#subtlety

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slate marlin
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would be a great thing

hazy breach
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As in the timer doesnt get delayed as often and usually starts immediately ye

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I cant confirm though as i havent played any ptr

slate marlin
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ill take it with a grain of salt then, but good be great

north schooner
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master of shadows pepe_chad

warm marlin
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sleeping on warning signs

north schooner
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the warning sign is about taking the talent

lilac stag
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Shadowheart 🐐

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sums up design philosophy perfectly

summer lynx
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So what are we coping about today lads and ladies?

sullen hare
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[gestures broadly]

tall dagger
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guys am i sticking to assassination or am i switching to sub for patch 11.2? im not big into ptr testing news rn

keen dome
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Which do you like more

tall dagger
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in gerneal im leaning more to sub i think

lilac stag
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sin it is!

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jk play whatever you want. The chances of it actually mattering if you have to ask is very low.

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if it makes you happy. That’s the best spec to play.

hollow spear
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Sometimes, I like to put on an asmr video and play sin in raid. Ten minutes of that and I sleep like a baby.

lusty epoch
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yeah sin feels like the polar opposite of sub... i think they kinda nailed the "feeling" of the two specs

lilac stag
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assa shouldn’t be an envenom simulator in raid

keen dome
dry plank
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I think it is worst implementation of sub and sin currently.

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Hero tree sucks.

lusty epoch
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idk i haven't played since legion so maybe i'm just happy to play wow right now lol

warm marlin
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sub plays great in raid

lusty epoch
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i really enjoy sub

warm marlin
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aoe is cooked

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deathstalker is also cooked

lilac stag
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the only thing remotely right with sub is it’s doing burst windows. The dance windows are over complicated because of danse / CDR and aoe is trash.

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we don’t need blade flurry.

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but it’s fun for some so yay!

opal basalt
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I’d like BP to play a bigger role too

lusty epoch
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yeah idk.. i just press backstab first thing after dance and then use shadowstrikes, not thinking much about danse

lilac stag
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It’s not the thinking. It’s convoluted for no good reason.

opal basalt
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That was always my thought about sub

lilac stag
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timing your cds should be the thinking. dracthyr_shrug

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not how many different builders can I use

lusty epoch
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i kinda like that it feels like there's always something you can do to improve.

I played ret a little bit in cata classic and felt like i had mastered the spec after 15 mins at training dummy

lilac stag
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we don’t have that here

slate marlin
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i like current sub a lot but it has a couple rough edges on aoe

swift tinsel
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like its entire aoe

tall dagger
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thx for info guys. So is sub getting a lil better in 11.2?

slate marlin
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ye, aoe needs work

swift tinsel
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current aoe is just a hodge-podge of bandaids

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its functional-ish

lilac stag
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It’s the same with added storm to ST rotation.

slate marlin
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nf bugs dont help it either

lilac stag
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So no not better. Worse if anything gameplay wise.

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more rng if I remember correctly

swift tinsel
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more than s2 set

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bc you can high roll and get coup back immediately with 2 builders

opal basalt
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i love how both specs i

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wanna play next season

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got barely any changes

lilac stag
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if it’s a rogue spec don’t ever expect changes

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That ship sailed long ago

opal basalt
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it's my first time playing rogue, soooooorryy

swift tinsel
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Idrc about adding storm/toss tbh

lilac stag
opal basalt
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wait we're gonna put shuriken toss into our rotation next season?

swift tinsel
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par for the course

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hardly anything new

lusty epoch
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is storm part of the rotation atm? like we use backstab -> SecTec -> storm -> shadowstrike if under 6 CP, or else evis

swift tinsel
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not in st generally

lusty epoch
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okok gotcha

swift tinsel
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but because it doesn't proc unseen blade it'll be used next season to build cp between coup and 2nd coup

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to avoid wasting stacks

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potential stacks*

smoky geyser
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What if for sub deathstalkers mark buffed evisc OR blackpowder? The mark doesn't help sub for aoe currently like assass gets does for caustic.

hazy breach
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Ye thats the most common suggestion

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But alas, no changes

swift tinsel
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inc DN BP thursday

lusty epoch
swift tinsel
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between thousand cuts resets and guaranteed from disorienting strikes

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the 4pc gives you the 2nd coup by adding a 5sec duration buff that's just 4 stacks of escalating blade so you can't accrue them while that buff is up

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so to build combo points between that first coup and 2nd you could waste stacks by casting bs or strike

lilac stag
swift tinsel
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not really, its a builder

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builder x, y, z

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outside dance idc

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inside dance there's usually enough shadowcraft stacks where it doesn't really matter

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and during blades first coup often refunds for second

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is it ideal? no. is it the end of the world? no

lusty epoch
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ok so really gotta start keeping track of coup

swift tinsel
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people said the same thing about rupture last season

patent lichen
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And now we have both

swift tinsel
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except it was a total wash with the final set tuning

lilac stag
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They were pissed, rightfully so. Set got nuked so nothing mattered. Everyone basically went back to assa.

alpine wraith
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but sub was the raid spec for 2 weeks tho

lilac stag
lilac stag
alpine wraith
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i still smell the tier set krangle

lilac stag
fallow nimbus
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what if blizz adds storm and toss to ub just because we are not supposed to not waste stacks kekw

alpine wraith
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ahaha that would be cool

fallow nimbus
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you mean that would ruin our day and be a mean move peepoSure

alpine wraith
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would help more on aoe than bother us in st

brittle plinth
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Thank you

hollow spear
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Idk, I'm with Haptics

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The small optimisations don't bother me much. Eventually, they become second nature. And if you're not super comfortable with sub already, you could or maybe should just not bother and accept losing 1.5% of your potential peak..

alpine wraith
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more people will mess up other things

chrome palm
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i havent tested this week but macro was working very well for me

hollow spear
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Did the activation feel improved to you?

chrome palm
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i didnt really notice that

nova cairn
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
lean cradle
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
graceful osprey
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You know what, just for more chaos, just purge what we got and go back to hemo spamming in classic

tame terrace
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is the best roulette wheel for sub mast > vers or vers > mast

lucid jackal
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Vers mast

tame terrace
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huge then

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just got a myth one in vault

warm depot
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guys quick can i cloak off frostshatter boots in mugzee

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i havent raided in like 3 months and got called in to sit for someone

lucid jackal
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Don't think so

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But u assign cloak for soaks don't u

warm depot
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i am not soaking anything because im toos tupid or something

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and also because im standing in xd

tame terrace
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u cant cloak forsthsatter

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it completely pierces all immunities

warm marlin
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ratsquad wanting the alts in on cauldron pushed our kill time back to the perfect one prayge

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truly blessed

valid yoke
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Okay so sub rogue is super fucking fun lol

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im not very good at it but its fun

warm marlin
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lmfao

chrome palm
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i get to enjoy the blessing and curses of rat squad this week

fickle mason
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
warm marlin
hazy breach
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I was the rat last week garf_sit

warm marlin
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didnt grind the alt to 680 before going in? smh

hazy breach
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I didnt even craft a weapon

chrome palm
hazy breach
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Saving crests by going straight for the best in slots

warm marlin
hazy breach
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Disorienting strikes prepull

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Press buttons

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Dont have 4:30 kill timers

warm marlin
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tfd on top

hazy breach
warm marlin
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every boss

chrome palm
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are you only ever doing 1 dance out of blades

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and then triple dancing every blades

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like overcapping dance

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i guess depending on timings

warm marlin
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triple dance opener, dance with cold blood always unless you're lining up with adds, then either symbols/sectec after flag or dance with that if its up

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idk

chrome palm
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i am definitely more traditional with my dances i think ill try this

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ty

warm marlin
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i make no claim that it is better than just sending on cd

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but it is what i like better

warm depot
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okay next question while i do this fight can i cloak the blue circles during the charge part

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so i dont get stunned

warm marlin
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vanish opener with predisorient seems to be going well this reclear garf

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also seems to get the glorious lineup on oab opener where your cb sectec cleaves the assistant floating over the boss

hazy breach
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Surely they buff prism this week right

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I do not want to be in the position of wanting prism for long fights and the 2 min one for shorter ones

chrome palm
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we arent actually holding blades for forge, right?

hazy breach
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Nop

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Just pretending its 3 min

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(unless the fight is like 2:30 or 4:30 exactly)

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The issue lies moreso in the fact that everybody else is gonna want the 2 minute one too

warm marlin
swift tinsel
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it sounds like no one is particularly thrilled about prism so I'm hopeful they look at it

chrome palm
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i mean if it isnt bis for sub who could it be bis for

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since ww and unholy really like haste

swift tinsel
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might just end up a middle of the road trinket, depending on how hard they nerf idol

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ye idk conceptually its cool but starting with nothing on pull is pretty bleh

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and like eleem has said the stacking being 2:30 is butt

warm marlin
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rate this opener @chrome palm

chrome palm
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the more i look

warm marlin
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cold blood kidney šŸ’Æ

chrome palm
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cold blood kidney goes HARD af

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at first i was like "cold blood strike we've all been there"

warm marlin
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the misclick actually irl stunned me so hard i walked into a mine and died immediately

chrome palm
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its time to wipe the raid after this opener chief

warm marlin
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like actually instantly

hazy breach
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Which isnt many progress fights, but still quite a long time

chrome palm
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with the damage amps that definitely makes it seem like itll be stronger

hazy breach
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Unless the amps are every 2 minutes ye

chrome palm
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im just trying to think of what other classes would like it

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how strong is it for 2min classes

hazy breach
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Frost dk, warriors, mm hunter

chrome palm
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with more time to stack

hazy breach
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Most things that arent 2 min

chrome palm
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surely mm goes for the crit trinket

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at least i dont have to use a transmitter until mid sprocket prog

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couldnt possibly be worse than that

swift tinsel
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I finally stopped reflex-jumping with flag a week ago

chrome palm
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its time to see a therapist

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you got ptsd (post-transmitter stress disorder)

hazy breach
swift tinsel
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hot swap the mastery and agi on lily

hazy breach
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That one is gonna tank like a 35% nerf to its on-use or some shit

swift tinsel
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it's gotta

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or you see them run into melee and get clapped trying to stack it lol

hazy breach
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All of my talk about trinkets is assuming that one gets gutted

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Otherwise we just use that one

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But channels are cringe, and id rather use a fun trinket like prism

swift tinsel
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idek if you can get idol on ptr atm

hazy breach
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You can, just loot it from the dungeon

warm depot
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forge looks hilarious

spice matrix
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!log

tribal blade
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does CB make kidney last 16 seconds?

warm marlin
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it makes it go through the monitor and hit your own kidneys

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very powerful

alpine wraith
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happens

tribal blade
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@chrome palm

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apparently he got banned

keen dome
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Who was that?

tribal blade
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he's a vdh

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PLUS i just helped some friends push up their 19 top and it turned into a 20 ml

chrome palm
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oh that was the tank in my dfc

tribal blade
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which was massive and i almost got to run it

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but their whole team got on

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i give up

runic trail
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Why'd he get banned?

tribal blade
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it's over

tribal blade
chrome palm
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jbugchaos or neondh in your nightmare push grup

plush roost
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Neonie in my key

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brick insta

tepid trellis
warm marlin
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ty we 0.9% wiped probably because of this int

runic trail
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Had to be done

chrome palm
warm marlin
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if you have to hold globals you screwed up

chrome palm
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hm

warm marlin
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well

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not screwed up

chrome palm
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i was hitting cb exactly when it came up out of blades

warm marlin
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ya because of sht stacking and having coup ready and whatnot you can get screwed even if you press it the ms its up

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the safe timer for cold blood for when you can press flag is 12 seconds, or 11 if you have a good amount of sht prepped

chrome palm
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i see, ty

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worse case i suppose you enjoy a few more sht while you wait

alpine wraith
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yea you can do it with 14 secs

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but 12-11 is safer

warm marlin
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back before i was shtmaxxing 13s would lead to sectec coming up before cb fairly often

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12s was always safe, then sht means its sometimes 11

alpine wraith
warm marlin
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if you use 14 ur gonna get griefed

alpine wraith
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nah

chrome palm
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symbols at 14 is verboten for me

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i usually do 12 max

alpine wraith
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remember most of the time you do flag rupture

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dance stab/strike

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then cb comes off cd in second dance 3rd or 4th global at most or even before

chrome palm
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also ryldd

warm marlin
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my sectec is usually my 2nd global of 2nd dance

chrome palm
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i saw what you did to that dk on sprocket

warm marlin
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almost every time

chrome palm
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murderer

warm marlin
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lmfao

chrome palm
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so based

warm marlin
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there was an oopsie with walking into the knockup thing

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unfortunately flagging at 3mins is a dangerous game

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sometimes lives are lost

chrome palm
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other, less important, lives

warm marlin
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so real

chrome palm
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its a sacrifice i am willing to make

plush roost
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@tribal blade bro

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notlikeTHIS

tribal blade
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sad days

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yeah i'm legit about to stop pushing tbh

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it's been going real bad for me recently

plush roost
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bruv not like this

tribal blade
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they say i left

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but they literally asked me to leave haha

plush roost
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apparently cauli was gonna come in

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but is terminally ill

tribal blade
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yeah

warm marlin
tribal blade
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it's been seriously rough going

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can't push up my key

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whenever i do it turns into non dfc/ml

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and no invites to 20s ever

keen dome
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😦

plush roost
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if i have time

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i run some key swith u

tribal blade
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but enough complaining

tribal blade
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playing with me i'll test your patience and will to live

bleak night
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next season sub will be op and people will be begging for you to come back

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trust

tribal blade
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haha nah i want this to be my last season no matter what

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i'll only come back if guildies want to dabble in high keys

warm marlin
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why did wcl merge eviscerate and cdg btw

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i kind of liked them separate

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much more math to look at average cast of cdg and crit rate and such now :/

tepid trellis
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just open the drop down?

warm marlin
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yea but then you're looking at the 6 components of it

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instead of the spell as a whole

runic trail
warm marlin
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if i want to look at what % of a breakdown coup was now, I have to add all these (or subtract eviscerate itself). its not a big deal just a little annoying

tribal blade
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that's the idea

alpine wraith
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coup de grace

runic trail
tepid trellis
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ill only every do high push

alpine wraith
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m+ is like doing crack

tepid trellis
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when sub is actually good

alpine wraith
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you cant ever last long

tribal blade
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but i got talked into coming back by my guildie who's never gotten title

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he's title caliber, but he has a big issue with burn out

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he'll go super hard for the first half of the season and then want nothing to do with the game after

tepid trellis
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can just do it the way we did

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we played like 1-2 nights a week

tribal blade
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we actually made a 4 stack group

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3 guildies and 1 friend

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but it dissolved a month or so ago

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the issue is also at the level we play at

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you need more than 1-2 nights a week

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i've always been the kind of player that either doesn't make or barely makes title, so for that kind of level you have to play so much more than the really good players like yourself

tepid trellis
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tbf resil might have made it more difficult to do this way

tribal blade
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resil did a crazy amount of key inflation i feel

warm marlin
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last season we got close and just spammed +2s at our leisure until we had 5 of the same io key, got our score, and logged out for the week

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was incredibly chill

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and now you auto get a random key and can't do the shift loot thing anymore o7

clever delta
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701 is final ilvl?

bright solstice
keen dome
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Yep, 701 is it's cap.

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It doesn't go any higher.

runic trail
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Hell yeah I don't have to do it before raid tonight

nocturne hollow
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In keys does sub have better prio dmg than sin?

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i feel like im melting prio targets

willow fulcrum
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649 in a theater is this good, no idea what dmg numbers look like nowadays

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2nd key this tier

willow fulcrum
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the answer is no

nocturne hollow
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Only in terms of prio dmg I mean

willow fulcrum
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still no

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singular focus exists

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more burst yea

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but if the mob is dying in 10 seconds it really doesnt matter, in the grand scheme of things, sin will do more priority dmg especially the higher the target count goes

tribal blade
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sub can have good prio if you spam evis into your target

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but then you're hard capping yourself

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and sin does better prio while doing full aoe at the same time

alpine wraith
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if you want prio as sub you play DS

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but then you need to call the suicide hotline after

tribal blade
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DS sub /puke

haughty mural
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If nimble works with stuff like blades etc we could argue more about prio

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But until then it is like prophet says: you are capping yourself

carmine portal
carmine portal
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Would sub be broken OP if Blades and Flag were a 1min cd instead?

void ocean
carmine portal
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Ik it's impossible to come up with a definitive number but like, how insane-o OP?

tribal blade
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if no other tuning was done yeah sub would be pretty bonkers

carmine portal
tribal blade
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given sub does most of it's damage in cds

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and you reduce sub's cds by 1/3rd

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that's massive

carmine portal
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haha

tepid trellis
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it would be like a 33% incrase in cd usage

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so quite a fcking lot

carmine portal
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🤯

tribal blade
carmine portal
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galaxybrain worked that out in 0.5gargillion picosecond

tribal blade
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funnily enough flag used to essentially be on a ~1 min cd

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because of the leggo during SL

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iirc flag worked out to 1 min 10 secs with the leggo cdr

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and the initial lash damage flag did also did actual damage, which was kinda cool because it gave us a bit more prio

tepid trellis
slate marlin
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45 sec flagcopium

void ocean
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we'd have similar minigame like arcane mages

tepid trellis
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bro flag

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would have to have its mastery cut in half xD

tribal blade
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yeah flag would become a nothing cd

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and then sub basically starts becoming more like outlaw šŸ˜‰

tepid trellis
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if you wanted to do something with cds

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it would be to remove shadowblades

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and just bake it into shadow dance

tribal blade
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i'm also a massive fan of that idea

tepid trellis
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or flag

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both could work

tribal blade
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one "issue" would be half the sub tree would have to be reworked to account for dance generating full cps with blades

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i imagine

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and i dunno if the devs would be willing to do that much work

slate marlin
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id remove flag

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i like shadowblades

tepid trellis
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could just do smth like

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"during dance your mastery scaling is increased by 70%"

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then u basically got flag

slate marlin
tribal blade
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this could be wild, how about put the mastery part of flag into dance

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and keep flag as just the lash damage

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increase it's dmg

tepid trellis
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nah

tribal blade
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so it becomes a prio dmg spell

tepid trellis
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sub needs less cds

tribal blade
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fair enough

tepid trellis
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for the more casual playerbase

tribal blade
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or how about have flag be a passive talent

void ocean
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but we have one button rotta now for casuals

tribal blade
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that adds lash dmg to dance

valid yoke
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So, I'm brand new to sub, would anyone mind having a lil look at a log of mine? šŸ™‚

tribal blade
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maybe lashes initially when you press dance, then generates more lashes per finisher used

tepid trellis
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dont need other sources of dmg

tribal blade
tepid trellis
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i mean HC/Normal raiders

tribal blade
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while we're at it remove shadowed finishers

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maybe make our finishers full shadow

slate marlin
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tjen remove find weakness too

tepid trellis
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thats what shadowed finishers just should be

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make evis full shadow

tribal blade
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that would be rad

lilac stag
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Can we just start with making dance the actual CD and get rid of the WW monk bullshit builder rotation?

slate marlin
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make rupture shadow, name it nightblade and change icon

tepid trellis
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rupture is already shadow with a talent unfortunately

slate marlin
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rework dark brew then

lilac stag
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Remove danse as a damn talent. Just delete it. Open up dark brew and fix rotten.

tepid trellis
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pretty sure they fixed rotten on ptr

slate marlin
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yep

lilac stag
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sorry Goremaw

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too early

slate marlin
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would like more power into dance

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and less on flag

lilac stag
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rotten is whatever. Goremaw should be an easy talent to tweak to actually be an option

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Goremaw

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Fuck me caffine where are you

slate marlin
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lets go back to the brainstorming

tribal blade
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the sad part is we brainstorm a lot in here and nothing ever gets done šŸ™‚

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because we aren't the devs

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unfortunately

lilac stag
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fix base spec CDR. Adjust nimble CDR to compensate. Fix DS / BP.

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serviceable until 12

slate marlin
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we brainstorm knowing very well we will get nothing

lilac stag
alpine wraith
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maybe bug fixed drop mid season like last time

void hound
slate marlin
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storm no longer consumes all stacks

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it correctly consumes 1

void hound
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oh thats cool

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one bug fix for every major patch

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sub should be good at the end of the world soul saga Catastrophe_ThumbsUp

lilac stag
void hound
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we are feasting Pog

tribal blade
lilac stag
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ran sub on mugzee last night. We going great until range got slammed by bombs. BDK ended up soloing the last 20 seconds. Hahah

carmine portal
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what we need is for them to do what League of Legends did: They made a study-group of the WORST/Lowest Ranked players of a specific champion (Morgana), studied them and quizzed them and asked them what THEY wanted added/removed from that champ

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And they listened 100% to them, and did everything they suggested.

tribal blade
carmine portal
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yes

tribal blade
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because that would end in utter disaster

carmine portal
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absolutely!

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yeah but SURELY they're a good sample to know what is/isn't good for their spec right guys?

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Right..?

tribal blade
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hahaaaa

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it would be bad

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given they probably don't know what half the spells even do

slate marlin
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i doubt those guys know what half their tslents do

carmine portal
tribal blade
carmine portal
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GOD I wish game devs listened to devout players of their specs

carmine portal
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I believe they said "I don't want to auto-attack, it's too difficult" so they removed a part of her kit that involved doing arguably the most basic thing in League

runic trail
tribal blade
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lol that's actually hilarious

carmine portal
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And this comes DIRECTLY from the Riot employee who oversaw it

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And he said this proudly

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They balance the game around the top tiers of play but REFUSE to consult OTPs about changes that would actually make their champion better/more fun

slate marlin
#

Imagine asking iron morgana otps what they want morgana to do

carmine portal
#

That is literally exactly it

#

She was going to have an auto attack passive that changed as u channeled abilities

#

But Billy in Bronze 1 said it was too hard

#

he just wants to throw Q-W

tribal blade
#

this is part of the problem with blizz taking most of their feedback from the wow forums

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is that you have absolute buffoons suggesting stuff

carmine portal
#

Exactly my point

tribal blade
#

i've gone through a bunch of profiles from horrible takes on there

#

and it's people who essentially do nothing in game

carmine portal
#

How obviously NOT monitored are the class discords.

tribal blade
#

they have a few 2s timed and like 3 lfr bosses killed

carmine portal
#

You have ppl in them that could write a PHD on why their class is good/bad and can back it up with hours of playtime and sims and maths

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That's a huge portion of a devs job essentially done by someone for FREE out of passion

tribal blade
#

yeah it was quite a magical time to have realz in here regularly during the big DF rework

alpine wraith
#

still sad they ran out of time or decided to allocate resources elsewhere

#

every

#

time

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but some good changes were made

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at least blades is not as clown as before

hollow spear
#

I'd argue that you probably shouldn't necessarily take input from high level otps only

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Because they don't pay your bills garf_sit

tribal blade
#

if they could have kept up that level of upkeep on sub we'd be playing a banger spec right now

lilac stag
#

You realize one important part of the equation is a bold assumption on your end. That the devs actually want any more of guidance on the actual spec design. The design is their baby for lack of a better word. If it’s successful has way different values associated with it based on what part of the player base you talk to.

runic trail
carmine portal
#

It's not about ONLY taking input from OTPs

tribal blade
alpine wraith
#

well sometimes you just feel bad about some things

runic trail
alpine wraith
#

like making subterfuge and things work with sepsis or for ass and outlaw

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but if you ask as sub

tribal blade
alpine wraith
#

you were told

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uh sorry but no

hollow spear
#

Maybe they should take input from Lashga, he's #1 sub rogue after all

tribal blade
#

there's a rogue in the wow forums who signs every post of his with those 2 people surfing haha

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but iirc he's a pvp player

carmine portal
#

šŸ•µļøā€ā™‚ļø

runic trail
carmine portal
#

lol

tribal blade
#

amazing

runic trail
#

He said sub is an energy pooling spec before

hollow spear
#

Well it is

tribal blade
#

he's very argumentative

hollow spear
#

You're pooling energy for four seconds before you can backstab HOLY

tribal blade
#

he's literally in there arguing with everyone about everything rogue related

carmine portal
#

i love that emote so much

lilac stag
#

need to find the dev that did the SV to melee rework and it literally goes over they don’t care about the feedback on reworks until they actually ask for it.

hollow spear
#

Actually based

lilac stag
#

That video sums up class design to the letter

hollow spear
#

At least they were honest

tribal blade
#

my thought is why not take feedback from the TCs in here

lilac stag
#

it’s like any other design project. Artist trying to satisfy the assigned task. We’re just in their sandbox. Ion is the client. Not us.

tribal blade
#

make changes

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and then they're not fully to blame if noone likes it

hazy breach
#

The issue is that people want a lot of different things for sub

lilac stag
tribal blade
#

that's very true

carmine portal
#

Yes, that is true but I doubt the "different things" include fixing bugs or massive holes in the specs. No one is here arguing that PV is good or essential

hazy breach
#

Like a lot of people here like big burst and backstab soup

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But a lot of people hate not doing damage outside cds

north schooner
runic trail
lilac stag
#

if some of the older purples played the game in here, my guess is most would say this version is ass

hazy breach
#

And ye you could say "then why are you playing sub?" but there has been points in time where sub didnt do 70% of its damage during its big cooldowns shrugeg

alpine wraith
#

i mean times do change i know it will never become what it was short term burst

lilac stag
#

mystler and his love of the double ring build.

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which was the exact opposite of what most loved with dfa

alpine wraith
#

remember our cds used to be 5 secs to 8 secs

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now flag lasts 24

swift tinsel
#

There’s a name I haven’t heard in ages

alpine wraith
#

hole

hazy breach
#

Flag being 24 is silly tbf

lilac stag
#

flag existing is silly tbf

hazy breach
#

When blades and 2x dances at 16

lilac stag
#

just need 1 90 second

alpine wraith
#

still salty they made blades 16 y

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they literally said ok 3 mins to 2

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reduce it by 33% or 25% idk

#

my job here is done

#

see ya

swift tinsel
#

Just delete flag and bump up the % on blades dracthyr_shrug

graceful osprey
#

300% mastery

slate marlin
#

Remove flag, bit more cdr on sd, and stronger sd

vale pine
#

flag and blades could be wone cd

#

a lot of spells don't need a target requirement that have

#

there is a lot of things you could do to improve things

#

also doing no damage outside of cd's is a bit mood

slate marlin
#

To do bug dmg on cds, u need to do less out of them

vale pine
#

because it is not a concept thats always applied correctly

lilac stag
#

damage outside would feel better just adjusting energy costs or regen on builders.

vale pine
#

e.g. assassiantion does a lot of aoe damage outside of cd's besides having still a burst centric gameplay

#

people wouldn't mind subtleties cd's if most of the power was shifted in the shorter cds like secret

north schooner
#

having so much of your damage on your CDs makes it harder to work on fights where the CDs misalign with when you need damage

vale pine
#

especially in aoe

lilac stag
#

you have control of when you send CDs

vale pine
#

you can also add options for flexibility

#

we are already decently flexible with multiple charges of symbols/dance

lilac stag
#

flexibility really isn’t the issue.
People don’t want to feel like they’re casting once every 3 seconds.

#

on a 1 sec fixed gcd spec

vale pine
#

i mean thats just energy

north schooner
vale pine
#

energy as a concept does not work anymore

slate marlin
#

storm costing 45 is a crime

lilac stag
#

You can send a dry SoD

swift tinsel
#

It’s like mana for casters, doesn’t really exist outside one spec

vale pine
#

the devs liked

slate marlin
#

you also have to hold your flexible cds to align properly with big cds

lilac stag
#

that’s the decision making that should be involved. Not how many different ways can I get danse stacks in my cds.

vale pine
#

and i dissliked ^^

slate marlin
#

can they just listen to you pls

#

i wont ever be mad at fuu

fleet wharf
#

How much did it cost before?

slate marlin
#

no one can

vale pine
north schooner
#

what was the storm cost meant to solve?

slate marlin
#

what was the reasoning for the increase?

fleet wharf
#

yea, being energy starved out of cds is really frustrating. maybe they can just change from shuriken storm to shuriken combo

vale pine
#

because the dev wanted the spec to feel slow outside of cooldowns

lilac stag
#

Kekw

vale pine
#

and one person in here did say "but we are still fast in aoe, so i think it would be way better to increase storm cost"

swift tinsel
#

Certainly achieved that

patent lichen
#

....

vale pine
#

and dev was like "what a brilliant idea, shipped"

slate marlin
#

all you do out of cds, is farm cdr

vale pine
#

i transcribe it, but that was essentially the gist of it

slate marlin
#

whats the issue on being fast on aoe if you hit like a noodle, just allow us to get cdr going

patent lichen
#

Hey dev I have an idea!!! Get rid of energy refunds

short radish
slate marlin
#

that person isnt at fault tho

vale pine
#

i think, even tho it was not stated

slate marlin
#

we all make a lot of brainstorming here, wouldnt be our fault if devs listened to the worst ones

vale pine
#

there was also the idea

#

to make aoe on sin and sub feel diffrent

#

because both could spam in aoe

short radish
vale pine
#

it felt to me like it

slate marlin
#

and they did assa aoe turbo good and sub aoe non existent

short radish
slate marlin
#

very well spaced imo

short radish
slate marlin
#

target achieved

swift tinsel
#

Since we’re the finisher spec, I always thought it would be cool if rupture combo’d with evisc or BP

#

Or had an additional effect when you used either on a target with rupture up

tribal blade
#

one of the biggest complaints i hear from people trying to pick up sub is not liking the downtime outside cds

#

and being energy starved

carmine portal
#

When I first started playing sub (literally start of tww) I did not know what to do with myself outside of CD's, I assumed spamming SD and SoD until Blades and Flag were back up was the play

tribal blade
#

yeah the spec is wildly unintuitive

slate marlin
#

Ye but its so fun to play

#

in st

tribal blade
#

you could give me a million years and i wouldn't think of the correct rotation for sub haha

carmine portal
#

It just felt like the thing to do, every other spec is kinda like that. When your big CDs are over you manage your resources and other small things until you can combo again which feels fine but with sub you acidentally press one wrong SoD or SD and suddenly your next lineup is fucked

slate marlin
#

yep, holding your "flexible" cds for big cds is unintuitive af

#

When i started playing sub it felt ass to have sod and sd and not use them for 30 seconds

carmine portal
#

And I do agree, sub is the most fun I've had on a DPS in a long time, I still really enjoy frost Dk and spriest but

#

Sub feels really rewarding

swift tinsel
#

It’s the most rewarding in the game imo

patent lichen
#

The sectech dopamine hits me hard

carmine portal
#

Most rewarding dps maybe

patent lichen
#

See it crit for 10+ mil and justgarf_sit

slate marlin
#

Its so sexy

#

then u go to a pack with no cds

#

and cry

carmine portal
#

Most rewarding thing overall is healer imo, nothing beats pulling off what should've been a wipe in a high key bcus you managed your CDs perfectly/knew exactly what to do outside of them

patent lichen
#

LMAO big true, but at least we don't have to restealth

tepid trellis
#

tbf if played right, neither does the other 2 specs

patent lichen
#

I love when my tank apologizes for pulling bad and I go "it's k, me sub" garf

patent lichen
swift tinsel
#

I just put ā€œpull bigā€ in chat every 1:30 lol

patent lichen
#

Lol

slate marlin
#

assa requires non griefing tanks for that but ye

swift tinsel
#

Ah the 5% leash

patent lichen
#

Lol you mean "chain pulling"

#

In quotations for a reason

tepid trellis
#

we just refer to that as bad tanking

slate marlin
#

when a tank chains 4 mobs at 30% hp allowing you to go full ham at the next psck

swift tinsel
#

I’m spoiled bc the tank I play with usually used to play rogue so he knows the game

slate marlin
#

t fills mr with joy

tepid trellis
#

and he has been playing with me for over 5 years

#

duality of man

carmine portal
#

haha

tepid trellis
#

all he hears is a loud audible sigh

slate marlin
#

Well stealthi, you should hit your friend with your claws

tepid trellis
#

then he goes "im sorry"

carmine portal
#

bro knows how you perform with his current tanking style and is fine with it

tepid trellis
#

and i go

carmine portal
#

start underperforming

tepid trellis
#

"no you are not"

patent lichen
#

I just play sub 2ez

slate marlin
#

does 5 years of audible sigh mean nothing to him? would break my heart

tepid trellis
#

tbf this season he had an excuse

#

cuz we played with a ret

#

fcking hammers

swift tinsel
#

Ew

patent lichen
#

Lol

carmine portal
#

A paladin or a low IQ fella

#

oh wait

patent lichen
#

Fair enough

swift tinsel
#

We gkicked one of ours lol

carmine portal
#

(no flame)

tepid trellis
#

this ret is prolly one of the best rets in the game lol

#

the amount of dmg that freak did

swift tinsel
#

If he used BoP once he’s in the 99.99th percentile already

carmine portal
#

thats what happens when your spec is simple tho, you can really iron out so much clunk

#

(you ought to be able to atleast)

slate marlin
#

my guildie ret does a bazillion dmg and uses every single piece of utility he has

#

sad he gets 0 invites and gets burned

tepid trellis
#

the best dps player ive played with in the game or tied with 1 other person

#

i raided with him for 3 years

carmine portal
#

when i was raidleading in nyalotha goddamn we had 3 rets or smth in our mythic team and they were moronically good

slate marlin
#

my ret guildie is 2nd best for me, 1st being casualaddict on his shaman carrying the fuck out of me in s1

tepid trellis
#

and im usually very

#

not nice

#

when it comes to if i think people are good or not

#

he was the type of person you would be lucky to have in your raid team

carmine portal
#

you can be afforded that when you are A. very good yourself or B. Extremely experienced as an analyst

tepid trellis
#

he grinds like a mfer, does all the prep in the world for the raid

#

he did our prep work for gallywix this tier

#

we banged that mfer out in 43 pulls

#

due to his prep

slate marlin
#

blessed to have him then

tepid trellis
#

sucks that he quit when we disbanded after gally died

carmine portal
#

Why'd the disband happen?

#

Just went boom?

tepid trellis
#

gm stepped down

carmine portal
#

Ah the classic

tepid trellis
#

nobody wanted to pick up the mantle

carmine portal
#

It's not easy to guidlead

tepid trellis
#

gm, RL and tank

carmine portal
#

Done it twice over the years and it always burned me out

#

oof

tepid trellis
#

and finding a guild at wr 50 ish level

#

where you can one trick ret

#

is not an easy task

vale pine
#

e.g. you see it with cooldown timings

#

90 sec on sub while it was initially 120 sec

#

its just a theory tho, maybe its coincidence

slate marlin
#

who knows

#

whats clear is that sub needs to get worked on

short radish
#

yeah but sub doesnt need a rework

slate marlin
#

but it wont happen this patch at least

short radish
#

sub just needs bug fixes

carmine portal
#

I've got a friend in a hof guild who is an absolute BLASTER when it comes to healers but he has a job, so only has 2 specs REALLY geared and 1 spec decently and the rest of the healer team are Saudi oilers who have every healing spec at max ilvl lol

vale pine
#

i think so many things in the game need to get worked on

short radish
#

i know the thing where "you cant just add devs and solve the problem"

#

but like....

#

maybe they could try

vale pine
#

keep in mind that they are very much a american company and profit oriented

carmine portal
#

we should do the DK thing and start a protest

vale pine
#

if anything i would say this xpac has shown the opposite of hireing to be the case

carmine portal
#

surely there's enough of us for them to notice

slate marlin
#

you mean the shaman on alpha and beta thing

vale pine
#

i don't think public outrage is a good tool

#

it incentivises bad behaviour

slate marlin
#

idk what to tell you fuu, shamans got nothing on alpha, they went absolutrly nuts and they got worked on, its not the best tool and its not the best thing to do either tho

#

stay small incident

tepid trellis
#

chances are that the changes was already planned just not ready for early alpha

slate marlin
#

we will never know

#

i dont think they said "shit shamans are rioting lets do something"

runic trail
tepid trellis
#

if they actually listened to community outrage

#

parry wouldve been removed from the game

slate marlin
#

i wonder why some specs get worked less on tho

#

like sub or aff

carmine portal
#

Less populated

#

easy answer

slate marlin
#

thats a spiral, no work done, so players leave, so less players, so not worked on etc

carmine portal
#

Yup

#

haha

lilac stag
slate marlin
#

i agree

lilac stag
#

adding more to poor planning can make matters worse

short radish
#

but imagine if they had

#

one dev

#

per class

#

instead of one dev

#

per multiple classes

lilac stag
#

that’s what it should be

slate marlin
#

they again insisted on shorting dev cycles

#

it didnt go well (surprise)

lilac stag
#

they also need someone keeping those class devs on task

carmine portal
#

Nah, should be one dev per spec-type.

lilac stag
#

we’re back in SL dev cycle is what it feels like.

slate marlin
#

i do think they pull class devs off duty to work on other things

carmine portal
#

One for healer, one for tank and one for DPS

#

DPS players dont know how to balance tanks

lilac stag
#

tanks are usually ex dps

#

that got sick of waiting in a queue

tepid trellis
#

balance is more a numbers thing

slate marlin
#

what i hate the most is the bscklash developers get for doing or not doing x, making them have 0 communicstion

carmine portal
#

yknow what I mean though

#

I wouldn't want a healer druid OTP who's the druid dev designing/working on how I play feral

tepid trellis
lilac stag
#

it’s not about balance

lilac stag
#

It about creative ideas to play the spec

#

or how the spec plays

carmine portal
#

Reworded

tepid trellis
slate marlin
#

would like for realz to be more talkative around here but i also get why he doesnt

lilac stag
#

I don’t expect my UI designer to sit there and back end code like a dev who only codes. Make cool shit conceptually and see what actually works.

carmine portal
#

Yeah but the problem is: that's wasted time, and that's money at these companies. Why get someone who's going to make poor dev decision make two changes when you could just get someone who knows the spec/role to do it in a single change

tepid trellis
#

dont think it bothers him when outlaw people throw a fit over changes ngl

#

id wager its more so a decision from the heigher ups

slate marlin
#

well zac is more relaxed now

fathom adder
#

big bosses say fuck sub

#

there it is

lilac stag
#

we’ve probably put more time into coming up with reasons why things are failing then they’ve actually had time to work on sub. garf

slate marlin
#

i think it would bother him to go to x discord channel, say somrthing and then have people telling him they could do better snd why isnt he working on x or y

#

i doubt he has the freedom to work on whatever he wants to do work on

lilac stag
#

its presentation. Why am I spending my free time to listen to people bitch and moan when he isn’t going to tell us any of what’s going on behind the scenes

tepid trellis
#

he grew up on wow

#

i really doubt

#

it gets to him

#

xD

#

mans used to play pvp professionally

slate marlin
#

oh lol

carmine portal
#

Oh how the great fall

lilac stag
#

This was my favorite realz gif when asked about getting any changes for sub

slate marlin
#

didnt know that

vale pine
slate marlin
#

#givesubaoe

lilac stag
#

he’s for all we know a good dude. We can be upset at any number of targets. Shit rolls down the hill, not up. Blizzard is the problem.

#

keep paying for a subscription. You’re enabling the problem.

short radish
#

jokes on you, i havent paid for a subscription in 4 years

tepid trellis
carmine portal
#

Yeah we payin with gold these days

tepid trellis
#

and go Thistle tea

lilac stag
tribal blade
#

it's happening?

hoary sun
#

You kappin rn

lilac stag
carmine portal
#

If we are going thistle what're we losing for it?

tepid trellis
tribal blade
#

and then we can rejoice in accidentally going below 30 energy and proccing tea outside dance

slate marlin
#

cold blood

tepid trellis
#

and the mastery from Tea

#

helps everything else

tepid trellis
#

BP-evis-coup etc

carmine portal
#

one talent isn't enough to get to tea

slate marlin
#

also less energy starved out of cds

hazy breach
#

Well the CB row

#

Into tea row

tribal blade
#

ngl sub feels infinitely better to play with vigor talented

carmine portal
#

Ah so CB and Lethality?

slate marlin
#

will it be the play, or is it a maybe?

lilac stag
hazy breach
#

But ye sectech does relatively less damage

#

Since coup does more

slate marlin
short radish
#

wait so you do this instead?

tribal blade
#

it balances itself out if you get more crit, i did sims during DF

tepid trellis
#

yeh

vale pine
#

yes

tribal blade
#

should be the same

hazy breach
#

It doesnt actually matter that much

short radish
#

that... kinda makes sense?

lilac stag
#

Still low energy dracthyr_shrug

short radish
#

less sectech but more damage in dance

#

i assume you just macro tea to sectech

carmine portal
#

yeah but i do like the idea of vigor

hazy breach
#

Both tea and cold blood kinda suck ass

slate marlin
tribal blade
#

would we be playing tea in pure ST too

lilac stag
#

you don’t want that

carmine portal
#

yeah it has a passive attached to it that auto-consumes

hazy breach
swift tinsel
#

just don't proc tea dracthyr_shrug

tribal blade
tepid trellis
#

you will proc it

short radish
#

just afk out of cds

tepid trellis
#

wont get away from that

hazy breach
#

People will overthink and complain about it just like they do on assa

#

When they proc their tea

lilac stag
#

people would need to play sub in keys through

tribal blade
#

i have to admit the feeling of being outside cds as sub w/ tea talented and being able to storm>finish without delays

#

does feel nice

fathom adder
#

if i could wish for small changes i would like for them to revert the energy reg nerf that came with the rework and more dance cdr

slate marlin
#

i got used to just ignoring tea

fathom adder
#

i would be happy then, its fun either way

lilac stag
slate marlin
#

bc assa has actual aoe gameplay

#

(spamming envenom)

haughty rose
#

Crazy how they haven't changed tea to either manual use or auto use.

Is any other ability both like tea is?

lilac stag
#

oh wait. We’re not good in aoe because of funnel dmg. garf

carmine portal
#

Eh, I dont mind tea being set and forget sorta

lilac stag
#

Name checks out

fallow nimbus
#

You mean a choice node like other classes have for some abilities?

#

Do we even have 1 choice node?

hazy breach
#

Just macro tea to dance and dont think about it Surebud

carmine portal
#

Spriest Shadowcrash/Elesham Earthquake type beat

vestal escarp
slate marlin
#

and the crit/haste on sod

hazy breach
#

Night terrors

#

And the vanish shield ones

#

A couple of choice nodes, but the alternatives are not real alternatives so

swift tinsel
#

wym warning signs goated

vestal escarp
#

Bruh

lilac stag
#

tea could have had 2 brews as a choice node. One more energy (auto use) less mastery. The on use more mastery, less energy.

tribal blade
#

warning signs a truly genius idea

#

to give the spec that hates haste a talent to give haste

lilac stag
#

leech in stealth

tribal blade
#

deserves a nobel prize

lilac stag
#

Darwin Award more like it

vale pine
hazy breach
#

Ye but not everybody was here back then

vale pine
#

good point

lilac stag
#

some of ā€œusā€ made better choices than the rest of us. kekdog

#

jk love rogue. Best class

vestal escarp
hardy snow
#

it seems quite okay to just buff the first coup?

hazy breach
#

The second would generally be better, but yes its not the end of the world

#

Not working with shadowed finisher is expected, but sad to see

hardy snow
#

you cannot guarentee the cp and buff status for the 2nd coup in many scenarios

hazy breach
#

Its moreso the fact that the tooltip says the wrong thing about first vs second coup that feels off

vestal escarp
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second coup is too often outside dance anyway peepoShrug

void ocean
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it looks more like a fooltip to me

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since it just fools around with us

lilac stag
hazy breach
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Im not sure the extra coup damage is sticking around anyway, its likely to get nerfed for sub

void ocean
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i have friends i swear

swift tinsel
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125-130% max

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would be quite surprised if it isn't nerfed

void ocean
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why? cant be that op

tepid trellis
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it does quite the fcking hit

void ocean
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so

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i mean, does it make us op overall

tepid trellis
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well whats likely gonna happen is the same as this tier

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tierset nerfed

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baseline buffed

swift tinsel
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hell yeah bs and rupture buff

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again

tepid trellis
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dont think they wanna have tiersets at 40% dmg

hardy snow
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i think the first coup 50% is okay for its worth. we're not any place ahead, right?

alpine wraith
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big shadowstrike energy

swift tinsel
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I'd take a 15% shadowstrike buff

slate marlin
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bp added to darkest night and buffed by 25%

hazy breach
slate marlin
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I dont mind any tier nerf as long as arcane gets the hammer

lilac stag
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jealousy isn’t pretty

slate marlin
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its not jelousy dont get it wrong

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its hatred towards mages

swift tinsel
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they're fuckin swimming in intuition procs rn

slate marlin
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they are swimming in blue posts

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well they are swimming in everything

hardy snow
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first dance fixed tho

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Rogue fix and patch simply no need to be written since they're done stealthly

swift tinsel
slate marlin
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Oh no

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anyway

leaden prairie
hazy breach
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Ye

willow fulcrum
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sec tech nimble flurry the usual

hazy breach
leaden prairie
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Legit no idea

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Everything seems bad for outlaw

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I think we are likely to play with a on use stats trinket again

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Whichever is stronger r

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Just cause on hit trinkets are a bit meh

hazy breach
leaden prairie
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Idk didn't find anything that seemed incredible

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I have been playing prism

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And Crit from floodgate

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Idk xd

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Prims damage hit proc is already worth probably

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In dungeons

slate marlin
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is idol not good on outlaw?

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maybe u didnt loot it

hazy breach
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Im hoping prism gets buffed because right now it seems like for sub we'd prefer to play the 2 minute one for fights that are like 5 minute or shorter and prism for everything else

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Cap the stack at 18 or 20 instead of 15 so we can skip a CD set and double it and give it to the next set Prayge

alpine wraith
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yea having to use prism weirdly is so sad

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like using it at like 3 stacks to not overcap at 3 mins

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or 4 i dont remember

swift tinsel
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usually 3

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depends on if you line it up with time or 3rd dance/sectech

torn storm
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give sub omega banger 3 min trinket pls