#subtlety

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tribal blade
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basically use that momentum and HELP US

void hound
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this is some "you area already dead" type of shit

runic trail
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We all pulled up that night

void ocean
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u atroed the shit out of Lock

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imagine all those stacks

warm marlin
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Now they will only super die instead of super super die when they fail to hit the warlock gate

fleet wharf
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did you guys also use the warlock gate weak aura that tells you when to press your shard?

void hound
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no but maybe we should have

warm marlin
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nah I just watched the cast and mashed my gate hotkey as it finished

void hound
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"after the cast" and "later than you think" was a bit too ambiguous

fleet wharf
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yup. and actually, mashing made things worse

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you want to press it just once and be touching the gateway as the knockback goes off. not that anyone needs it but i felt like sharing soon to be useless piece of knowledge

warm marlin
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well it kinda depends on where your gate is

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Some of our guild stood right on boss to get knocked onto the gate while mashing

fleet wharf
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i saw UH dk perspective once and it made me want to be a DK for the first time

short radish
coarse hound
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
void hound
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you can fly well past the gate and it still works

short radish
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yeah

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i didnt understand how so many of our raiders fucked up with it

void hound
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yeh xd

fleet wharf
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ping fucks with you pretty hard ig

short radish
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eh you can play around ping

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as long as its not more than like

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300

fleet wharf
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I feel with like 170ms mashing becomes a lot less viable

void hound
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as long as ping is consistent you can find a good timing

tribal blade
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and it would let you gate even if you got knocked out of ranged

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so long as you didn't get knocked TOO far away

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once i figured that out i never missed the gate ever again

fleet wharf
tribal blade
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ahh i see

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i just waited till the knock happened, then hit my bind, worked every time 😉

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and i play with ~200 ms

fleet wharf
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yea, the thing that made the biggest difference for me was to stop mashing it and my consistency went way up

tribal blade
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yeah most of people dying was panic

fleet wharf
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just be DK and walk like normal

tribal blade
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"I NEED TO PRESS GATE" and then fumbling pressing early

warm marlin
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yeah a majority of our deaths on prog were to early gates and not late gates

fleet wharf
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it's so fucking troll that you get knocked back after taking the gate if you press it too early

void ocean
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why cant we reflex shadowstep it

tribal blade
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no big think

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small think

runic trail
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He knows where I live

tribal blade
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i think i reflex shadowstepped once on the fight when someone knocked me

void ocean
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thats mobbing

tribal blade
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but i didn't kill anyone

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thankfully

warm marlin
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ye same

runic trail
warm marlin
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I stepped boss like 4 times on prog I think

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never killed anyone kekW

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living on the edge

fleet wharf
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bold

tribal blade
runic trail
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I also had to rebind jump on that fight due to weird hand placements and accidentally hitting spacebar

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Had to bind jump to 7 for safety purposes

fleet wharf
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but how would you show off your oab ring and flip everywhere

runic trail
fleet wharf
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skill issue. I'm never selling that ring

warm marlin
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I don’t think we’ve had a single roulette wheel ever go to a raider and not a buyer

runic trail
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But yeah, right hand on wasd plus repeatedly tapping a or d on a conveyor belt led to a few accidental jumps Pepegrin

warm marlin
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They just don’t drop without buyers sadge

vocal wolf
void ocean
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stop taapin ur d then

runic trail
tribal blade
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i have to hear about that ring every time we do bandit

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and how much everyone is pissed at how it drops

void ocean
fleet wharf
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would any other spec want a big vers small mastery?

vocal wolf
tribal blade
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don't think so no

tribal blade
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but why not

void ocean
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i wish e had m+ weapons for dinars ffs

fleet wharf
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truee

void ocean
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my fdk would have a 684 in that case

runic trail
tribal blade
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at least for sub right now so long as your daggers don't have haste you're chilling

vocal wolf
warm marlin
runic trail
warm marlin
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a bit sad they didn’t implement that for dinars

runic trail
tribal blade
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is it too out of this world for the dinar vendors to give any piece from raid or M+ of the season?

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just throw the entire loot table in there

fleet wharf
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are dinars even coming back next season onwards?

tribal blade
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most likely yes

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this was kind of a test run

runic trail
tribal blade
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it's a good system

fleet wharf
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I wish they make it so even if you buy hero weapon you can upgrade it to myth track if you kill boss or get high enough on keys

runic trail
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Cos we haven't had a single mythic house of cards drop and the vault has not been forthcoming

tribal blade
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my raid team had massive loot drama this tier

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which was made better by the dinars coming out

fleet wharf
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one thing I like about rogues is that no one else wants stinking daggers and they're mine

tribal blade
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lol yeah i get every dagger from raid

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i had to chat with my RL about daggers going to my loot score

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because i felt like my loot score exploding from getting every single dagger from raid was kinda bs

tribal blade
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i think so, i'm not 100% sure

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he did say it was a good argument, but i never asked if it got implemented tbh

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i'm less of loot whore than i used to be haha

short radish
warm marlin
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… loot score?

runic trail
fleet wharf
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by the way has it always been the case that daggers drop from one of the earlier raid bosses or were there tiers where this wasn't the case?

tribal blade
short radish
fleet wharf
runic trail
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All sensible guilds use loot dictatorship

runic trail
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Just appoint one benevolent dictator and go from there

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Nothing can go wrong

tribal blade
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i think most weapons in raid work that way

short radish
runic trail
tribal blade
runic trail
tribal blade
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someone's not dying

warm marlin
short radish
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idgaf anymore

tribal blade
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my man enchanted it with vers and vers heavy gems

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just leaning more into unkillable

runic trail
warm marlin
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Vers goated

short radish
tribal blade
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yeah i swapped stats around on my sin set to get more vers

fleet wharf
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It is nice, but i dunno man I don't think I like the idea of vers as a scaling stat all that much

tribal blade
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it's a negligible dps loss for sin in M+

tribal blade
short radish
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that is the one good thing about sin

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stats dont matter for it

warm marlin
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Vers is criminally underrated in keys in general

tribal blade
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i always go out of my way to get more vers

short radish
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vers is just underrated in general

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my paladin feels so squishy

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i'll get hit by something and i acutally notice it

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going hmmm maybe i need to dodge

warm marlin
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Even on specs that scale well you can go like full 20% vers for like a 1-2% damage loss often

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Super worth if you’re pushing in a live season

tribal blade
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it does make a huge difference

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i remember back during S3 of DF

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the 1 shot season

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people were having to use not even close to make sure they weren't dying

warm marlin
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Ye I full recrafted vers then (was on havoc)

tribal blade
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and getting more vers was a big part of it

short radish
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if i equip my bone band i can get 15% DR from vers without flask

warm marlin
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It was worth like 1-2 key levels alone

short radish
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with flask

tribal blade
warm marlin
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not the best class for one shots for sure

tribal blade
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that was a stressful season

fleet wharf
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By the way, is there a chance our scaling prio changes for S3? prolly not right?

tribal blade
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yeah that season had so many turbo horrible bosses looking back at it

warm marlin
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The yazma incident stemDespair

short radish
fleet wharf
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is verse ahead of mastery for us btw?

tribal blade
short radish
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vers for me is usually ahead of mast though

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or equal

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and i also rather drop mastery for crit

tribal blade
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love how blizz made that boss even harder than it needed to be with a rework

short radish
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than vers for crit

fleet wharf
short radish
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stat weights are a joke

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and shouldnt be relied on

short radish
warm marlin
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absolute banger season

tribal blade
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i honestly didn't play very well that season

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but i still made title

warm marlin
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we timed a 29 fall with 25 deaths HOLY

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love bolstering

tribal blade
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one of the few sub rogues doing it

tribal blade
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squishvegan blessed me with a 29 rise run

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he didn't go over route, just threw the key in and we timed it

tribal blade
warm marlin
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i think like 90% of them were yes

tribal blade
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haha sounds about right

warm marlin
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bolstering the dot guy

tribal blade
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it was so common for people to die there

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even on the top teams

warm marlin
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bolstering the tank buster guy and just nuking tank from orbit

tribal blade
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iirc there was the tech to jump off the platform

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for the explody thing

warm marlin
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ye i did it on dh

tribal blade
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nice

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i think aug did it too

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that was back when i was a stubborn sub rogue

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one of the few non outlaws that season

warm marlin
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df s3 outlaw PepeHands

tribal blade
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outlaw was nutty that season

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i remember a super common comp for throne was x2 outlaws a 1 fury warr

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...and then you had the x3 mage waycrest manors

runic trail
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I miss waycrest, great dungeon. (Though the hag boss + deathstalker would be hell)

tribal blade
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the tree boss was super cursed

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(hence the mages)

remote shuttle
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Guys i see in pins best for dps (belt) Is crit effect... Still i think i'll stay with static (versa) for both m+ and raid... Is anyone doing same? Or Just crit everywhere

lilac stag
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Waycrest sucks

short radish
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and difference is probably rounded up to nothing

vocal wolf
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GiVe Me ThE IrIs SiStEr

runic trail
vocal wolf
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Vibes were great just not a fun key

hollow spear
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My 92 parse ages like fine wine, already up to 94. Unfortunately the lock it in, so my overview doesn't improve 😄

short radish
warm marlin
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any very generous gamers want to log into ptr to give me shaman buff

plush roost
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it'd be as bad as bricking 20 floodgate to bubbles skip 🙂

short radish
tribal blade
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isn't this season just amazing

short radish
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leme just copy a shaman

warm marlin
runic trail
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I need to find an EU live server shaman buff bot

warm marlin
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need a proper test to see if double dance between each flag is possible

runic trail
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Try sub in raid for the first time last night, and we have no fucking shaman Pepegrin

warm marlin
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def not without skyfury

plush roost
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his name is blue now...

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Hes truely a sub

short radish
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one of us

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one of us

plush roost
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no longer a Dom

hollow spear
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Our guild stopped raiding for this tier

warm marlin
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listen im keeping my outlaw kir

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its still what i play in keys

short radish
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/inv Fimbulvatr

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or form a group

warm marlin
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cannot find player

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add bingusguppy perhaps?

short radish
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do servers exist on ptr

warm marlin
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oh right

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lmao

hollow spear
warm marlin
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well it shouldnt matter actually right

alpine wraith
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rip

short radish
hollow spear
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isn't PTR just one big server?

short radish
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under custom

plush roost
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it'd be /inv binguspuppy-Razageth

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or whatever youre on

warm marlin
hollow spear
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it's proof

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they don't want us to achieve full power

tribal blade
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i thought ptr had a few servers

runic trail
swift tinsel
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Asked a shaman for skyfury last night and he looked at me and logged off

warm marlin
runic trail
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But we now have 3 dks, 3 demo locks and 2 rogues

warm marlin
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i dont think it matters

runic trail
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So

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It's fine

short radish
short radish
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but when i was at the dummies i saw ppl from razagath

plush roost
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ptr many servers

warm marlin
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i am on raszageth

hollow spear
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hmmm

short radish
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game is too hard

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leme log in again

warm marlin
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gg

short radish
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maybe we'll somehow hit the same instance

plush roost
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smhmyhead

short radish
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wait

warm marlin
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okok i relog

hollow spear
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Fimbul in shambles

short radish
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lmao

tribal blade
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have you guys tried turning it off and on again

hollow spear
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(shadowbanned)

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did you already get the leaver flag?

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maybe that's why

short radish
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yeah we bricked a 12 on pull

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so left

alpine wraith
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leave flagged

tribal blade
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damn dude steps foot on the server and get insta leaver tag

alpine wraith
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unluck

runic trail
fleet wharf
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bro that leaver flag is going to be like so much worse than just a shadowban

swift tinsel
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Lol I can copy my shaman to that server in a sec

tribal blade
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haha i'm not really worried, i generally never am the first to leave a key

swift tinsel
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Does it matter if na or eu

tribal blade
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but you're gonna have people being terrorists

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holding groups hostage

swift tinsel
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Thought it was all the same

hollow spear
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I kinda shared Dratnos' opinion

warm marlin
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i dont think theres eu ptr

runic trail
hollow spear
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The system will probably be too soft rather than too punishing

plush roost
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Every high key player under the sun is going to have a red flag

swift tinsel
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Kk I can copy in a sec

plush roost
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ngl

swift tinsel
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If you still need the fury

plush roost
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aint no way anyone is waiting to abandon group

warm marlin
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idk i might be bricked if charrend can see it but i cant

plush roost
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everyone knows a key is donezo when its donezo

hollow spear
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yeah so what's the problem then

tribal blade
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yeah in high keys everyone bails as soon as you know it's over

warm marlin
hollow spear
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I think high keys won't be the proiblem then

fleet wharf
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yea everyone clicks vote abandon, group disbands, no prob

hollow spear
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I think the actual toxicity is in lower keys tbh

tribal blade
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it's gonna make it kinda awkward

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usually you just get people leaving mid key without saying anything

fleet wharf
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but it is actually annoying sometimes seeing ppl with high io come in, do random dumb shit they'd never do with their own keys and leave if it goes sideways

runic trail
short radish
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lmao is it just bricked? i cant even see you online

hollow spear
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I feel like there's a bit too much dooming around it

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Usually with these kinds of systems you kinda have to be a dick to get flagged

runic trail
# tribal blade soldier on

It's made worse because my group invite policy is, 'first ones who sign up'

My guild banned me from being the group leader

swift tinsel
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lmao crit error as soon as I try to log on my shaman on ptr

tribal blade
warm marlin
hollow spear
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I never believe people when they come to discords or reddit and are like "I told a player to shut up and they chat restricted me for 14 days"

runic trail
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Insta sign = insta react to mechanics, surely

tribal blade
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i'm the opposite, i look up rio and logs

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i take my time

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but this is for high keys

hollow spear
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different expectations yeah

runic trail
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Yeah, I ain't a m+ enjoyer, I just do the minimum for what I need for raid

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I only got a resi key this season for dinar options. (I never ended up buying a m+ trinket)

tribal blade
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last season when i was doing weekly keys i would just take a shammy no matter how bad they were

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and give them a free carry

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just press skyfury for me, pls and thankyou

hollow spear
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same, I only apply to groups with a shaman haha

tribal blade
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this season is kinda awkward for sub players

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you gotta make your own groups to ensure getting a shammy usually

warm marlin
tribal blade
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last season it was easier because you could almost guarantee every single key had a blue man

tribal blade
short radish
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the amount of hoops we had to go through just to get that buff

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holy shit lmao

warm marlin
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i am definitely not clicking it off lmao

hollow spear
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did you have to involve John Blizzard?

short radish
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bro we had to go to rookery

warm marlin
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apparently you can't raid buff opposite faction members

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in open world

tribal blade
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LOL

warm marlin
hollow spear
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lmao

tribal blade
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this is the same bullshit as when i see people i want to whisper in lfg

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but they're on the opposing faction

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so annoying

hollow spear
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kinda cringe that that's still a thing

tribal blade
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it's annoying because sometimes i want to whisper someone i know but don't have btaged

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why i'm not inviting them

hollow spear
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"lol u suck"

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dang it, cant whisper them

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@warm marlin When can we expect your 30 page thesis on the current state of PTR sub?

hollow spear
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and now he does it again with Skyfury in mind?

tribal blade
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hollow spear
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would be kinda hilarious if skyfury pushed us over the edge of 2 dances between flag

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already upvoted the post

tribal blade
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i could see it happening

keen dome
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Damn, that's a really well written post

tribal blade
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i read the whole thing, it's good

alpine wraith
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even if it pushed us to 2 dances still have to account for the triple dance that we may want in flag

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getting to 30 flawless stacks may be a thing

keen dome
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It's really good. Extremely well written, formulated and argued case with good suggestions

tribal blade
keen dome
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If I was a dev I'd pay attention to it 'cos it's so well presented

lilac stag
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They’re only going to read goremaws

tribal blade
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don't say it

alpine wraith
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rip goremaw

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it cleaved with flurry for 2 weeks

lilac stag
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Attention spam of 30 seconds or less.

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No one reading that whole thing

sacred yarrow
hollow spear
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Goremaw tier inc

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Was reading through the finality conversation yesterday. The way I understood it is that the sim says it works in our favour with coup while logs say it doesn't?

warm marlin
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well i dont think 2 dance between is possible

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at least not without changing the unseen blade munching thing

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even turbo aggressively sending coup the second it procs and not pooling a single resource ever

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the 3min flag is super tight to have dances for

tribal blade
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damn

warm marlin
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and then the 430 one is cooked

tribal blade
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so we just need deepening tuning

warm marlin
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but im actually munching infinite escalating blade stacks

hollow spear
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So you basically confirm Haptics findings?

keen dome
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Lillian Voss has an ability called Shadow Shiv

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when do we get that

hollow spear
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In "High Noon", the expansion after "Midnight"

keen dome
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hah

hollow spear
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Where subtlety becomes a shadow space cowboy

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I'd dig that

keen dome
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I've been leveling Fury and it's fun hitting buttons a lot.

short radish
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that sounds like outlaw talk

keen dome
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Maybe I should try Outlaw again in 11.2......

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Although it is hurting my hand, hahaha

warm marlin
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didnt full send aggressive enough

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maybe a bit rng

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but like it once lined up to press coup with 8s left on flag cd

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i had to do it for dance cdr

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that just feels wrong

keen dome
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Which finding is this, out of interest?

warm marlin
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2 dances between each flag

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now with skyfury buff to test

keen dome
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Ooh

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That'd be rad

brittle plinth
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I'm thinking of creating a new macro for my rogue that I can press if I mismanaged or desycn shadow blades/flag or dance/symbols like a dumdum

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"Hello my temporary friends, you may or may not be aware on the absolute reliance of cooldowns, and their specific pairing, as part of sub rogues damage profile. I am saddened to inform you that I have mismanaged my cooldowns and will be utterly trash for a pull or two until they aforementioned cooldowns are synced up once again allowing me to perform appropriately. Thank you for your understanding. This is an automated message, no response is required."

keen dome
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hah

alpine wraith
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you can shorten it

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to ehehe

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whooops

short radish
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ehehhee i made a fucky wucky oopsie doopsie

hollow spear
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I was talking more about the "we lose approx 2 (+2) coups over 5 minutes" finding

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But I'm also interested in the two dances theory

hollow spear
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Even though I'm almost convinced that optimising your flag windows is better than an extra dance every 3 minutes

keen dome
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"I regret to inform you all that I've done a whoopsie and now I will log off in shame"

hollow spear
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Just make a macro that alt f4s if it recognises that you went into flag with more than 35 seconds of shadow dance cooldown left

tribal blade
warm marlin
runic trail
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Out of curiosity, how much of a damage boost is just windfury on its own? (Don't have my simc to hand or I'd check)

brittle plinth
short radish
keen dome
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Haha

runic trail
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
runic trail
hollow spear
warm marlin
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i started pressing storm when i knew i had disorienting just to try to max cdr even more

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and still wasted 13/96 over a 7min period

tribal blade
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truly the most cursed timeline

hollow spear
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He's not ready yet

warm marlin
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I think i brainlagged and didnt send dance between one of those flags

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but you can see its close to possible

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all but one had 2 dances between

hollow spear
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Ig you're throwing away all flag maxxing for that tho?

warm marlin
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yeah you need to churn cdr as much as possible

hollow spear
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Hmm

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Since flag windows are so important

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Maybe the additional holding it affords us is more beneficial

warm marlin
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i dont think you want to play this way even if you can

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like you need 100% uptime

alpine wraith
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yea i can see more important doing triple dance on flag with good coups

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than the noodle dances

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in betweem

warm marlin
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you're ripping sectec hard on cd

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dance or not

alpine wraith
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i can see using sec tech on cd tho

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the potential resets are big

warm marlin
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if you get boned a bit by 2p resets you need to delay flag a little bit

hollow spear
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Not the worst thing

warm marlin
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maybe but in a raid scenario you probably want to hold dance on fights for adds sets or whatever

hollow spear
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If you have an idea of how long a fight will last you usually know if you can hold a little

warm marlin
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pure st maybe you can do it

hollow spear
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I think triple dances might also be a tad much to ask for after opener

alpine wraith
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we can only check

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just the power lvl might be there

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with how flag works

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but also maybe you do 2 dances in a row in between

plush roost
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If only sblades was still 20 seconds and not 16 😦

alpine wraith
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mostly because if you get like 20+ flawless

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it is same mastery lvl as flag

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and you can do that with the 4 coups that you get kinda

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  • the unseens
plush roost
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Back to back dances out of cds could be interesting

hollow spear
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Yeah but as ryldd says

plush roost
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If you're able to farm back cdr for flag

hollow spear
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We usually have add spawns that are bigger than optimal st

alpine wraith
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so no triple dance but get 1 charge and 20 secs do two then just send sec techs with no dance until cds

plush roost
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That seems like it could be very good in m+, a true 45/1.5 spec

hollow spear
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Most fights this tier have dance timings on an encounter basis

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We'll see what next tier brings

plush roost
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Man its gonna be weird to play this tier in m+, how often we backstab will go way up

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I wonder if we end up doing like, backstab every 4-5 globals and storm the rest out of cds to spam sec tec

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Gonna have to fiddle more on ptr i was just playing normally on my little stint

alpine wraith
#

if you can fill cps with storm

#

you may stab when you have some sht

#

even in aoe

#

kinda silly to think

#

now imagine if unseens had charges and you could see them

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and they stacked

hollow spear
#

Unthinkable

plush roost
#

So any deathstalker sub enjoyers? Smile

alpine wraith
#

deathstalker is close to just not using evis but to pop DN on st

#

someone somewhere may enjoy that

plush roost
#

Tying the tier set to symbols is just so... Meh

#

I dont really wanna press symbols again till pandemic yknow

#

But pressing symbols at 3 dsm is so cursed which sometimes happens

#

I wanna supercharge sec tec and dn yknow

north schooner
#

supercharging dn LMAO

void hound
vale pine
#

we rarely backstab

warm marlin
#

@short radish rebuff pls gladge

short radish
#

k

sacred yarrow
warm marlin
#

2 dances per flag

#

the lust is fake

#

you really start to lose juice after the 430 flag though. had only delayed flag about 6s total until the 430 flag, which I had to hold for 10 seconds. then had to hold the 6min flag for 16 seconds

fleet wharf
#

thanks for doing the tests. that's pretty sick. I guess now it's to figure out if doing that is better than juicing your flag windows right?

warm marlin
#

have to wait for things to be on raidbots but ya

fleet wharf
#

I'm kind of torn, it's cool we can squeeze in one more dance, but I kind of like the flexibility that we had on when and where to send the cds

warm marlin
#

it really doesn't seem very good

#

the timings are so tight

#

and you need 100% uptime

#

even if they change the escalating blade thing to prevent overcap I wasn't really wasting many that test by using shuriken storm

#

only wasted 7/96

swift tinsel
#

4:30 seemed to be when things started falling apart for me too when I was trying to force things

warm marlin
#

just from comparing logs I was also doing a significant amount more damage with the pooling playstyle

tribal blade
#

i went from being very hyped about the trickster tier set to slightly bummed

fleet wharf
#

So I guess the wishlist would be to either let EB munching prob go away, or go all the way with the 2 dance between flag window by giving us more cdr

warm marlin
#

astronomically cursed dance of dance/symbols -> coup -> shuriken storm -> sectec -> shuriken storm -> coup

fleet wharf
#

god that sounds awful lmao

tribal blade
#

we can only hope they do sub tuning

warm marlin
tribal blade
#

and buff deepening

swift tinsel
#

I agree, the pooling makes you feel like you're building up an even bigger burst window and its tangible

tribal blade
fleet wharf
#

yea, that feels better than feeling like a hamster on a wheel that's going a bit too fast for it

swift tinsel
#

how far out on flag have you been sitting on coups?

warm marlin
#

20-25s

swift tinsel
#

ah same

fleet wharf
#

oof

warm marlin
#

if you're doing the cold blood thing you often proc it shortly after that dance ends

swift tinsel
#

I still backstab and eat an EB to get flawless rolling

warm marlin
#

which is around the 1:05 mark

#

also in that test above, i procced coup with a thousand cuts reset

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went to 1cp

#

and then 2p 30% chance procced it 4 times in a row

#

while backstabbing to 6cp

swift tinsel
#

Coup shadowcraft has become my new nemesis

warm marlin
#

and wasted all 4 escalating blades

swift tinsel
#

or the janky resets that are like the old RS

alpine wraith
#

likely we shall sit on not spending until you can sht from 1 to 6 or so

tribal blade
alpine wraith
#

to avoid reset krangle

#

but still those unseens did do dmg and create a flawless soidk

#

game is cooked

swift tinsel
#

been a humble sht farmer in testing and the payoff is there but it just kinda feels bad to sit on so many things

tribal blade
#

don't worry guys, we have a whole other hero tree we can play

swift tinsel
#

that set is depression

#

as cringe as some of the trickster stuff is on ptr

#

deathstalker talents plus tier is just

#

depression

#

and not the quirky kind, the Trent Reznor Downward Spiral kind

alpine wraith
#

30% stronger singular focus pog

#

also if fatal intent pops while on SoD

#

instead of doing 0.002% dmg

swift tinsel
#

it may show up on details

alpine wraith
#

it might do 0.004%

fleet wharf
#

I'm not super happy with the deathstalker design either since we don't gain much benefit from what it buffs, but isn't it tankier than trickster?

swift tinsel
#

trickster gets flat dr from fazed targets

#

5% iirc

fleet wharf
#

but changing evasion to a DR node is also pretty nice, no?

#

not that we need much help with survivability, but more is still better

swift tinsel
#

I could see cases where the 20% magic dr would be nice

#

but I think the 5% flat damage reduction wins out in the end if your healers are paying attention

#

or are alive in general

warm marlin
#

fazed dr in raid, evasion dr in keys

swift tinsel
#

and we'll have even more fazed uptime

fleet wharf
#

what';s giving us more fazed uptime?

swift tinsel
#

more unseen blade procs from 2pc

fleet wharf
tribal blade
#

i think both work well

swift tinsel
#

the evasion dr would come from having to play deathstalker though

#

which causes more damage irl

tribal blade
#

the 5% flat dr from trickster doesn't sound very sexy, but if you add it on top of all the other DRs we have it's nice

#

the DS bait and switch is situationally strong

fleet wharf
#

it is absurd what sub rogues can get away with lmao

tribal blade
#

yeah being passively tanky as sub is awesome

warm marlin
#

active defensives are just generally much stronger in keys, you can mostly get away with not really using them in raid outside of high wr

#

and raid damage tends to be a lot more rot style

tribal blade
#

yeah that's very true

#

1st pull of cinderbrew with 3 muscles makes me really like DS bait and switch lol

#

people always said only the evasion part of bait and switch was useful, but with how many trash packs have a mix of physical and magic dmg this season you get good value from the phys part of cloak

fleet wharf
#

On that topic, do we still get extra strong magic resistance/immunity when we press it or is that interaction gone now?

swift tinsel
#

plus you can get even tankier if you run elusiveness on top of bait and switch for a super juiced evasion

#

if you don't want cheat insurance

#

cloak super immunity still exists afaik

hollow spear
#

I just don't have the balls to not run cheat death

short radish
#

@warm marlin i dc'd am i good to stay offline

warm marlin
#

ye

tribal blade
#

in raid you should be running cheat pretty much always

swift tinsel
#

oh yeah

tribal blade
#

unless it's a kyveza type fight

swift tinsel
#

I mean more so for m+

tribal blade
#

yeah elusiveness becomes so mandatory in high keys /cry

swift tinsel
#

I use it for death soaks

#

cheat, that is

hollow spear
#

I'm not got enough yet to actively use cheat death as a resource

swift tinsel
#

it has value but some abilities are fucky

#

and the game is seemingly picky about which ones can be Cheated and which just outright kill

hollow spear
#

But I'm feeling so confident in my rotation and stuff that I'll try to push my encounter prep to the next level in s3

swift tinsel
#

I usually start with 'can I live with feint

#

then add cloak/evasion

tribal blade
swift tinsel
#

yeah

#

so some meteors are fine

#

but the bigger group soaks will straight up dumpster you

tribal blade
#

yeah some hits that wipe the raid we can cheat

hazy breach
#

If its more than 2x your max HP in overkill you die

swift tinsel
#

ah yeah that sound sright

#

ty ty

hollow spear
hazy breach
#

So If you have exactly 10m health you would die from anything that does more than 30m

hollow spear
#

Juicy

swift tinsel
#

Battlemasters inc

hollow spear
#

If they gave rogue taunt the game would be over

warm marlin
#

unfortunately the double dance dream seems omega dead

#

unless im missing something big

#

its just not worth the sacrifice at all

hollow spear
#

That's what I thought

warm marlin
#

although

hollow spear
#

It's getting more and more clear that flag maxxing is giga value

warm marlin
#

I will note that I did get 2 dances after both the 3rd and 4th flag

swift tinsel
#

pooling for omega flags is super fun too

warm marlin
#

so there is some wiggle room to squeeze an extra one in

hollow spear
#

It is

warm marlin
#

you just can't do every single one

hollow spear
#

I also just like the extra flexibility

#

To move stuff around for specific encounters

#

Without inting your flag window

#

Sometimes you had to really squeeze uptime to get flag off in time

#

Rik for example

swift tinsel
#

iirc you're also getting a couple more naked sectechs off too

#

not a ton, maybe 2-3?

#

in 5mins

warm marlin
#

yea i just wasnt sending them since i prefer the cold blood playstyle

hollow spear
#

If you delayed your 2nd flag too much, you'd lose your 2nd sectec

steel zinc
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
warm marlin
#

ya

swift tinsel
#

ah yeah I never send between

hollow spear
#

Could also become better now

swift tinsel
#

I don't wanna mess with that tight of a timer

hollow spear
#

If you can double coup pre sectec

warm marlin
hollow spear
#

To get high flawless

warm marlin
#

getting the 2 coups off first seems quite hard

swift tinsel
#

yeah you're kind of at the mercy of sht

hollow spear
#

I'll play around with that

#

You can usually afford to hold flag a tad

#

If you can calculate around fight duration

warm marlin
#

for sure

hollow spear
#

Anything sub 4:30 and above 3:30 and then onwards gives you lots of leeway

warm marlin
#

for no raid buffs except shaman these peaks are kinda high too

#

very burst

hollow spear
#

For sure

swift tinsel
#

dang, peaky

hollow spear
#

Are you playing with consumables?

swift tinsel
#

I think the highest I was getting was 11ish mil

warm marlin
runic trail
# hollow spear Rik for example

I need to figure out my Rik timings, tried it last night, delayed first flag until after his drop-down thing and then sent the second too close to his intermission

warm marlin
#

only flask/weapon things

swift tinsel
#

but that was with gaming spymaster for a big 3min flag

runic trail
#

That fight went... Badly

hollow spear
#

13 mill peak

swift tinsel
#

it may not be popular but I think I'm gonna play into double on use

#

I quite like the minigame

warm marlin
#

fixing the coup finality thing would probably be a rather decent dps increase as well

fleet wharf
#

Which would you use for that? spymasters and then what?

swift tinsel
#

Lily from new dungeon

hollow spear
warm marlin
#

comparing some logs to sims on live it's probably like 4% gain with new tier

#

3-4

swift tinsel
#

Finality + Coup has been really annoying to figure out

hollow spear
#

So it doesn't work as in sims?

swift tinsel
#

I saw yall were talking more about it yesterday but wasn't able to follow bc work

runic trail
swift tinsel
#

The finality buff was acting strangely for me on ptr Tuesday night

runic trail
#

And yeah it went wrong

#

The intentions were good, the execution was not

swift tinsel
#

I had one cast where I had the buff going into the first hit of coup which was consumed, and then no other finality buffs were generated until the next natty evisc cast later

warm marlin
#

why can't you use your discord app PEPW

hollow spear
#

I know who'll benefit

warm marlin
#

#goremawbeliever

#

if only we had avoided being banned sadge

swift tinsel
#

#GoremawsIsNOTaTalent

hollow spear
#

Please don't ban me for my goremaw activism

swift tinsel
#

Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, Not Goremaw's Bite?

#

Solving problems we do not have

hollow spear
#

Can't say I've heard of them

swift tinsel
#

I'd make a Goremaws casket gif but it was never alive to begin with

#

DoA

hollow spear
#

Yeah it's lame for sure

#

But so is a 2nd point in finality if it doesn't work with our now strongest spell (not per cast, but overall)

#

Not pushing for the two dances will also make the 2 stacks of sod feel less clunky I suppose

swift tinsel
#

Its not the worst but like Ryldd said yesterday if you get good sht resets in tfd your dances come back really quick so you're stuck holding for a sec or two so if you're okay with that

#

not with 2 charges

#

you have less

lilac stag
#

rogue solo content is dumb kekw

swift tinsel
#

this is ptr things are different than live

hollow spear
swift tinsel
#

yeah I'm personally not against 1/2 death perception 2/2 finality if it works with coup

keen dome
swift tinsel
#

yeah I gotta do that and the underpin king

lilac stag
#

i just wanted this

keen dome
#

Decided to level a warrior 'cos I want to go fully self sufficient on crafting next season

swift tinsel
#

ah nice! def worth the investment imo

keen dome
#

And I want the purple 1.8k set

swift tinsel
#

which one is that?

keen dome
#

I'm sure playing pvp as a warrior with no experience won't go wrong

swift tinsel
#

1.8k pvp rating?

#

huh?

keen dome
lilac stag
#

stop being cringe Dave

swift tinsel
#

I can't

keen dome
#

The off chance Blizz, someday, add multiclassing and I don't have that armour unlock? can't risk it.

hollow spear
#

Did you even clear hc mate?

lilac stag
#

no we're stuck on Gally

hollow spear
#

Cringe

keen dome
#

There is a hole to fall down on Gally

#

it's siren song calls to thee

short radish
#

still

#

werent you on gally 2 weeks ago

lilac stag
#

Heroic? we've been stuck since the 500 pull Mugzee marathon

short radish
keen dome
#

500 pull Mug'zee

lilac stag
#

granted we're trying to 5 man it

hollow spear
#

Maybe you're one of the 10% who has no good knowledge

#

Or maybe I didn't understand that sentence, also very likely

swift tinsel
#

I am too cringe to understand it

lilac stag
swift tinsel
#

Motivational Viewtiful Joe

keen dome
#

Hell yeah, Scath

lilac stag
#

me trying to get my raid rep fixed

runic trail
lilac stag
keen dome
#

It's not ChatGPT, it's just a template with some bits they have to add. Just keep sending it and EVENTUALLY it'll get sent to someone who can actually do something.

#

Them gutting their GM service is so fucking stupid

runic trail
#

Surely

lilac stag
runic trail
lilac stag
#

can't wait for the automated resonse from the 18th different gm bot

keen dome
#

A buddy had it bug and reset entirely, then only fill to about 3 ranks.

#

It took him 25 or something tickets before they fixed it

swift tinsel
#

all development time is going towards void dh spec

keen dome
lilac stag
#

kyveza dh

keen dome
#

personally designing it to upset me, specifcally

lilac stag
#

BAMF

swift tinsel
#

they're actually calling it Anti-iGestalt

#

not Entropy

keen dome
#

OG X-men hell yeah

swift tinsel
#

nightcrawler poofting around is what i dream shadowclones to be

lilac stag
#

two swords, clearly DH

keen dome
#

Have you seen some daggers in WoW

#

those could be daggers

swift tinsel
#

esp if it had that whipcrack sound

hollow spear
#

that new DH spec will be so god damn purple

keen dome
#

what about the teleport farts

swift tinsel
#

they're iconic

lilac stag
#

igestalt rerolling DH

swift tinsel
#

necessary

hollow spear
#

iGestalt hugging his Dave bodypillow

keen dome
hollow spear
#

weeping

keen dome
#

Although, I do have the Raid bosses name reserved on my realm

#

So I'll probably just make him

lilac stag
hollow spear
#

True

#

You can run, you can hide...

swift tinsel
keen dome
#

Although I'd wanna make him a night elf, not a dumb blood elf..

keen dome
swift tinsel
#

snip tool omegascuffed

#

even it doesn't want void dh

keen dome
#

There's no off-spec rogue tier helm from S1 right

swift tinsel
#

to be possible

keen dome
#

I can't copy his transmog 1:1..

swift tinsel
#

I dont think so

#

it was DH iirc

keen dome
#

Yeah, I believe so

swift tinsel
#

something betrayer's visage?

hollow spear
#

betrayal is a good keyword

keen dome
#

But I'm ready

swift tinsel
#

beyond's dark visage

hollow spear
#

Awalrus

swift tinsel
#

oh man the arc begins

keen dome
#

I'll be a raid boss

swift tinsel
#

ahahahahahaa

#

this is so great

keen dome
#

A lot of my alts are just npc names

#

You may wonder why and the answer will astound and amaze: I'm incredibly uncreative.

swift tinsel
#

most of mine have Hap in them somewhere

keen dome
#

Hell yeah

#

If blizz let me just do FF14-esque classing on one guy, I'd have precisely 0 alts haha

hollow spear
#

Hapless

swift tinsel
#

I played suuuuper casually from cata until nathria when I joined a raid guild again so I floated between alts

#

a lot lol

hollow spear
#

Haphazardly

keen dome
#

I've got a lot of respect fo rpeople who have a cool naming convention for all their characters

swift tinsel
#

and alt names usually had a theme based on the main I played at the time

keen dome
#

Gestalt doesn't really lend it to much variation haha

swift tinsel
#

lol its still iconic

hollow spear
#

I started naming myself after the instruments my gf played at that time haha

keen dome
#

That rules

#

If I could go back in time I'd make one of every class just called their name

#

This is my Rogue. He's called Rogue

hollow spear
#

Because my noise cancellation sucked and my raid heard her play in the background when I unmuted to make a call 😄

swift tinsel
#

my first ever toon was a troll shaman named Dirtydubes bc that was a nickname when I was a teenager lmao

brittle plinth
#

your name is Dirtydubes rl?

#

Oh ol Dirtydubes Johnson, ya he's in accounting.

swift tinsel
#

maybe that's why I work in a basement

#

would explain a few things

delicate wind
#

I just use Dan in my chars. Like on d2 my assassin is dansindan bc I like to dance and my barb was barbaradan

cyan ember
#

Can someone explain how atrophic poison interacts with raid bosses thanks gamers

delicate wind
#

But my rogue is currently buttercups and I tried to make a gnome female look like a powerpuff girl

keen dome
#

Hell yeah

lucid jackal
#

Debuff causes boss to deal less dmg

cyan ember
#

Does it apply to mechanics like fire circles on stix

lucid jackal
#

No idea on what it does and doesn't work on

#

It works on most things tho

jade urchin
#

it doesnt apply to environmental damage, but i dont know the specifics

#

there were some puddles in other raids where it didnt work

brittle plinth
vale pine
#

!atro

wicked joltBOT
vale pine
#

^

warm marlin
#

I cannot believe im saying this but goremaw's bite actually feels good

#

it smooths out both the escalating stack waste and the energy problem

lucid jackal
warm marlin
#

and obviously there's a lot of variance but I did about the same damage even without skyfury swapping a finality point to it

#

if the coup finality thing was fixed though

#

definitely a finality angle

tepid trellis
#

coup is bugged in a good way with finality

#

so

alpine wraith
#

yea it works with finality or procs it then works said eleem

#

kinda weirdly ok

warm marlin
alpine wraith
#

they might have broken more things

#

also goremaw might help on some things

#

but idk if worth that point it is very competitive

#

maybe it does let you double dance in between cds more reliably

#

and delay blades too

#

if we want to ever triple dance

warm marlin
#

the second image is cut off a bit but there is no finality present after the coup ends

warm marlin
#

or at least thats how i was testing it

haughty mural
#

Thank god goremaws in my bar since legion

placid crown
#

checking logs on mugzee mm

#

this guy

#

and me : (wipe at 14%, was alive 99.6% time) :

#

how even the instant poison and incontinental sauce can have such a diff dps

warm marlin
#

he has twice as much melee dps as you

#

are you out of melee for long periods of time

placid crown
#

look number of casts

warm marlin
#

ya he has 200 more auto attacks

placid crown
#

ye

#

idk how

#

our fight was even longer

#

like 15sec longer

#

but we wiped at 14%

swift tinsel
placid crown
#

bro is 99.82% active, i'm at 99.65%

hollow spear
warm marlin
#

im pretty sure rupture damage will count you as active even if you're not actively hitting the boss

hollow spear
#

You having way less auto attacks means that you were out of range a lot

#

Which means less sht stacks

#

Which means less combo points and therefore cdr

warm marlin
#

less instant poison procs

placid crown
#

ye actually i didnt chek details of the fight, maybe he was never chosen by boss abilities whereas i was a bit

hollow spear
#

Just don't get chosen

#

Easy

swift tinsel
#

I come back from a meeting to Goremaw's viability what is this timeline

hollow spear
#

That's how you parse

placid crown
#

i mean even after 1min of fight he has 1M more dps

hollow spear
#

Golden maw, so to speak

hollow spear
#

You can't outrun this

swift tinsel
#

the worst part is I can see it too

hollow spear
#

Ryldd didn't want to

swift tinsel
#

I don't either lmao

hollow spear
#

But something inside of him awoke

warm marlin
#

huge goremaw dps wowie

hollow spear
#

The maw

swift tinsel
#

Oh my Gorsh

#

I believe

#

how could I have been so foolish to deny is

hollow spear
#

I mean it's almost as much damage as shadowstrike

#

And it barely crit

#

We need to riot to get the coup finality interaction fixed

swift tinsel
#

I doubt they get to it this cycle

hollow spear
#

Just has to happen before go live

#

It's a purely numerical issue

warm marlin
#

you guys think goremaw's works with surprising strikes

#

surely right

sly shore
hollow spear
#

Even though I can see why goremaw also feels a bit better

#

Ryldd, are you using it in conjunction with your cb windows or are you using it as 90s cd?

warm marlin
#

uhh its a little weird

#

i was pressing it only between coups when I would otherwise be forced to use backstab/ss

#

so not really strictly on cooldown

hollow spear
#

Yeah kinda hard to get it to align with coup being rng

warm marlin
#

its kind of funny because it is actually extremely good at solving the no energy no cp coup issue

alpine wraith
#

yea it does give solutions

warm marlin
#

generates 3cp, usually 1-2 sht stacks after coup as well

#

coup goremaw coup

hollow spear
#

I smelled it

warm marlin
#

coup goremaw coup strike cb sectec HOLY

alpine wraith
#

we knew all along

warm marlin
#

theres just no chance its actually good though omegalul

alpine wraith
#

who knows

alpine wraith
#

maybe save sht and have coup ready get to full cp dance sec tech goremaw coup coup or maybe storm then goremaw in between

#

what a world

warm marlin
#

hang on i need to go rottenmax my goremaw

alpine wraith
#

you cant have rotten and goremaw

#

unless you do the PV thing

#

and that is less dps for sure

warm marlin
vernal hull
warm marlin
#

listen eleem cooked this don't look at me

#

he cooked it, then i inted him by putting the finality points into goremaw and rotten

haughty mural
#

PE instead of RS again?

#

Crit stonks

alpine wraith
#

kek

#

i mean crit does get a bit of value

hollow spear
#

I mean

#

We all wanted talent choice right? OMEGAKEKW

warm marlin
alpine wraith
#

yea goremaw does hit decently hard

haughty mural
alpine wraith
#

tbh a funny text to add to goremaw would be this ability benefits from mastery

#

so it becomes a nuclear nuke

haughty mural
warm marlin
#

you need to consider the PV goremaw synergy

runic trail
#

!log

warm marlin
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of the big maw

alpine wraith
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i used to use PV for ER but now that one is gone

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it did so much dmg although was close in st but not crazy

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it died with dust too

haughty mural
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I also flurried

alpine wraith
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yea ER did flurry

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goremaw did in alpha but not on beta onwards

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was too strong!

haughty mural
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Good thing tooltip also suggested ER would flurry YEP

hollow spear
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Actually weird that it doesn't flurry why wouldn't it

haughty mural
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If I had to guess - bug?
They cba to fix because it’s not played

alpine wraith
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i try to report it every time

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but i think im on some list

haughty mural
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Or they strictly excluded it

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Because goremaws is op

alpine wraith
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i mean ER already hit for 5m on S1