#subtlety

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astral axle
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i think thats pressing guidon then dance too quickly

wicked urchin
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im gonna see glaives in my nightmares

young path
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Well shit, aight i will slow it down. Thanks

astral axle
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does it look like this?

solid elm
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a quickie question, the rings from Nexus arent worht playing on sub right ?

wicked urchin
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they're good

drifting ether
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Its a good day dont need to use bonus roll 🤣

wicked urchin
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but its not myth track

solid elm
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i got the void one in vault, with leech

drifting ether
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It'll do for now i get hella other items i can upgrade and still have champ guidon and gaze

wicked urchin
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ah fair enough

dry flame
craggy cloak
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hey, question about sims, how do we sim if we need to hit the breakpoint of 700 and then other stats? the site is not taking that into considuration, right?

earnest crane
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i just got the Light ring with roll

hollow spear
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Ring set is "bis", but you have to be able to make the haste breakpoint

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And not overcap too hard

main rivet
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I guess similar question to Hayden

wicked urchin
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can't see myself using any other rings unless i get mythic alleria neck p much

hollow spear
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Just ignore it and aim for 700 haste

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Put everything above 700 into crit and mastery

wicked urchin
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^

main rivet
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ty @hollow spear

hollow spear
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I hate breakpoints

wicked urchin
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me too man

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gear shuffling this tier is such a pain

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thankfully im basically full bis now

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or "bis enough"

hallow mortar
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so what was the real buff this week? i gained like 10k in sims

thick knot
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I had "bis" feet, catalyzed to get more crit over mast cause of cloud cover

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can I uncatalyze feet please

hallow mortar
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it do not matter, more mastery you get the better crit become to the point that crit is even or better

peak ice
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Ask away

hard pawn
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Reject mastery, embrace crit (I'm cooked)

flint parrot
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!fuu

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!sheet

wicked urchin
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vibes

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holy thats big

wicked urchin
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3.5 but ye

vale pine
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
hollow spear
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Idk what you want to hear

peak ice
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Its dungeon slice

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Ur pulling big packs

main rivet
vale pine
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haste is slightly undervalued in the sim, it is why gear sets typically come out with slightly lower haste

wicked urchin
vale pine
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(undervalued in this case means, we typically have higher impact from latency and human error than the sim)

hollow spear
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The advice is to get 700 haste and get crit/mastery, a tad more mastery for m+

vale pine
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yes

hollow spear
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It's not rocket science

peak ice
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Isn’t it 700 haste with guidon?

vale pine
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heavy mastery for m+

north garnet
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Its a comp[licated sim situation. You do want 700 haste + guidon or 800 haste without it

vale pine
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for raid more balanced

vale pine
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if you play puzzle box

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you go 800

main rivet
peak ice
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Yea

wicked urchin
vale pine
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1100 haste is for deathstalker

peak ice
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So they have 700 haste and are sinking with a puzzle

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It’s what I’m saying

proper eagle
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Xenas ring is pretty good. Gives much haste

hollow spear
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If you play puzzle box, don't

main rivet
# wicked urchin gaming

I only M+ though, I don't raid. In fact, when I would use my Puzzlebox, I would have 20% penalty on mastery according to true stats

hollow spear
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And play guidon

north garnet
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guidon feels so much better than puzzle

thorny kestrel
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wow sub rogue seems great in keys (no prio but overall is nice). Burst isn't as good but still better than most burst on packs.

vale pine
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the problem with puzzle box is, you already gear heavily into mastery

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so you hit stat dr's

mossy holly
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Hey guys, thinking about gearing my rogue as an alt. But debating whether to craft a dagger and play sub or craft a 1h weapon and play outlaw. Will be only for mythic/heroic raiding as I will not be pushing any m+. How is the sub and outlaw comparison looking after todays patch?

thorny kestrel
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happy to have stayed sub for m+
outlaw feels so clunky

vale pine
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which is why it can sim equal to guidon on setups without much mastery

wicked urchin
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it's crazy how much more fun l'ura is to progress than

main rivet
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Finally got guidon right before reset, so no more puzzlebox and no more DR thankfully lol

wicked urchin
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checks notes

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literally every other fight in the tier

hollow spear
thorny kestrel
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sub pretty mindless tbh. great to focus on kicks and shit like that

hollow spear
vale pine
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for specs, i would say play what you are familiar with

empty bobcat
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how good is plume for us now?

thorny kestrel
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outlaw tracs more stuff

velvet jay
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I streamed a M+ once for my guild and they flamed me for how easy my rotation was xD

vale pine
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if you are new to a spec, you have a harder time to adjust to encounter specifics

empty bobcat
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I have it in vault and I cant decide if plume or set chest

peak ice
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Do you have gaze?

thorny kestrel
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yeah since they took away our rupture, and way before that our snd, it's like the easiest spec

wicked urchin
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belo was pretty miserable

thorny kestrel
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but even with bleeds to maintain before, it was still easy

empty bobcat
vast scarab
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is myth guidon worth over myth chest even when having hero track guidon? i have no issue fitting second ST in cds

solar glen
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We not playin Cloud Cover anymore after nerf?

wicked urchin
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no

mossy holly
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Familiar with both, was just wondering the performance in the raid rather than just looking at sims. And according to logs both seems even. Thanks for the help

solar glen
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God bless

tribal blade
peak ice
empty bobcat
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yes but chest is hero I got myth in vault

north garnet
wicked urchin
vale pine
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but for raiding, mostly no

peak ice
empty bobcat
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Ima sim it

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ye

vale pine
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subtlety had the hardest rotation in tww/df

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but its now simplified to the point mastery and expertise are more about

solar glen
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But we still fighting for Crit or we switch back to Mastery?

vale pine
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knowing bugs and how to play around them

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XD

solar glen
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In Raid btw

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Ahh there is a new pin thank youuu

vale pine
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we essentially move back to a similar stat spread like we had before the nerf

wicked urchin
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ironically i was way better at old sub than new sub

vale pine
peak ice
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What’s considered a difficult class now days

vale pine
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not sure, think everything is now simple

tribal blade
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honestly no idea

solar glen
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After i looted Vorasius Ring on BiS 🤔 My rl gonna hate me for now

vale pine
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design direction blizz took with midnight

peak ice
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I’ve only got a few alts but like

peak ice
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Compared think subs harder

north garnet
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I feel like outlaw is straight up harder without weak auras haha

vale pine
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sub is harder because rogue is in general a bit harder

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energy and combo point management

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as well as stance managemenr

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*management

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both is not present to this extend on other classes

final gulch
peak ice
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Mage and devourer feel real easy

north garnet
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dev aparently has quite a difficulty curve

final gulch
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ye our lord and savior blizzard thought it was cool to cut a lot of skill expression from classes and specs :>

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another great change

dusky verge
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devourer is easy on a dummy but judging by the extreme variance in raid logs not so easy in an actual encounter (though I've only tried it in m+)

peak ice
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Idk if they were wrong tbh

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Outlaw was miserable

earnest crane
north garnet
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Outlaw variance in logs is something

peak ice
idle birch
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i dont think sub is hard at all. It is just that any class/spec that entirely depend on short bursts of dmg tend to be harder for ppl coz it is pretty easy to mess that window up by sending cds in wrong place

dusky verge
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positioning is part of skill expression for ranged spec though always has been (unless BM)

hearty mural
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what options do i use for simming M+? and Raid ? Dungeon slice and patchwerk?

peak ice
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Ye just feels double bad when so much is packed into the star and you have to cancel it

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I mean it’s cool and I like it, but feels bad

dry flame
hearty mural
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honestly dont know what arrow up means..lemme see if chatgpt knows

peak ice
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Also heroic raid is uhhh

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Diverse

tribal blade
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i've been on a tear of watching people give advice on youtube on how to improve in keys

tribal blade
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and literally every single video is like "it's not damage, it's defensives/kicks/etc etc

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always downplaying damage

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when i think

burnt loom
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its psychologically hard to be any kind of rogue

tribal blade
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damage is the most important thing

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it's the 1 thing everyone will judge you by instantly

peak ice
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People don’t kick fear in magisters

tribal blade
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and the most surefire way you can see someone is gonna climb IO fast is they do high damage

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all those other things are very important, sure

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but i just find it funny how all these people (including rank 1 players) downplay the importance of dps output in keys

dusky verge
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I did have a ret paladin do highest damage in maisara 13 on my resto druid without a single kick

peak ice
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I think they just expect you to do normal dps

spiral needle
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I imagine they are looking through the lens of if you know how to properly kick and defensive, you should already know how to do damage too

peak ice
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And then also kick

tribal blade
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but you can just kick enough

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and then you'll climb way faster than someone who does 0 dmg but gets every kick

spiral needle
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something like that isn't really going to exist though

peak ice
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I don’t think those are aimed at us boss

spiral needle
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if youa re set up to be a pro kicker, you are gonna already know how to do damage properly

north garnet
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i feel like its emphasised because damage often is what players obsess about anyway and playing your spec at a high level is required if you want to push. I do see people miss time their defensives or not use their utility even in 18s

peak ice
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It’s aimed at people who don’t sim

tribal blade
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this is very much not the case

spiral needle
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i mean kicking the right things instead of every 1st bolt though

tribal blade
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i have seen every combo of player in keys

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but you're mistaking my point for saying only damage matters

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when i said people are underplaying how important damage is

dry flame
# tribal blade always downplaying damage

I think it's because the people who watch those videos do not have their fundamentals down.

Its much harder to time 10s with skill-appropriate people, just because of how much they die.

spiral needle
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nah, I'm just giving the youtubers the benefit of the doubt

peak ice
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It’s kinda pointless to have a video saying it though isn’t it

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ā€œJust do more damageā€

spiral needle
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i would like to think they are stressing kicks and defensives as the next level after damage, instead of purely focusing on 100% damage

tribal blade
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and it's the same thing

tribal blade
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but it's the truth

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and i think everyone is trying to give super fancy answers

spiral needle
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gotta get those clicks

peak ice
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They’re probably assuming the people watching it aren’t single button rotation

tribal blade
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everyone in the high key pushing scene cares a LOT about damage

dusky verge
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I mean judging by reddit you can at least push 3k with OBR xD

spiral needle
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yea i doubt the guy doing 80k overall is looking for videos on how to chase title

tribal blade
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and then for rank 1 players doing high damage is a given, which is why they downplay it's importance

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they never run with anyone doing low damage

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it's just varying degrees of rank 1 damage

peak ice
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You could probably 1 button mage to 3k

dusky verge
dry flame
# tribal blade true yeah, but i'm also watching videos aimed at people who want to push title

I am not the best player, I just solo pug, got my 3.4k, most of the time im topping meters, but i just try to play clean.
For me, its just, idk what's the best way tro phrase it, but - discouraging?
I try to play consistent, kinda memorising roughly what i have for different packs or pulls, but depending on how th group is tanking or pulling, seeing 20-40k difference in overall without me doing anything different is rough

tribal blade
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that's not in your control

drifting ether
tribal blade
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and then the higher you go in key level the better the routes become

earnest crane
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and the funny thing is while Dev and DK are meta when i group up with them i almost do as much dps as them and most of the times better dps and still cant get in GP in pugs cuz everyone want red and purple

spiral needle
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your fault for not having grip or a brz

earnest crane
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i have B ress

tribal blade
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because both those specs are way better than sub atm

peak ice
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Dk does some crazy aoe

tribal blade
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there's a reason they're meta specs

earnest crane
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i know they are better but in pugs things are diffrent

alpine wraith
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it is not only the dps most of the time

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but all the utility

peak ice
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Yea I feel warlocks are very hit or miss too

tribal blade
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yeah combo of damage and utility

peak ice
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But gate skips

alpine wraith
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like mf aug can knock bitches up 4 times in 4 secs

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rogue can stun 1 ONE target

tribal blade
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but usually damage

peak ice
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I love having at aug in runs

alpine wraith
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or disorient for 1 secs every min

peak ice
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Don’t kick me

tribal blade
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DK is quite unique because they bring stuff to keys that's irreplacable

alpine wraith
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it is very strong

tribal blade
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like grips and being immortal

alpine wraith
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also yea grip

peak ice
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It just makes my life so easy when the whole pack is just like perma ccd by the dragon

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So good

earnest crane
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devs are kinda immortal too

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so much self heal

peak ice
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Guaranteed they have the most deaths

alpine wraith
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dragons can also dispel almost anything

peak ice
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Dash into collapsing star is the devourer play

blissful basin
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hi guys, simple question... try to Bonusroll Gaze M when i have HC Gaze or Bonusroll in Dungeons for mythic upgrades?

peak ice
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Hc is heroic?

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Think it’s a sim it answer

earnest crane
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But trust me bro if u have insane dmg u will be meta its always about dmg just go back and watch surv dmg in season 3 shadowland

blissful basin
empty bobcat
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isnt SV top also rn?

fossil forge
peak ice
azure ember
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is this with or without guidon?

blissful basin
hollow python
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should i take hero voidsong neck in vault to replace my myth crafted from 3 days ago for +50 dps, or myth tier leggings (downgrade) to collect the transmog besad

peak ice
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Oh hero err

solar glen
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Is it worth it to miss 62 Haste to 700 and get 180 Crit?
On my Sim its worth it but i know Raidbots hate haste

alpine wraith
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you can switch some gems around to get closer to 700 haste again

solar glen
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Its already switched thats the point

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Its my max Haste actually

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Its about AA Ring or MT Ring

mortal trail
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Got gaze + guidon MM and my droptimizer says HC mastery plume is a 2.6% upgrade, WTF is going on?

somber sun
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like bro

tribal blade
solar glen
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If i choose the MT ring im ending up on 724 Haste, 748 Crit, 782 Mast.
If i choose AA ring im ending up on 921 Crit, 638 Haste, 695 Mast

vale pine
somber sun
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and I cant redeem anything

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from vault

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before I roll there

tribal blade
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ah i see

short radish
vale pine
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The problem many face now is

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you essentially need to roll your bonus rolls and take your vault

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after

blissful basin
vale pine
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because many times, you have multiple pieces you have minor upgrades from

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and don't want to waste your vault

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any system has flaws

vale osprey
vale pine
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i have the same problem btw.

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i still need to take last weeks vault

vale pine
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i ran like 50 keys

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but we only ran the key, besides me asking for it

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one time

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XD

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people painfully avoid the

vale osprey
vale pine
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"hey, would be nice if we can do this key"

somber sun
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yeah idk atp

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better for me to wake up at exactly the reset hour

solar glen
somber sun
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only then people will take you

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and cba waiting for end of the week

vale pine
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and thats because they want to play for resilient/score

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and this means, you need to be lucky that they need the specific key still

vale osprey
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Just remove m+ vault garf

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So we don't have to do it

vale pine
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haha

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to be fair

vale pine
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wow has changed into a grind simulation more than ever

short radish
mortal trail
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Im simming for Beloren (40s burst)

velvet jay
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what is there to grind though?

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not hero gear I assume?

vale pine
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see

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the sim has a 20% variance

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so you essentially sim between 32 sec and 48 sec

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the short duration makes it prone to mistakes

thorny kestrel
vale osprey
vale pine
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and also makes critical strike and other higher variance factors mor relevant

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which is why the trinket from baloren sims higher

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it has flat stats, which give benefits directly in form of output

mortal trail
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Makes sense, i went for more crit after cloud changes and lowered my mastery but didnt think mastery now with new changes was so important

thorny kestrel
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waiit i might have been thinking of sl lol

vale pine
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while alnseer has a chance to give certain benefits

thorny kestrel
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not tww caney

short radish
tribal blade
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might have been eleem or stealthi, i really can't remember

thorny kestrel
tribal blade
vale pine
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but ye

vale pine
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basically

vale pine
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stealthi asked a top world rank player who played both arcane and subtlety which one was harder

somber sun
fossil forge
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brahs im getting on paladins rekill today

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No more benching…

vale pine
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and subtlety was in general harder

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while there are some small diffrences

tribal blade
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exactly yeah

thorny kestrel
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huh... maybe it's because i've played sub for so long, it never felt as hard as arcane ever

vale pine
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onne thing i remember was

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that something i think is important was a bit downplayed

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how punishing subtlety was for mistakes

tribal blade
vale pine
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basically

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even if the difficulty of execution ends up the same

thorny kestrel
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yeah probably that

tribal blade
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had a lot of people coming in here before losing their minds over the rotation

vale pine
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if you lose massive amounts of damage on one spec and can't recover easy

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again, my opinion

tribal blade
abstract cosmos
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how does sub rogue feel after patch havent tested it

tribal blade
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fuck up cds

vale pine
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you should consider it harder

tribal blade
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you're a goner

thorny kestrel
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i like sub in keys after patch

tribal blade
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it feels a lot easier to regain momentum after messing up with sub now

vale pine
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to be fair

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i think dust was harder to play

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dust i had to spend insane amounts of time to make the sim work

abstract cosmos
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ye in keys i changed to assa coz i didnt like how sub felt before

vale pine
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like a month of full time job work or more

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just to have a good baseline when the patch released

thorny kestrel
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sub pumps in keys, just no funnel prio unless you decide to

tribal blade
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sub is definitely still not OP though

vale pine
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and even then, we had to optimize for each fight

alpine wraith
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dust was very fun

abstract cosmos
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i prefer assa

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for keys

alpine wraith
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kill timers etc were very cool to try and get the most of

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but also if there was ever a need to send it all

alpine wraith
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you could vanish 2 times

vale pine
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worse case you need to slightly delay your 90 sec cooldowns

tribal blade
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before you messed up a flag window

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it was gg lol

vale pine
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you don't impact your shadow dance/symbols of death economy

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long time

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which was the big issue before

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you are out of symbols charges?

tribal blade
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yes that as well

vale pine
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how do you recover?

tribal blade
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impossible

vale pine
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by not using cooldowns for extended periods of time

tribal blade
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also do rotation wrong/lose too many globals in flag window

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it's joever

vale pine
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but doing so means you don't do damage for a LONG time

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which lowers your output noticable

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sooo

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you are fucked

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w/e

tribal blade
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yeah was pretty bad before

vale pine
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tho i think even the current iteraiton is somewhat hard to understand

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because cooldowns still don't align naturally

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we essentially take haste so that they do align better

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XD

tribal blade
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i think current sub is not as easy as people think it is

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that's my feeling at least

vale pine
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and human error for new players typically makes it work without much thought

tribal blade
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i don't think it's super complicated though

vale pine
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like

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the 10 sec gap you kinda have

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is something you need to play around

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but if you are always using your sucessive dance casts late

river pendant
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trying to play rogue for splits I already got a dk and dh

vale pine
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which is normal for a beginner

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you auto pilote somewhat correct

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I think subtleties baseline is easy

keen dome
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šŸ™

vale pine
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it just has bugs and some not extremely well thought through talent options to make things harder

keen dome
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Blessed freedom

vale pine
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congrats

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i will get my one for sure in the bonusroll on the fight

keen dome
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I believe

vale pine
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(i probably won't)

tribal blade
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this is extremely unreliable data

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but how things are shaping up

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oh boy look at dev still up there

vale pine
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dk too

abstract cosmos
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ppl think dev nerf will actually cripple them

tribal blade
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lol there was no shot

vale pine
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think i mentioned it the other week

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i think patches seem a lot more placebo tuning

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where there are changes, but technically nothing rly changes

abstract cosmos
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thing is most devs are pretty stinky

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they just switch coz of meta

jaunty umbra
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thats any meta spec really

keen dome
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Oh right I should fix my talents..

wheat crypt
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Did tunning get applied?

keen dome
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Almost forgot about the change back

abstract cosmos
wheat crypt
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Y

sullen hare
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Almost forgot to log in and play

abstract cosmos
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go back to mastery

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and old build

wheat crypt
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There goes my fked up states

sullen hare
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Or just rock the same gear and call it a win

abstract cosmos
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ez

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thats all i did

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why i saved my biggest stat weights

wheat crypt
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Good idea tbh

empty bobcat
keen dome
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I will miss you dumb smoke bomb graphic that lasted for 2 weeks

wheat crypt
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Craft one ring and get aa ring then good to go

tribal blade
tribal blade
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they have a spec that's topping in raid

keen dome
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Mages don't know right from wrong

vale pine
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it is a effort assessment

sullen hare
vale pine
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basically, people meta chase

tribal blade
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and then it's the end of the world for them

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WELCOME TO REALITY

vale pine
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because the meta dps can often do 10% or more damage than others

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in mythic+ can be more extreme

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like unholy dk in aoe is absurd

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can do like 50% more than others or even higher

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so, by switching to the meta every patch

keen dome
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How does Gaze work? Just passive proc gain stat ignore it, right?

tribal blade
tulip gorge
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premeditation my old friend 🄹

drifting ether
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Do yous know if the alleria neck is weighted the same as other pieces for bonus roll or is it less because its rare

vale pine
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you essentially get these 10% extra dps

tribal blade
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a fuckton of bad players on it

vale pine
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and assume you play your the spec worse by like 10%

vale pine
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these 10% are not 10% dps, but like 2-5%

keen dome
vale pine
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so even tho you don't play the class/spec well

tribal blade
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it's a very noisy trinket

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which is funny

keen dome
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This is the first one I've gotten, so.

vale pine
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you still gain 5% by simply playing a diffrent class less efficient

tribal blade
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you proc the trinket and then it creates a window in which you stack up the agi

sullen hare
abstract cosmos
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imagine if sub becomes meta HOLY

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what a time

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to be alive

tribal blade
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it won't happen

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not unless we do insane dmg

keen dome
tribal blade
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like gapping by a fuckton

#

sub was already really good during TWW S3

sullen hare
#

We did get some fresh blood lately but most will abandon it, as always

tribal blade
#

and didn't become meta

#

because no raid buff/utility

#

BM took that spot

keen dome
#

when rogue raid buff

tribal blade
sullen hare
#

Never probably

#

Unless Claude comes up with some slick shit

#

Hey Claude if you're listening...

abstract cosmos
#

im a new sub rogue but i wont swap off sub cool

sullen hare
#

Welcome

astral axle
#

i just like rogue

sullen hare
cloud rover
#

We do use Mastery flask over Crit now right

#

Because Raidbots still used crit on automatic

alpine wraith
#

most of the time yes

tribal blade
#

cool thing is everyone in here loves rogue

#

because that's the biggest reason to play it atm

sullen hare
#

Even if it doesn't sound like it sometimes

tribal blade
#

haha we just complain because we care

light hull
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
tribal blade
#

btw can you guys remind me when the next PTR forum thing is active

keen dome
#

the egg has 10 seconds more and pug groups STILL can't one phase it lmao

tribal blade
#

because i need to make a post about rogue raid buff in there

sullen hare
#

That actually is kinda tragic though

#

Wasn't it like 25% extra burn time?

rain sentinel
#

If only this top% could be realistic...

hazy lichen
#

anyone have st sims

#

for all specs

#

is there a website

sullen hare
rain sentinel
#

Ye

sullen hare
#

I could see it being accurate yeah

#

That's not particularly unheard of but you'll not hit that pugging which can make it feel unrealistic

rain sentinel
#

It's an average of the top parses, so it will flatten out eventually

vale pine
#

people don't even trust in one phasing

#

like we did one heroic pug

dry flame
keen dome
#

They shouldn't haha

vale pine
#

and besides the strategy layed out

keen dome
#

One phase sucks

vale pine
#

people fucking don't do it

keen dome
#

But also it's because people are real dumb and don't push buttons or don't stop pushing buttons

elfin plank
vale pine
#

we also re-cleared heroic

keen dome
#

Like we just phased the boss with the add alive 'cos people wouldn't stop pushing

vale pine
#

and our raiders, so people who play mythic

#

have like 5-7 people

#

who don't hold cooldowns

#

which is insane to me

#

they rather use cooldowns on cooldown and parse better

keen dome
#

Haha

vale pine
#

than do the fight in 2 mintues

keen dome
#

That's not good!

elfin plank
#

Bro our RL went badshit crazy on belo

vale pine
#

i mean

#

we now know who to bench

elfin plank
#

Because the hunter didn’t

vale pine
elfin plank
#

And he didn’t for 60 pulls

#

Insta got flicked

#

Into oblivion

#

Made 3 of his friends leave

neon stirrup
dry flame
keen dome
#

I pop my cooldowns the first pull of the pug I join to see if I get them back for egg or not. Typically I do 'cos if you have to wait for the second add in the first cycle to spawn, it'll phase at around 1:20 into the fight

sullen hare
#

That's actually just how it is

vale pine
abstract cosmos
#

i just send cds fake it

vale pine
#

you killed it

#

so what consequence do you have?

#

1-2 minutes of lost time

sullen hare
#

At some point you run into apathy though

vale pine
#

like, if it comes to me

#

everyone who couldn't follow what was said

#

should be just replaced

#

but i am one of 4 officers

neon stirrup
#

holding cds is good for parses tho. Killing it in 1 phase means you will parse infinitly better

vale pine
#

well yes

#

but if everyone holds

#

and you get a 2nd cooldown use out of it

#

you parse better

#

which is exactly what happened

#

its extremely simple

#

2x your full cd set > 1x your full cd set

neon stirrup
#

just a bad crowd you are pugging it with then

#

idk i dont pug

vale pine
#

that was a guild group

#

XD

modern whale
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
clear aspen
#

anyone uses potion of recklessness in M+? is it the go to?

vale pine
#

my point tho was

neon stirrup
vale pine
#

that people disslike the idea of holding cd's and if its benefitial to them not to

#

will do so

#

parsing culture is a pain

sullen hare
#

The apathy I'm talking about is coming from my own position- what's the point for me to do what mathematically is correct when almost no one else in my raid group does? It's nice to feel smug and all but when the official raid group strat doesn't take any of that care or concern into hand then all it does is make you feel like you're applying clown makeup one pull at a time

west arch
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale pine
#

raiding is a lot about finding consistent and easy to perform strategies

#

you don't care if your entire raid sacrafices 20% dps

#

if you can easy and fast kill the boss

neon stirrup
#

well in ideal world yeah

#

everyone works for a common goal

neon stirrup
#

but the type of a person that spends hours playing wow and games isnt the one to be the most logical

#

and its even harder when you need whole 20 of them

#

i dont even know 20 people

keen dome
#

Pug strats are all about making the 25 random people kill the boss even if it is inferior to an actual strat

vale pine
#

its also like this

keen dome
#

it's funny

vale pine
#

strategies discovered early are rarely replaced

#

unless you find something noticably simpler

gilded ferry
#

is dragons as sub troll or we fine?

sullen hare
vale pine
#

your raid team learned the strategy

#

so unless you can skip things

#

nobody cares about doing things more optimal

clear aspen
vale pine
#

even the world first raiders mention this after the race some times

#

how guilds figured out better strategies after the wfr

hazy lichen
#

whos the best rogue player

vale pine
#

which would have made the boss a lot easier

graceful rock
#

I used all my bonus rolls on nexus point

vale pine
graceful rock
#

Still don’t have the haste mast ring

neon stirrup
#

"dps brain" should be studied. I am sure there are thesis for some psychology PHD where they could use an example of a person acting against their best intrest for short termed dopamine of seeing bar long

vale pine
#

F

neon stirrup
#

is using CDS the wrong way literally being a drug addict?

hazy lichen
clear aspen
graceful rock
#

I have a hero track one at least

keen dome
graceful rock
#

Guaranteed it next roll

vale pine
keen dome
#

An interesting angle would be looking at it through toxic / benign online disinhibition though

errant pagoda
#

Is Nexus Ring Set good ?

vale pine
#

inherenly what you ask is who you can copy from?

hazy lichen
vale pine
#

and look how the top performing logs play a fight

#

for mythic+ there isn't that much subtlety played

keen dome
#

we should decide the best by whoever has the nicest cat

vale pine
#

but most top r.io players will have very similar builds

hazy lichen
#

is sub just bad in m+

vale pine
#

for what its worth

keen dome
vale pine
#

the chinese seem to rly like mastery stacking for m+

#

and not getting the haste brekapoints even

#

this technically, should be worse

#

but high key pushing is never about perfect optimization of dps

neon stirrup
#

probably simpler to play?

shadow lance
vale pine
#

its just a missconception

shadow lance
#

Where are the damages?

vale pine
#

that mastery is the only stat that increases your aoe output

#

it does so, so its correct

#

but haste extends your dance window

errant pagoda
#

High key pushing is chain pulls and aoe spamm

vale pine
#

so more dance = longer damage amps

gilded ferry
vale pine
#

:/

#

you don't like any of my 3 cats

vale pine
#

how dare you

small sleet
#

sub really is pretty solid on this patch in m+

keen dome
#

Post more cats

#

I will judge them all

sullen hare
gilded ferry
vale pine
vale pine
#

so we better than before

keen dome
#

And I look at every post with awe. Some real good cats in there.

shadow lance
#

But I might be just bad

small sleet
#

i'm keeping up with arms/survival in high keys right now

abstract cosmos
#

is 65% mastery okay ?

keen dome
#

Gaze has so much masteryon it, it's so nice.

abstract cosmos
#

yes glad

#

i got that in vault

#

holy mythic is goates

gilded ferry
#

I miss my cat

vale pine
keen dome
#

TODAY

#

right now??

abstract cosmos
#

thing is gaze on champion is peobs better then all hero trinkets

vale pine
#

surely

sullen hare
#

Hell yeah

vale pine
#

in 3 weeks or so

neon stirrup
#

if you want gaze just drop it?

vale pine
#

once i spend all my bonus rolls on chim

neon stirrup
#

what is the issue

#

i just wanted it used bonus roll and got it

#

works 100% of times for me

vale pine
#

haha

gusty wharf
#

anyone got new talent build ?

gilded ferry
#

Are u mythic raiding fuu?

vale pine
keen dome
shadow lance
#

It makes me mad

vale pine
#

but i was not in on last weeks chim kill

vale pine
#

because we had to test some of our new trails

gilded ferry
#

That sucks

vale pine
#

it is what it is

#

-1 week for gaze

alpine wraith
#

dont worry you will be like me

gilded ferry
#

One of the issues of making a really good trinket is that its bis for everyone

alpine wraith
#

the other trink into chest

#

into the other trink again

vale pine
#

thanks

#

haha

alpine wraith
#

A>aaAaAaAa

#

btw the trink was already nerfed 2 times

vale pine
#

i still need to spend one of my bonusrolls

alpine wraith
#

imagine

vale pine
#

on skyreach

#

want the dagger

#

-.-

sullen hare
#

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa is the sound I'd be making too tbh

gilded ferry
#

No 289 dagger?

vale pine
#

nope

keen dome
#

Gonna slam Nexus and get the other ring

cloud rover
vale pine
#

i am fucked

gilded ferry
#

Luck might not be with you but we are

vale pine
#

no good passive trinket

#

and no mythic dagger

#

so far

#

haha

#

tho its fine

sullen hare
#

Damn

gilded ferry
#

How much u simming?

vale pine
#

i mean

sullen hare
#

I'd ask how but damn that's just real unlucky

vale pine
#

our guild saw i think 1 gaze drop so far in mythic

#

and before that 1 on normal week one

sullen hare
#

Have you tried not being unlucky?

neon stirrup
#

getting myth trinkets from fuu's list knowing he still has them on champ track

lilac osprey
#

Gm guys, are we going back to the old build?

vale pine
#

i keep getting unlucky

unique beacon
#

I feel you. I'm in the same boat. Got super lucky with HC trinkets early on and haven't even seen a mythic weapon

gilded ferry
vale pine
#

yes

#

anyone who got gaze

#

either got it in vault or bonusroll

#

and we have lik 21 people who needed it

cloud rover
#

Same for us ReallyMad

neon stirrup
#

we got like 3 mythic ones so far i think

vale pine
#

think 23 even

gilded ferry
#

Yeah, every class wants that shit

whole lichen
#

how dmg from 2set ring is calculated - does it count if both rings are on myth track?

cunning umbra
#

soo is sub rogue cooked? do we still play mainly mastery stat

vale pine
#

you just need both rings

neon stirrup
#

what we cannot get is Guidon for our DK

vale pine
#

but the set damage is fairly low

neon stirrup
#

he still runs LFR

vale pine
#

so

#

i got guidon

dreamy wedge
#

Good morning. I got nothing in vault, nothing on bonus rolls, nothing on chim pug. Cya next week šŸ˜„

vale pine
#

for what its woeth

#

*worth

crystal quiver
#

Do we know how 298 sht will work? If we choose a dagger is our outlaw spec just chopped, or do we get to upgrade any wep as well to 298

vale pine
#

our dk was not there when it dropped

#

so i was the only one with prio

gilded ferry
#

They could have made the other trinkets a little better, the setup rn is exactly the same for every rogue

vale pine
#

our tank also wanted it

#

but dps > tank on it

neon stirrup
#

I outrolled our DK and now he says i cursed him cause he cannot get it for weeks

keen dome
abstract cosmos
#

thats what he gets for being meta

neon stirrup
#

we needed 3 - 2 droped on mythic 0 on heroic

gilded ferry
sullen hare
keen dome
#

I actually don't know

neon stirrup
#

we upgrade cloak to 289 right?

red vortex
#

so is vorasius dagger bis again this patch? or still bel'oren? Wowhead says bel

keen dome
#

Maybe next week. I've been in a diablo shaped hole for a week, I lost track of time.

vale pine
#

but idk

#

its fine

#

a lot of the systems are "win more" systems now

#

if you get good loot

#

you are more likely to get more good loot

dreamy wedge
#

Normal guidon is simmin better for you then hc/mytic puzzlebox?

vale pine
#

if you got unlucky

#

you need longer to catch up

#

(because the ones you compete with get loot faster)

#

i don't think i saw many talk abut it, but its an interessting consequence

bronze karma
#

!guidon

wicked joltBOT
#

Trickster Shadow Blades Optimization:
During Shadow Blades, line up your second Shadow Dance with the last 8 seconds of Shadow Blades instead of using them back-to-back. This allows you to fit another Secret Technique into Shadow Blades+Shadow Dance. It will not be supercharged but thats ok in this scenario.

sullen hare
#

I'm not sure I've noticed that but it feels like everything is just buried in m+ splits

#

Feel free to cue up the astronaut meme if you must

vale pine
#

wow is more grindy now

#

and content is designed to last longer

#

e.g. why there is a weekly cap on crests still

#

and why content comes out more delayed

#

it changes perception for players

neon stirrup
#

thats math aroung player involvment tho

#

they want you to play

abstract cosmos
#

i think it being more grindy is v nice

neon stirrup
#

they need you to play

abstract cosmos
#

i felt the tww was rlly boring

vale pine
#

you keep activating the happy neurons more often, even tho you just get to do the same things spread out over a longer period of time

#

compared to have things faster

neon stirrup
#

Crests ensure player retention for more weeks other than just raid logging

vale pine
#

i don't say its bad

neon stirrup
#

if they lift the cap we will stop palying

vale pine
#

everyone enjoys diffrent things

neon stirrup
#

at least many of us

#

and just raid log

vale pine
#

exactly

neon stirrup
#

less play time less looking at shop

#

less chacnes you spend money

vale pine
#

wow is designed to decide how you play it

#

rather than putting the player in charge

#

weather thats good or bad

#

everyone needs to decide for themselves

astral thunder
#

How much haste was the breakpoint again?

vale pine
#

700 with guidom

#

800 without

#

1100 if you want to play deathstalker

astral thunder
#

aight ty

neon stirrup
#

honestly i like the cap at first but they should remove it at .5

sullen hare
#

(including consumables)

vale pine
#

i mean its all of it

neon stirrup
#

i dont want to have unlifted cap since begining cause i would not be able to compete with players who can play 24/7

vale pine
#

e.g. think of this patch

#

the item upgrade for your weapons/trinkets

#

is 4 weeks delayed

#

by doing this

astral thunder
vale pine
#

you have something to do for 4 weeks to even get your first upgrade

#

you keep plaiyng

#

and then there will be the next patch

#

with another system that unlocks power

#

again not immidiatly

sullen hare
#

Yep

neon stirrup
#

yeah and it makes you play

#

log in everyday

#

and not to work

#

which i am supposed to be at now

#

if i explain my boss that my productivity is lower cause of 289 item will he understand

vale pine
#

think its a interessting discussion

#

as it coms down to perspective

#

like, there is nothing in making things engaging

#

e.g. youtube, twitter, even news sites

sullen hare
#

That whole paradigm is why it's becoming harder and harder for me to justify an ongoing sub if it feels like there's a treadmill that I just don't feel like getting on

vale pine
#

without a good algorithm are fairly meh

neon stirrup
vale pine
#

but how much should you be able to be in control over things

sullen hare
#

For example: why should I buy the expansion on launch if it's becoming a beta test? Why not but the expansion halfway through when all the systems are finally implemented?

vale pine
#

and how much should companies impact your decision via psychological tricks?

sullen hare
vale pine
#

wow is basically

#

the journey is the goal

sullen hare
#

Well yes

vale pine
#

you play wow because you like to get power by grinding

red vortex
#

@vale pine is bislist on wowhead accurate for this patch?

sullen hare
#

I know we're basically iterating on the same thought

#

Well that's a bold one

tulip gorge
vale pine
tulip gorge
#

800 with guidom, 700 without?

sullen hare
#

Nope you have it reversed Rob

vale pine
fiery fog
#

we are not reclearing anymore

#

and the vault blesses me

#

thank the gods

vale pine
neon stirrup
#

sweet sweet aleria neck

plush roost
#

I think sub in keys

neon stirrup
#

oh wait we are talking about an iutem

plush roost
#

Kinda good

tulip gorge
#

all this time I was using haste flask because I didn't have 800 haste starege

vale pine
#

i kind of would want to write a post about it

sullen hare
vale pine
#

and like

#

grind games are popular

#

e.g. runescape still has a big fanbase

#

and its entire gameplay loop is boring and grindy (to me)

sullen hare
#

I don't know about big but yeah, very dedicated

#

They did some tomfoolery with their subscription pricing

vale pine
#

wow i feel like falls into the same categroy, maybe with a higher reach

#

i don't think wow grows that much

sullen hare
#

I'd say that's fair

vale pine
#

so what wow is optimizing is player retention

#

and it does so by spreading content out more

#

so you keep playing

#

and making things more grindy

#

without it feeling like that

sullen hare
#

It's clearly working right?

vale pine
#

i don't know

#

i wish i would

hearty steeple
#

26 years

#

it is working

sullen hare
#

Well yeah. No one really knows but I have to kinda just accept it's working. It's gotta be if that's what they're leaning into so hard

vale pine
#

think its more the sticky nature of games

#

like wow was the first rly massive success

#

and people like to stick to one game

#

it's a big problem for publishers

dreamy root
#

sunk cost

vale pine
#

e.g. roblox players are mostly roblox players

#

and its a huge playerbase

hearty steeple
vale pine
#

wow players the same

#

most play other games on the side, but many stick in the blizz universe

#

and many only play wow

cunning umbra
sullen hare
#

Cigarette and alcohol manufacturers figured it out a long time ago in America, almost certainly elsewhere too garf

vale pine
#

we see it in guild events often

shadow lance
#

@vale pine Is something bricked witth tfd? It adds 4 sec of dance on tooltip, instead of 3

hearty steeple
vale pine
#

tried to find games people can play cheap/freely

#

especially when content drought hits

#

it was almost impossible to motivate more than a handful of people to participate

sullen hare
hearty steeple
#

my ex guild we used to play strategy games sometimes, like AOE, Lord of the rings and generals. was kinda cool "{

waxen viper
golden harbor
#

We used to play gartic phone every once in a while, its a good time

vale pine
#

we also have people who play certain other games, or tried out small group games

#

but nothing sticked even if you got 1-2 people to try and they voiced linking it

#

its just that people who play wow

shadow lance
vale pine
#

want to play wow, nothing else

shadow lance
#

Thanks

chilly dagger
#

With Mastery being "better" again, does Puzzlebox outshine Guidon/Gaze then?
I have a mythic puzzlebox in vault, currently wearing a hero Guidon & hero solarflare

vale pine
#

if you run low on mastery

#

can

#

if you have high mastery, run into dr

#

so it won't

cunning umbra
#

I got 74% currently, puzzlebox is pointless I assume?

vale pine
#

guidon probably better

#

i did a sim before comparing the two

chilly dagger
#

what would be high mastery?

vale pine
#

and if you change stats, the diffrence is not too big

vale pine
#

you typcially invest a lot into mastery

neon stirrup
#

Is waiting to see what drops in mythic raid before chosing vault reward considered a dick move?

vale pine
#

you probably want to play guidon

#

instead

vale pine
#

you can bonusroll too

#

which is valuable

sullen hare
neon stirrup
#

i am seinding mine in nexus point

vale pine
#

your vault likely does not have gigantic upgrades

chilly dagger
vale pine
#

so not taking the vault is fine

#

you not hurting your raids dps

neon stirrup
#

its either boots or waist

kind edge
#

@vale pine we are going back to the old bis list since cloud is over, right?

vale pine
neon stirrup
#

so i am wanting to wait to see if i get any of them in raid

placid pivot
#

fuu when is the updated spreadsheet coming out

vale pine
kind edge
#

I already started to adjust things, doing hard mastery now. Im around 26% crit atm

vale pine
#

but its down to one individual wanting to play mostly

chilly dagger
hollow quest
#

im finally free from box at least for me it simmed a bit higher on hero like 1k dps than box

vale pine
#

these games are all more sticky

#

neither of them did stick with most

#

the problem there is too

#

that there is a certain skill celling involved in most of them

fossil forge
#

League of legends is very sticky

chilly dagger
vale pine
#

so you feel incentivised to play more

#

fore mythic+ dungeon slice

placid pivot
#

!sheet

vale pine
#

for raid patchwerk

wicked joltBOT
placid pivot
#

will spreadsheet be updated soon

neon stirrup
#

is deathstalker simming higher bait?

vale pine
#

i updated it on monday or so

#

i only rly need to re-run the sims with the new official changes

#

and not the overwrites

#

so numbers will go up marginally

#

mythic+ sims i need to still do again (dungeon slice)

placid pivot
#

oh nice