record video of testing to better check how many stacks get wasted

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Bc I’m curious to see

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And it might be worth mentioning in the impressions article

warm marlin
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theres no way you can consistently double dance between flags

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maybe like 2x dance 2x dance 1x dance

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or no skyfury is really just destroying my cdr

swift tinsel
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Yeah I couldn’t get it to double either, gonna try with skyfury and see if that’s the key

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Even then I think it might be super tight

wicked urchin
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raid buff is next week right?

swift tinsel
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Idk if it’s possible with 1/2 death perception

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Even with skyfury

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@warm marlin Are you testing with pre-disorienting

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Or no prepull shenanigans

warm marlin
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my raid time is soon

heady gulch
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
sly shore
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is tier fixed

swift tinsel
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Coup can now be cast a second time but still blocks EB from stacking for the buff duration

sly shore
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epic

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DS bug all over again

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can't escape it no matter what hero talent you play

bleak night
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it ok they surely fix it

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they would never leave in a bug like that for sub

swift tinsel
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lmao

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meanwhile DS bug still strong and almost a year old

bleak night
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actually though i think this one does have a good chance of being fixed

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bc they're already looking at outlaw and how killing spree interacts with trickster

swift tinsel
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I don't think its a bug for 4pc

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its just the way the buff is designed

bleak night
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well yeah bugfix maybe wrong word

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but change it to be nicer

swift tinsel
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yeah, that's what I've been hoping for

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switch from 4 stacks of EB on a 5sec buff to a separate buff that enables Coup without affecting EB so it can still stack during 5sec buff

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because it 100% eats resets/procs

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which isn't great

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maybe the 30% UB damage buff from the 2pc is to offset that lol

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even though you lose Coup casts over time

warm marlin
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@hazy breach vexie is just not possible

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we push at the wrong time every week and just take forever to kill Madge

lilac stag
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PirateHeart time!

warm marlin
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the pirate alt is getting mugzee this week

lilac stag
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Hopefully gally done this week

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I ran pirate in lfr rep run. Gally is hilarious. Just stand still for KS then randomly teleport

swift tinsel
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losing ~7-8 UB per 5mins after a couple tests, gonna look closer after dinner

tender frost
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anyone know why sectec dam would be significantly lower on log than details

warm marlin
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are you comparing a log/details of cauldron, bandit, or mugzee

tender frost
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cauldron

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yessir

warm marlin
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if you are a long distance away from the logger (on any fight, but really only cauldron this tier) akaari's soul will yoink your sectec damage

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have to log yourself or be on the same side as the logger

short radish
#

log yourself before you rob yourself
#GripIsNOTaRaidBuff

tender frost
#

thats mindblowing yeesh lol

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ty

strange chasm
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
tender frost
warm marlin
#

nah just also make yours public

tender frost
#

turned my 83 into a 97 bless you

swift tinsel
#

servers do be shittin themselves

warm marlin
#

picture this

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sprocket buyer

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tell them to tag and jump off

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they do not jump off

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and run around knocking people around for the first 45s

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legit just sprinting around the boss

tribal blade
#

@hazy breach so this just happened

warm marlin
#

and we limp to the finish line and kill it anyway

lilac stag
#

I bet one of your range paid them to do that.

warm marlin
coarse hound
#

Do we still need to paste those new coefficeints to SIM the belt properly?

tribal blade
#

new reset, new no sub notes 🙂

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keep the streak alive

hazy breach
tribal blade
#

teehee

hazy breach
worldly portal
#

i didnt notice i kept collecting mastery

swift tinsel
#

without skyfury I'm like

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30 seconds off from being able to double dance between flags

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need to dial in a bit

tribal blade
#

one of the worst things about playing w/o skyfury for me is i can feel it in the rotation

swift tinsel
#

also 1/2 death perception kinda works

tribal blade
#

and it makes me mega tilted

swift tinsel
#

which I didn't expect

tribal blade
#

and i play worse

tribal blade
swift tinsel
#

nah just 2/2 finality

tribal blade
#

ah i see

swift tinsel
#

toying with this atm

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ignore SF

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lol

tribal blade
#

the last time i tried using 1/2 depth i was capping dance charges in aoe

swift tinsel
#

tfd makes opener feel great

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ah I'm just doing st testing atm

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1/2 feels a little less smooth bc you don't have that buffer charge and you end up waiting maybe a second or two for like the 2:20 dance but the rest are actually decently tidy

tribal blade
#

i feel like 2/2 depth lets you have more control over where you can send dances kinda

swift tinsel
#

a bit yeah, with the extra cdr from tier set though you feel less restricted on dance usage

#

you aren't like

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swimming in dance cdr but the extra bump helps smooth things out

#

almost like adding extra cdr to deepening would be nice...

#

I'm gonna play around with 1/2 DP but I'm liking it so far

#

might give PV+DB a shot too

#

the inev uptime though helping fill out cp during non-flag dances for the 2nd coup feels nice though

#

so I'm hesitant to drop it for pv to be able to go DB

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bc you def feel the energy bottleneck trying to send 2nd coup at 6+ so sometimes I just send with w/e cp I have at the time

tribal blade
#

i think most likely we're still locked into our 1 talent build

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which kinda sucks

swift tinsel
#

Yeah its def possible, need to see how big 2/2 finality and/or db boosts the extra coups

#

tfd though is a big winner imo

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and its possible it beats WM in even longer than 5min fights because it helps your opener even more

tribal blade
#

oh i forgot finality buffs coup

swift tinsel
#

yeah it gens and consumes it

zenith prism
#

just swap inevit and PV

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PV really sucks

swift tinsel
#

if you drop inev you can't drop deeper daggers to get db

tender frost
#

does sectec hit adds if you cast on gally during intermissions

swift tinsel
#

otherwise you cut off dark shadow/danse/shadowcraft

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PV is very stinky and I don't want to take it ever

zenith prism
#

if PV is under WM, our talented tree will be much more reasonable

swift tinsel
#

so I'm annoyed its essential to get db without sacrificing both points in death perception

tender frost
#

kms

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in game

swift tinsel
#

even if pv and inev swapped

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I would be quite happy

tribal blade
swift tinsel
#

unless that's what you meant by under wm

tribal blade
#

it's terrible

swift tinsel
#

the pathing is just

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not it

tribal blade
#

you can't really maneuver around

zenith prism
swift tinsel
#

Like imagine if PE/WS fed into Swift Death instead of Shrouded in Darkness

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Imma photoshop my own tree that makes sense in my mind lol

zenith prism
#

personally I love 100% speed

swift tinsel
#

Oh yeah its really useful for sure, I just think its in a strange spot

#

or rather, it and swift death's proximity is odd

zenith prism
#

totally agree

swift tinsel
#

maybe swap it with quick decisions

zenith prism
#

also there are too many SL conduit shit

swift tinsel
#

100%

zenith prism
#

need rework

swift tinsel
#

or azerite traits

#

personal talent removal wishlist: shadow focus, imp shadow techniques, warning signs (unless we get haste interactions but please no), weaponmaster, pv, lingering shadow, goremaws, night terrors/terrifying pace, shuriken tornado

#

Find Weakness

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which would then open up shadowed finishers to be something else like full shadow damage finishers during dance or always

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which would require nimble flurry to not be mitigated by armor

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otherwise its cursed

zenith prism
#

they would just change nimble flurry to 70% if it's not ideal

swift tinsel
#

yeah that could def work too

swift tinsel
#

okay so pre-disorient pre-supercharge tfd opener feels fuckin gnarly

#

holy

#

with 1/2 DP you wait on sod for 5-7 seconds sometimes but besides that its not notable worse gameplaywise

#

but the extra coup damage is notable

steel horizon
#

how does the cdr from the extra coup work? does it just cast as if you had the same # of combo points as the 1st coup?

swift tinsel
#

you have to build cp to cast it

steel horizon
#

ah

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so the proc just stays

swift tinsel
#

which can get annoying when its outside dance

nova cradle
warm marlin
swift tinsel
#

you get a 5 second buff that's just 4 stacks of escalating blade

steel horizon
#

idk why i was thinking like it was a double coup back to back without having to generate cp again lol

#

to good to be true

swift tinsel
#

been noticing ~7-8 wasted EB stacks so you lose roughly 2 reg/2 bonus coups per 5mins

steel horizon
#

honestly as long as the extra bit of dance cdr is enough to where you dont have to delay your flag/sb for those times where you have to move off the boss and you're not generating cp

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sucks when you have to move off for a bit and flag/sb come up but your second charge of dance is still at like 40-45 seconds

swift tinsel
#

self buffed no pot kinda scuffed pull

chrome palm
warm marlin
#

I did see some of you casting on boss

chrome palm
#

Most ethical rogue

warm marlin
#

you do actually 0 boss damage if you're full casting sectec on adds though

chrome palm
#

My guildies thought it was very funny how much damage sin/sub gets on that 7 min spawn

warm marlin
#

our bm hunter was dead for 90 full seconds and still beat me on boss damage

chrome palm
#

Are they still perma boss targeters

warm marlin
#

think so idk

chrome palm
#

I just remember their cleave being so bad they just tunnel vision the boss

short radish
chrome palm
#

I just want a full reclear man, my gm keeps calling raid after last 3 so he can play poe 😭

chrome palm
#

Lmao

#

It’s funny that

#

The 3 min spawn I seem to do about as much as the previous spawn

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Even though it’s just double dances instead of full blades cds

warm marlin
#

you need to cast that one on adds too btw

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when you cast on gally the clones use the center of his hitbox to cleave

chrome palm
#

You mean the 4 min spawn?

warm marlin
#

no 3mins

chrome palm
#

No fucking way hahaha

warm marlin
#

if your tanks arent perfect grouping it super fast

#

your sectec will miss half the mobs

chrome palm
#

Ok then

warm marlin
#

again though

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your boss damage will be turbo inted

#

like you cast more sectecs on adds than boss

chrome palm
#

Shhh

#

But

#

That increases the likelihood of seeing 7 min add spawn

#

If boss dam is lower

#

@warm marlin I wanted to ask

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Since you like to hold vanish

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Do you think it’s worth to keep spamming backstab at max cp instead of just autoing

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For UB and winning streak

warm marlin
#

yep

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calculate about how much dance cdr you get from 2 full cp finishers and how long until you'll be flagging, go to 7cp, spam backstab until about 5s left, rupture vanish ss flag rupture

chrome palm
#

Or like do the vanish thing if you have coup guaranteed or like 4-5 winning streak

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Aha

shut ridge
warm marlin
#

no way all of you were sectecing boss

shut ridge
#

i knew about it a little while back

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but i just forget

chrome palm
#

I kinda thought I wasn’t gonna get trolled by blizzard but

shut ridge
#

because i am [REDACTED]

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i am in full autopilot until next tier

chrome palm
#

At least at this point I’m glad the clones don’t all fall down the gallywix hole

warm marlin
#

i think its near finished on gallywix anyway

#

with extra 3% i expect we start skipping 7min adds soon

chrome palm
#

It’s time to start tricksing your ret paladin

warm marlin
#

maybe there's a world you can recover by inversing the 3min 4min cds and flag the 3min double dance the 4min

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but the 4mins just die insta

chrome palm
#

Pay off a guildie to accidentally die

warm marlin
#

cauldron is also cooked

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we killed before my 3rd flag today

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and we had a buyer and -1 spread cleave

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near exact 3min kill time on rik, vexie, cauldron, 4:30 near exact on bandit, no more 7 min adds on gallywix

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truly joever

chrome palm
chrome palm
#

i kinda like the idea of holding the third dance after opener to chain dances back to back with new tier set

#

since you sit on so many stacks of flawless form from double coup

#

if you hold until next recharge is ~20s it feels pretty good

jaunty heath
#

so uh

#

for critical chain do you just finish the delve or you gotta do something in there

neon drum
#

is crit chain the disc we use for m+?

short radish
jaunty heath
random hare
#

Whoever didnt try the new sub tier set be ready to not be able to cast the 2nd coup due to low energy

#

Amazing gameplay ngl omegalul

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And i thought s2 tier set was so bad

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Then we get double coup shit fest

sick dagger
#

!macro

wicked joltBOT
#

Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:

/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use House of Cards```
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.
random hare
#

💀

sick dagger
#

!bs

wicked joltBOT
#

Backstab/Shadow Dance Macro:yaml #Showtooltip Shadow Dance /cast [bonusbar:1] Backstab; Shadow DanceThis will cast Shadow Dance on first key press and Backstab on second key press.

short radish
#

for some reason

#

!sod

wicked joltBOT
#

Macro to prevent accidental uses of extra charges: #showtooltip Symbols of Death /castsequence reset=2 Symbols of Death,null /cqs

short radish
#

i thought the coup would also be free to cast

random hare
#

No

#

Unless ptr had weird ass lag, i had many situations where i couldn’t cast 2nd coup due to low energy

#

Ofcourse that only happens outside of cds

#

But ngl maybe we play a different build anyway

haughty mural
#

Is relentless strikes working properly with coup on ptr ?

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Also thought it’ll be free

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Haven’t had time to jump in ptr yet

runic sequoia
#

Pressing coup once is already cringe because the delay DMG eating cold blood and shadowcraft so I'm sure 2x coup is very fun

haughty mural
#

How is your coup eating cold blood ?

runic sequoia
#

If you coup into your cb secret technique

haughty mural
runic sequoia
#

Just press coup and then cold blood after you should see cb be used

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Vs doing reg evis into cb

runic trail
#

Is that a thing? I assumed cold blood would work on your next casted ability and not things that are already in motion

runic sequoia
#

If it isn't a thing I'm smoking crayons

warm marlin
#

I am quite certain it is a thing as well

#

gotta wait a bit to press cold blood

runic sequoia
#

The delayed part of coup needs to go

#

Didnt they change outlaws

warm marlin
#

no but it’s not as annoying there

#

outlaw doesn’t have delayed sht refunds

runic sequoia
#

That is the worst

#

Queueing builder in SB

#

But sht refunds perfect time after coup to screw you

#

14 cp builder np

short radish
#

the design philosophy of sub is apparently "delayed abilities"

vale pine
#

well kind of yes

#

but the way you word it sounds a lot worse than in reality

#

when designing combat, you only can do so much to make classes distinct

#

Which in reality means you usually have on a very abstract level one of two concepts

hollow spear
#

I can see us pooling energy for a sec to yank out double coup consistently

vale pine
#

You either only have little cooldowns, weak cooldowns or very short ones.
In which case you just use everything on cooldown

#

or you have impactful cooldowns, which will lead to stacking them

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yet this is not either or but usually a mix

#

subtlety is more on the 2nd option, and it means we benefit the most from trying to stack cooldowns as much as possible

short radish
#

nah i meant delayed as in "Press button and damage comes out 1 second later"

vale pine
#

oh

short radish
#

sectech

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and coup

vale pine
#

well thats more or less relics of the past

#

secret technique was designed this way back at the start of BfA to replace DfA

hollow spear
#

It's criminal is what it is

vale pine
#

DfA was a multi part attack, and this lead to interesting gameplay

#

so this concept was kept, however secret was way easier to understand

hollow spear
#

Weren't there also some cases were bosses could just move away from your shadows?

vernal hull
#

@runic trail got 5th on mugzee

#

Sub kinda lit

runic trail
#

Hell yeah

#

I'll actually try sub in heroic raid on Friday, so it is time to panic, fuck up and then die

vernal hull
#

I did mythic and I played like shit on gally

#

First time though

#

I'm guessing wowanalyzer doesn't work for sub

#

It says I didn't use shadow blades or flag right once

runic trail
vernal hull
short radish
#

!mistakes

wicked joltBOT
#

Here are some common mistakes and how to spot them in your logs:

  • Go into your log, press Timelines and Casts to the right like this
  • Every single Flagellation & Blades window should look like the opener in this picture. Coup, shadowstrikes and eviscerates can move around a bit depending on procs, but all the other spells should be used exactly like this.
  • Make sure you always get 8 globals off during your shadow dances. You can hover over your shadow dances to see the exact times they start, and then see if your 8th spell is within 8 seconds of that.
  • If your shadow dance and/or symbols wasnt ready in time to be used like in the picture above you used too many in between your burst.
vernal hull
#

Thanks buddy

short radish
#

no wokkers

#

stay stabby

hollow spear
#

So the perma double dance between bursts dream is not alive with new tier?

#

Or is it in skyfury prison?

warm marlin
#

im gonna hit dummies a lot soon

#

maybe recruit a friend to give me shaman buff

hollow spear
#

Yeah need a skyfury slave

#

Dummy sessions without it are cursed

short radish
#

its so shit that if you drop party

#

you lose the buff

candid mural
#

Any idea where to get daggers on ptr?

hollow spear
#

Need someone who's just as degenerate as us

warm marlin
candid mural
#

Ty

runic trail
warm marlin
#

coup is absolutely blasting with 2x finality

vernal hull
#

Ur the famous bingus

warm marlin
#

idk about famous

vernal hull
#

Legend

#

Famous to me

candid mural
warm marlin
#

dd and inev -> pv finality

#

eleem suggested PE over tfd and rs earlier that i might try as well

#

but im kind of a tfd enjoyer now

tribal blade
zenith prism
#

but we should compare comp+evis to estimate the buff

#

since it just turn some evis into coup damagr

runic trail
#

Huh, I've been running a build using the rotten instead of finality, I may need to sim that to see if I should swap

warm marlin
#

im not super impressed by the damage so far

#

earlier on live i was doing like 2.1 on dummy no buffs and im doing like maybe 3M now at 715 ilvl

zenith prism
#

Yeah just checkout our damage profile with new tier

hollow spear
#

What was the jump from s1 to s2?

runic trail
hollow spear
#

What did we do on the dummy end of s1?

runic trail
#

At least pre turbo boost

#

Oh I thought you meant ilvl. In my defence, I'm uncaffeinated

vale pine
hollow spear
vernal hull
chrome palm
runic trail
hollow spear
runic trail
#

Who needs breakfast when you can sub it out for a healthy mix of caffeine and nicotine

vernal hull
#

Maybe next week

#

I learn to hold cds

warm marlin
#

it also seems its genuinely possible to proc coup outside of cds, coup at 6cp, then be unable to build back up to 6 before the 2nd coup expires

#

obviously you would just send the coup before then but it doesnt feel great

runic trail
#

I need a decent gally parse on sin but the adds just got insta deleted by others. So it's just, OKAY, I HIT BOSS I GUESS

chrome palm
#

Sin has really good burst on gallywix for the 3 and 7 min add spawns

#

Imo

#

Can try cloaking the giga whatever and starting your ramp early

#

And then nuking 4 min set

warm marlin
#

5 min dummy on ptr: 403 applications of flawless form
5 min bandit kill on live: 164 applications of flawless form

runic trail
chrome palm
hollow spear
chrome palm
#

Better off pooling sht lol

warm marlin
#

idk its probably the skyfury thing

#

energy shouldnt really feel different

hollow spear
#

Could be

runic trail
hollow spear
#

On the dummy I'm sometimes too energy starved to cast 8 globals during dance

#

Crazy

chrome palm
#

-100000 globals

warm marlin
#

is there a set of dummies I can log

hollow spear
#

Can you get your 2nd sectec into tfd if you pre disorienting with new 4p?

#

On live it kinda overlaps and clones usually hit during 2nd dance

warm marlin
#

with tfd almost certainly

#

er

#

with skyfury

#

i can do it sometimes without

#

skyfury + lust definitely

#

playing tfd is maybe a bit dubious with the spymaster trinket though

zenith prism
#

it's like ss-rupture-sd-backstab-evis-ss-sod-sectech

hollow spear
#

I'd argue we could still use it as 90s trinket

#

There's quite some options to sim

warm marlin
#

well tfd specifically only affects the first flag blades of the fight

#

and you have 0 spymaster stacks for that one

#

so ur basically -1 trinket

hollow spear
#

That's true

#

Will it be the cursed double active season?

keen dome
#

Maybe! We return to Dragonflight-era

hollow spear
#

New hoc on pull, spymaster directly after - hoc on 2nd flag - spymaster on 3rd flag

#

Maybe spymaster at 20s to get 2 stacks

#

Big value triple dance

warm marlin
#

a 7cp coup already refunds like 60 energy

#

its really just that even assuming you go to exactly 100 energy after coup

#

thats enough for like 3 backstabs at most before the 5s timer runs out

vale pine
#

symbols and shadowcraft gives you enough energy

hollow spear
#

Ig that could lead to us ignoring the cp rules

vale pine
#

so you don't rly pool

hollow spear
#

Use 2nd cp before it runs out, no matter the cp

warm marlin
#

have noticed you dont really have the energy always to build to 6 before the 5s timer runs out

#

and if you greed an extra backstab and dont regen the energy to press coup itself in time you just lose the coup 💀

vale pine
#

oh ye

hollow spear
#

Greed kinda costly there

warm marlin
#

for sure you just press at low cp

hollow spear
#

Pissing away free cp and flawless stacks

#

This season "just one little evis" -> tier set stacks gone.
Next season "just one little backstab" -> 2nd coup gone.

warm marlin
#

coup def hitting

#

28 coups vs. 34 eviscerates that pull

#

hmm

tulip badger
#

Maybe its time to goremaw so we have energy + min 3cp?

tribal blade
warm marlin
#

you would have to give up a point in finality thats amping all the coups or a symbols charge or something

lucid jackal
#

I meaaaaan

#

Finality aint that good

#

What if its goremaws season

warm marlin
short radish
#

goremaw so we can send back to back coups 👀

lucid jackal
#

Exaaaaaactly

warm marlin
#

actually

#

goremaw wouldn't waste unseen blades would it

short radish
#

now thats a cook

#

someone fire it up

warm marlin
#

yeah someone else can test that one kekW

tribal blade
short radish
tribal blade
#

this will truly be the most cursed timeline if we play goremaws

#

but hacha will be happy 😉

warm marlin
#

no way

zenith prism
keen dome
#

What would you even drop to take it though

short radish
warm marlin
#

finality def

keen dome
#

yeah I guess finality for raid but M+? rotten?

tribal blade
#

fuck it drop shadowcraft

#

i'm doing some lashga cooking here

zenith prism
#

fuck find weakness

warm marlin
#

sub in m+ kekW

zenith prism
#

always rotten for M+

tribal blade
#

assassination is about to have absolutely bonkers prio and burst in M+

#

i haven't been on ptr yet, but i can smell it

keen dome
zenith prism
#

maybe finality for some dungeons where you don't BP

#

that's possible

#

e.g TOP

tribal blade
#

next season is a pretty high target count one

#

mostly

zenith prism
#

then rotten for sure

#

and rip outlaw

warm marlin
#

this tierset is also pretty cringe for aoe i think

#

like youre going into a pack

#

and casting sectec coup coup

#

when are you casting bp

#

on large aoe

tribal blade
#

mm so it's forcing the target cap even more

warm marlin
#

also i cannot get logs to work on ptr

#

its just logging random people aoeing near me

#

instead of my dummy

#

i might be stupid

keen dome
#

Found my favourite kind of guys for the day

tribal blade
keen dome
#

Haha

runic trail
#

Silly keys are the best keys

keen dome
#

I did do a all monk + rogue key in DF that ruled

runic trail
#

Sometimes on my druid I'll set up random all tank keys

#

We don't need a healer

#

Don't need damage

hollow spear
warm marlin
#

the french man assisted me

#

i didnt click include overkill

hollow spear
#

Ah yeah

runic trail
warm marlin
#

time to untalent sectec

runic trail
#

I just went to the dummies in silvermoon, nobody there

hollow spear
#

But you got it to work!

tribal blade
#

we're gonna have to apologize to lashga for his untalenting sectec cook

warm marlin
runic trail
tribal blade
#

also holy unseen blade doing work there too

warm marlin
#

ye im almost wondering if

#

pressing ss with a guaranteed unseen blade

#

is better than eviscerating on 6

hollow spear
warm marlin
#

in dance

#

as last global

#

unseen blade kind of blasting

hollow spear
#

True

tribal blade
#

is unseen blade fully buffed by dance

#

never actually wondered that before

warm marlin
tribal blade
#

still hurts my soul to see PV talented

keen dome
#

Hate PV

tribal blade
#

this build looks really similar to ones we ran during DF

#

just missing DB

keen dome
#

Yeah, it does

warm marlin
#

in full cds coup is almost hitting as hard as sectec

#

hmm

#

14M cast vs. 17

hollow spear
warm marlin
#

i would rather cast coup at 1cp

tribal blade
#

if nimble was soft instead of hard capped sub would be banging in aoe

hollow spear
#

Can't be nimble when you're hard 🤔

tribal blade
hollow spear
#

But you'd be banging for sure

#

Ok, I'll see myself out

tribal blade
#

that could legit be the one change they made to sub to make it more viable

#

in keys

hollow spear
#

We'll slowly turn into outlaw chat

#

Unhinged cap conversations

vale pine
#

target caps are a bit weird tbh

tribal blade
#

@warm marlin have you tested fatebound sin?

#

hoping it's not on par with sub as a 1:30 rogue spec

vale pine
warm marlin
tribal blade
runic trail
warm marlin
#

rn mostly because i dont like getting parried

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and i feel bad for my other melee getting parried

warm marlin
tribal blade
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dw the 1 sub rogue note will be them fixing parry bug

warm marlin
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god i hope not

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if we had a 2nd rogue or someone willing to alt sub i would play assa again in raid and get some variety

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but i am my guilds only rogue and not a single person has a rogue alt

hollow spear
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I don't know, can't play sin for long stretches in raid

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It's decent in m+, but feels completely ass in raid

tribal blade
hollow spear
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My guild wants to have most positions backed up

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No rogue showed up all tier

runic trail
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And also 3 dks and 3 demolocks

tribal blade
hollow spear
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Your roster is something else anyways

tribal blade
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holding 50% of the rogue population right there

runic trail
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So... Baby steps

hollow spear
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We got two of those rn

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And a grey parsing shadow priest

vale pine
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because his gear is bad?

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or because he plays poorly

runic trail
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Deleted mid response uglyassdog

hollow spear
limpid sage
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didn't see it get there

runic trail