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yeah DS is about 89-90% prob

with momentum ofc
Maybe bp does higher prio than evis at 2 targets now with new tier
But definitely at 3
@hazy breach its time
bp got buffed
we check if if save coup for flag or dance or w/e
and bp 
Cant really be bothered, it just seems bad to me
waiting? like not doing any finishers?
farm sht
For flag
hmm fair enough
Like getting the refund on your coup so you dont have to storm in between them by getting 4-5 sht stacks before is really good
But even on live its good
yeah i can see that
maybe confused with blade flurry nerf
i help yet another person push up their 19 which turns into 20 ml
and they log off for the night
imma bout to lose my shit
my guy please stop
im start bping in ST noone gonna stop me
Black Powder
You do that already on live at ~15 sec before flag
ye
ty
Gm black powders
wow cant say that
If they would just a hero talent that has been bugged the whole exp
imagine it working with the other talents
that alone is the biggest aoe buff
Those 5 black powders im flag are gonna go so hard
Actually only thing im looking forward is rotten fix
Thats pretty big
Do we know if they fixed the tier set yet?
No idea
No, no.
Cope.
savage
dont call bad times or we may use tornado again
actually oh no
with tornado you can sec tech coup coup
someone delete this from my brain
do we have tornado enjoyers? 😄
truth is i welcome this buff,whatever smol or anything its still a W in my book
sounds like a league LCS team or something
Shut up holy shit, even though it doesn't seem it devs do read this
Lots of instant cdr pog
They should make our CDR based on haste 

I hate it here
Love you too
only if u are forced to reclear nugzee every day, 65 pulls minimum
89*
I'm already drinking bleach DW
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Hey guys, I was talking abougt the sindragosa's breath with a friend, but wouldn't it be pretty cool if flag+shadow blades got changed to something like that as an empowered ability? To regurgitate some of Max's point, you'd normally want to hold it all the way, but if the cd and poewr changed based on how long it was held, it could be pretty interesting. Dunno if that was just a crazy idea or not
I assume the BP rule for trickster hasn't changed
still black powder at 8 targets and up?
I think it's a bit lower if they have FW up
It's FW dependant not targets dependant now
Dunno the precise treshold, prolly not tced yet
I read 3 earlier?
I thought it was 5. let's just confidently give a number, someone will correct us with the right number eventually
Why
i'm trying to figure out if that would be a good idea or not, but I think empower giving flexiblity with how you use cooldown is a cool idea in concept
and would work with how sub works already
BoS is just... no
cus most of the time, you'd hold it for the normal duration, but it being empower would give us other options. mostly niche, but we could adjust how strong the cd would be and how long the cd can be based on the empower duration
That sounds somewhat interesting Ig
Sort of like dust but less spreadsheet
cuz I was kind of interested in trying frost after hearing about the empoewr change, but the frost playerbase revolted and they reversed it before I could even try it
Like 1-2-3 empower levels for 30 1:00 and 1:30 cd
yea, and power would change too. 90% of the time, we'd hold it for 1:30 cd, but it would give us even more flexibility and control over our cds
new talent bp does 100% more dmg if only 1 target gets hit
What'd you guys think about flurry becoming the new psychic link?
not joking guys you know how many bp buffs we had all expac i think they are plotting something mark my words XD
Time to go use bathrooms after cooldowns
xd
😆
just meant like is anything from s2 important for s3 early prog
Probably not. We will get better gear from zeroes and there's a mini hoc trinket in the dungeons and delve gear.
As long as you're 680 ish probably fine
okay ty
you could probably just farm 2000 valorstones
I would really Like SUB to have 2 charges of a flag/Blades merge that allows ist to have 2 separates short bursts or a Long one. That would give US much more flexibility and a nice combinatorial space to Work with
to have for next season start
s2 items are not that good overall
Why not just make it empower instead of having to track even more charges?
Me too
no, i kind of wish they went through with frost dk empower changes
Dont know empower
melees hate casting
yea but our autos don't do shit anyway
sure but as melee you are used to having instant cast abilities
and having a random cast feels awkward
look at dragonflight when people hated puzzlebox
despite it being giga strong
it's just awkward and weird
and feels bad to play
killing spree on outlaw is a channeled ability now
and people hate it
I haven't paid much attention to outlaw, but dont ppl prefer the new KS to what it was before?
It's better that it doesnt kill you with teleports
But the new thing is questionable
I dont like the shortcomings that come with it, if it was smoother and looked into it can be perfectly fine
they could tune the cdr on shadow dance a bit
I did this at last sprocket reclear
based
but the charge system gives you flexibility to choose when to use your mini-bursts
look at rik reverb, people were holding dance windows for barrels
Yeah but heres the point
If one set of barrels spawned too close to your flag window
And you were holding a dance for that
you still had enough charges to do flag
You can be in the situation where sectech isnt ready for flag
It's not a bad system
But it has many flaws
it's not perfect but it's interesting
and fun for me
time to make sec tech have 2 charges 
Also the pooling for dance/sod charges
Thats why charges for Blades would be interesting but the duration would have to be half and flag gone
The "holding"
but now that I think about it, if they already changed KS to a channel, maybe they're already considering empwoer changes to a rogue spec and are just testing the waters
but it's only possible because we can move around cd without losing much
you can, but it's worse than saving resources for burst windows
with ptr i mean*
I kind of like that we have downtime between cds
downtime is fine, but I think sub needs to be tuned higher 
currently your dps drops hard as soon as you are done with flag
The cps from extra coup dont allow you to cast one more dance in flags every time
pretty sure you could, but it's not actually a damage increse based on what ryldd tested
it is kinda whatever yes
more worth to triple dance flag
then just use sec tech on cd
Blizz doesnt like too big burst (until they do - udk wink wink)
with trickster tier set I think you no longer have the naked sec tech thing, after your 2nd flag
right

do you send naked sectechs whenever you have coup proc?
How many coups you can on avg between flags? 2? 3 if you're risky
they neutered the crap out of udk burst
I thought currently you hold when flag is 20 sec out?
Its been this way for years
dev evoker is the burst king nowadays
Blade flurry gets changed all the time lol
big true lmao
I would play evoker if I could get used to their shit range and hover
what u mean it's always up when boss life is full
dont you need to put dots and shit then engulf
no, you do like 15mil dps for the first 5 seconds
As trusty as my crit%
it really is lmao
but when we hit the second sec tech if we were nto like almost 30 secs in
it does do like 30m
imagine we were MoP or cata sub and just did 65m dps first 10 secs of the fight
then almost nothing for 1 min
pog
Wouldn't it be kind of cool too if they made it so that deathstalker kind of plays like mop sub?
like your builders actually do damage?
unlikely that ship sailed ages ago
like if people think sub does bad dps outside cds now
they werent playing back then
I played horde, but weren't NE sub rogues ridiculously good because they got one more FW window?
it can also be a problem nowadays they dont want people to be super special they already had 2 big issues with surrender priest venthyr boomkin
the tiers where sub was decent the extra FW did help yes but nothing crazy
orc and others were still good
because of cd stacking
That's so interesting. I thought they';d just be shitting over all other races with how FW worked
well last tier of mop had backstab converting into ambush sometimes
and on cata you really could not set up lots of finishers in an out of dance FW
I'm kind of tempted to play mop sub, but I would need to find a guild, and that seems like too much work
yea, you had so many thing sto upkeep
that was def annoying, kind of felt like destro lock in that regard
Peak
6 seconds of nuclear power
54 of chill
so we traded that for 20 sec of uber power and 70 seconds of chill?
isn't the new version better?
that is fascinating, hmm
we are way more versatile now tho
remember old sub had 0 aoe 0 cleave
and still had to prep dances so it is not like you could rip it that is why is aid 10 secs
16 seconds of decent burst and 74 seconds of anxiety
hey, there's 6 more seconds of mini burst in that 74 seconds
But on that note, I'm guessing they made the burst more ramping and longer so they don't have to be super weird about balancing vuln windows on raid bosses?
because if you had 6 seconds of nuclear power, they couldn't ever make any vuln phases on bosses without a sub rogue being necessary
Thry toned down all bursts because it's easier to manage in all forms of gameplay
Have some fond memories of old sub in hellfire citadel with soul capacitor trinket 
that was funny
but arcane was doing more too so it got weird
killing bosses in a maalus snap never got old tho
i dont get it why they keep buffing bp
whats the reason behind it
surely we dont spam bp on that 3t council fight
it's a little awkward to tune sub's aoe tbh
considering how few tools we have to deal aoe dmg
still feels like we're missing 1-2 abilities in aoe
Stonks
just uncap sectech
:)))
isnt it funny they nerfed BF and buffed flurry at same time
Ye idk what murlok does
It does something like mrrrlg
Mmmh i see nvm
i actually have edude on btag, he's a nice guy
just has 20 rookery left for 20 resil
i'm actually quite confident i could time a 20 rookery
(having never stepped foot in one)
actually nvm i dunno what i'm talking about
🤣👍
what is this?
We were talking about devs now being the big burst class
oh ok
which they are, and I dont think theres much setup before they rip huge damage, so I just showed hachadino what the first 6 seconds of optimal dev burst looks like
Ye if youre exclusively looking at the first 6 seconds of a fight
They look so good while you're progging fight because they get to keep their inflated burst numbers
But sub does the name burst, just later on (ie like 13-19s)
And thats with dev being overtuned and sub being undertuned
surely we'll crush them next tier 
Actually, now that more of you guys are around, what do you guys think about empower but for sub (kind of like what they were planning on doing with sin breath for frostdk)? Like combining/replacing flag+shadow blades with an empower cd that would have diff cd lengths depending on how long you hold it
yea, ppl were talking about how dragonflight trinket felt ass to use. I dunno I would have liked to try how that empower frostdk would've played out
what imagine if we had one for bp or tornado and at max charge you cant see your screen XD
The trinket from halls next season has a channel 
Its probably getting nerfed, but if it doesnt we get to experience it again
was it a good trinket for us? I wasn't playing in df
But i guess what I was thinking more about is I liked what Max was talking about in terms of empower mechanic giving you way more control over how exactly your bursts will play out and having more options for cooldown management. I'm not necessarily thirsty to plant my feet and cast for my trinket unless the returns are phenomenal
rogue had ER for a bit
and people didnt really like it
didnt help it had conditions too
i was an ER hater for sure
using ER with old sht and the ping i play with was HORRIBLE
not many liked ER
we also had mfd for a bit vs deeper
what a clown fiesta of an expansion DF was
STORMEATERS BOON 
mfd could have become a good pvp talent
Was it nightstalker?
Nightstalkers dmg bonus beeing bugged and doing literally nothing for the whole of season 1? 
Delaying coldblood after sectec cast 🙏 
nightsalker has had so many problems over the years
i think the dev that finally killed it was so happy
@keen dome am I doing it right?
i always hated the idea of shadowed finishers
because it made FW weaker
then they made FW go from 80% or was it already 50 to 30
the monsters
that's me inside it
I'm leveling a mage 'cos I found a cool mage name
Double brain = more intelligence
It almost has one whole pixel I love it
The fidelity disparity makes it so much better
It’s such a vibe and I’m all for it 
https://www.wowhead.com/item=175188/expeditionary-cloth-hood#same-model-as For alliance, it looks like this
Which is, you know. Perfectly normal.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=175220/expeditionary-cloth-hood And the Horde version...
Maybe I finally level Enhancedman instead of just using it for a name reservation
Whoever uploaded that screenshot to wowhead is a hero
Also have Davestalker in my back pocket
Second rogue
The Dave in my guild might have second thoughts tho
Is your guild full of Dave's?
I went Felly to support your DH leveling
One actual Dave but I’m the only sneaky Dave
Hell yeah
I've decided to save the DH for Remix, on the off chance they give us Velf DH's
Actually I think there’s one other max level rogue in guild but it’s someone’s PvP alt that only does arena
Brave of them
ngl I hate leveling. kinda just want to do the boost
Dudes an arena monster
It takes no time thankfully. Just slam timewalking and do questing on DF between
Should be done in a few hours
Also one of the nicest humans ever
Just smash out some time walking, the speed is wild at the moment
He’s Canadian so that might be part of it
i hope so. no real aoe atm kinda blows
I know two extremely good pvpers and both are absolute gems haha
this week has lot of nice boost for lvling fwiw
I just levelled a survival hunter but I'm dumb and went, 'nah, we level through outland chromie time only'
Haha
I did my Warrior 10 - 80 in under 6 hours before the winds buff just doing timewalking
No dungeons at all because... I'm dumb
ye
I imagine this mage is gonna go faster
It’s a trend I’ve noticed with a lot of the ones I’ve met, none of the weird sweatlords
I think I'll finish out my DH cause that's the last one I dont have at 80
ye. In my experience the absolute incredible, top tier players are always really nice, approachable people.
Dungeons as DPS is pain and suffering. such long queues
not at 7am lol
touché
yea has to be 3 am so the unclean are up
actually what do you guys play for alts? I could use some inspiration rn
Someday blizz will tear the barriers between regions down and we'll be able to group with everyone
but 7 am is working hours dog
arcane mage or better sub
7am is when I get out of bed to feed the cats then scramble to work by 8 lol
also arms warr and feral
I wanna do AotC pugging that has people from all around the world. It'd be so cool
I think on assa channel I heard one of the guys say feral is easier than assa and I was very confused
feral is very simple now
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there seem to be so many buffs to manage though, do share your wisdom
Proc bloodtalons, bleed
I really like guardian if you go druid
they're getting fed at 5am. have to get everyone out early since the older girl has border collie collapse (basically heat strokes)
only important things is snapshot with tiger fury and blood talons
but that is like something you learn in 1 hour
alright I'll try feral again with this screenshot now
what's the appeal of arms?
Big bonks
execute and big bonks
yea execute is cool
non arthitic enducing gameplay
Very satisfying visuals
Arms is so much fun
I'd get that coming from outlaw, but sub feels pretty relaxing to play, no?
Yeah, it is
Arms is a lot steadier
just need to use brain
I have a question about nimble flurry, we call it a bug that shadow blades shadow dmg doesn't get through nimble flurry. But have The devs confirmed that It's a bug? Me and a friend is having a discussion about it and as he says, The text for nimble flurry doesn't say that shadow dmg should get through, only normal damage goes through nimble flurry!
Thanks in advance!
sub is fine. fury is um yeah. it's fury
Fury is a whackamole spec
you have to be very careful with fury keybinds
so I'm guessing arcane also feels like a lot of pre-planning? any other "planning" classes because that's what I really like about sub
I tried fury in one lfr raid, I think ovinax, and decided I did not want to play it because I'd break my table and keyboard sooner or later
And they play pretty straightforward
There are weird barrage conditions but they all make sense
A. Shadow damage does get cleaved by nimble flurry with shadowed finishers and gloomblade (but at a bugged reduced rate)
B. The interaction we would expect is that the nimble hits would proc shadow blades
Basically boils down to “barrage if you can get back to full charges or 2/4”
But yes id say a spell that says "Your attacks do 20% more damage" not increasing the damage of my attack is unintended
so what you're saying is arcane feels more reactive than pre-planned?
Yeah
Esp in aoe with orb barrage
Bc it’s like shadowcraft refunds
But you can get 20 in a row sometimes
Arcane has way more procs to interact with than sub
interesting. But yea, I guess I can give feral and arms a shot, anything else you guys think could be fun to mess around with?
Also my guess with nimble is they can’t figure out how to make it so blades isn’t ‘double dipping’ ex. a melee hit procs a blades dmg event and nimble hit and the nimble hit procs a blades event
I like Guardian druid a lot. Very simple, very sturdy, very bear
Everything being AoE, shooting lasers, etc
Bro if I could tank I'd definitely do it, but I just flop over dead every time I try tanking
Haha, valid
Or move convolutedly, ex. melee hit procs a blades event and nimble hit, which procs a blades event which procs a nimble hit so I’d imagine it’s a nightmare coding-wise
To keep it from chaining
Well ye it obviously shouldnt be flurried AND work on flurry
But either option would work
Anything is better than it not interacting at all with blades
(like secret technique did for over a year)

For sure, I can just see why fixing it would be a shitty mess
But ye obv should not flurry both
But if they do fix I’d hope it’s nimble proccing blades and not the other way around
Well if its that way around you would BP and it would flurry of each individual hit 
sounds goated
I’m all for crashing world servers
for the 4 hours it would last on na servers
!opener
hm this actually sounds sick
They already use multiple spell ids for abilities, they could have spell id for flurried SB which doesn't itself proc flurry. Then again, if you take NF literally, it lists 4 specific spells to only flurry and SB isn't one of them. A shadowed evis is still an evis with a different spell id and damage school, SB is its own spell. This is one of the cases where having more clear tooltips would make it obvious whether it's intended or not (and if it's intended it's kinda dumb)
Yea imo the easiest way to do it is just add nimble to the list of spells that blades procs from
And keep blades off the list of spells that flurry
!mistakes
Here are some common mistakes and how to spot them in your logs:
- Go into your log, press Timelines and Casts to the right like this
- Every single Flagellation & Blades window should look like the opener in this picture. Coup, shadowstrikes and eviscerates can move around a bit depending on procs, but all the other spells should be used exactly like this.
- Make sure you always get 8 globals off during your shadow dances. You can hover over your shadow dances to see the exact times they start, and then see if your 8th spell is within 8 seconds of that.
- If your shadow dance and/or symbols wasnt ready in time to be used like in the picture above you used too many in between your burst.
But what we think is easy is probably unnecessarily difficult for blizz to pull off bc blizz
the difficult part is sitting down to look at it
if they think that SB flurrying would be too strong it could even be done at a reduced rate. But NF has been a failed design considering it cannot keep with BP at the target count where it is designed for (and SB widens the gap because it does proc on BP)
which also begs the question as to why NF was buffed less proportionally to BP
just chuckin spaghetti at the wall
I hope for midnight they will rethink the whole talent. Either remove it entirely or reduce the target count but increase damage to make it a clear winner. Rn it misleads players
not intuitive at all that nf hits 7 targets but u bp earlier than that
the entire spec misleads/confuses most players. very little is intuitive to anyone trying the sepc for the first time. it's rediculous
agreed
I don't think that's always a problem necessarily, but when it's because of clunkiness then they need to adapt how some parts of the spec function
youtube is hellbent on spamming me with ads about banking and trading when i have 0 interest in it whatsoever and keep trying to personalize my ads by giving feedback on what i don't want to see
can someone explain what trading a prediction means
because this sounds like gambling, but it's trading?
i don't understand
stop trying to dox me kangaroo man
isnt that just tldr: go firefox?
yes but that has been the case 25 years now 
there was a period between like 2009 ~ 2011 where firefox was dogshit, but since they fixed their shit, I think it's been my preferred browser
I don't remember having major issues even in that period but it has definitely improved significantly since (and chrome got worse)
i switched to firefox a few months ago too when they killed all those add blockers
I use Ublock origin lite and it works fine
yea, I can't imagine browsing without adblockers
I can, just take the phone 😄
Netguard adblock works great, and newpipe/revanced for YouTube
but can't you also have adblockers on your phone? p sure I have it working on my phone too
shouldnt be working for apps
but i might be wrong
oh that might be it. I barely use any apps on my phone
yea, for that you prolly need something like a pi hole
yea but... im a bit suspicious when it comes to installing new apps
Also you can add a DNS level adblock which gets a fair few things
just accept quadrillion ads just like the appmakers want
Never
i killed all cookies and data gathering so I laugh from time to time when i get some bs adds
I'm running a de-googled custom ROM so, I'm chilling
or adds for apps I already have installed
like dude u donmt have to sell it to me, im there already
speaking of annoying ads, winaerotweaker is a really nice tool to get rid of ads on your OS
Imagine having ads on your OS
dafuq
yea, i'm still on windows. I might start dualbooting linux soon
im also on windows but where do u get ur ads
Imagine paying for an operating system and the fuckers still have the nerve to data harvest and force ads on you
like on all sorts of shit
and they don't take no for an answer
it's always, yes/we'll bother you in 2 days
I've been full Linux for too long now, I'm in too deep to go back
u probably left some of the shit turned on
i mean that tool just makes it easier to perma turn of annoying shit, so take a look and make sure settings all look good, and if they do, you can just delete it afterwards
I shouldn't have to go through every option with a fine tooth comb to avoid getting fucked
i was pondering the possibility of swapping to Ubuntu at least
Its pretty solid for games now. There's a website called protondb where you can check user compatibility reports
But most games just work
cant log into ptr whole day 😦
AMD is solid, not ran nvidia in a while but that ran fine. Third party peripherals mostly work but it depends on how specialised it is
i just googled this about my graphic card https://askubuntu.com/questions/1464468/does-the-nvidia-rtx-4070-have-drivers-for-ubuntu-22-04
i dont like what i see 😄
But yeah its just an apt install command to get drivers apparently, I think Ubuntu might give you an option to install proprietary drivers on install but don't quote me on that
(I'll also shill for endeavourOS, its arch but with an easier install method and some pre-configured things)
How much of subtelty rogue damage is physical or i suppose how important is it we play with a monk in m+?
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Thank you!
Warr, skyfury take priority for m+
skyfury 
that looks impractical
Roughly half
ty
strictly talking about raids, is there a situation where replacing my normal secret tech bind with this would be a mistake?
If you want to hold blades but still do a dance
On vexie holding blades for intermission or something like that
But mostly it doesnt matter
hmm okay fair
How are you using CB?
on 2nd tech during cds
I know, I personally found it easier to have another macro that has cb+sec tech
so I do have tech bound to that 
yeah but I dont wanna take the dps loss of CBing first tech!
I'm not telling you to do that, you were asking bout replacing sec tech bind with that, so just wanted to make sure you had the cb usage covered, haha.
fair fair 😄
you have sectech seperate and then your cd sectech as a second
sub is basically anti macro
yeah that was kinda what I had but was thinking about replacing the normal one with the blades
no reason to
yeah I am just new to the opener and compared to how slow the assa one is since everything is on gcd its kinda messing me up but might aswell learn correctly
would recommend having them on binds that are comfy to press either together or in very quick succession
shortcuts in learning just make more work down the road to unlearn and fix
/cast [known:Cold Blood, mod:lshift] Cold Blood;
/cast [spec:3]Secret Technique;
here, this is how u macro cb and sec tech
thats why i used WA to put the opener as a huge JPEG in combat haha
the sooner it's burned into the back of my eyes the better
you guys don't use shift buttons for normal keybinds?
yeah idk I think my inital problem was making my cd binds on assa weird
and then every spec after that I try to put them on the same and it feels weird
Shift, ALt and Ctrl are for Bars 2-3-4
naah
sod = shiv
Dance = kb
Dm = flag
mouse bind enjoyer
Yea but then you need a mmo mouse
i have it
stopped using mousebinds, feels like my mousehand freezes up too much as I play a lot of shooters on the side
19 button redragon baby
Hate not having that hand 100% fluid
yeah but the assa ones are on GCD, so I have them on shift 1,2,3 and then you press them in a slow sequence and it feels nice, but it feels horrible to press the same binds on off gcd stuff for some reason 
I have two mouse thumb buttons and the middle button and that's enough for me lol
I feel shift+mouse buttons are also pretty useful
ur hand is fluid?
also use ctrl/alt+mouse scroll up/down for marks
mine is in solid state
no mine is gloopy
Makes a horrible mess
They designed a waterproof mouse sensor just for me
so this is what I have on sub now which feels kinda nice
make cb sec sht 3
u sure thats the reason
YES 100% no other reason I am sure for certain
I really wanna get one of the latticed Glorious mice but that bitch would get clogged with cat hair SO fast
but they're really nice and breathable
I watch and play a lot of r6 siege and some of themice those players use is just like
I have the thing where dance turns into backstab during stealth so I just go 12134 during opener
100% placebo
Mice with holes in them all over, made of like, paper thin materials for lightness
Glass mousepads
sectech and cd sectech are in the same spot.
Arm-sleeve
the shift just gives you CB same bind
why u want it to be light, i even added weight to mine
ah I guess yeah
and the holes are for airflow
It's placebo cope imo
additionally
less palm sweat
400DPI king
I think my brain is more wiered to press shift-2 tho cause that is my shiv bind -> 2nd tech is like 2nd shiv for kb 
it shares the one with outlaw
do I hAs MaRk uP?
My gf just went from playing outlaw to ass and can't believe how easy it is haha
sub is the only spec that has a relatively unique keybind scheme for me
dont say the girl, dont say the girl, dont say the girl...
yeah and its easier to adjust other specs around it instead of adjusting sub to other kbs
yeah, like that's why I have dance on 3 so I can hit it with sod extremely easily
but having any cd button on 3 for any other spec would be a goofy bind
but having sod on Q which is my usual main cd button makes it seamless
my main cd button bind is S
3 is garrote and pistol shot for the others
I have garrote on 3

goated
Dmg CD's always on G, Defensives always on V
mouseover garrote on 3, mouseover rupture on 5
CC always on R
nah Shift 3
i have shadowstep on R
Movement spells always on C
Only Q, E (I dont use 1/2) 3, 4, 5 are rotational spells that change between class/spec. The rest are always the same placement.
idk I just need to prog a boss on sub and the rotation will be honed in
BS/Strike 1, Evisc 2, Dance 3, Step 4, Rupture 5, Sod Q, Kick E, Flag G, Blades shift+middle mouse, BP F, storm MB2
my finishers/dumpers r on mouse wheel up
G used to be SnD now that's alt+mwd
evis/envenom/frost strike
ring finger to 1 feels SO fatiguing, ever since I changed to Q/E instead of 1/2 (changed like 10 years ago) stopped getting any qrist fatigue
F is always aoe finisher
yeah my big problem was having ER on 1 and snd on 2 and then they removed those so I put feint and a 2nd shiv bind there 
I think ER was shift+R bc that was my cov abilities bind
now shift+R is cb sectech
soon to be not that
might just become CB/Tea
/cast [nostance,mod:lshift,known:Shiv] Shiv;
/cast [nostance, mod:lctrl] Shuriken Toss;
/cast [stance, mod:lshift] Backstab;
/cast [stance,mod:lctrl,known:Shiv]Shiv;
/cast [stance, nomod] Shadowstrike; Backstab
this is what i have one 1
but its not rly
I would fatfinger/fuck so much shit up if I had any binds like that
Shift/Ctrl/Alt are seperate bars
basically if im not in stealth or SD when i press it its backstab
in that order
ye, had to change during stance this season when we added backstab as first builder in dance
for minmax
how much of a dps increase is the backstab?
for danse stacking right? like .5%
think it was like 0.5%
but im a minmax whore
I dunno, .5% is the thresold for me to bother about these shit
tho sub rota wasnt rly that challenging this season so i kinda welcomed it
ye I usually look at how disruptive something is vs the gain
comparing to the last time i played in as dust build on Smold, its a fckin walk in the park
This for me
usually end up going for the optimization
with the macro it doesn't feel that disruptive
nah not at all imo
true... e.g. when Hacha was cooking when Danse Macabre came out for the firt time, i swore i wont do any of that no matter how big dps increase is 😄
Somewhere down the line macros like that have to cause issues, for me the less variance there is in things like that the better I play. Everything has its place and that's that
I only have macros that stop mistakes (like SoD doubletap)
I coached myself away from spamming button presses a while back
I come from a world where I had shit internet all my life, so the buttonspam is baked into my being from 2006
I had a really clicky temp keyboard for a while so that was motivation lol
isn't there symbol of death macro that stops you spamming though
!sod
Macro to prevent accidental uses of extra charges: #showtooltip Symbols of Death /castsequence reset=2 Symbols of Death,null /cqs
there is
Thats the one I mean
ye
yea, why coach yourself when you can macro it out
BUT if you for whatever reason need to be able to use it twice in a row
what if blizz bans macros
Then you have it
I have another bind for symbols if I need to use it twice in a row
I try to limit unnecessary button presses for both abilities and movements, idk
and if blizz bans macros, I quit the game ezpz
That IS the way to go tbh
have some literal freakazoids in guild who legit never stop moving
i think clean inputs are overrated
I am still REALLY bad at the classic Melee Left/Right step spam
it gets annoying when it comes to baiting certain mechanics
Years of MOBAS rotted my brain, low APM means mistakes
Yeah I agree, it's a horrible habit
the one before 'asses'
ohhhh
I could see it being flagged ig
wasn't aware it was potentially a problematic word
'hyperactive'
there
I play sup/jungle mostly so im ALWAYS checking other lanes and whats going on
moba camera movement is why I could never get into league
I'm happy to spectate lol
REAL players use middle mousebutton to micro move camera
Middle mouse and drag is like
What elevated my league gameplay
means I can always keep my cursor by wherever my champ is
I look at it like any other sports thing
there are people who are really, really good at it and watching them is where I derive my enjoyment
is spectator mode still a thing?
used to chill and watch matches in the hub
same
Was removed years ago, ppl absolutely hated the removal of it
played a bit of Talon and Chogath but learned quickly that league wasn't the kind of game for me to play
i remember there was a feature when they would publish high elo games in client so u could just pick one
I OTP in the jungle so it was so nice to be able to find and easily watch the other OTPs via client
I'd watch him and Voyboy
I remember when Alliance was strong
sometimes DanDihn
Shook, Froggen, Tabz Nyph Wickd
i liked watching Imacutiepie
man i remember when dyrus retired
i almost cried with him 😄
guy had like easily 180k ppl watching a stream
then u switch to wow stream where the best rogue has like 2k tops
raise your dongers
most rogues quit streaming too for pvp
think some are left but i dont even know them
Im ngl i've never watched a rogue player anything, stream or YT
back when i was a pvp player i watched Pika and Whaaz
First I've ever watched was a Shindigg vid like, 2 days ago
I watched Reckful a ton back in cata
considering im from EU, watching Pika is not rly the best ofr sleep schedule 😄
i used to talk with athene and reckful a bit
Funnily Athene is a League player not a WoW player to me
was a mod in Bajheera's stream many moons ago
I played a lot during the peak of his item
like supremely early days
shame i got permabanned from the league back in 2017.
ruh roh
I'm a league lover, still one of my most consistently played games
we saw that
haha
tbh Lol would fit my nowadays schedule far better than wow
considering i have a need to game only during fridays and saturday afternoons
I'm very competitive so League and R6 cover that basis, WoW is my forever game, I RP, I M+ and casually do HC
I always have and always will
and ofc not playing a game for 2 weeks when i feel like it is also desirable
prog raiding when i have to be there every week twice over work days feels harder and harder to pull 😄
Hit ‘em with the flex
I've never consistently watched one WoW creator tbh, even though I dont play them anymore Rust and OSRS have been my highest hours watched every year
wow is boring to watch
yeah usually you hope the personality carries the content
bc wow content itself is not enteratining for the most part
I'll watch mdi watch party streams if its JB
what's the appeal of MDI? it feels so long
bc he's funny as fuck
me watching brewmaster M+ pull min-maxing
i should start streaming delves
previous mdi speedrun style was interesting to see what strats people would come up with
yea, but that got axed in favor or GP style
this version of mdi is significantly more interesting
i wont watch them but do it
Just wait until my race to world first aotc entirely via pugs within this specific criteria takes off
TGP style is just grindy
maybe bathtub delves
TRUE
previous mdi was one team wiping and then you spending 30 minutes watching a key thats already been decided
The class bans could be interesting, but honestly I dont think its all that fun to watch 4 teams play the exact same comp
hottub delve streams when?
this one got lucky with a great finish, but I can't imagine that continuing to be the case in future MDI/TGP
idk I liked the stakes of the previous mdi version
was a bit annoying having one dominant team for so long though
It is a shame how much of a gulf exists between playing wow and watching someone else play wow
well game is too complex to catch everything with naked eye
Format changes seldom help that tho, can't jelp one team simply having better players/strategy always
like lowkey I'd love to see some random team win RWF but it's not possible anymore
That's why I really love pull breakdowns, nuance is everything when it comes to perfecting a spec
Just more competitive teams would be great, but I dunno if Method will be anywhere near Echo
There's just too much money invested in the big 3, no one will ever compete really
I feel there's enough desire/effort being made by the chinese teams, but with them being 2 days behind on patch schedule, I don't see a world where they can win
not to mention them being way behind skillwise atm too
Eh, desire and effort only go so far when these big teams have people awake whilst the players sleep minmaxing W/A's, analysing pulls and strategies of other teams, the probably 100 people working behind the scenes on it all
more analysts don't necessarily mean better output, but yes, I do agree the support staff difference is massive, as are their pool of helpers to help them fill out and run splits smoothly
but on that last point, I think chinese teams might have an edge
chinese guilds dont struggle with ilvl
they struggle with taking hundreds of pulls per boss
chinese usually brute force bosses even more than european/american
I'm kind of torn, I want to keep rooting for Echo, but I also want method to do well, but not beat Echo if that makes any sense?
I feel compelled to root for the home team but Max irks me
I might not be his biggest fan, but I feel what he's done and achieved is really impressive
Shak + Firedup are a goated duo
yeah it def translates to a better watching experience
i miss watching jpc during rwf
id usually rotate between kush, jpc, perfecto and exile
i guess when he graduates from harvard
I heard rumors yeah
cool
he did everything there is to do in osrs so back to wow
shadowjpriestc
bring back the conetrick
I usually watch daizer because I used to raid with him and he's a good dude
i watch exile cuz i yap with him
why did ben stop participating?
I watch only kush. His streams are fun
after first tier in Dragonflight
wtf does Enhance look and sound so good 
part of me feels like shaman in general was long overdue for some tlc though
went from a shit convoluted mess to what they have now, it's kinda remarkable lol
oh it was for sure
yeah
Aren't they still paper though?
the audio fx for the attacks are rediculous
chain sunders tho
you feel like you're weilding a gigaton hammer breaking the world
its so cool
yeah i remember him quitting, was just curious about why he quit. just being a little nosy
enh is one spec where pretty much every button you press you can feel
which is super neat
yeah, i wish more specs could enjoy that quality
everything feels paper compared to sub. WQ at 73 feels ok
he crashed out over blizz nerfing raszageth while liquid was asleep
and echo killed it during that
i see, thanks for sharing
p3 had an insane dps check before enrage
blizzard turbo nerfed it
and echo killed it a few pulls later
yea the enrage was real
the room got tiny
and you had some secs where everything was full of thunder
The unfortunate Christmas nerf
Imagine if every eviscerate felt as good to press as execute does on my troll warrior
Dunno what the problem is, I feel a lot when I play sub
ugh that would be amazing, we get a lil extra spinny for coup and thats the best they can do
A lot of despair when I press backstab every five seconds
like imagine if sectech felt like a 1min base cd ability
That would be great
Some omega cloud of purple
rogue needs a cool SFX and VFX guy
just kidnap him from somewhere
idk
Meant sfx
would be nice
I will always advocate for classic sound effects. The backstabs just sounded sooo good
I feel like a lot of specs currently suffer from this phenomenon and it's an interesting thought experiment to divine why
There's this constant push/pull about making your CDs feel like a moment vs getting to push them more often
You see it with fire mages and combust, right
honestly I think rogue is in the minority when it comes to spell effects because ours are extremely plain compared to other melee
caster effects are different because they're pretty flashy by design
Oh sorry I misunderstood, I thought you were talking about how sectech didn't feel impactful because of damage, not because of visual effects
no just visually/sfx wise
like if you just saw the spell effect you'd never guess its our hardest hitting spell
Right, I agree completely with that
or one we base our rotation around
I think they just don’t want rogue to have anything cool looking
Can you point to an example of a visually appealing cooldown ability that another melee class has access to that we can compare between?
They literally went out of their way to make flag look like nothing
They did the same thing with sectech shadow clones, didn't they?
Yeah sectec is basically animationless
It’s not just animations mb
breath of sindragosa, demolish, exterminate, rising sun kick/whirling dragon punch
the only sound fx I hear on rogue is fient. Kekw
I think every other melee has pretty satisfying animations
yeah
And vfx/sfx
like we talked about earlier enh is loaded with cool stuff
like every ability
eye beam, blade dance
for dh
Yeah top ones are prob enh and monk
Yeah the big cd that comes to mind for me is ascendance
Dh up there too
that one is really cool
rogue doesn't really have anything to compare
despite having the ability pool to have some really cool stuff
Shadowlands Cov abilities for rogue were actually so evil compared to like every other class in the game, as far as vfx are concerned
the sectech tooltip says you spawn shadow clones, but the clones never actually appear
kekw
I genuinely lost tract of time. Nearly 75 now. Hahah
should just change the tooltip to say you have a delayed fart reaction
I do wonder why rogue's animations were toned down so much
sectech was genuinely cool when it did the actual clones of your character, I can't see why they would take that away
didn't they disappear after the s3 tier set
I miss my lil rupture buddy
not really
but kinda
it's hard not to subscribe to this idea the more you think about it
it's weird because at one point I think rogue animations were generally fine, or at least on the right track, but they've actually been paring away components that made them fine and now the abilities are left looking pretty anemic
playing my ww monk rn, and I get like 500 cool visuals on all my basic stuff
its night and day difference


