#subtlety

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plush roost
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Sec tec does work

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U press sec tec and get 4sht from apex 2 now

haughty mural
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so no apex cancel

plush roost
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The shadow clones dont clone themselves for damage but u still get your sht and all other benefits afaik

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Currently a gain to not cancel aura it in big aoe

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Since the phys part will spawn a clone

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So u get 6sht with apex sec tec

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Good deal

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If premed bug wasnt in itd be way better

haughty mural
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I see

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Thanks for clarifying. I missed that

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or my brain is getting dull over there warriorbrain

clever delta
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huge buffs

tribal blade
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getting all these bug fixes is kinda mind blowing

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maybe they're actually going in a new direction dev wise

keen dome
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I believed.

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They're tuning up the purple.

sinful zephyr
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its great going forward

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easier to add new things with less bugs

keen dome
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Ye, that's been my positive outlook on the whole situation. I overall like the changes, but the real core is that it should be easier to build up and improve versus the spaghetti before.

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Hopefully.

cursive island
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Is 2 sectech in blades supposed to be consistent on beta ?

torn cedar
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how does the dance/Sb function with CdG? does all attacks get the buff if sent 0.1 s before they fade? or does it have to be up for the full attack?

finite crow
north schooner
finite crow
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aa i see

tribal blade
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but i agree with you i think this is a strong base to work on

keen dome
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Ye, I agree.

tribal blade
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it just means now they can add more to sub and it won't be in danger of being convoluted

keen dome
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I think it needs one more button to do something like a "Every dance you get 1 stack and can consume it to get x stacks" or like, a Symbols or something

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I have zero idea what would really work and am just speculating.

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But I do think it could use additional button or mechanic.

tribal blade
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yeah there's a billion different directions you can take it

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last one i heard was something to do outside dance that makes you lead up to a stronger dance

keen dome
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My favourite dumb idea is a Netherprism button. Every Sectec or Dance or something is +1 stack that gives Mainstat. It goes to say, 8. And you can consume it anytime via a button.

tribal blade
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i would be down for it if it didn't reset on death

keen dome
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So you can build up to it, or pop it early if needed. Giving Sub it's on demand explosion

keen dome
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But just something to play around.

tribal blade
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the only thing i didn't like about prism was losing all the stacks

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felt way too punishing at times

keen dome
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Yeah.

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I don't think it'd hurt as much if it wasn't a trinket. Since it'd be in addition to everything else.

tribal blade
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yeah true

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i had the idea of nightblade coming back as a ST dot only applicable to 1 target

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but then it would created the DS issue

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unless the dot didn't require you to attack that target

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another was bringing back flag or something like it except it only deals lash dmg

fallow nimbus
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Don't bring anything back, rework goremaw for it

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Like every goremaw use adds 1 stack of the sylv dagger effect

tribal blade
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thing is goremaw wouldn't add a button baseline

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but yeah they definitely need to do something about goremaw

keen dome
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Yeah

tribal blade
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we kinda don't need energy anymore

keen dome
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Banshes Bane should be a thing, the sylv dagger proc

fallow nimbus
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We never really did

keen dome
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It's so sub

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But put it on Danse imo

tribal blade
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way back in the day the energy nodes were high value

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but yeah nowadays not anymore

vale pine
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think th problemw ith sylvanas effect was the combo point integration

keen dome
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Nod probably

vale pine
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blizz moves away from complicated things

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at least to some degree

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sht/shadowcraft/apex is a big mess if you consider that

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and can be designed easier, but there was no attempt to do so

keen dome
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It's not sub rogue if SHT / Shadowcraft / Shadowed Finishers isn't broken or weird or janky in some way

tribal blade
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yeah the entire apex is very confusing to figure out

keen dome
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I like it's Clones. I like them going hard into shadow clones

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That's what we've said for ages. It's a really good pick to focus on. It's cool and thematic and ties it closer to our queen

wintry elm
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im new on the spec eny advice for energy management¿

keen dome
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And in cooldowns you've got plenty.

tribal blade
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you can play sub without an energy bar currently

wintry elm
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the problem is i come form fury and i press to many bottons

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i think

tribal blade
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if you find a way to starve yourself you're doing something very wrong

tribal blade
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which is perfectly normal

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so long as you're doing the rotation correctly your energy will play itself

wintry elm
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then i need to chill and dont spam to much

tribal blade
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you can spam

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you'll just not be able to fill every gcd

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outside dance that is, inside dance you should be able to fill every gcd

wintry elm
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yeah on cd's i dont have problems

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is out of cd's

tribal blade
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yeah that's normal dw

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the funny thing is this is the best we've been able to press gcds outside dance in a LONG time

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last time must have been DF with vigor and tea talented

wintry elm
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then is a good time to start play this

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btw thanks for your answers

keen dome
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Never be afraid to ask! We're here to help

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Hell yeah more sub rogues

tribal blade
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i need to set up sin some time soon

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my goal is to have all 3 specs fully set up going into midnight

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outlaw took quite a bit of tinkering to get everything right, sin should be much easier

keen dome
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Yeah, same

slender kraken
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questions out side of sd / inside of sd - on two targets am i always use bp feels kinda bad

haughty mural
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if they continue with that pace, i have a feeling that midnight will be a really great subtlety expansion

open depot
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Big doubt we ever gonna play Outlaw. Big dagger time

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I miss combat 🤧

alpine wraith
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they made things simpler but also they can add things now

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maybe we get more clone things

haughty mural
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yuh

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my thoughts

keen dome
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Strip it down to 1 then build it back to 10

tribal blade
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holy shit sin feels BRUTALLY slow

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my god

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(without apex)

vale pine
steel zinc
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yes only those two

vale pine
steel zinc
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for sin only deathmark

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not KB

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basically any major cd

tribal blade
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wait a second

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holy fucking shit

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i was testing sin without poisons on

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holy

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mother

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of

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god

vale pine
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i had that happen quite a bit

tribal blade
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NO WONDER

vale pine
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its easy to forget poisons

tribal blade
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i was like "nah there's no way sin is this slow now"

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"this shit is unbearable"

tribal blade
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as sin

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till i got a huge WA to remind me

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ok this is way better

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sin feels pretty fucking good on aoe, the CT change is banger

alpine wraith
upper narwhal
scarlet heath
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they keep talking about just spamming CT, even if all are dotted

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ang ignoring CPs

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(in high target count)

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but it probably gonna get patched

upper narwhal
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Gameplay ✨

keen dome
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my demand is vindicated once again

tribal blade
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this shit is bananas at this point

tribal blade
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only 2 CT casts for that

keen dome
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Leveling is so fun. Gotta reapply the dumb posions every hour!

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😠

tribal blade
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but after pushing as sin for the entire of S2 this feels pretty chill to me

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half the brain power required for sin in aoe now

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but more required than sub i think

tribal blade
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there should also be a warning when you don't have poisons on

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actually i dunno, there are points at which specs like sin actually take off crippling to not fuck gathering in keys

mighty citrus
tribal blade
mighty citrus
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would need to adjust the prompts for assasination, but iam sure its feasable

torn tide
north schooner
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bring back poison charges!

torn tide
tribal blade
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i think if sin is tuned high enough

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this spec is gonna be the meta rogue spec

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at least in keys

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seems like prio is very good

lilac stag
haughty mural
lilac stag
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Especially not when someone is testing assa checks notes WITHOUT POISONS

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Old man is washed up like the rest of us

haughty mural
alpine wraith
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you know what would make sub prio good?

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singular focus working with sec tech kek

tribal blade
lilac stag
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Imagine needing WAs to play wow. SMH my head.

tribal blade
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despite some inconveniences i'm so happy they're gone

swift tinsel
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The cpu load reduction factor is the only upside I’m experiencing

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Really wish they wouldn’t have destroyed the ui aspect of WA

tribal blade
swift tinsel
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Idk I’m very frustrated with both blizzard and WA for the rug-pull

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And with available addons I can only get my ui into Uncanny Valley territory of my old setup

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Where it’s close-ish but far enough away to be annoying or permanently look off

tribal blade
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i get the frustration yeah

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they did all this very very suddenly

swift tinsel
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I’m of the mind where if they’d have gone with a staggered approach vs scorched earth secret value and slow walk back WA would have been less inclined to just drop the project entirely

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Esp since Blizz said they were going to use a staggered approach

hazy breach
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Idk seems like the point was to have WA drop their project

lilac stag
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^ this

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WA could just do way too much

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Even if you just used it for a UI.

steel zinc
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Whole point was blizzard controlling buffs/debuffs in combat.

steel zinc
mighty citrus
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but for me its fun to play around so. sure somebody will have done it better already, but i just like doing those small things for myself

floral geyser
vale pine
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a lot of the new stuff controlls how addons implement things, making it more difficult to waste a lot of cpu cycles

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even some of the worse offenders like elvui are now fairly harmless in terms of fps impact

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its like 1/3 of what it was before if even

hazy breach
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Probably still gonna have fps issues in raid Classic

tribal blade
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gives you something to react to

vale pine
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many implementations are far from ideal

hazy breach
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And canceling it in aoe for deathstalker garf_sit

tribal blade
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it feels dirty

vale pine
hazy breach
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Probably will

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And then you are gonna feel great using your 7 sht stacks on eviscerate in a 10 mob pull

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Instead of on BP

tribal blade
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well wait till expac after midnight for DS fixes

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at this rate DS will be playable in 2030

vale pine
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*till they remove ds

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fixed it

tribal blade
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at this point i want DS gone

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the whole thing just bums me out

floral stump
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! sheet

runic sinew
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!bugs

wicked joltBOT
runic sinew
soft summit
torn tide
wicked joltBOT
mighty citrus
graceful osprey
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I hope they fix things. Having to cancelaura doesn’t feel good

hazy breach
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You dont have to cancelaura anything Trickster

north schooner
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trickster gang OMEGAEZ

topaz crow
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hello, just curious about patches for midnight, was the latest update the last for midnight or will there be more in time?

hazy breach
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There will be one ever week or every other week

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For like 2-3 months

topaz crow
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ah ok tysm

nimble cradle
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yall think sub still going to be meta raid spec?

exotic steeple
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i pray

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dont want to not get taken into hc raids because people think we not meta and we cant clear bcs of that

lilac stag
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You’re not getting into heroic raids due to ilvl more than anything else

fathom adder
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iirc 1:30 cd fits good for a few bosses, but aside from that

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lets see

lilac stag
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You’re taking a rogue unless tuning is absolute dog shit across the board.

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nothing to see

hollow spear
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I used to bind backstab/shadowstrike to 1 and evis to 3. Since I would like to start a heated exchange about keybinds that will end up with someone posting jpc's binds:

What's your take on binding stab to Q and evis to E?

shadow lance
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Q is my strafe left and E my strafe right

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So idk

north schooner
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well Jetpack Cat needs her binds closer because her paws are tiny

plush roost
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W is such a core rotation spot i dont even know what to put there anymore

hollow spear
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Oh wow, you're a W binder

plush roost
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Maybe goremaw if its ever good...

hollow spear
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I think my brain wouldn't be able to process W not being forward

plush roost
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I redid my binds in cata so i could play pvp (i was 8 and didnt understand ctrl or shift binds)

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So i wanted qwerty to be binds for rotation

plush roost
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XD

torn tide
fathom adder
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kick on q, rest on the 12 mousebuttons garf_sit

swift tinsel
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Q blades E kick

plush roost
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Shift w storm, ctrl w powder xd

torn tide
onyx flame
plush roost
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Ct is ctrl w and fok shift w as well

hollow spear
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Kick has to be F

plush roost
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Shift w blade rush, ctrl w blade flurry

fathom adder
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yeah find it always cool to see the preferences

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so many

plush roost
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My kick is t, shift t focus kick

hollow spear
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My hands are not meant for ctrl or alt as modifiers

onyx flame
swift tinsel
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I only use ctrl or alt for binds I don't really use rotationally

plush roost
hollow spear
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I'm unironically thinking of a pedal modifier

plush roost
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Very flexible

swift tinsel
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like I use alt+E for health pot

plush roost
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Okay thats demonic bro

hollow spear
swift tinsel
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Im left-handed so its very easy for me to hit combos

hollow spear
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Kinda criminal

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Right hand discrimination

plush roost
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Alt is such a weird place for me, i dont like moving my thumb off spacebar haha

swift tinsel
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I don't really jump much lol

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and my thumb rests close to the left edge of my spacebar when I'm gaming

plush roost
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I jump a lot when im backstabbing just to feel some apm

onyx flame
# plush roost Very flexible

Yeah still unhealthy to spread them this much for an ability you press that often.
Mine where like this too for almost 20years, but i recently changed them for more ergonomic binds and after i got used to it my hand feels way less tired

swift tinsel
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so I kinda just curl it a tiny bit and its on alt

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ctrl is the weird one for me

hollow spear
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I discovered mouse wheel as keybind

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My life has drastically improved

swift tinsel
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I have alt and ctrl mwu and mwd for stuff but its usually like...buffs or some shit

hollow spear
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I have feint on mwu

swift tinsel
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but I zoom in and out for things and shift I use for action bar paging for professions

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I have feint on shift+mb4

plush roost
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But maybe im young and dont feel.anything yet

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If it ever starts hurting then id know im in trouble haha

hollow spear
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Has anyone of you played elementalist in gw2?

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That's a real keybind hog

onyx flame
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I am totally convinced that this would be enough to play midnight subrogue

steel zinc
hollow spear
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Stop derailing mapko

steel zinc
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testing now some stuff would be much appriciated Charrend

plush roost
steel zinc
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sorry how could it

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XD

plush roost
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Aoe

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To go st its crazy but u swap potent for wm and thats it

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Coldblood forced induct deeper obv

hollow spear
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You now have to give us your three spiciest keybinds now Mapko

plush roost
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Class tree is mosy utility

hollow spear
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Or they'll prune sub even more

steel zinc
plush roost
steel zinc
plush roost
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Shadowfocus is very good

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No vigor

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We have so much energy

onyx flame
plush roost
steel zinc
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since we play 2min trinket

plush roost
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U play as a 2min with pbox

keen dome
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I have suffered an Event. A pantomime in a library. Nothing in WoW can touch that experience of chaos.

steel zinc
plush roost
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But idk if pbox is worth it anymore

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Just something i was fiddling with

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Most importantly you want 200ish haste, 578 or 687 haste

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This number matters

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Not the %

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Its ur dance breakpoints

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Also youll feel like shit without windfury on lowhaste but it be what it be

steel zinc
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ya noticed that without shaman

plush roost
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Also improved ambush is good for weaponmaster talents

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Thats about it tho

steel zinc
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[Light Company Guidon] not good?

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90 sec haste trinket

plush roost
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The flag? Eh

steel zinc
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ya

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its 677 haste on use

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looks good

plush roost
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We really just want the haste breakpoint anything after is excessive

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Were so sht and energy saturated from our apex talent

steel zinc
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[Freightrunner's Flask] 90 sec on use crit also good

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Just thinking if 2min trinket is worth you know

hazy breach
plush roost
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That if it werent for dance length we probably wouldnt play any haste at all

hazy breach
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But not the numbers on it

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Puzzlebox is almost twice the stat the flask gives

plush roost
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Ye crit flask will be good when its not 467 crit

steel zinc
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true true

plush roost
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And is instead 800+

steel zinc
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yeah not used to the numbers yet your right

hazy breach
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I mean its not gonna be 800 like puzzlebox

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But like 600-700 like flag

plush roost
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Ye w.e the math works to

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I always forget 1.5 are understatted a bit since cd ans blah blah

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Any betters on a 1.5 mastery trinket in the 12.0.7 raid btw?

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I feel it in my bones

alpine wraith
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i think there will be 1 or 2 trinket pass tuning

steel zinc
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But tbf I expect lots of trinket tuning to be done

alpine wraith
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some of the numbers dont make sense

steel zinc
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haha

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we think alike 😄

alpine wraith
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big geniuses in town

steel zinc
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you saw the new filter hachadino?

alpine wraith
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what filter?

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i saw there were some cool updates to the addon but havent really checked

steel zinc
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I know its german but you get the idea

alpine wraith
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POG

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im more than 0% german maybe

steel zinc
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you can use now important filter to track with player auras for sub these two buffs and get rid of idk cataclym event buff

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yeah but the arrow explains well

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you have player auras with important filter on and you just see these two buffs and get rid of all the bullshit

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like idk its event xyz buff

alpine wraith
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time to track wep enchants again

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to do some silly things

graceful osprey
vale pine
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trickster is good now, and probably the better choice on 90

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so perfectly fine choice

alpine wraith
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trickster is quite ahead in aoe in midnight

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even after all the fixes for DS krangles iirc

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for st they were sameish i think?

vale pine
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trickster is ahead in st currently

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but we will see

alpine wraith
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yea lots of tuning to be done

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my hope is they buff some trinks that we may use

minor sorrel
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Deathstalker should only pull ahead on large count ae

alpine wraith
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unlikely flawless is quite strong

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it is a perma 20% or so mastery steroid+fazed

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at lvl 90 sec tech applies it again

vale pine
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deathstalker has in theory stronger prio

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but idk how much that matters

alpine wraith
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and coup flurries are very strong

minor sorrel
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And funnle

alpine wraith
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vs DN rip

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nah funnel is fake

vale pine
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you won't use evis in aoe, so would not call it funnel

alpine wraith
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until singular works with sec tech

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if they fix that one we may talk

minor sorrel
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Meh...

hazy breach
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The more targets you add the worse it gets

minor sorrel
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At least i like the trickster sound design.

graceful osprey
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Bring back double coup

alpine wraith
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just proc hard enough

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ez

graceful osprey
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Sometimes I wish things weren’t so proc reliant

alpine wraith
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i will never forgive blizz by killing icd things

hazy breach
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Sub is very non proc based though

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Very little in the rotation is actually random

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And sht, which is a bit random, still uses a system that makes it not have much outliers

shrewd lantern
alpine wraith
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sht in dance now is clown fiesta of strong yea

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you get so many

shrewd lantern
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well probably not as much now without spatter as strong as it used to be

shrewd lantern
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unless you want to reach and say crits are

lilac stag
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well we’ve moved on from 2 buttons to funnel an prio dmg. garf_sit

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gm chat

glad bough
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I am trying to find an energy bar/combo point set up i can use and be able to move around freely and position where i want but i do not want my health bar attached to it like the blizz default one. anyone have any suggestions for an add on or something that has it?

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all addons i was looking at seemed to be only the combo points

alpine wraith
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sensei has a cool simple one but there are many ui addon things

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you can try and choose

glad bough
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ty ill take a look at that one

shrewd lantern
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guarantee you 95% of people who say prio damage

hollow spear
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how many dance macros do you guys have atp?

shrewd lantern
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dont know what they're talking of

swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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and just say it because some streamer did

swift tinsel
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but 1 is storm+dance so effectively 1

lilac stag
shrewd lantern
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yeah you only need 2 max

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dance storm dance sectech

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what else is there even

grand wyvern
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2 buttons = 2 macros

swift tinsel
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don't think I'm making a swifty macro for dance+sectech+blades since I can hit them all pretty easy

shrewd lantern
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idk honestly i can still hit dance strike within 0.2

swift tinsel
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probs gonna macro trinket to blades with potion or keep natty pot bind

shrewd lantern
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and the delay makes dance strike macro not doable

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so meh

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just have fast hands

hollow spear
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yeah, but you're kinda capped on how fast you can hit dance strike

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so even with fast hands, you have to get extra haste to account for it

swift tinsel
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I'm dancing with full cp so dance strike is kinda w/e

lilac stag
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Get that juicy Sectech coup supercharged combo

shrewd lantern
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0.2 secs yeah

alpine wraith
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sadly you cant sec tech coup because premed cucks

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but one day

lilac stag
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You’re going to make me look at logs. Pretty sure I had setech into coup a few dances on Tuesday.

warm marlin
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dance/sectec/coup not workie because of premed bug

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this is true

alpine wraith
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you can sec tech coup if you used premed first

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but entering dance with apex or back when shadowcraft it didnt work

shrewd lantern
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im already missing the big boom of sectech double coup

alpine wraith
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it will take years to recover like when going from wod->legion

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or bfa->shadowlands

steel zinc
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to get some EB proccs

swift tinsel
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storm gives EB tho

vale pine
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^

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we don't need to anymore

swift tinsel
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and its been fixed to no longer random target

red pewter
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Can still just dance/bs macro if you’re at low cp for the macabre. Not the worst thing on earth. Other than that just dance at full cp

vale pine
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there is no reason to use backstab anymore

red pewter
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Still procs a macabre event no?

vale pine
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yes, but backstab is also weaker

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so the trade off is not worth the effort

red pewter
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So you’d just manually dance strike at low and sac a finisher at the end of your dance because you’re too slow and call that a dps gain over just dance stabbing

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Low cp, or you’d bs to full cp then dance first

swift tinsel
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realistically you'd prep your dance to avoid that

red pewter
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Yeh, I’m just saying. Sims don’t always equal what’s actually doable on a 95% + replicable basis

swift tinsel
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and I'm also saying that scenario is entirely avoidable

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shouldn't ever really happen on opener, and you're prepping each dance after that

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so its not really a question of simming

red pewter
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They could also just fix the bug and let you macro dance coup and strike

tepid trellis
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i was about to type that

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no shot

swift tinsel
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hehehe

red pewter
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☠️

swift tinsel
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it's always in the chamber whenever I get the chance, its such a funny video

tepid trellis
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its a top 10 for sure

swift tinsel
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just the coldest no fucks given

tardy solar
#

one of the best gino quotes ever said

tepid trellis
red pewter
#

Fair

tepid trellis
#

which is why we even added the Shadow dance + strike delay into sims

red pewter
#

So what’s optimal now for when you proc a coup directly before dance window. Two separate macros? A dance coup macro and dance strike macro?

alpine wraith
#

dance sec tech

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then you have to strike

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then coup

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because of premed bug

red pewter
#

Yeah imma just play assa

shrewd lantern
#

its not a bug its a feature

alpine wraith
#

kek

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if you are big brain you pool some sht

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and cancelaura premed as you enter dance

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so you can sec tech coup

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and still proc apex on next strike

#

but that is forbidden magic

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as you only super overcap sht with blades up

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or bl

shrewd lantern
#

cant wait for a million stat questions

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when season starts

red pewter
#

I dunno, this is some diff between a 95 and 99 parse stuff.

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Both will get the job done unless you’re literally in liquid or echo

keen dome
alpine wraith
#

dont worry your coups didnt crit and your unseens didnt double

shrewd lantern
#

avoidance is a healer issue

keen dome
#

I need a NUMBER!!!

alpine wraith
#

tbh after all the fixes to apex and shadowcraft

north schooner
alpine wraith
#

we may just natty gear low haste

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and just become dinos of mastery

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or just change 1 jewelry between st and m+

red pewter
#

I haven’t checked in on it in a bit, can you use apex on sec tech or is that still forbidden

keen dome
#

Yeah

shrewd lantern
#

im just gonna put it into raidbots

#

and equip what robot says

alpine wraith
#

apex on sec tech is almost neutral

shrewd lantern
#

no thiughts

keen dome
#

Petition to rename Raidbots to Raidboys

#

Way better name

alpine wraith
#

because now we have more sht

keen dome
#

"I've gotta ask the boys a question"

alpine wraith
#

so the waste is whatever

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and it is still some extra dmg

keen dome
#

"The boys told me this is best"

shrewd lantern
#

ttv.m***brah

#

for bis gearing questions

red pewter
alpine wraith
#

yea my idea was engi helmet or wrist with haste on it

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then just change between raid and m+

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or that ring

shrewd lantern
#

I do like how much people use stats to scapegoat

red pewter
#

What’s the single haste stat ring drop off of?

shrewd lantern
#

not playing well in this game

alpine wraith
#

last boss

#

kekw

red pewter
#

Niceu

tepid trellis
alpine wraith
#

yea optimizations sometimes are just kinda on the lower end but we are rabid finders of bigger number

shrewd lantern
#

95 and 99 is realistically bigger diff made by how fast your guild kills

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and crit rng

keen dome
red pewter
#

The majority of people aren’t going to be able to use the extra .2 sec on dance to fit in a finisher, so yeah pretty moot

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For those people being mastery Andy’s would be more beneficial

tepid trellis
#

or add tiny bit more haste

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and now you can suddenly fit it in

alpine wraith
#

well it is the other way around sometimes majority of people would lose that gcd

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so gear a bit more haste

#

yep

red pewter
#

But but but, ain’t gon have dat much haste friend

shrewd lantern
#

you can dance strike natty in 0.2 secs

alpine wraith
#

tbh i will try and make a video about how to limit test your dance usage with haste brain

shrewd lantern
#

0.1 seems a stretch

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idk if possible

alpine wraith
#

i can usually do it on 0.1

warm marlin
alpine wraith
#

but also even if you send it faster

red pewter
#

Brother have you raided with a non HoF guild? Some of these people mean well, but goodness gracious.

warm marlin
#

if you don't want premed you need to untalent it

alpine wraith
#

sometimes it does not register after some ms after

alpine wraith
warm marlin
#

and fwiw 0.2s is barely enough for most to fit all their dance gcds in assuming their first gcd is perfect

shrewd lantern
#

yeah i would need to check but i’ve had instances where my strike still went off

warm marlin
#

I reviewed a lot of logs in tww2/3 and ppl be dropping micro gcds all the time

shrewd lantern
#

despite my dance buff expired

alpine wraith
#

maybe it had some ms left

warm marlin
#

you definitely dont want to lose 0.2s with your strike

alpine wraith
#

it has some leeway

warm marlin
#

for example, second sectec in tfd (including both clone hits) was possible essentially every single pull in raid if you dropped less than 0.1 gcds over the whole dance and had predisorient/presupercharge, no lust required

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but i never saw anyone say

alpine wraith
#

i would always err on the side of caution tho

warm marlin
#

i went over a raid night once and hit it on dimmy 21 times in a row or something

red pewter
#

Just join a parsing guild my friend

alpine wraith
#

well double sec tech was a bit of a cheat because you could always dance after and only lose the macabre %

red pewter
#

This week it’s your turn for 3 PI’s and we reset if you’re not on pace for a benji

haughty geyser
#

!bugs

wicked joltBOT
warm marlin
#

but mostly an example of how most are dropping micro gcds, it happens a lot more than i think people realize

alpine wraith
#

trickster never helped too

warm marlin
#

i would recommend more than 0.2s leeway for most prob

alpine wraith
#

i would always recommedn the extra 0.2 yea

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like from 0.4

warm marlin
#

im not counting the coup one

alpine wraith
#

it is also not a lot of haste more

warm marlin
#

so like more than 0.4s leeway counting coup

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maybe not so bad now that macro is gonna be standardized but i saw a lot of poor guys dropping gcds in dance sadge

dire ravine
ebon nest
alpine wraith
alpine wraith
warm marlin
#

I do wish we could cancel premed!

alpine wraith
#

then just change 1 or 2 items depending

warm marlin
#

that would be interesting

alpine wraith
#

as it stands around 700 haste for st

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and like 200 for m+ seem to be the numbers

#

but anything can change

#

from bug fixes to buffs

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to nerfs?¿!

ebon nest
#

I see atm its just kinda swapping gear around to fit the content

alpine wraith
#

yea we got lots of bug fixes that helped sht generation

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so now we only really care about the dance duration and to an extend

hollow spear
#

Sht is certainly an abbreviation of all times

alpine wraith
#

yea sub has a funny time

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so much

#

s

hollow spear
#

Sod is gone

keen dome
#

Combies is better than combo points, imo

alpine wraith
#

good riddance

hollow spear
#

Sod off I say

alpine wraith
#

rest in piss

fossil forge
onyx flame
#

Hey i have a question about tricks of the trade. The tooltip says it transfers all my threat to the tank/targetet player.
But when i firsthit a Boss in an M+, i still receive the first hit from him?

fallow nimbus
#

First use gives you a 30sec buff then your next hit triggers the threat redirection

vale pine
#

bosses often hit the closest target when engaged

onyx flame
vale pine
#

also the first treat redirection can sometimes be slow

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if you want to be sure to not get hit, you can use storm as opening as it allows you to stand outside melee range

fallow nimbus
#

Yeah, wait until the boss moves

inner pulsar
#

The amount of times I've prematurely Shadowstriked a boss and been insta-gibbed thinking Tricks would save me....

vale pine
#

i mean idk if people remember the previouse raids

warm marlin
#

dont need that anyway just dont die

vale pine
#

but i had a lot of discussions with our tanks to stand in melee

inner pulsar
vale pine
#

on certain fights the boss 100% attacks the closest target first when engaged

warm marlin
#

np got you

vale pine
#

turns out

sullen hare
vale pine
#

people rather flame you and say skill issue while playing tanks

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and stand the furthest away from the boss when engaging

warm marlin
#

cheat saved me from pulling on both fractillus and oab

sullen hare
#

oh ryldd already said that woweeGiggle

vale pine
#

🤣 tank players are special people

warm marlin
#

they don't got hands like that

vale pine
inner pulsar
vale pine
#

i was mostly joking

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but its true that i had to fight with the tanks tanks to actually move to melee in my raid team

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which they then did ~33-50% of the time

swift tinsel
#

glad to hear its not just me that feels like pulling teeth to get tanks to move intuitively

vale pine
#

oh no, its a longstanding struggle

#

but i think thats a perspective problem

swift tinsel
#

its interesting they're melee but don't understand how to accommodate melee

vale pine
#

as a melee, you depend on tank movement a lot

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so inherently, you will complain if the positioning or movemet is bad

swift tinsel
#

we have 2x pwar and when they hear movement their choice is to then heroic leap as far as humanly possible away

uneven scarab
#

Play with a wheelchair bdk and you’ll be fine :3

vale pine
#

but some boss fights need a lot of good positioning and planing

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because bosses have casts too or are not movable at certain parts

swift tinsel
#

for a lot of bosses its whatever bc movespeed but some like Rik are literal speed demons

vale pine
#

tanks are usually reactive

#

their role i mean

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so they are used to "this happens -> i need to spot/use defensive"

swift tinsel
#

their job is normally pretty boring so I'd think they'd jump at the chance for something to do lol

vale pine
#

the game just does a very poor job to explain or highlight the impact on others

swift tinsel
#

for sure

vale pine
#

and don't rly gives rewards for ahead of time planing

swift tinsel
#

I've had more success with tanks that are very m+ active

vale pine
#

and certain specs can attack off target for a bit

swift tinsel
#

bc they seem to understand positioning and movement a lot more

vale pine
#

which means, not all melee dps are impacted equally

bronze turret
#

The bottom line is still that if ur a melee player and can’t sit on the boss ur just bad

#

It’s part of the skill kit of being a good melee player

#

Optimizing uptime to every ms

vale pine
#

yes

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ill give you one example of what i talk about

#

even tho that was agreed on after a short depate

swift tinsel
#

ye that's why I lean on step often when they decide to get erratic

bronze turret
#

So it doesn’t matter if ur ”good at downtime” cus if the fight has downtime you can’t control ur just benching most melee regardless

vale pine
#

amirdrassil lerodar

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there is this phase pulsing aoe comes in, you need to stand in an cycle, the position is controlled by the tank

#

so the tank did not move the boss close to this zone

#

melee dps can't do damage

bronze turret
#

You talk to the tank

vale pine
#

skill issue on the melees

#

i guess

bronze turret
#

You talk to the raid leader

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You fix it

vale pine
#

thats my point

sullen hare
swift tinsel
#

ye the convo started talking about tanks being obstinate about movement

bronze turret
#

Ye well why does it matter if x spec does 10% more dmg from range then?

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Cus that’s just not how you should play the fight and is a raid leader/strat issue

vale pine
#

its an tanking issue

#

and thats what i highlighted

bronze turret
#

Tanks are slaves to the strat sometimes

#

It’s on the melee to speak up if something is shit tho, ive had amazing tanks and they could still have a blind spot in some melee situations

#

Just gotta communicate

vale pine
#

exactly

swift tinsel
#

that's what we're saying lol

vale pine
#

you just repeated the gist of the discussion ^^

tepid trellis
bronze turret
sullen hare
#

I quit for the tier when my guild turned our smolderon strat from the standard to a more ranged-friendly approach while completely sacrificing melee uptime 300 pulls into prog

bronze turret
#

Triggers me

vale pine
#

oh, did not intend to hit a nerve ^^

bronze turret
#

Not a single melee is happy shooting offbrand lightning bolts in range group

bronze turret
swift tinsel
#

did we lost long arms with DF rework or was that tww

#

idr

bronze turret
#

Tww

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We had long arms when i last played

#

Which was mid df

swift tinsel
#

ah yeah that's right

#

couldn't remember if that survived the rework or not

bronze turret
#

They slashed it from everyone tho

#

No?

swift tinsel
#

umm I think so

bronze turret
#

Like every spec in the game

swift tinsel
#

ret has like..vestiges of it

bronze turret
#

So nothing lost relatively

warm marlin
#

depends on your definition, but yes every melee lost the 3yds on "melee" spells

#

some like ret and udk can just cast most of their repertoire from 30yds anyway

bronze turret
#

Ret

#

Give them a moment to shine pls

swift tinsel
#

I think uhdk lost theirs with the clawing shadows change

bronze turret
#

Poor bastards

swift tinsel
#

for midnight

warm marlin
#

i thought someone told me they had exactly 1 button that was true melee left

#

i could be cooked

swift tinsel
#

oh nvm they baked the 30 yard range into base scourge strike

bronze turret
#

I don’t think any melee should be able to do good dmg from distance, like ranged dps levels. Kinda defeats the purpose

warm marlin
#

ye

swift tinsel
#

so now its just festering strike that's melee

#

bc putrefy and dc obv are range

swift tinsel
#

oh I guess soul reaper

#

so 2 lol

bronze turret
#

Hopefully tuned thereafter

warm marlin
swift tinsel
#

thematically I kinda get it bc they're effectively a necromancer

#

which is often a caster vibe

bronze turret
#

I like being in the middle of chaos

swift tinsel
#

same, ranged is lowkey boring

bronze turret
#

Having to move perfectly, it’s satisfying

swift tinsel
#

played mage for one tier and it was the least exciting tier I've raided

bronze turret
#

So many fights in the first tier of df were melee movement fights and it was fun

tepid trellis
#

watching orby die on sennath

#

gold

#

content

bronze turret
#

Love it

swift tinsel
#

god I hated that fight

bronze turret
#

It was kinda annoying but also funny

swift tinsel
#

watching people get yoinked off a ramp and fly off was pretty choice lol

bronze turret
#

Few bosses that made me hate ranged dps more than on sennarth

swift tinsel
#

I just hate the skating interia movement bit

uneven scarab
#

melee wasnt even that fun on sennarth either tbf

#

aids fight

bronze turret
#

You also had the wind fight

uneven scarab
#

dathria

bronze turret
#

Even the shaman totem shit had movement

#

And ofc last boss with the waves and what not

bronze turret
#

Lowkey best intro tier ever

#

Most of them are dull and shit

uneven scarab
#

Kurog was great

#

Love that one

#

agreed tho

tepid trellis
bronze turret
#

Hah ye

#

Fuck outlaw

#

Aint falling for that trap

#

Kinda nostalgic for me too cus it was the last tier I actually enjoyed the game and cared enough to plan and strat. Miss that part the most

vale pine
lucid jackal
#

IT was a sub tier COPIUM

#
  • Sub Copers
vale pine
#

every tier is a sub tier

bronze turret
#

In colour every tier was a sub tier

#

At least as long as I played

#

Stealthi was quick to turn to the darkness (ass rogue) after I left

vale pine
#

weakness

#

and all of this even tho he knows the tier list

bronze turret
#

It was genuinely better for prog I think. So no blameo, but i would have played sub at least

flat sun
#

single dps is low or not ?

tepid trellis
#

i played Assa until it was nerfed in amirdrassil

#

then i played sub

#

was waaay too overtuned at the start to not play it

vale pine
#

unpopular opinion^^

bronze turret
alpine wraith
#

smolderon said overtuned this nuts

#

then the great chicken appeared

shy ermine
#

Perfect prog kill timer

#

My PI died so I didn’t get in execute and still got prog r1

bronze turret
alpine wraith
#

i remember igira week 1 was so sillt

#

i could snipe all the spears perfectly

#

and still get gapped

tepid trellis
#

jahrl had the lust one on pull

warm marlin
vestal escarp
warm marlin
#

heliumbagged omegalul

shy ermine
#

the glory days

tepid trellis
#

had gotten pretty much all pieces i needed from m+ before our first mythic raid

warm marlin
#

ah i assumed this was mythic prog

vestal escarp
#

Given the gap id say it was a gnarlroot kill

warm marlin
#

slacking raid smh

alpine wraith
#

think igira was more op as assa than gnarl

#

everyone kinda had dmg on that boss

#

but in igira you stole everyones

#

or maybe it is gnarl hmm

tepid trellis
tepid trellis
native zodiac
#

remove the amp cap on kinsgbane

#

bring back amirdrassil kinsgbane Sadge

keen dome
#

Huh, possible changes to crests on beta? 20 per level or something.

swift tinsel
#

I only saw the 50% cost for alts thing

keen dome
#

A buddy mentioned it might've been hotfixed just now.

#

20 per step, 80 for a weapon craft or somehting

#

I don't have beta installed to check, though

alpine wraith
#

i knew i was a genius

plush roost
#

How does one know

alpine wraith
#

i worked with other people

astral axle
#

holy no more incrementally higher cost for crest upgrades?

#

pog???

crisp marlin
#

hi, can anyone help me with a question regarding secret technique, are there any circumstances there i would want to use it outside of shadow dance?
since if there arent i could use the same keybind for both abilities since shadow dance would switch me into my stealth keybinds

keen dome
#
Crafted pieces now require 80 Crests (was 60)```
#

Yeee

#
Crests now cost 20 per upgrade (was 15)
Crafted gear now costs 80 crests (was 60)
Each gear track now only accepts a singular type of Crest (Champion Gear accepts Champion Crests the entire time)
Each track has been standarized with 6 total tiers```
vale pine
keen dome
#

Yeah.

#

20 per step is pretty comfy, 100 per week so a full upgrade a week. Crafted more in line, too.

#

No huge final step

tribal vortex
#

!macro

wicked joltBOT
#

Subtlety Macros:
Here is a macro to make it easier to fit all of your globals into your Shadow Dances:

/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Secret Technique

Deathstalker likes to use this macro instead:

/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Shuriken Storm

This can be combines with trinkes and other cooldown use.

/cast Shadow Blades
/use 13
/use 14
/use Tempered Potion
/cast Ancestral Call

Trickster Rogues can combine Coup de Grace and Black Powder in one button:

/cast Coup de Grace
/cast Black Powder

You can find more macros and details in Guides like wowhead WoWhead or IV Icy Veins.

alpine wraith
vale pine
#

you never know

#

there are so many parts in wow, some might not change

keen dome
#

like poisons..

alpine wraith
#

to have 2 dances for blades

astral axle
vale pine
#

they removed them in legion

#

just to be "surprise, we add them back" later

tidal blade
#

content

alpine wraith
#

i never recovered from not having fall damage

crisp marlin
#

aight checked out the macro:
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Secret Technique
but one thing i dont really understand is that this macro would immediately use secret technique regardless of how many combo point i currently have wouldnt it be better to delay it by one global cool down to be able to fit in a shadowstrike for max combo points?

alpine wraith
#

you can enter dance with full combo points

tidal blade
#

can and should

crisp marlin
#

so i should optimally delay using shadow dance until i have full combo points?

plush roost
#

No you should have full cp before ur dance is ready

hazy breach
vagrant fulcrum
#

@vale pine did rules for some hero trees going into dance with low points get invalidated?

#

Xd

steel zinc
#

Fuu what do you do in aoe btw? Still strike for UB and BP?

#

Or just storm BP?

#

midnight^^

hazy breach
#

Storm

steel zinc
#

So we do not care at all for ub in aoe?

#

even at two targets?

hazy breach
#

Storm procs it

steel zinc
#

ohhh

#

yeah did not keep up that much then nvm

#

Ty

tidal blade
#

Don’t we shadow strike in dance at 2-3t? Or no

hazy breach
#

Slight gain to use it in 2 targets yes

#

But not the end of the world if you cba

tidal blade
#

ok ty wanted to check myself there

vale pine
#

its less so in pre patch

#

apex give more power to dance

full bobcat
#

why is that?

hazy breach
#

Because it allows you to spender sht faster, instead of it just piling up and getting more combo points after dance

hollow python
#

So as of this moment trickster is the only move¿

fallow nimbus
#

Always has been

#

Prepatch was enough DS

lilac stag
#

Stop trying to make DS a thing. omegalul

vagrant fulcrum
lilac stag
vagrant fulcrum
#

I can’t tell if that’s good or bad ngl

#

Xd

lilac stag
#

Otherwise goremaws would have been fixed

vagrant fulcrum
#

I feel like they just forgot

hollow python
#

I read it was good for single target and committed to getting set up and comfy with it, ill just say it was a passing hobby

vagrant fulcrum
#

About goremaws / all the HO shit for outlaw

lilac stag
#

Tbf I’m happy with them fixing so much ahead of launch

vagrant fulcrum
#

Or did they think giving sub infinite energy wouldn’t impact a button that mainly generates energy xd

#

What are we settling for here, come on they can’t just have multiple specs with absolutely unpickable capstone level talents

lilac stag
#

sub is way ahead of typical new expansion completion. We’re eating good

#

Rogue hero talents is a class issue

#

Which are still directionless

vagrant fulcrum
#

Bro it’s a two button spec 😭

#

They reskinned fury

lilac stag
#

Have you even looked at anything on beta?

vagrant fulcrum
#

Nah, atleast other specs have something to track or react to

lilac stag
#

Your tracking Sectech

vagrant fulcrum
#

😭😭😭😭

lilac stag
#

Enjoy

#

Assa is what two more buttons and even more braindead

vagrant fulcrum
#

Bro it’s 1 macro every 20s cmon surely spriest having like a low cd nuke etc

#

Ngl im coping

#

It’s all brain dead

lilac stag
#

Is there depth? Not really. Nothing has it. Pacing is good. Vibe is good. I like big dam every 25 seconds

#

I’ll enjoy people coming in here and completely fucking up the 2 button spec.

plush roost
#

They cant just buff bp anymore

lilac stag
#

Sure they can

#

Just nerf trickster cleave at the same timeomegalul

#

Coup now has a 1.6 second gcd OMEGAKEKW

vagrant fulcrum
hazy breach
#

I mean they can adjust other things if they want to

#

But idk if they dont fix the mark does it even matter? garf_sit

plush roost
#

Since ds is just that behind

#

Hence, they cant just buff bp to "solve" this "issue"

hazy breach
#

DS has less BP buffs than trickster does now anyway

chrome palm
#

When buff eviscerate

#

Why are they allergic to buffing evis

#

They’re gonna hit us with like 20% more backstab damage or something

#

And more melee damage prob

bleak night
plush roost
sullen hare
north schooner
#

they should buff bp enough to be better than evis on st

bleak night
#

the dream

sullen hare
#

Make goremaws increase black powder damage only

north schooner
#

your next 3 BP deal 50% more damage and reduce goremaw's cd by 1s per cp spent

hazy breach
#

I think it should have some effect on sectech, either by allowing an extra sectech without triggering the cd or somehow empowering the next sectech

north schooner
#

6 akaari clones HOLY

#

or Army of the Goats. You summon 3 akaari clones and she copies your next 5 finishers with all 3 clones

sullen hare
#

or you summon akaari's evil extremely mal-adjusted goat herd

#

kinda like this

north schooner
#

10 trees died for this

sullen hare
#

probably.

tribal blade
tall urchin
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sorry but do any of you know of an addon that can make icons popp up when a spell is offcd or say i can show just numbers of stacks i have of something (buff) as a huge ass number on my screen? something like poweraura

hazy breach
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Afaik you can't do that

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That's precisely the type of functionality that was intended to be removed

tall urchin
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what, to have a big icon show (instead of the spells own icon) or stripping away the icon and only show the number?

sacred yarrow
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
hazy breach
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Both I think

tall urchin
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sounds to me like the thing they want to still allow since it has no underlying smart logic

hazy breach
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Addons can't see spell cd

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Or spell stacks

tall urchin
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hm that might be ye, meh

hazy breach
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It is what it is

tall urchin
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so ur saying addons cant see if a spell is avail or not?

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ehh, on/off cd

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dont need no countdown

hazy breach
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Might be able to, but you def can't see how long left the cd has

tall urchin
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yeah im just having a hard time looking at ingame icons, need big-ass icons that i can distinguish by their shape for when key things are usable and hidden when not 🙁

hazy breach
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Welcome to midnight

tall urchin
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nah someones gonna make

kind edge
alpine wraith
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hmm

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trickster even more ahead now on aoe

kind edge
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Yea, good news.

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They posted it at 2 mins ago

swift tinsel
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Must have seen us puzzling about why they don’t list fixes and threw one in lol

hazy breach
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I will have to check how that works tomorrow, but that should be a noticeable buff

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Curious as to why they didn't touch sectech clones too, but shrugeg

swift tinsel
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A buff for trickster is a win for the good guys

hazy breach
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Maybe they did

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Idk

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I'm in bed

swift tinsel
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They’re allowed to list one fix per six month period

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The rest stay in the shadows

hazy breach
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Either they made coup its own clone from apex or regular eviscerate clones now also cleave

alpine wraith
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step by step who knows

kind edge
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Its true that the thing about the cancel stuff with the sectech and apex talents was shadow fixed?

alpine wraith
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we dont really cancel ancient arts anymore

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for sec tech

brisk onyx
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Is there a link? I couldn't find this post.

swift tinsel
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Ye just for DN in aoe

kind edge
swift tinsel
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Inb4 they make Apex uncancelaura-able

hazy breach
maiden oar
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wahoo

hazy breach
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It's +-0

maiden oar
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good bug fix now give eviscerate 20% buff nukofat

swift tinsel
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Shrimply not possible

maiden oar
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ur right give it 25%