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yep
As trickster outlaw
guys will next id m0 drop championtrack?
Outlaw over sub for raid?
Sin op after the buffs
yes
Best rogue spec rn is Marksmenship
Play deathstalker and cope about funnel 
Are you sure? I don't think so
Just make sure you prebuff with the Whyspur sammich.
unless lariat guy is a liar
if your mark even works. (it doesnt)
its daily lockout 246 champ track 1/6
I still don't understand why you can't just apply to new target after like a 5 or 10s internal CD.
Source?
Feel like should be easy to implement... But alas.
so outside of "play what you want" want does rouge actually bring to m+? on the fence between my DH and Rouge
Because that would make too much sense
that is a sad comparison
rogue kinda does nothing better
well we can vanish if there is a wipe
If only we had it as a separate button. They could call it marked for death
Damage and posi vibes
well one is a color
it brings cool visuals like shadow clones (cant even see them)
Distract
Still have PTSD from actual mfd that was either useless or you got to cast nothing but finishers ever.
Woooo shitter version of mfd
Come on, everyone wants to be an elf.
alright so rouge for pvp and dh for pve it is
larias guy said so
hope you like playing rmp buddy
More fun to play and doesn't look like a bit fat illidan
If I can't rp as Legolas I don't want it.
why would anyone play male elf
🤨
i play body type 1 elf
Well it's a matter of taste in the end
No need to flame anyone
Or be toxic about it
I mean it's either that or KulTiran guy in a chain-kini. I don't make the rules, I just follow them.
ok the second one is based
I play a blood elf male, but theyve always been kind of girly
a night elf has made it to the fire
BE male has some of the worst animations
I'm also a fan of Lady NElfs. Just bring that 6'2 dommy mommy energy, ya know?
👀
Chubby panda
honestly panda animations are fire
once you get past stretching every belt
Also a great choice is male tauren.
Just straight up the most superior choice for stealth I can imagine. Clip clop, ya know?
And - you get an AoE stop button.
I actually really love my male void elf rogue
If not for the chin clipping issues he'd be perfect
are we using evis for SnD before cooldowns on the opener?
No need
play what you like, some ppl take your race choice too serious 👌
This was a cool little thing i sent to a friend to learn raid on
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all im saying is the most frequent brickers i run into are male elf players
Is this updated for midnight fights?
i guess this is for the voidspire bosses?
well its march 9th
so i would assume
Yeah its current
Doesnt have alleria or falls obv
I kinda had to stop dps on some fights
But eh
Was fun little refresher
does anyone have a source if a full guild grp can q lfr ?
by faction
Faction locked but yep
so the horde rats stuck
ok thanks! is there a post or w/e i can link my RL
does the guy not have access to grok
?
lfr tier = mythic tier with the new cata system 
Still dont know the drop rate!
Dude lfr going to be popping first few days. Might have higher pink parses than normal.
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How exactly does nimble flurry works and why does it do a lot more damage when i do my single target rotation on cleave dummies then when I do my aoe rotation?
Are you ignoring coup de graces while doing your aoe rotation
What deathstalker need to be great like Trickster for m+?
god
is there even an instance where trickster is not used on any raid bosses besides salhadaar
the instance where you dont care about aoe damage
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Apex talent optimization:
- Is shadow dance up? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have 5 or more stacks of shadow techniques? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have Darkest Night up OR A supercharged combo point? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Is ancient arts up? - :x: No
Use Shadowstrike (even if on full cp).
I thought trickster was BiS for most content?
yes, because most content has aoe
Would Deathstalker be preferable in PVP or still just run trickster?
trickster, cause of fazing
That's what I was thinking too. But I wasn't sure if Mark ended up out damaging faze
it depends, but for arena you want to use trickster for fazing and the increased crit chance on your fazed target
It's a little difficult to find much information on pvp unfortunately
Oh I hadn't heard of that. I'm just recently getting back into wow after a few years
is the bloodlust only logic gone for the AA tech
depends, but even without bloodlust you should still be stacking STs pretty quickly
Follow the blood 60% bp clear the witnesses 80% storm
supercharger/dn only now
Lock it in
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Apex talent optimization:
- Is shadow dance up? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have 5 or more stacks of shadow techniques? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have Darkest Night up OR A supercharged combo point? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Is ancient arts up? - :x: No
Use Shadowstrike (even if on full cp).
Shadow dance “up” meaning active right?
As opposed to “up” meaning off cooldown ready to use
is this true?
Maybe
naw its a lie
Depends on how they buff
yes
you can't cast shadowstrike while not in dance
Oh yeah lmao
So one thing I've not understood is why would I go down Vanish Cap for pvp instead of CBK? Is it just for the extra reset?
Stop 😭
We must take it further...
Till our st rotation is storm powder gloomblade

Wont be complete until shiv is in there
And detection

vanish pickpocket jump three times
Imagine if they made like a legendary rogue only trinket that you had to lock pick mid combat to activate
Peak class fantasy
AHHHHHHHHHHH NOT TRANSMITTER
Do the world quest you gotta move around to have no lines connected
Not the lorgok puzzles 💀
hey quick dumb question, I dont need to use any crests to craft farstriders mercy max quality right?
Not yet.
Just sparks will get you a 259 wep
does the quality of the embelishhment or the missive matter?
I mean that many crafters exploited to max profs I had blacksmiths offering to make my dagger with their own mats no conc 
I mean i figured that was the case
wasnt sure how many could make r5 with silver missives atp
Will sub still be a strong class when it comes to m+ ?
So now we can choose DS for pure ST!
And play Trickster for cleave.
is the stormarion assault wq just absolutely cooked or something, it never completes
You gotta be there for every stage
If you miss the start you won’t get credit
From my experience
world events in midnight are so good
stormarion like that
abundance is a lag fiesta
has anyone got all char sims doc?
ive done whole event 3 times now and stuck at 66%, annoying af as i need the rep
hello is trickster still at the top for all content right?
what change did i miss that made 2x 85 secondary enchant on wep better than 1x mastery procc?
theyre the same
But the reason it changed is because it was previously bugged in simc to not properly get doubled if you had 2x of them
wait is it no longer rendorei
Agility one yes
ah wait im stupid there are different rendoreis lol
Wait so 2x agi enchants now? Guide doesn’t seem to have been updated yet; still says mastery OH
Roger
Litwerally
mawwaige is wat bwings us togewer today
in this situ you hold sd and st for blades right?
yes
great thanks
!macros
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 or
Icy Veins.
was just doing it earlier today, was normal
the whole trick is to just kill everything really fast and cycle runs quickly
I've leveled most my alts doing that and its quick
How accurate are those Sims icy veins dropped?
ya im at 40% now, when i asked was at 16% lol
think i was just over analyzing
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lol the only way to make money with enchanting
"First Craft: A 1h weapon with an embellishment. You should craft it now for a boost going into N/H week then recraft it with Myth Crests on the 24/25th. If you do this, you only need to hold 80 Veteran Crests " Guys do u think this is right for sub?
deathstalker good now or sub still cooked
We only use Shadowstrike at max CP while we have Supercharged CPs for AA right? The rest of duration of SD is played normally?
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does this look normal for a few mins of single target dummy?
just making sure I'm not missing something major
run a dummy sim and compare
if you smack something for 5 minutes and feel like you might be missing a bind, you're probably good, we just don't got that many things to do anymore 😛
aiite lol. I haven't played sub since I was a 39 twink in 2009 so idk what anything is supposed to be really
did nimble flurry get nerfed?
Soon
65% down to 50%... but melee increased by 15%... soooo
that then cleaves
is that an actual nerf? lol
it's still a net loss
make it make sense
Number go down more than number go up
that nimble flurry change is more like a 25% nerf
If we go from 100 to 115 but cleave 50% of that we have 62.5
If we cleave 65 of 100 we have 65
the BP change is the real pain though
ty
The backstab buff is my favorite ngl
ds now oh boy
they're gonna come for your tier
I'm sure they will
its more intuitive that way though
either way is gonna result in too many people on one token or not
It's gonna make pugs where the leader don't bring their armor class even more common
hey thats exactly what i do on my alts amen
just be a plucky rogue raid leader, everyone loves those
melee pure with mid damage and a debuff that only matters on mythic, big value
/cast Ninja loot warglavies
some people cant have a schedule around specific times, just the way it goes
though this is a net loss overall since our main competition was dragons and dps warriors for tier
I work 24/7 three-shift, I can't raid on set times so pugging is my only option
yeah but pretty sure they dont do tier changes with pugs in mind
Just dont pay your bills so you can raid bro its pretty simple
I probably would just quit since
Isnt that why we have catalyst though
Guess I got to be the pug leader that don't take other leather users 🤣
I lfr bc i like shooting myself in the foot and get tier that way
didnt they buff catalyst
if you get 4 set, catalyst charges start dropping from misc content, so you can let charges rip instead of sweating tracks
from what i understand sub is still bis after 17th changes ? the outlaw sims are pretty inaccurate historically?
outlaw is likely better for M+, but raid is still up in the air
Nah thats spoiler bar, trust
watch the droprate be poop
historically daggers are a safe bet if you only care about raid though
i doubt assassination is going to get left at the bottom
i feel like this conversation is had every tier
outlaw high on patchwerk sim
"wow outlaw so good"
raid drops:
yea but sub is very different in midnight while outlaw is still outlaw more or less
it still has burst aoe
and assassination is...where it's at
which is typically how aoe works in raid
yea, but it had extreme burst AoE that you could hold CDs for without losing ST before midnight
its still very good aoe
im leaning towards sub being the go to still though
depends how it lines up
but we haven't seen final boss so who knows
the dragon boss has a big add spawn
so could be good for sub
i forget if they kept the higher key vault change
or not
one where you wanted to do keys past 10?
the one where its not as grief to take an m+ vault
after the first 2 weeks
yeah that one
it got axed thankfully
doubt blizzard wants the headache of trying to balance specs past +10s
probably why they axed it
are we though?
Im counting on 10s first week no problem honestly
idr if we had champ gear before keys in tww s1
tho i have time ^^
daily M0s + heroic gear + several weeks of crests
unless they are crazy overtuned
10s in S1 tww were pretty rough as I recall
I don't remember what content was availble before it though
pretty sure 10s week one is standard if you dont chimp out
S2 and S3 10s were very easy compared though
Cant wait for keys first week
S1 they blanket nerfed M+ damage and HP by like 10% or something I think?
243 goes hard asf
I think beta 10s scaled you to 243 ilvl and they were a breeze so
Probably fine this time
idr
No
i was a chimpanzee in s2 first week
They opened with mythic raid
And m0 only gave vet gear
yeah bounty delve was good first week besides
It was just hella cursed gearing
I miss ritual knife
Delve trinkets just havent hit since
Energy drink in s2 as well..
there was another delve trinket in s2 that was really good
what's the protocol for using 2 min trinks?
do we pop on cd, or wait to line it up?
Did I read correctly that deathstalker is ahead in sims again?
for pure st yes
gdi i dont wanna play deathstalker
raid has very little pure st so who knows if it'll actually be played much
At what point does it become trickster again I guess is the real question.

Im not even going to swap out of trickster tbh
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I assume deathstalker dungeon slice sims are significantly worse than trickster
Treat it like a 3 minute trinket
figured
Yeah about 50k dps behind in mass aoe
Does it matter mainhand vs offhand enchant?
You enchant both, doesnt matter if 2 diff enchants
Almost nobody except people doing splits on tuesday tbh
And they arent using vet for a weapon unless its an offhand theyre turbo lucky with loot elsewhere
guys, are we getting nerfed or bugged in general?
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damn is it really that close between outlaw and sub in raid?
St up, aoe down probably s good thing as a raider, bad as an m+er
don't get why nerfing the aoe, i'm always getting humiliated by almost any dps class
specially demon locks, mages and dks
any dps, and proceeds to mention the 3 best dps classes.

And if you’re getting humiliated in m0s you’re doing something terribly wrong
if they werent playing specifically udk i was quite literally nearly doubling everyone else
sub is insane rn
in m0*
I swear we’re living in bizarro world half the time in here
also when we played triple sub in one of our split runs it was omega fast comparatively
what are you guys finishing at overall wise at the end of a m0 run ?
overall dps wise*
It depends how the dungeon is pulled
very true
50-60K Overall
next week
i hit 230k on the last pull of BV earlier.. but my overalls have been 50-55k
just asking cause im new to rogue so wanna make sure im doing ok
You be fine.
my leather stack guild run each week unfortunately has our worst tank who chain pulls like 2 mobs at a time
so ive been stressing my dps, but in reality.. its him lol
Stress about family. Work. But you should never stress over dps
Single, Winters off, New Expansion. DPS stress is all that matters these days 😂
It’s something you’ll also just get better at the more you play
yeah if anyone ever does more damage than you its because they are unemployed and havent showered. personally i showered 10x a day for 3 weeks before the xpac dropped so i wouldnt have to shower when it was out, min maxing irl
ahaha
What class did you play before?
last season ele, season before enhance
vdh also
im just in the getting my muscle memory down phase of sub rogue currently
yeah im only 180 ilvl rn and doing the same dps as 230-240 ppl in m0. granted that is m0 though so no guarantee people know how to play their class
really? what's your ilvl
what're the exact numbers on our 2p and 4p gain
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man ds feels so weird
Just go trickster
prob will lose the 2% just messing up darkest night/aa anyway lol
question.... for cleave fights in raid like imperator, are we gonna be basically running the m+ build with Potent Powder?
2% isn't a huge difference at all; just use whichever you prefer. There are no boss design like Patchwerk right now
i didnt lose a single aoe pull ever on my sub rogue man and people acting like we're gonna be bottom of the pack now
its crazy
Can't really judge M+ damage by non-seasonal M0 damage
do i still have to individually press my trinket before i use my sblades macro
or can i just macro it all together
!macros
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 or
Icy Veins.
i saw someone mention having to trinket before u use ur cd macro
you don't use haste trinket with dance and sec tech is what it is
cause it needs a server tick so that they get the benefit of the haste
you can haste trinket with blades
you just dont want dance and sec tech in that same macro
what about everything except trinket
and just trinket before
ive been using the sectec blades dance macro
surely that works
it should work ye
it should work yea
I mean, evis is your 4th or 5th global in your opener. So depending on your definition of the length of the opener, it’s there.
you talkin m+?
because what i would do is while tank is gathering throw an evis out on a mob to get snd
and then never worry about snd for the rest of the dungeon
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it's worth doing in M+ while the tank is gathering
since you're not sending anything immediately
if it's a pull that's gathered insta then yeah just go straight into cds
actually i dunno about that since you only get snd from coup in aoe, so i'd probably still evis first
then storm>cds
How does Coup interact with our tier set and Supercharger, does that count as a 15 combo point spender?
7 From max CP
5 From Coup
3 From Supercharger
actually not sure but i assume yes
although wouldn't put it past blizz to make them not interact
So tier set adds 22.5% dmg to our coup?
i mean, if you want to sure? in the long run its not gonna do much for you
considering our entire apex revolves around sht gen
you're losing a lot of dmg not having snd active for a while
yes but when the tank is gathering you're not going into cds for a bit
and you can use 1 evis and then be able to gen way more CP and energy
to storm>BP during the gather
instead of just having 0 resources and afking
im just not arguing with you over .01% of the dungeon man
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Wait is deathstalker better than trickster for single target now?
like idk what else to tell you, its not gonna make a large difference
on pure single target sure, but the entire raid is cleave
it won't make a huge difference no, but it's more optimal
i doubt it
if during the gather we're doing basically nothing in terms of overall according to you
what's wrong with using 1 evis to get up snd
to make you more able to press storm>BP without being completely energy and apex starved
Guys, I'm having a great time bursting people in PvP. But I think we should nerf some of its burst damage and get Rupture back and maybe even nerf the burst a little bit more for some more DoT abilities. I think it's more thematic that way.

haha you're gonna summon @lilac stag
I'm being sarcastic. The fact that I can pop trinkets and go to town without ramping and setups feels great.

some hunter randomly attacked me in the slayer's rise place today
and i absolutely dominated him with no pvp gear
incoming sub pvp nerfs
as is tradition
ive had a lot of fun killing people inside of cheap shot in world pvp
i might possibly be doing pvp next week
to get a catalyst charge
which is disgusting, so we'll see
well they also buffed smokebomb
are the sims correct, based on my gear and the choices I have it thinks I should drop 3% haste from 18 ro 15%. That's easy 2 gcds in there.
or is the 18% strictly for m+ and the first dance rule?
18% won't be hitting a breakpoint, what's your exact value
684 is what we're trying to hit
oh ok.. im 644, so since I cant hit that its bascially saying go back down to the next lowest window.
i'm guessing yeah, although you do have enough for the 0.2 breakpoint
maybe the sim prefers to hit the 0.4 i have no idea tbh
need one of the nerds to clarify
wait I just gemmed some of the empty sockets and chanted a ring.. I got up to 705 haste.
was just about to suggest that
so above the break let me resim that agian
now it might want you to go down closer to 684 haha
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It does push to 0.4s
There is extra delay put in to make things nice for humans
My top gears all centralize around 690 700 w diff enchants and such
yeah mine is still telling me to push it down to 15% at 530 haste value vs 712(at max), crit diff though is 535(sim) vs 335 and 558mastery (sim) vs 624.
So likley my crit is deemed to low?
is delve leveling viable as sub? seems like im dying a lot
sick good to know
put her on as heals. you wont die. and make sure to tricks to her. You wont get really strong until you have all your AA talents.. it's like night and day.
80-90 ?
Do you have haste flask and thalassian oils selected or something
yeah
Because 530 + 150 flask + 32 oils will get you to 700
there's a hack for lvling, do each delve once and be sure to pick up the quest each one has but DO NOT turn it in
which runs it with the llight pot, and mastery flask.
when you hit 88 turn on warmode and flying around turning them all in
accordin to the output in the sim
gives like ~100k xp per turn in
then do first crafts on professions for the rest of the way to 90
you can skip 88-90 doing that
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damn, thanks!
@warm marlin maybe I will specify it and see what happens.
ofc!
so i should do every delve now and if i dont hit 88 i just spam shadowguard point?
cba questing tho
What is shadowguard point ?
the s tier run is gulf of memory for speed, but with decent of haranir story I think is the candle one.
looking forward to it.. finally something to work for in a couple days.
well I guess we are in monday now lol
Exactly, hype we get something to do but m+/mythic cant come soon enough
Actually omega hyped, I'm EU Andy so gotta wait an extra day but sub is feeling so smooth to play ATM and love getting gear and proggin bosses
yeah still sim is asking me to drop 125 haste and 70 mastery for 200 crit and 50 vers. It wants to keep me in the .2 sec window of play.
might be worth just ignoring it tbh
because it feels a lot better playing with ~684
yeah that .3 extra feels alot less stressful lol
can't wait to proc cheat UwU
Being C tier in m+ takes the edge off
you're also genning more sht and more apex
I mean u were never gonna be meta on rogue so
I dunno everything ive played so far im dumpstering the other dps.
Magisters feels so good on the big hall way pulls.
ofc when packs die fast, sub is insane haha, but wont translate into m+ that way
i have a sneaking suspicion the devs are gonna be playing a yo-yo tuning game of buffing and nerfing BP
sub is s tier in m+
i got the tier list at hand
I think if we rly stinker we getting buffed next week so idc
jokes aside
mythic+ balance probably does not matter
people won't push high keys now
all thats relevant is doing your vault key
what about mythic feral
with resto being so good groups wont be looking at them as much since they will bring the buff.
now if it is a different healer then maybe
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the problem for rogue is kinda
banger video
you want windflurry
raid buff and utility 🙂
fine does not mean good ^^
haha true
i'm not overly worried, there's gonna be so much tuning
thats true
tuning this week and then the tuning after WFR.
i did not watch the video
but technically, subtlety still has good burst and frequent cds
even if the cleave is nerfed
and we have execute and other small niches
also technically spoken, each class in the game is always "fine"
you never have a class entirely unplayable or bad
the problem is just perception and enjoyment
even if your damage is "fine"
how muh does a player enjoy being middle of the pack
on a pure dps class with no real raid utiltiy?
Very. I am looking forward to pugleading again.
perception of what is good/bad is based on tuning, and its hard to predict how good rogue is tuned
e.g. s3 TWW, subtlety had an insane tier set combined with an busted trinket
if you removed both and replaced it with something mediocre
you would not have seen much subtlety played
but also, not every spec and class can be an outliner
so you can't make everyone happy
oh @vale pine do you have the exact numbers for 2pc and 4pc % gain
ye
i would do a sim with my own char but realized haste values might be fucky
sick ty
Whispyr video is very good.
yeah it's good
how long is it, i can watch later
13 minutes
13 mins
ok i think i yoink the trickster one, there's no shot we're doing DS
is or will there be no cleave build anymore for bosses with frequent adds? is it straight up m+ talents?
Voraius might be more ST focused? I'm not sure yet.
and you increase cleave/aoe for some st trade offs
is that why most sims point outlaw. just for the constant cleave
Vaelgot and Ezzorak migth be too. So might be Crown of the Cosmos.
So there's some fights we might get to blast on
so between st and any form of cleave we just switch out that one point? i think it was weaponmaster for potent powder?
was it only one talent? wad it like that before too? think was weaponmaster for more st and crit instead of aa speed
and smth else
Yeah, I think so too about Fallen King.
'Cos if the orbs get close to the boss you aren't cleaing them down anyway
vaelgor needs to be tanked 15y appart
so you can't cleave
which means, its kinda single target
You do have an add wave off Void Howl but I don't know if they're gonna live long enough to matter if we can cleave them
on the duo dragons.
yeah that's the thing, a lot of these bosses are "cleave" but not really for melee
less so for melee than ranged i should say
guys! good idea craft weapon?
so once melees are reached
unsure how much cleave there will be
we will see later this week
Imperator has a ton (Add wave every Voidshaper when it goes active), Voraius has Blistercreep that need to die near the walls but that feels less like a job for Sub, but who knows. Fallen King has Orbs but you focus them down. Dragons are 15y apart. Lightbound is full 3 target cleave so gg us, lmao. Crown is weird as hell because of the P1 and P2 part. But I imagine we can just focus the boss.
you scared the shit out of me just there fuu haha
Chimarius has an add wave multiple times during P1 you need to kill before the boss eats it, and then another add wave in P2 so it's a lot of cleave and AoE.
haha, ye typo
i thought maybe they were doing some weird early raid drop
its early
I wanna raid so bad. I'm so prepped
i mean, i am hyped for the raid
but many of the fights look fairly simple on normal/heroic
sooo
mythic might be where it becomes fun
i'm fine with that tbh
Ye, a lot of the heroic changes are pretty minor. Although without seeing tuning on the fights themselves it's hard to know for sure.
From what i read, healing seems to be tougher with tonnes of rot dmg on all fights
this tier does seem hard for healers in general
mechanically it seems quite simpe so far
we'll see
the problem is like
healers lost a LOT of stuff
so healing is harder because healers are so much simpler
I think mechanics can be misleading in their simplicity. Blistercreep on Voraius, for example. Very simple on paper but I bet people are gonna struggle to do it.
sometimes you just don't have a cooldown to deal with x/y on specific healers
Blistercreep - is that the add that blows up walls?
just walk into your add and watch the rest of the fight floor pov
possible
and then collect loot
"please don't cleave"
But it requires everybody who is fixated to pay attention and position. And it requires every DPS to actually wait to kill them
people: "we explode the add in the middle when it spawns"
In an organized setting you'll have an easier time but I bet you some groups are gonna struggle
Vaelgot and Ezzorak is another boss I imagine is gonna be harder than people think (unless the tuning is a joke)
It's a fight with a few moving parts that people need to understand and people don't like understanding.
Early boss though so i doubt it gets too challenging
4th boss out of 6th
Phoenix boss looks fun
That short? Whispyr fell off!
Balo'ren looks fucking easy, weirdly.
The only heroic change I could find is he does Quills now. Otherwise it's just.. cycle. So it's all gonna be in the tuning.
I've not looked at mythic, because I don't personally raid at that level early on.
looks fun though - but i imagine sub would be good for burst on egg but im not sure of mythic mechs
anyone have a good plater profile or what are we rocking this xpac?
I think Assa might be real good on Balo 'cos of repeated execute phases.
assa on second egg phase can be good
For me, personally, Vaelgot and Crown of the Cosmos are the two fights I'm worried about.
Crown looks wild.
What does repeated execute mean? Respawns with less than 100% health?
Yeah. Balo'ren has two phases.
You fight birb, birb goes to 0%, becomes egg. You nuke egg down as it casts Rebirth. When rebirh finishes, birb back.
FIght ends when egg dies
Does the egg start at 100%
So you'll repeatedly be pushing the birb to 0%, which means multiple executes on it. And then the execute on the egg itself has huge value.
yeah, it does. But the HP is persistent
Does that really increase execute value?
I always thought of it as "if you spend relatively more time in execute than you normally would"
Well, you will in a sense because you will put the bird into execute range multuple times.
Which was the case on Rashanan
And the additional damage on the egg in execute is probably going to be valuable since you'll want it to die before the rebirth.
Yeah, not the same value as Rashanan. Just the extra value of more damage.
depnds on timing too if u can get r cds in that phase consistently than execute value goes up to its bg value
I'll have to think about it, but mathematically it shouldn't make a difference if you have 5 shorter fights that go from 100-0 or 1 long fight that goes from 100-0
That's fair, yeah.
ye execute is good af when u pair it with the cds
I'm not smart enough to theorycraft raid fights.
You're only going to be sad if the target dies halfway through your dm window
Ahahaha
purple..
Everybody should take bets on Lightblinded Vanguard btw
i see what you did there
if we get execute we will always be nerfed dude
trying to understand the apex optimisation does that mean i wanna enter dance with high shadow technique stacks so when i ss after sectec it procs ? or i just send dance anyway and spam ss after sectec to proc it ?
How many people will get pacified during it
imagine if sec tech had execute amp theyd never let u go crazy in dungeons
!aa
Apex talent optimization:
- Is shadow dance up? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have 5 or more stacks of shadow techniques? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have Darkest Night up OR A supercharged combo point? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Is ancient arts up? - :x: No
Use Shadowstrike (even if on full cp).
and then ur filler will be nerfed
At least 1 (me)
strike nerf all nerf..
See, this is where I'm gonna miss Weakauras.
I would absolutely make one to track how many times someone is pacified during the fight
what was discussed in #tc-research is just how the line interacts if you don't have the last apex skilled
tho you would not rly do that
so it looks like dance>sectec>ss>ss>evisc ?
And automatically post it to raid chat after the fight?
Yeah, a leaderboard
I really love Lightblined Vanguard. Blizz cooked that fight, it's brilliant.
I hope they consider doing more "Council fight but it's 3 player class specs"
you usually use secret first gcd in dance
Senn's ult, the Draenei. It puts an Aura of Peace out that pacifys you if you attack her or her allies in a 40yard radius around her
or you mean on deathstalker
ooo ok
but ye
So when she ults you gotta run out of the aura and stop attacking
it can lead to extra strike casts
cant wait for something silly to happen like it proccing off dots
keep in mind
It's cute but I don't like it. I don't think it teaches people the WoW raid fights, I think it teaches them those versions of the fights in Vellum.
blizz could at any time change encounters
so we don't 100% know if the encounters are the same as in testing
Ye
I wrote my guide using the Journal then cross-referencing it with beta videos, etc.
But I won't be able to comfirm anything until I raid on Weds
I think I've figured Crown of the Cosmos out but the first phase is confusing. Reminds me of Mammoroth from WoD.
the two untested encounters
Yeah, Crown and Midnight falls
Crown is a lot more clear than Midnight Falls.
thats true
i mean crown has an entire phase that just isnt in the journal at all
so maybe clearer up until that point
haha, it does?
Bruh how do we play on the two dragons and the paladin council bosses?
Switch to assa?

uh
im looking at mythic
Oh
heroic is whatever
Heroic is where most people raid
I don't care about Mythic. The actually smarter and better raiders who aren't puglording to AotC can think about that
does cdg still eat stacks if we sectec with it up
i'd argue managing to raidlead pugs makes you better than a large number of mythic raiders

Thinking about that time I had some people from a CE guild join my Heroic pug, and they couldn't do Fracilitus Heroic because their WA's weren't working and they wiped us.
It was extremely funny
Zero understanding of the actual fight
You just send darkest night outside of dance then? Or are we gonna have to hold it
I tried to pug Mythic moth and when the group got to it, we spent an hour trying to make WA's work and I just left the group
you do
because frankly fuck that noise lmao
Alright so dont have to hold it then
!apex
You cannot track the apex talents Ancient Arts through the cooldown manager. However they do show up via the ingame like THIS. If you cannot see them you must go into your settings and increase your Spell Alert Opacity. Some popular Addons (like ElvUI) disable these by default.
oh thats now what i thought it was lol. Up to jhow many targets do we still force apex proc over BP?
Can't even remember the big difference that asked for wa tech
the problem with weakauras was the dependency
!aa
Apex talent optimization:
- Is shadow dance up? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have 5 or more stacks of shadow techniques? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Do you have Darkest Night up OR A supercharged combo point? - :ballot_box_with_check: Yes
- Is ancient arts up? - :x: No
Use Shadowstrike (even if on full cp).
many times they didn't work
or had some bugs
and everyone needed to have the same version
etc
Also check the FAQ
ah thanks that was i was looking for 😄
Heya i have some question, is their any way with the cooldown manager to see when we don't have poison on wep ?
It automatically assigned lane soaks
where is that? I think that was a channel once but i dont have it anymore
But I guess they couldn't count to 5 and needed a WA to do it for them
nvm found it. Might be blind on both eyes
Not that I know of. I use a poison reminder add on
EllesmereUi has it but i dont think it stems from CDM. So probably addon needed
So we a good with going into raid as sub trickster? Or are the other specs ahead? Im really lost at this point 🙂 thx guys
we probably:
- Play deathstalker on the single target figths
- Play trickster on all other fights
I'm gonna play Trickster on all the fights. 
Are there even ST fights in the new Raids?
I'm gonna throw Crown of the Cosmos in there too. As a feeling.
!macros
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 or
Icy Veins.
Check out the addon “Clickable Raid Buffs”. It tracks all useful buffs including poisons
But its about 2% extra single as DS right? Maybe just stick to trickster, DS seems less fun
It is
At least on Assa it was
At some point even an encounter with adds on adds may have the adds be overkilled and some dps need to go ST to kill the actual boss.
Having your entire hero tree behind a sometimes hard to apply debuff isn’t engaging imo
Ye
Legit the first dungeon I tested on rogue was murder row
Take a guess what happened on the first boss 
when playing deathstalker, why is it best to enter dance with 0 cps?
ill probably start as trickster for most of the fights
normal raid
hell yeah
Do we technique outside of sd?
tho our gear level si likely low
no
i feel like it might be safer to just play trickster on all fights
ye the diff between ds and trickster seems minimal enough that having the option to cleave may be more relevant even if adds just explode
taht and also i feel like our muscle memory is better as DS
1 thing's for sure, you definitely do not want to play DS on the paladin boss
juggling the mark on 3 targets and having worse cleave sounds doo doo
getting stacks of unseen blade i guess ?
Any other rotational changes for DS besides going into dance with low cp?
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
!bug
Rogue Bug tracker: Spreadsheet
Is Warning Signs (25% auto attack speed during dance) really that valuable in Deathstalker if we're not fishing for Trickster unseen blade resets? In my sims the auto attack damage isn't that huge
You open with dance+storm vs sitting on cps for dance + Sectech. ie DS has a better builder option to start than Trickey due to not being able to do dance + strike without a delay.
ye probably
it isn't just autos, you generate more sht and therefore more apex
Don’t think any boss is a DS boss on mythic
but who knows 😉
D'oh, knew I was missing something
i suspect most people will play trickster because vibes are way better
There is some sort of cleave on every boss
there is for sure but it's a lot of spread cleave or cleave melee can't participate in
or there's cleave where doing boss dam is still probably more important
There is until every dps specs cleave and its decimated .
Yea but trickster is a super small ST loss
Some people will be going ST
yeah that's why i think trickster is the play
and DS is a bigger gain on ST than trick
so my assumption would have been to paly DS in normal but trickster in heroic
however, guilds are undergeared
just play outlaw in heroic 
XD
With us having 2 charges of dance, why do we only dance with SecTec up and not weave in extra dances?
why the fballs did sub get nerfed aoe??
But CDs align to have a Dance almost guaranteed with Sectec up no?
It was insanely good
I remember taking it for a spin, not knowing how to play it perfectly and it felt insane
was it???
Sectech needs to be first finisher. Dance cd doesn’t allow for that if you weave.
Yea
if you use dance charges as they come up you'll inevitably run out of charges for sectec
and then you're boned
Unless blizzard decides to streamline the spec even more and give and additional S.tech charge
When we doing sub for pve? 😂
nah there's no way we get another dance charge
Always
people were saying sub had mediocre aoe at best before the nerfs
OH mb
People were lying
Which is somehow even more insane to think about
real???
Those people are idiots
I'M sorry, no no I'M sorry, no please I'M sorry
Who is I’m
makes an awefull lot of sense
trickster still > deathstalker for m+?
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