#subtlety
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yeah fair,
!wa
gotcha the 2nd sectec in cds do we need to rupture prior too
or is it good to send with a back stab
I’m just leveling but damn first dungeon yesterday and the bear tank did so much more dps than I at all times pretty much. Not much of a rotation to do yet ofc and crappy items even for my low level. So help inspire me so I don’t swap out of rogue and sub right away 😄
What are the best things about playing sub?
tbh it's more about using a finisher between the flag press and dance
so can be evis if your rupture will last long enough
i always just send rupture though
because im monkey and sometimes rupture ru ns out
just levelling dungeon things
get used to that
best part about sub is doing big damage on demand
worst part of sub is not doing big damage outside those moments
but either way
nothing matters when levelling
just enjoy levelling
I’ve gotten the impression that maybe I won’t get to shine on sub before being in some mid-level m+ or like raid bosses, is it like that? That it requires quite a bit of hp and proper pulls to get use for its damage potential?
if no one else in your group is doing damage you can eat up an entire pull all by yourself still even in low keys
but sub kinda doesnt come together until youre done leveling
nothing really comes together until youre done levelling and get gear and tier
sub does have a bit of a learning curve
but good thing there are also 2 other rogue specs that can be played
but again again
nothing matters in the levelling process
other than having fun
leveling a rogus is 💀
I guess with small pulls in low difficulty I’ll need 15% of my burst for one pack, or even 5%, and then I’ll be on cooldown for seven packs 😂 sometimes it’s painful not getting up to that demanding level where you need the potential…
I don’t have much time to play, but I spend my whole workdays rehearsing ramps and rotations in my head, planning out raid encounters etc, so I’m here for the learning 😄 Just gotta find that target dummy time too…
what level are you?
Bah, 22, playing with wife and other friends so no rush
Except I want to get to the fun parts of sub
i turned off damage numbers and it took me half a key to realise it was the best thing ever
Yeah I suppose, figured it could be a good tool for checking out what my abilities do 🙂
Haha alright maybe
blasphemy!! you need to assert superiority over your friends
is rupture spreading a priority?
only when tank is grouping and outside cds
nothing wrong with that, you can look at what your abilities do and try and practice
but for example
you don't get a lot of what your end game talent stuff is
which defines the build
eg secret technique isn't gettable till level 29
flagellation which is our main source of burst damage isnt until like level 60
levelling rogue has to be the worst class to level
you can't really practice driving a car with 1 wheel, no brakes and an exhaust pipe
you just don't have abilities that are required till so far in
just level entirely in dungeons :p
sub without shadowcraft is so much less fun
no energy regen, no increased total energy, you just sit there pressing backstab like a monkey
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
you dont get dance till something like lkevel 30 iirc
not when you're playing with both hands and legs tied behind your back
Where does the energy regen come from? Been so frustrated with my backstab ………. Eviscerate ……….. backstab …….. tempo…
!design
Subtlety is designed to be a spec with highs and lows. During your cooldowns you do immense burst and have plenty of buttons to spam but conversely outside of symbols and dance you do not do any damage whatsoever. This means that having some periods of "afk" downtime where you do not press a button because you're out of energy is the intended way the spec plays. As long as its not happening inside your cooldowns (flag/blades/dance/symbols) its not a problem at all, and especially nothing that having more haste would "fix".

rogue is probably one of the worst levelling specs
but don't worry it gets better once you reach max level and get gear
(nobody tell him)
your talent trees enable your energy, things like bonus energy when symbols, or when you dance
I never got to max with rogue...
That’s very enlightening, I understand the point of the +energy cooldowns now… I had been searching for some passive regeneration
It’s tough in delves and such sometimes, or like when you’re new?
The tea is out of meta atm? That’s energy stuff too isn’t it…
yeah
sub rogue is one of those specs though
when you are doing damage
energy isnt a concern
when youre not doing damage
energy also isnt a concern
talents really enable you in cd's, kinda to the point where you feel like you have infinite energy
because youre not doing damage
Well it does sound like a really cool spec
we have one of the highest burst damages in the game
that isnt affected by bloodlust
Sub does match my need for learning and practice, complexity, at least…
but is affected by shaman 💀
crit/mastery bloodlust when
they should add talent that converts haste into bp damage
frees them some time buffing it themselves
is shuriken toss a button thats actually used?
probs by the one button thing, assassin has poisoned knife in there
it procs prism
prism?
lol, the trinket, but if you needing shuriken toss to proc it, means you sitting outta melee for 10s, and got bigger problems
When you physically can't hit the boss sometimes I'll throw a couple, more cope than actually useful lmao
i use it to punish m+ tanks who decide pulling 3 mobs at a time with burst specs in group
^
right now i got it bound on q but if its not really used i might just ditch it
Only useful for world quests
Having some sort of ranged is nice for tagging mobs
But usefulness in keys and raid is pretty nonexistent
nah send it in dance for macabre stack
😄
inb4 midnight tier set makes that a thing
The last time shuriken toss was put into our rotation was in BFA, and it was an undertuned azerite trait u didnt take, and then got reworked in the first minor patch of the expansion
Make it bounce across mobs like crazy and deal insane damage, maybe instead of a little shuriken throw a glaive or something
and call it glaive maybe?
:)
Aldrachi trickster, new hero tlaent
also maybe give rogue double jump and eye beam
I already have double jump
I play dracthyr
Maybe they should make a whole raid boss about all three of our specs
How much of a damage increase is 2 set and 4 set respectfully
Still rocking 4set from season 2 and getting stomped on charts >_<
!tier
Tier set:
Best Slots: Head, Chest, Hands, Legs
Strength: 2p (~10% dps) | 4p (~20% dps) -> Combined: ~30%.
Note: Try to get the 4set asap.
Holy shit
723 4p simmed for 25% over old 4p for me
You guys are getting stomped without 4p? Maybe st raid bosses a little bit, but I actually feel pretty competitive in m+ already
im getting stomped in raid on my dh with 2p 0pc
ty i hate it
does sub struggle with downtime like outlaw does?
!coup
sub is downtime
Coup de Grace Optimizations:
- **Number 1: **You can stop using finishers ~10 seconds before your Flagellation comes up. This is to build up Shadow Techniques for your cooldowns.
- Number 2: ONLY with the 4 set of the new tier! -- During Shadow Blades, if you get the 4 set buff, you can use Shuriken Storm to not proc Unseen Blade before using your 2nd Coup.
- Explanation: The Tier Set buff does not allow new applications of the Unseen Blades stacks, so any Unseen Blades procs between the 2 Coup casts would be wasted, this small adjustment prevents that from happening.
downtime outside of cds is beneficial actually
so you guys play with thistle tea or with cold blood?
for raid CB keys can run either but better with thistle so you dont starve too much
Tea build is cope
play this build in keys
Feels solid, doesn't feel like a burden on ST
is this the one from wowhead marked as "play this" ?
no rotten?
do we not shuriken storm to apply FW anymore in aoe?
idk
Just the no tornado shit is good
RS TFD Finality/rotten
!design
Subtlety is designed to be a spec with highs and lows. During your cooldowns you do immense burst and have plenty of buttons to spam but conversely outside of symbols and dance you do not do any damage whatsoever. This means that having some periods of "afk" downtime where you do not press a button because you're out of energy is the intended way the spec plays. As long as its not happening inside your cooldowns (flag/blades/dance/symbols) its not a problem at all, and especially nothing that having more haste would "fix".
Isn’t it a way bigger loss on AOE than gain ST?
Iirc finality over rotten was only like 0.6% for me on st
so after our opener how are we using dance. do you do 2 dances before your next flag?
Yeah I mean u can take rotten
quick question in m+ where is more then 7 targets and when I am in CDs I do shuriken into black powder right... ofc coup and secret
I'm confused about this. By unseen blade stacks is it talking about flawless form?
Escalating blades
Ohh that makes sense
guys why do the top rogues appear as playing sub but when you click the profile they are assa
is sub strong only with gear or what
BOth specs are good
Sub kinda needs prism to be playable
can you share the parse then so i can see what youre doing pls
Once I get out of raid if I remember to
I have prism and Lilly and I’m still trying to figure out how to best use both
the stats on WCL show sub as one of the worst specs
What stats?
DPS rankings
it's because the majority of public logs only cover the first 3 bosses (where sub struggles against other pure st specs outside of soulbinder)
can reference the fights where sub shines if you want a more accurate gauge (soulbinder, araz, nexus king, dimensius)
Yeah reference mythic dimensius 
It's there if you squint real hard 
But yeah WCL statistics page is just very useless
IT says arms is the second best spec in raid 

U have to use ur thinking cap to really understand the damage amps + big damage = good this raid
instant
and then whatever you feel like on your other one
crippling if you need slow
mind numbing if you want to slow casts
atrophic for raid probably
Can you pre-cloak circles on the first boss in the raid?
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
What do we use to gain cps in Aoe with more then 7 mobs in CDs? Shadwostrike to proc coup?
Thanks ye first I need to get down basic rotation b4 I can start min maxing set 😄
I wish that target dummies would let you reset cd's
Anyone know a consistent way of getting Disorienting Strikes cheese without secteccing before dying? Like is there a toy you can use in raid to get it or something
guys as sub rogue when I should use CD's / burst windows during raid boss fights ?
where they deal the most dmg
so either when lots of adds are spawning or dmg amp is up
some cooldowns don't even reset on boss reset in raid
^^
there is no consistent way
I wonder why they didn't make flag reset
Flag a bitch
Despairge
!gauda
Pre Pull Cheeses:
Recommended - Supercharge - Using Symbols of Death before pull gives you 2 supercharger charges, this is easy to perform and can be done without any loss given the infinite timer on supercharger.
- Explanation: Only the first 2 stacks of Supercharger don't reset on a boss pull, and you can easily press symbols early enough to have full charges on pull.
NOT Recommended- Disoriented Strikes - Using Secret Technique gives you disoriented strikes, you can start bosses with the benefits when using Secret before a wipe or on Trash carefully. - Explanation: Disoriented does not reset on boss pull, but this trick requires a lot of attention and can't be done consistently, so is not recommended.
Damage Impact: Both Cheeses lead to a bit more than1% damagegain in a 5 minute Patchwerk simulation.
Have you tested what the Disoriented cheese gives with vanish opener?
vanish opener is slightly better with disoriented
it's most likely due to small sample size, but I feel like I deal way more dmg in my opener with vanish opener when using the cheese
ah okay
and that's with combat length variance right?
i'm trying to learn the sub opener/cd sequence, how important is it to refresh rupture before a cd window as in the opener? i'm used to assa where refreshing rupture in cd's is fine
if rupture wont last
because I'd imagine it's even better without it in some cases
the baseline of subtlety is to optimize for burst windows
so its a good thing to refresh strategically
do i just sit on my hands entirely with fully cp waiting to refresh rupture if i see a cd window coming up
re-apply if its falling off, if not yes
just sit at max cp when flag hits 10 sec
and press backstab when you are about to overcap energy
roger
sub seemed a lot harder to pick up than what i’m experiencing hitting a dummy
esp if i can literally do nothing to prepare for a cd window
The spec has a reputation of being harder than it actually is
someone hasn't finished their campaign 
hello sub chads, currently im dummy practicing on 3 targets assuming its a raid scenario. do i ever black powder on 3 targets or just spam eviscerate with nimble flurry up?
regardless of shadow dance
Did we used to do a 1cp nightblade into a full cp one in Legion?
or am i misremembering
Yeah, I wouldn't say the spec is hard. Just punishing for not playing your cds very specifically, butchering a dance window or losing uptime during one kills your dps so badly
are you guys using the versa belt power
Subtlety is hard because it has concepts other specs don't have
inherently, its not hard to use cooldowns together
many classes do so
but no other spec/class has multiple stacks of cooldowns
and cdr on them
and multiple maintainance debuffs/dots

so people inherently perform worse before at least getting the basics down
i saw people in higher keys move from competitive overall damage
to 1-2 mil overall
simply by switching to subtlety from assassiantion
the management part is not trivial, and you get punished for mistakes
I'm quite new to Sub. Does anyone know how to properly track if my next backstab will apply Unseen Blade?
!wa
Why are you spying on my keys 
le's weakaura has a estimate for ub
there is no reliable way to track it
blizz design decision^^
haha
to me that's also what felt incredibly rewarding learning the spec
i am surprised
ah ok i have a estimate already but i hoped there was a better way
lets say it this way
everytime something clicked you instantly saw it on meters
and there's still a lot to optimize I feel
XD
Well ye, dummy was fine
But in m+ I had no feeling what to press kinda?
And felt...slow?
is there a sub guide that anyone would recommend for someone switching from sin while it's broken af to try and learn sub in the short term
Mby just too used to sub
!guide
pick your poison all of them are good
hekili is busted as a learning tool tbf
the wowhead guide felt very inaccessable
(Pick all 3 guides)
the rotation for example, both the graphic and the "explanation" part, just did not feel very "new to sub" friendly and I found it very hard to follow
how would you change it to be accessible?
like inherently
the picture shows the key press of the opener
I could not answer that, I'm not a guide writer, so I don't know what would make it feel more accessible, I can just say that I did not find it easy to follow/understand.
and the explenation does go over the decision making
like #2 isn't even labeled as what ability that is, I had to look it up to figure out it was flagellation cause the icon has changed, I thought it was gloomblade
The explanation has the ability name in it....
there is a alternative versio too
which suppots mouseover
but thats hidden behind a toggle
...
i mean okay fair
you did not know the ability and did not want to look at the explenation tab
which def. is harder to understand then
i can understand that
the one thing that kinda threw me when i first looked at it was the dance into 5 on the optimization, like it almost implies dance straight into shadowstrike and then technique
had to verify with a sim that i wasnt crazy and that it didnt make sense lol
it's ok, nvm, please forget I asked.
i am just asking for feedback
because you used the phrase "inaccessable", which is fairly brutal given that i spend a lot of time to try to make it easy to understand visually and with explenations
Didnt beam the information straight into my brain, guide sucks
if you cannot figure out ability names that are literally written right there i dunno what to say
You didnt even put in the bare minimum of effort man.
The guides are all fine, the problem is people are too lazy to read
The visual guide is there, there's an explanation of the abilities and why you use them. Seems fairly straightforward to me.
waht happen if you put that instead of your picture
Nothing
it sucks on mobile
you can't read it
I'm completely new to sub (and rogue) too and for what it's worth everything was clear to me (even though sub is very overwhelming to learn from scratch lmao)
There are no names aswell
ah really
because the sequence is too long
ye
right, I didn't spend over an hour last night reading the guide and looking at icyveins before coming here to ask. I know asking questions in ravenholdt is the biggest taboo, "just sim it" is a fucking icon you can spam at people, but yeah, no effort was put in
huh?
not replying to you fuu
Hes mad at me cause I made a joke and it hit a nerve.
I mean "I'm not a guidewriter" when the guy is asking for feedback is completely unreasonable lol
Maybe just put the ability Labels instead of the order numbers below icons
In a small font
would be possible too
i like the mouseover part
i hoped wowhead would fix the scaling problem ^^
A small "key" section might make sense in the blank space of the timeline
so at a glance all the info is in one place
i honestly don't think it's necessary, but could be helpful
think its a problem of redability then
To say 'I dunno what number 2 is cause the icons changed', that's on you, the icon is the same in game, if you're too lazy to check what it was then that's not down to Fuu that you dunno what it is
i think its fair critique
@vale pine can you explain why the secret technique is moved to step 6 in the optimization and we dont backstab at all? since it doesnt match the sims
wdym
This part
yeah it doesnt make sense to me
First Sec Tec before Cold Blood Sec tec
oh, it is the labeling from the old opener, i probably can update it, or remove it entirely
could add backstab to the sequence too
so its less confusing
that legit made me sit and scratch my head for 10 min because i couldnt see the logic lmao
so i just simmed it and checked what sim did
Now thats how you provide feedback. Gold Star
I saw on logs someone symbols -> CB sectec -> dance in the opener after first dance is that optimal
assuming dance was then active after sectec delay
Its if you want to skip the optimization and just send CB with Sectec in a macro
Sorry i typed that wrong. I meant they did their first dance/sec tec, that one ended than hit that sequence with full combo points into 2nd dance
i think secret before dance
seems weird
dance-secret is fine
and if you macro the two
you will send cb + secret there
which is a roughly 1-1.5% damage loss overall
iirc
but its not that bad espeically if you learn the spec or don't play mythic
So they sent Secret with CB before their second dance was used?
Oh that makes sense, i thought dance had ended
could you maybe ask wowhead to fix it tho
cause the mouseover part is so op
honestly I think it's important to note sub is one of the least accessible specs in game on first look
we did ^^, it was just not changed so far
not much to do with your guidewriting
im currently having a headache figuring out how im going to play second night of araz
i specifically asked if i can use the pictures because i got many dm's saying the guide is useless on mobile
that's more to do with wowhead on mobile no?
yes
I think expectations need to be managed, this isn't the kind of spec you pick up in 10 minutes
the amount of times i send sectec without dance up
omfg
and the entire pull is bricked from that one mistake
onto more constructive topics
what's with the difference in talents
between reccomended araz and logs
talents are fairly flexible
flexible in terms of everyone playing st build everywhere 😄
haha true
like I get we dont use tfd in araz
TFD is just in the standard ST build
lowkey I think im just gonna try to cook the build with the easiest gameplay
i cant get used to this spec in a day after not touching it since s1
i mean tfd probably just loses value because of the amp phase, so u dont do as much of ur damage at the start
ye, tfd is good bc we get the extra duration in cds
Backstab/Shadow Dance/Tea Macro:yaml #Showtooltip Shadow Dance /cast [bonusbar:1] Backstab; Shadow Dance /castsequence reset=5 Thistle Tea, nullThis will cast Shadow Dance and Tea(if talented) on first key press and Backstab on second key press.
from what the guide says you hold coup for upcoming major cds, 10s by building shadow techniques and 20s of holding coup and pressing bp
ty sir
!macro
Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use Araz's Ritual Forge
/use Unyielding Netherprism
/use Lily of the Eternal Weave
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.
!guide
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
idk sims doesnt seem to press bp at all so idk if its outdated or not
guys what the tldr difference between sub, outlaw, assa rn? are all 3 viable?
well yes, but for st coup de grace optimization
all is playable
It's not an optimisation
sub or ass depends on the boss
Outlaw is undertuned, Assa is bugged but still performs well in heavy AOE, Sub is in a great spot
all are generally viable, each is best in specific situations
whats preferable for m+? Or same thing applies all 3 are viable
i just noticed i wasnt seeing much assa in raider io
Yeah cause it's bugged rn
And youd only press bp if you have coup up
asking questions is fine, asking questions that are easily answered in guides are not as fine
likewise with gear questions
Most rogues switched to Sub
yeah the sim doesnt do it at all though it seems
Ig either because it doesn't have coup or because it doesn't need cdr
so either its super rare
for any "specific" gearing question the answer is sim yourself
or its not in
for any general gearing q uestion the answer is "get ilvl and avoid haste"
Number go up as long as number not haste
Idk what you guys are smoking, the majority of rogues are still playing sin
At high elo no
^
sub or sin at high, barely any outlaw
isn assassination giga bugged rn and does more damage than it is supposed to do
Nah it's the opposite
got fixed
It does way less
now there are more bugs discovered
and it does way less than its supposed to do
#justroguethings
It's Assa's turn to be buggy.
nah
I don't think it matters at all what high key players are doing rn
thats the DH expac
nvm i already set up bets that rogue wont even be included in the first beta client
We don't need a revamp
Most people focus on raid rn
I'm curious what they'll focus on for sub's apex talent
SecTec or Dance.
No other real options, imo.
Goremaw
Bonuses from Shadowheart now also apply to dance and subterfuge modifiers.
haha
can we get shadowlands sub back for m+ this is too complicated for me
Why is it bad to macro Symbols to SecTec guys ?
i just want to spam black powder
Might have to nerf it to 1% then might be too op
apex talents for bp so we never press evis again
Tomorrow's it's my turn to flame Ravenholdt and the guide writers, guys. Get in line!
You can just spam BP at 4+ targets it's fineeeee
Weird one I cant find in the guides, What poisons do we use? Like does atrophic actually affect raid bosses, or should I just be running wound or smthing
yeah but i have to coup sometimes mechanically the difficulty has shot up exponentially
Atrophic in raid, numbing in M+
cause you learn a bad habit and the use of symbols has and will change from time to time
Instant at all times for your damage poison
also you might clip symbols duration
Ye. You don't really have any choice.
if you are gonna macro symbols to anything, macro it to dance
It's either / or depending on content and always Instant.
quick lil eco dome weekly

Don't macro it to dance
You should share some damage with the rest of them
found a game breaking bug on the wowhead guide
sub dps on first boss in eco dome
Aight, makes sense, ty
Stealthi pays off the other dps confirmed
like
oh yeah @tepid trellis what's the WA that you have under your frame with the hp pot/potion/healthstone
dont macro it at all tbh
what weapon enchants do you use for forgeweaver mythic / how would i sim that
i can outdps all others in total
Top Gear -> replace existing -> select them all -> sim
still recommending to just bind it seperately... learn it...
you will have better control over your damage...
and how do i change it to sim for a forgeweaver type fight?
Yeah yeah that's the plan
!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.
that?
The clipping actually makes sense
Just use Patchwerk I guess I dunno.
you really need to have supercharger for your sectecs
yeah
just a regular wa that tracks pots
probably hectic add cleave but also who cares just use patchwerk and swapping enchants wont make a drastic difference
which is the regular wa 
im using a luxthos one and its taking up a lot of resources i think
its from Atrocity UI
everything i have is in his pack, cuz i help mal with keeping it up to date for rogue
or almost everything
i do have some purely self creations
streets from before the eco
They never do 🙁
nah just helping friends with weekly keys
friends have to pay in a specialcurrency... named beer.
like i made this coup refund warning bar to show when the last tick of coup is so you dont queue a finisher
the bar under the buffs
!macro
Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use Araz's Ritual Forge
/use Unyielding Netherprism
/use Lily of the Eternal Weave
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.
cant macro cold blood anymore?
u want cold blood for the 2nd technique
!wa
yeah i know
so u dont do this - no
but thats what im saying
is your WA pack available somewhere or only in atrocity UI
i have 2 sec tech buttons
ok wait, can I macro sectec to blades?
no
the q ill ask now is why
i used to have 2 sectech buttons and one was macro'd with CB
yes. one with and one without cb 😄
i swear to god sub got infinitely harder compared to dust in df
it doesnt work anymore
or maybe i just got shit
srsly?
yup
😄
is this coming to aui or will it stay as a secret custom wa
seems kinda nice to have
in aoe how many tagets do we want rupture up on?
mh. dunno the sim but i do rupture as long as tank is pulling together
works fine for me
its nice, tricks are perma ^^
yeah wait, why would we not macro sectec to blades? it's always the first global of blades
@tepid trellis wanna post some of the m+ runs on YT?
!macro
Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use Araz's Ritual Forge
/use Unyielding Netherprism
/use Lily of the Eternal Weave
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.
!cbug
Cold Blood bug:
A common issue when switching between Assassination Fatebound and Subtlety is that Cold Blood stops working, this problem is solvable with the following step:
- Relogging.
You can use ths weakaura to get a reminder: >Open on Wago.io <
Is it on your bars.
Guildy of mine asked, if sub is a 2 button class. watched my discord stream while i was off cd 😄 i had to smile
goon morning
defias brotherhood
Feels the same when my guildies are saying "you just fan of knives and black powder, and you do 20M on packs, what's this op class"
yeah 😄 ! This!
fan of knives whats that? 
haha^^
it seems most of the top logs just play single target, replicating might not be super high value on the fight, i can adjust that in the guide for sure. good point
@vale pine i've yet to get an answer on this, why are we not macroing sectec to blades
because sometimes u use it before blades
ok wait what
thats fine
you would want to macro cold blood and secret
but in a way to have the option to not use cold blood
ya i just have 2 sec tec's one with cb one without
blades is macro'd with my trinket
so you would need to macro blades to the non cold blood version?
yes
i guess you could do that
well its wrong to say blades to sec
i mean then you would still need another sectec keybind
its better to say im macroing sectec to blades
i was just confused
for when u use it before blades
yes ofc
i mean it does not matter if you use it before or after secret
as long as clones get it
i am unsure what you ask for
heyo do we have a weak aura to pre symbol in raid
a reminder
there's people only using cb inside blades
and doing very well
it can't be a massive loss
thats how you use it
We CB the second SecTec in blades as it's at the peak of our damage window.
Yo guy's on big pulls I feel like doing more dmg by doing the ST rotation rather than BP... Does it have anything to do with sprea find weakness ?
It's like.. 1.5% or something iirc?
during lag/blades
yes
ok that simplifies things a lot
nah, i dont record when im just doing weeklies, also im playing very unethically just to do more dmg
It's all about packing in our damage into the peak of our amp. The biggest possible hit.
make sue to use coup still if you have multiple targets
depends on the AUi guys if they want it or not
did you fix your obs?
ill find out tmrw
oh ok i hope they want it
atrocity ui
ohh
oh yeah, i just ignored Coup when doing BP, thanks
Ignoring coup in 2025 
don't be mean, its easy to forget if you are learning
Coup is my lifeblood rn
nvm im raiding tonight
Gives me an aneurysm when it procs cp tho
forgot it was monday
not mean, just curious, you should get hard on the coup crits
haha^^
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
id pay money for them to give us back dust, made playing cds a lot more intuitive than this garbage
100% certain it wont
how did people complain about dust and they're ok with the current optimisations?
!wa
i hope that tierset gets worked into the 4th trickster column
well courent optimizations are optional
cuz it wasent easily accesible to the casuals
where can I find the barebones?
idk man, i was v confident with end of df sub
if you wanted to do any form of mid dmg
this current version is giving me a headache
you needed to plan out a boss fight
how do I remember all this shit while playing mechanics
I see sub rogues in high keys taking CB jnstead of thistle tea again (including symbol talents). What is recommenden for talents in lower Keys?
Do we no longer refresh symbols at 3 seconds?
i think you can so long as you'd supercharge sectec
which normally doesn't line up with symbols at 3
tbf it kinda plays itself
doesnt matter you wont notice a difference
play what you want
i can admit im not thinking about my rotation when im playing in raid
I think you also have a lot more hours on sub than me or the average player + better player in general
Honestly I feel that
Stealthi is just pressing buttons
Sub just needs practice
sin just isn't functional on that fight, you're like 20% behind sub
yeah same, dance is just muscle memory
A lot of it makes sense like. You don't dance after X seconds left on flag. You only CB the second SecTec in cooldowns. You do a 2 - 1 - 2 sequence betweenc ooldowns of dances.
and outside dance is backstab soup
Once it clicks it clicks
The spec is really easy once you get comfortable with the relatively complex rules
the issue is ill get 1 mechanic or have dodges, stop paying attention to the rotation
It’s like 20 secs on flag before you pool dance is what I’ve noticed
Then it becomes more about optimising your dances for optimal pad priority damage
17-20
and realise i didnt send 2nd dance in blades
i usually just check out the environment

good time to look around and see what mechanics are happening
Guys, could you tell me in what raid bosses sub IS better or equal than Assa? I like to play whats more optimal but i prefer playing sub
Play sub
Sub is god tier this raid
its the time to look at boss timers and be like "yeah adds should spawn exactly....NOW and make em vanish"
Pure ST Assa beats sub
Play that then
it'd be a shame if they made all the hardest bosses aoe
The only tricky ish part of raid is changing around CD usage to fit kill times for different grps
They wouldn't
soulbinder for overall dps, forge, nexusking, dimensius
On raider.io check roster for echo and check in what spec kush played on which boss xD
kush is a method gamer now
Not looking forward to mark management on the dhs

Maybe I'll just stick to sub
meanwhile our boi exile is dominating
Exile is an animal
it's not too bad if you set notes to remind you to move mark to the next intermission boss
and if ur mark goes to narnia just bleed the nearby guys if following isnt an option
sadly the goat has vanished... james.
hes playing again
Gotta hand it to perfecto tho, he's been there since like forever
He pushed some keys, but betrayed us
Perfecto played so well, really wild gamin'
i remember perfecto back in mop
It's really cool to see such fantastic rogue play this race
Yeah really nice
The last flag window
So sweaty
I would have totally messed that up
True
I would've died on pull
My bad
27 times
wdym barebones, rotation with 0 optimization?
just means you use flag/blades + 2x symbols + 2x secret + 2x dance
and in between symols+dance+secret if possible
thats the very top level baseline gameplay
Grok, please write a tldr
XD
My favourite memory was when I saw someone in here asking for a streamer because they're a "visual learner". Then I saw them in Kush's (or maybe shindig's) chat asking them questions about the rotation.
i mean kush/perfecto/speed/casual are probably the rogues you find playing subtlety
so not bad
it is probably easier to ask questions in here, but everyone their preferences
kush is exceptional at playing but horrible at explaining anything... the guy just talks nonesense all day 😄
cant imagine anything good comes from letting him explain things on stream. its all memes
People complain about rude answers to dumb questions here
They haven't chatted on Kush's stream yet
i mean anyone looking at this (fuu guide) and going like "yeah i´d rather ask some streamer about rotation" is completely delusional. it doesnt get any better than this
It's not very beginner friendly
haha
i mean there are a lot of situational things that are very fair to ask a streamer
It doesn't text to speech the ability name when hovering
obviously kush isnt the best to ask, hes probably going to give u a meme answer
thats true
exactly^^
I watch kush for high level gameplay, not for education
but if you want to watch some higher level keys in terms of gameplay
why not
you can still learn decision making
but you need to have a really good understanding of the spec to begin with to even see whats going on
like try watching zac play outlaw and listen to baguette music
you have no idea whats even happening
you learn zip from that
my point
Yeah I just have a problem with people coming here or their chat and asking questions that just prove that they haven't read any guide for just a second
you need a certain baseline understanding
about abilities/cooldowns
then you can see how they are used
then again, everyone learns diffrently
Some even preface that they've read three guides and cannot answer the first question you ask
and most of the visual learners want a youtube guide, which is just a diffrent medium
That's like me back in the day when my drums teacher asked me if had practiced what he showed me last time
Yeah four days
haha
(didn't even look at my drums once)
just to be nerdy, visual learning does not exist. It is just a phrase people like to use to express preferences
classic
there are several studies to just outline tha basically
giving more options and putting more effort in teaching
means you get better results
funnily enough
I'm learning by fucking it up four hundred times
the test groups who got somone to talk to and react to their questions
had the best results
outdoing visual video guides by big margins
Asking is great
but that seems fairly obviouse
if you can directly interact
its always the best way to learn
because you can get answers exactly to the specific question you have at hand
i think many will just have to take a coaching session
its super easy to get stuck in a small detail
its the most efficient use of their time
instead of studying streams for little gain
You do some log reviews of people asking about peak min maxing and their flag window looks like a Jackson pollock
that reminds me, ive got a question, for every non cd dance+symbols, do you always want to backstab before the sectec?
Studying streams not doing things correctly as well.
i talked with stealthi and eleem about it yesteday a bit
a lot of logs i get posted in dm's recently
just don't use their 90 sec cooldowns efficiently
the other day i saw the echo mage use arcane surge and evocation afterwards
means they often use flag/blades every 3-4 minutes
i was like... bruh
???????????????????????
First builder after dance for the premed
its easy to do
like
because
first use at 0:00
its also just, people make mistakes uknow, so taking everything at face value is never a good idea
2nd use at 3:00
think of it like this
?
you know your big cooldowns do big damage
You see I’m holding for prisim stacks.
its easy to fuck up blades in keys
so you just keep "holding" them
yeah but that doesnt answer the question, either you go into it with full combo points, do you insta sectec, or do you use a diff finisher to then backstab into sectec
for the perfect moment
yeah that makes sense
yes
thats a common m+ thing
so people often sit very long on coldowns
people want to hold for the most efficient time
which means their performance sucks ofc
finisher doesent change
you would dance-sectech-backstab
in the case of full cp
100% it’s basically impossible play this spec perfectly at all times.
its like that with all specs fwiw
If the raid leader want my cds on a specific moment he better assign them as I am a melee player and I am dumb as bricks. We pop on cd
too many factors happening in encounters
aight ty
yeah it's a very low/medium level mistake for any key doers
they don't treat the entire dungeon as one long boss fight
like anecdotally some rogues in the wfr forgot to do the symbols pre pull cheese
Some specs just are forgiving in not being “perfect”. looks at assa
in the 10+ mil overall eco i did
and as a result don't understand that holding for 1 minute here, 1 minute there means you've lost a cast in the dungeon
i fucked up quite badly before a big pull
was too aggresive with dances
and didn't have enough cdr for 2x dances in burst
I'd imagine it has more to do with "mental RAM" and ability to visualize. I wonder how if it'd change if they were given visual feedback instead
so had to delay 10-15sec
without knowing anything about the study you're talking about
Trying to understand keys are just one big boss encounter goes a long way in playing sub better in keys imo
think its just that any form of feedback loop is better than static learning material
it does not matter what medium
I guess that's also why people come here with questions that are already on wowhead
yeah definitely
Sooo much attention given to small minmix while you’re missing major things like 3 blades casts over the entirety of the key.
you can say that about any class tbh
people just keep holding cds
probably shows some problems in the us educaiton system
I think that's a worldwide thing
but also the potential, to have an program answer even the stupid questions you would not be able to ask a teacher
Again specs that are less cd reliant it doesn’t matter as much.
its a super inetressting thing
i personally would probably use ai assisted learning if it wasn't so unreliable
unreliable = it makes stuff up easy
sub keys are somewhat fun
ye you just have to be critical and check the sources it lists
St is the same since anniversary
in gameplay i mean
buff evis 20%, nerf bp 10%
don't think you need to nerf bp
i'm afraid of nerfs.. 😕 it feels good atm
we left the ehtics behind
wouldn't we be godtier in keys if no nerfs
ah true
better but no godtier
but i don't think you rly need to nerf bp
evis ofc would increase our aoe
but we are not out of line in aoe output
archon.gg tier list puts us at S+ tier atm
better than fdk
anyone know how they decide that?
also like
blizz thinks outliners like this are fine
on certain fights
(soul hunters)
nerf sub
my guess is, that they dont will nerf us. maybe some classes get buffs instead.
breakdown in my eco dome, was looking quite fine
no its smaller
looks like it's based on average score
like 20% or so
so sub rogues have the highest average score atm
isn't it more worth to sblades when the 2nd and 3rd hit are coming in then?
you get 1 extra gcd of blades
doesent matter
as in it's neutral simwise?
yes
ah ok
!coup
Coup de Grace Optimizations:
- **Number 1: **You can stop using finishers ~10 seconds before your Flagellation comes up. This is to build up Shadow Techniques for your cooldowns.
- Number 2: ONLY with the 4 set of the new tier! -- During Shadow Blades, if you get the 4 set buff, you can use Shuriken Storm to not proc Unseen Blade before using your 2nd Coup.
- Explanation: The Tier Set buff does not allow new applications of the Unseen Blades stacks, so any Unseen Blades procs between the 2 Coup casts would be wasted, this small adjustment prevents that from happening.
then I'll stop doing it, because sometimes it desyncs my flag and blades slightly which is way worse lol
i personally do it after the cast, cuz of muscle memory of doing it that way since forever
When would you use that trinket as sub? Sim says after flagellation, probably because I get 2 ST in it? is that recommended?
A lot of newer people end up using it like 0.1s after and then its kinda pointless to not do before
So since it didnt matter the recommendation was just changed
i usually just do it sorta half way through
the global
depending how fast my fingers are moving
whoa is that you playing stealthi
Ye didnt mean to call you out, moreso mentioning it for the others
very demure with the standing desk.
Wait so I wasn’t dreaming when I saw exile hit sectech before blades?
mindful even
This was normal for most of the expansion.
Idk I just picked up sub like mid-last season
!macro
Subtlety Macros:
It is not recommended to macro most cooldowns, including Cold Blood+Secret Techniques and Dance+Symbols.
The following macros are an exception:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Thistle Tea```
```yaml
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Ancestral Call
/use Araz's Ritual Forge
/use Unyielding Netherprism
/use Lily of the Eternal Weave
When using diffrent macros, make sure to keep the cooldowns on a seperate key.

