#subtlety

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dense geode
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if you think rogue aint that bad compared to other classes that is indeed a take

surreal orbit
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you just do quests like i dont get it lol

dense geode
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Ive level most except for druid and I just felt slow

hazy breach
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Ye but imagine before you get relentless strikes garf_sit

sullen hare
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Afaik the biggest difference is starting at 0 combo points and hitting fok with dance

hazy breach
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Or even before shadowcraft

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No energy whatsoever

warm marlin
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oh ye before relentless it is hell

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i levelled a rogue during lemix

vale pine
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i did 2 times in lemix

dense geode
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every class except rogue can spam abilities

vale pine
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and it was terrible both times

warm marlin
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pool energy before dance -> strike strike .... evis .... dance ends

surreal orbit
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before you get dance its pretty rough but after that i was pretty much one shotting every mob with not much downtime

vale pine
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which was priviousely not energy constrained

vale pine
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(recent as in last 2 xpacs)

dense geode
vale pine
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I think its difficult

dense geode
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Rogue just does it the least effcient and slowest imo

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cause energy.

warm marlin
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evoker was pretty bad for 80-90

vale pine
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i mean

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i think its fine in st

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for aoe

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i did not entirely understand why storm needed a cost increase, i also argued against it

graceful rock
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tf is this doing

vale pine
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But thats just opinions, it is completley normal for the design team to have diffrent goals than some players

vale pine
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similarly, nimble flurry change seemed harmful to me, while others did say its a good change

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now with tuning, everyone seems to agree on that

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(that it wasn't a good change)

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I think the design makes some sense

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you have your cooldowns, and during them your energy can't rly run out

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while outside, you are painfully slow

fallow ingot
hazy breach
graceful rock
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whats the dance

hazy breach
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DN

graceful rock
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is it sending dance bc of lingering?

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oh

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you dance if DN is ready too?

hazy breach
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If you can apex it yes

warm marlin
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tettles posted a video not only showing the udk bug but explaining how to do it ICANT

graceful rock
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even if sec tech isnt ready?

hazy breach
warm marlin
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some prekey bug abuse that gives you permanent 30% haste and 80% spender damage

ripe flame
warm marlin
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it is a very very large damage increase

stuck lance
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u wannt to supercharge dance i believe

ripe flame
warm marlin
small sleet
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A lot of people are abusing it in high keys rn

warm marlin
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just like they did for the follower dungeon stuff

small sleet
warm marlin
graceful rock
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remember when spatter was doing 8% too much

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and defcon 1 was called

warm marlin
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well its similar to the outlaw thing from tww

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impossible to do accidentally and an insane damage gain

fallow ingot
swift tinsel
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Pull a Skyreach and if you do the prekey bug you instantly die

earnest cedar
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So do we switch back to trick on 2-3 encounter bosses?

warm marlin
swift tinsel
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lol owned

warm marlin
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bans Prayge

swift tinsel
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Ladder suddenly empty

ember hull
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so is this basically the tldr for swapping trickster -> deathstalker now?

  • stop centering everything around fitting 2x sectech
  • DN (darkest night) evis is now the important damage event
  • enter dance at 0-1 cp instead of pooling before dance
  • use dance + shuriken storm macro instead of dance + sectech
  • still use sectech during dance/windows, just dont grief DN optimization for it
  • DS wants a bit more haste and tighter sequencing overall

so basically trickster was:
“dance -> sectech”

and DS is more:
“dance -> build -> giga DN evis”

?

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Totally correct me if im wrong im not in front of the game just trying to wrap my head around it cause im dumb and need someone to check my thinking lol

hazy breach
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Yes

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Its not really tighter sequencing though

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Just more haste to be able to have a dance long enough to accomodate 2 darkest nights

ember hull
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Gotcha im ngl i copy pasted all the discussion around it into chat gpt and told it to summarize it for me lol

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So that was its opinion

golden totem
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chatgpt guide writer

shadow ivy
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grok is this true

vale pine
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lol

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time to introduce MoroesGPT

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(i am joking)

graceful rock
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so getting your sec tech in ds dance is just a cherry on top?

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from what im reading in a sim example is dance if you can apex DN

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and then with blades etc

fallow ingot
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Anyone will reclear today as DS ?

shadow snow
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!ui

wicked joltBOT
ashen warren
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On what fight would we want to play DS ?

fallow ingot
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All of them minus dragons and vanguard ?

west tide
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!aa

wicked joltBOT
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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
    If all of the above are true, use cast a Shadowstrike / Shuriken Storm (even if on full cp).
shrewd lantern
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Every fight is a pad boss if you put your mind to it.

lilac stag
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boss dmg parses >>>> overall parses

serene notch
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Do I get a discount haste needed as DS as a goblin, or is the same and strictly calculated off of raw number.

lilac stag
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Raw

shrewd lantern
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goblin suck

serene notch
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🙁

west tide
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how come sometimes i get a darkest night debuff randomly even tho im still at 2 stacks of mark

shrewd lantern
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also you have to listen to a new jersey accent

west tide
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is this dummy bugged

shrewd lantern
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which is honestly worse

serene notch
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I like the sneak animation

swift tinsel
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goblin has goated stealth animation

mint swift
swift tinsel
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its so good

shrewd lantern
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you have to listen to a jersey accent

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thats a massive L

swift tinsel
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nah just don't have dialogue on

mint swift
swift tinsel
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I don't need to listen to my toon speak ever

mint swift
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Esp if it's the female one

shrewd lantern
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No fuck new jersey

serene notch
shrewd lantern
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I mean i already think nyc is a ratfest.

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and new jersey is just retirement home new york

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Kind of like florida is retirement home california.

mint swift
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?

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:O

small sleet
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at which point you have darkest night available, and a 2 stack mark on the dummy

dire ravine
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bis sin neck, or bis dagger- tough choices 🙁

somber sun
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simself ngl

dreamy needle
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i just want to be wanted again

shadow ivy
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devious addon

serene notch
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What a depressing addon to have

lilac stag
dreamy needle
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LMAO

lilac stag
dreamy needle
earnest crane
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guys why when i m with a lock in PIT warlock randomly pull adds some one told me its warlock bug when its in gp with rogue

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pulls whole dung

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is it a real bug ?

swift tinsel
lilac stag
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It’s something. No one is sure what. Likely related to secret tech pets and the warlocks eye

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play outlaw.

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You’re fine

earnest crane
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never

swift tinsel
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the idea of clones/pets causing spellqueue issues is funny but compelling

earnest crane
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i just dont take warlock

lilac stag
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also option

swift tinsel
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Eye Explosion having 50,000 range could explain though; sectech/nado/bp clone causes any mob in the 8-10 yards to tag as unable to be hit by Eye Explosion if they happen simultaneously, then they seek something else far away

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if I had to guess, its that

swift tinsel
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or something similar

small sleet
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i bet its something dumber

lilac stag
swift tinsel
dire ravine
lilac stag
earnest crane
lilac stag
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there’s basically zero reason to play assa right now unless you love it.

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and that’s very few of us in this channel

small sleet
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assa's pretty good still

shadow ivy
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insane prio damage is a reason

icy whale
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bump just in case anyone else has feedback to consider - thanks again!

serene notch
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Assa has lowest smiles per min, I’ll pass.

swift tinsel
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crucible trinket might be better than prism but idr how it compares to hero

shrewd lantern
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dont understand what prio is

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and just repeat what a streamer said

lilac stag
small sleet
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i dont think prio is a hard concept to understand, people more often tend to misunderstand what funnel is

swift tinsel
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probs referencing this

shrewd lantern
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you give them a tool to understand what gear is better

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and they still ask

lilac stag
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cat on lap is very disappointed

shrewd lantern
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Very few things exceed it

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Like when i worked customer service in uni.

shadow ivy
brisk raptor
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Panda and mechagnome sim about the same eh?

shrewd lantern
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or rather mfs will do a 15 key

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and think prio matters

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its just a fancy way to say you focused one mob

steel turret
swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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its like the wow version of corporate lingo shitspeak

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making a word/phrase sound fancier

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to pretend you're smarter than you really are

swift tinsel
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thinking doing more damage to one target than the smaller ones around it is funneling

shrewd lantern
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like yes assa's main cooldowns are both purely st

shadow ivy
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so it has good prio damage

ripe flame
odd saddle
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i dont think ive seen anyone care about what people say this much

swift tinsel
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tbf through Caustic assassination does get prio dmg

small sleet
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assa has both funnel and good prio

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idk what the discussion is even about at this point

swift tinsel
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or having damage from multiple targets literally funnel into a main target

shrewd lantern
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scent of blood

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but yeah aldrachi havoc would be the real funnel slinger

shrewd lantern
shadow ivy
swift tinsel
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wounded quarry, singular focus, execution sentence

shrewd lantern
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prio is just a fancier way to say you focused a target

shadow ivy
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prio is short for priority as in priority target

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how is it anything like that it's just shorthand

shrewd lantern
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it got started by streamers

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who are a plague

small sleet
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prio is not referring to focusing a target lmao

shrewd lantern
mortal arch
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you're blaming streamers for a thing that is just a fundamental part of the game

shadow ivy
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WHAT

shrewd lantern
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priority=it needs to go down

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either way its comp dependent, 3 aoe heavy specs will tend to cannabalize each other

odd saddle
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...

lilac stag
swift tinsel
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graf and talking out their ass, a more iconic duo

lilac stag
swift tinsel
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shit

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u right

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lmao

shrewd lantern
swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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i mean every rogue spec is just fine

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You're just worse than a dk

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at everything

lilac stag
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The star of sarcasm in my name.

shadow ivy
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i just think between sub and sin sub is the more nicheless

swift tinsel
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it is now, by virtue of sin hoovering up a bunch of them

small sleet
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Subs niche is very high single target right now at least

lilac stag
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Sub is one of the best boss dmg specs. Arguably an important niche. More so that assa’s mid prio dmg in comps that just do it better.

swift tinsel
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and kinda has been a lot of the time since df rework gave them a bunch of toys

shrewd lantern
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isnt ret just better at prio anyway

swift tinsel
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the divine storm spammers?

shrewd lantern
swift tinsel
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the least prio aoe ability in the game?

crude turret
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i never played sub, but always as outlaw. how hard could it be for me to swap for sub?

shrewd lantern
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you see ret players have to choose to not do that

bleak night
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except during es it all feeds back into prio target now

shrewd lantern
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most wont but....

bleak night
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ret has insane prio damage

small sleet
swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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This is the season all 3 rogue specs are comfortably mid.

lilac stag
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if we listen to speed, outlaw has best ST in game for keys. peeposhrug

bleak night
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anything the blast hits then funnels all damage you do into the main target at the end

shrewd lantern
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And you'd do better replacing rogue with a better melee.

bleak night
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its not just the blasts damage

ripe flame
odd saddle
lilac stag
crude turret
shrewd lantern
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2

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and aug

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ig

swift tinsel
bleak night
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the blast basically marks all the adds with their own mini es that hits the main target at the end

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thats what that says yes

lilac stag
bleak night
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all damage you've dealt to the targets effected by the initial blast

shrewd lantern
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yeah outlaw is harder than the other 2 as it stands

bleak night
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not just the initial blast damage

shrewd lantern
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ret is just incredibly good this season

lilac stag
swift tinsel
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I read it as only 20% of damage done by the initial blast

odd saddle
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outlaw hard because you have to stare at cds and combo points lol

lilac stag
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@bleak night 👋

shrewd lantern
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no you dont

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if you're staring you lack experience

quaint breach
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real men vibe play

shrewd lantern
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outlaw is more of because you dont instantly notice the small mistakes

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and they accumulate

vale pine
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i prefere regular play over vibrato

swift tinsel
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the existence of 1roll outlaw makes any good vibes disappear

old lynx
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2nd week in a row with a bs vault FML (Have ascended guidons, f puzzlebox)

swift tinsel
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bc that shit suuuuuuucks

shrewd lantern
swift tinsel
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1roll in keys should be banned

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need a sip of that cool crisp 3roll or jackpot

shrewd lantern
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when i get parried on my env before cds as assa

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i wanna send a pipebomb to blizz

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ingame

shadow ivy
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mental boom

swift tinsel
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be behind them garf

shadow ivy
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parry is so cringe

latent remnant
shrewd lantern
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its pretty hard to have a brick vault nowadays

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since you can always take bonus rolls

shadow ivy
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socket still good too

winged shore
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and if you don't have gem slots that's probably your biggest upgrade if you're maxed on gear upgrades

vale pine
latent remnant
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I just pray my weekly 2 bonus roll cores give me the last ring I need then I'm only wrist away from max iL at least, can optimize gearpieces after that

shrewd lantern
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I still need one socket

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plume stariing at me though

winged shore
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i took my 3rd socket

swift tinsel
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40mins til I can take my socket

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need to sim where to put the first one

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(it doesn't matter)

winged shore
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between shifting a couple of gems and crafting eng boots I can hit my 1100 haste with just haste flask and haste food

small sleet
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Idk head socket has weird vibes

swift tinsel
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it really does tho

copper sail
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quick question sorry if its stupid 3 target fights evis or blk pwder

small sleet
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Wrist socket feels right

swift tinsel
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yeah, wrist or belt

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since belt historically has had socket items from blacksmithing

shrewd lantern
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hey

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they worked in prepatch

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this is what happens when you let copilot do your expansion changes

lilac stag
swift tinsel
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idk if I am honestly

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I'm probs just gonna chill with the gear I have now

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maybe if chim belt drops and I can shift some stuff around

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but I think that puts me pretty high over the haste threshold for both trickster and ds

icy whale
swift tinsel
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by like 30-40

earnest crane
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guess who got PI

vale pine
earnest crane
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like the way u thought Fuu

swift tinsel
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what pi thing is the priest talking about

winged shore
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My vote is nobody

latent remnant
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when i first started playing i started with priest and i never macrod pi so it was a roulette every time i pressed it garf

swift tinsel
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you weren't shilling for it mid-fight were you

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👀

shadow ivy
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potential self snitch

lucid jackal
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sub rogue PI doesn't do anything tho

small sleet
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If you were asking for pi as sub rogue you are hereby banned forever

swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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does it let you supercharge the second st

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in blades

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w/o lust

lilac stag
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@lucid jackal how was foreverfists vault?

lucid jackal
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A socket! again!

swift tinsel
shrewd lantern
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i've gotten PI in pugs

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as outlaw

lilac stag
winged shore
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So what all bosses do we think it's worth to go DS

shrewd lantern
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vora

winged shore
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Prob first 3 in spire

swift tinsel
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most

winged shore
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chimmy?

swift tinsel
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besides dragons and paladins

shrewd lantern
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chim has adds

swift tinsel
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adds on chim die insta

shadow ivy
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adds are a myth they dont exist

swift tinsel
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you can destroy them with a single sectech

shrewd lantern
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be the first person to pad

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be the change you want to see

shadow ivy
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TO THE MOON

winged shore
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yeah chimmy only real cleave is the fear adds during intermission w/ big guy

small sleet
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Miss the soak on accident and keep hitting boss

lucid jackal
swift tinsel
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ye, and those die pretty easy as long as kicks are in order

ripe flame
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Enter an extra soak with cloak on accident after intermission

earnest crane
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The dk got PI BTW

lucid jackal
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Why wouldnt he?

lilac stag
lucid jackal
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He was suppose to get PI

small sleet
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Well yeah why wouldn’t he lmao

shrewd lantern
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idk i can usually get a sectech and coup off

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on imperator adds

swift tinsel
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what rogue, only dk's here

winged shore
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imperator though blades never lines up for adds

shrewd lantern
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dk is just a better rogue

winged shore
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so idk if it's worth running aoe talents

swift tinsel
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yeah I just boss nuke imperator

lucid jackal
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Who was suppose to get PI in your mind

lilac stag
swift tinsel
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you'll have a sectech for the add spawn but its only important to kill the big dude fast really

earnest crane
swift tinsel
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or you ethically save blades for add spawn

winged shore
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yeah typically I'll maybe throw a couple black powders on imp adds

swift tinsel
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huehue

winged shore
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but very little

small sleet
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Do you not understand how pi works lol

lucid jackal
ripe flame
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Pi on sub garf_sit

lucid jackal
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Sub is like the worst PI in the game next to like, Outlaw

shadow ivy
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autoattack speed bro pls bro

swift tinsel
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I just tunnel big man and then slightly smaller man

shrewd lantern
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i mean its farm

lilac stag
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Just PI the tank

shrewd lantern
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it kind of doesnt matter

small sleet
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It’s literally higher value on the bear

shrewd lantern
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which you do

lilac stag
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maybe they pull faster. idk

ripe flame
lilac stag
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faster at grabbing picnic baskets

shrewd lantern
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this is you why you never run pp

swift tinsel
winged shore
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The DS build link in the pin - why does it take shiv + TS?

hazy breach
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No particular reason

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You can swap those to whatever else you want

shrewd lantern
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Idk how to get higher on dragons

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for boss dam

small sleet
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Never hold for orbs, don’t send anything on intermissions would be my guess

earnest crane
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how much cirit do i need for outlaw ?

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and haste

shrewd lantern
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Probably yeah

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i think i sent on 2nd inter add

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just because it came up

forest moss
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why does deathstalker prefer to start SD with low combo points?

shrewd lantern
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the big chungus not the little shits

lilac stag
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!ds

shadow ivy
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even the big chungus is dying giga fast

shrewd lantern
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yeah now he is

lilac stag
coral bear
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Is the crown trinket any good on rogue?

serene notch
shadow ivy
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it's good on outlaw i think

shrewd lantern
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Its decent for them iirc

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just not as strong as plume+gaze

coral bear
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
coral bear
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ya i wont take it then

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Its either the neck for assassination

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or a belt gem

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which i do need

lilac stag
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Helm is good for DS

shadow ivy
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have you bonus rolled pit yet there's a lot of good shit in there

lilac stag
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Isn’t that high haste/mastery

swift tinsel
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helm? its crit/haste

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slightly higher crit

coarse bronze
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sporefall has a leather helm, so I wouldn't chase helms unless you have nothing else to roll / you don't raid mythic

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comes out in like 2 weeks now?

swift tinsel
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3, supposedly

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the 16th

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not officially confirmed yet though

nova cairn
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Anyone decent got a log as DS yet

swift tinsel
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that's when timeways and the other stuff is purported to be releasing

winged shore
hazy breach
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I mean you can just catalyse the new helm

winged shore
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oh I wasn't sure you could

hazy breach
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It would be insanely strange if you couldnt

swift tinsel
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its just regular loot

hallow mortar
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tommorow is the day i get guidon

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surely

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the last roll

latent remnant
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its gonna just show up in vault instead

bleak night
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this is my last roll to finally get chim trinket and guild decided we just arent doing it this week

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so now i have to pug

latent remnant
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guild griefing hard by stopping doing chim before everyone has gaze

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thats kinda very fucked

winged shore
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your guild is dumb

hazy breach
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Tbf its also very easy to pug it

small sleet
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You’re legally allowed to crash out on them

hallow mortar
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its easier to parse in pug aswell

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i did rank2 there in pug, would not be possible with guild

somber sun
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dumb question, does parse system count in adds damage ?

latent remnant
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unless specified that something is excluded, yes

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example of exclusion on crown

sterile raven
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its annoying but its what it is for now

brisk raptor
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@hazy breach my sim shows pot of reck simming 300 dps better than lights potential on ST patchwerk. Do I trust it?

lilac stag
sterile raven
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that would be ideal

ember hull
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bruh idk how to get to the needed haste with ds lol, i guess you have to sacrifice ilvl with a hero piece but im 291 already and with the haste flask i end up at 890 haste, recraft dagger and belt and another item i guess to be 100% haste? or just replace the items i have with crafted myth gear to get that stat

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lura and crown being the only options not exactly farmable lolol

fringe nest
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at 900 haste now

latent remnant
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Some people here mentioned engineering crafted pieces + ring crafts for haste

fringe nest
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unbuffed

hazy breach
lilac stag
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I’ll make engineering boots just so I don’t need to swap crafts for tricky

ember hull
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what are they called

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oh i see them

fringe nest
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hope i get myth head next week

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so i have full myth on this char

ember hull
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its 97 stat? that put me at like 970, and then a ring i guess?

random mason
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100 something on max qual I'm pretty sure

small sleet
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121 on max

lilac stag
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Boots are 121

fringe nest
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Pandaren falls off next tier right?

keen steppe
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finaly 19 seat done 8552pepehands

ember hull
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okay that puts me at 1008, is that good enough or does it need to be closer to 1100

fringe nest
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is that 1008 without flask and oils?

ember hull
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wwith both

lilac stag
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Still too low

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1075 likely minimum if I remember correctly

surreal orbit
# fringe nest

whats the rogue lore about every rogue using that set xD it looks good im just curious

fringe nest
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i mean

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spent millions on it

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kinda have to use it

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OR?

surreal orbit
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oh i thought it was from some OG stuff

lilac stag
fringe nest
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it is from Vanilla naxxramas

shrewd lantern
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millions?

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just buy on dead server

fringe nest
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but got it on BMAH

shrewd lantern
surreal orbit
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oh yeah thats what it is

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I see a lot of (pvp focused) rogues using that exact mog i was just curious

shrewd lantern
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druid t3 gets used alot less

dire ravine
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Does DS follow similar secondary stat guidelines to Trickster outside of the 1100 haste req?

vestal rune
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Are we gimping ourselves if we’re so heavy in haste?

nova cairn
#

In aoe does coup take prio over BP

lilac stag
#

yes

next pulsar
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
nocturne tendon
#

alright, bit of a weird one but I'm kinda stumped
Has anyone else noticed weird stuff when you pair a sub rogue and demo lock in keys? I sometimes run keys with a demo friend, and it seems every time we're in a more "crowded" place like pit for example, we're getting ninja pulls like CRAZY. We're aware of diabolist being bugged to shit and having like 3 different issues with ninja pulling in keys, but the weird thing is my friend plays solo/in other groups quite a lot (no rogue in group as you can imagine xd) and never has issues. It seems the moment we pair up we start running into this problem, like just now he ninja'd twice in one pack lmao

ember hull
#

but they say it doesnt happen other tiems

small sleet
nocturne tendon
#

man what the fuck

shadow lance
small sleet
shrewd lantern
#

though imo t3 is hella incomplete with that tabard

#

This one works better

#

or void

small sleet
#

As someone who did not play this game my whole life, old tier sets look like dogshit

shrewd lantern
#

there's only been one good tierset last 2 expacs

lilac stag
#

you don’t like 4 pixel textures?

shrewd lantern
#

nerubar

small sleet
#

I liked the aberrus tier set

sullen hare
shrewd lantern
#

Legion they stopped doing 2 pixel sets.

small sleet
shrewd lantern
#

kind of my baseline for "modern"

sullen hare
#

I'd say cata is more when we started getting higher quality armor models

shrewd lantern
#

cata is still low res

#

imo

#

set above is basically reimagined t6

#

with modern graphics

#

modern bloodfang had potential, but they missed severely by forgetting to include the red eyes

#

of og bloodfang

sullen hare
surreal orbit
#

Im bothered by blizzard because my favorite mog is partially ruined by the dumbest thing

#

they made a hertiage set supposed to be for ONE race and it clips with every hairstyle

#

that isn't "bald" or "balding"

shrewd lantern
#

do you actually use

#

the velf heritage helm

surreal orbit
#

hell no

shrewd lantern
#

you're basically a belf copy

surreal orbit
#

yes

shrewd lantern
surreal orbit
#

but i can do this

#

boom

shrewd lantern
#

im just a vampire elf rn

surreal orbit
#

I like the aesthetic of being a super pale elf that is a void elf

shrewd lantern
#

i prefer the warmonger dagger

surreal orbit
#

and it makes the racial more dramatic

shrewd lantern
#

that set would do more for me if they added vfx to non mythic shoulders

#

which they didnt add until end of sl

shell vector
#

With the changes to Deathstalker what fights do we justify going pure ST on? Guild is starting prog on the big 3 (Crown, Belo, L'ura) and I'm curious what spec should go with each

shrewd lantern
#

entirely comp dependent...

ember hull
#

nah i gotta be full stupid the rotation for ds makes no sense to me, why do we start at low for dance? trickster it lines up fully nice, opener, premed pop my blades macro then go into my window and brr till i get my second sectech, with ds im like, premed, eviscerate, then dance, blades, shuriken storm? the initial burst is like 200k lower it feels horrible, then what, idk man i think im deciding to stay trick, cause its a 6% bfuf but im 10% stupider

shrewd lantern
#

belo is trickster

hazy breach
#

Its absolutely not doing 200k lower burst

shrewd lantern
#

isnt DS burst only

#

slightly worse

ember hull
#

cause im bad at it

#

im saying

hazy breach
#

If you proc the 2 mark on pull its usually higher

#

Because then your first darkest night is supercharged

shrewd lantern
#

oh right

small sleet
shrewd lantern
#

all you non pad believer

#

smh

small sleet
shrewd lantern
#

well unless your guild sucks at midnight crystal dam

#

might happen if you're just reaching the boss

small sleet
#

Eh at this point they die near instantly. Even if your guild struggles to kill em the first couple pulls you should still practice for what you’ll be playing the whole prog imo

shrewd lantern
#

trickster it is

barren wave
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
warm marlin
#

why tricky man on crown

#

does ds not go hard

lilac stag
#

no clue. im just st tunneler

shrewd lantern
#

i dont even have enough haste gear

#

regardless

small sleet
#

I guess it would, I just think it’d be annoying to do p1 with ds lmao

shrewd lantern
warm marlin
#

u got the mark move every 20s

#

surely its fine

shrewd lantern
#

if i slave enough keys to make a haste mast ring maybe

warm marlin
#

think of the apex supercharged dn on the last guy

shrewd lantern
#

but doing m+

#

yeah yikes

small sleet
#

M+ only good content

shrewd lantern
#

why are you playing rogue then

small sleet
#

Because rogue fun in m+

shrewd lantern
#

rogue sucks in m+ compared to actual good melee

warm marlin
small sleet
#

Rogue pretty good this tier

hazy breach
lilac stag
#

crest farm in ritual sites

hazy breach
#

Unholy isnt a melee

shrewd lantern
#

compared to dk yeah

#

and ret

hazy breach
#

Rogue does not suck compared to ret

shell vector
#

DK isn't a real melee change my mind

lilac stag
#

DK is the melee all other melee wishes they could be

bleak night
#

frost is still a melee but uhdk definitely isnt

shadow lance
#

Udk is at melee, what BM is at casters

warm marlin
#

isnt arms also insane

shell vector
#

Is frost DK even playable?

shrewd lantern
#

yeah?

swift tinsel
#

fdk is amazing atm

warm marlin
shrewd lantern
#

frost is kind of good

swift tinsel
#

just not m+

warm marlin
#

in raid its goated

nocturne tendon
# ember hull lowkey yeah i have that problem all the time with locks

just to follow up on this, my friend and I just spent 5 minutes on the single dummy in silvermoon and his hand of gul'dan would start hitting the aoe dummies in africa EVERY SINGLE TIME, the moment I got into combat with his target as sub. didn't happen at all with me as assa, gg dead

hazy breach
#

Arms is great too yeah

shrewd lantern
#

ranged is just grossly favored in keys

#

melee range be a warzone

hazy breach
#

But its not like it absolutely dwarfs rogue

shrewd lantern
#

while ranged payphoning

small sleet
warm marlin
#

when I tried it it seemed quite ass

#

but that is also through the lens of udk

lilac stag
#

it's only ass compared to UH.

#

it's legit S tier

shrewd lantern
#

also sub gets so stale after like 2-3 keys for me

#

only so much ss bp spam

#

before i begin to hit the z's

warm marlin
#

I also didnt have 1h weapons to try the real build

lilac stag
#

that's next on my shopping list

small sleet
#

o yeah the dk i played with was running dual wield

lilac stag
#

since I dont need to reroll trinkets

shrewd lantern
#

idk though

#

playing unholy then playing rogue again in keys

#

is like

#

"Why the fk would i play rogue"

small sleet
#

well yeah but thats more of an unholy problem than a rogue problem

still gazelle
#

You see that's why I don't touch other classes

lilac stag
#

fun is individual

still gazelle
#

I don't want to know, I just want to love Rogue.

lilac stag
shrewd lantern
#

its also since i find 0 fun

#

in current black powder spam

#

of current sub

still gazelle
#

Assassination is pretty fun

warm marlin
#

real

#

to the bp thing

#

not assa

#

ick

small sleet
#

current sub is pretty simple but there's still a fair amount of optimization to be found

lilac stag
#

fdk is fun for me. sub is kinda a vibe. it still needs some love to goremaws to give one more button press

small sleet
#

if you want engaging rogue gameplay you kinda have to play outlaw

shrewd lantern
#

the only feeling of enjoyment is the sectech global

#

rest of the spec is snooze rn

lilac stag
warm marlin
shrewd lantern
#

i miss crackshot

shrewd lantern
#

as per usual

nocturne tendon
#

nah there's something giga wrong with sub and warlock (only diabolist in my experience)

warm marlin
#

nah

#

we saw some evidence today

#

with a warlock guy

#

seems to have some weight

shrewd lantern
#

maybe its dance threat drops then

small sleet
warm marlin
#

seems clone related

#

xd

night sparrow
lilac stag
shrewd lantern
#

but blizz pet ai is always stupid

shrewd lantern
#

so it probably bricks something

#

Look blizzard ran out of copilot prompts for the month.

#

They'll fix it next month for sure

nocturne tendon
#

i literally went and backstabbed twice no dance and my lock started pulling zul'aman from silvermoon

surreal orbit
#

they pushed the patch live with a bug that made arcane mages just lose mana passively at all times lmao

nocturne tendon
#

shit is so weird

small sleet
swift tinsel
#

iirc the inital thought was something related to So Tricky but we've sussed out a lot more today

shrewd lantern
nocturne tendon
#

yeah i'm thinking it's something to do with clones

shrewd lantern
#

they're just starting off resource are expensive

nocturne tendon
#

mostly cause clones are a fucking enigma

#

and i don't see anything else that would interact so weirdly

lilac stag
#

it looks more like sectech and moving

#

than clones

small sleet
#

nah its definitely separate from sectech

shrewd lantern
#

are you guys implying blizzard is a big enough company to have a proper QA team?

dire ravine
#

Honestly wasnt as bad as i thought finding the extra haste, just sucks having to regem in and out now for trickster m+

small sleet
#

i have logs of it happening nowhere near sectech

surreal orbit
#

remind me why DS wants 1.1k haste?

shrewd lantern
#

And doesnt just push out shitty ai prompts and patches

#

as a cashgrab

swift tinsel
#

yeah I don't reall think its just sectech

#

but any clone

small sleet
nocturne tendon
#

is there a link to the evidence by this warlock guy? i'm curious

lilac stag
#

all the clones

surreal orbit
swift tinsel
#

bc there's others where there's multiple seconds between sectech cast and eye explosion where the pull thing happened

shrewd lantern
#

Anyone remember when blizz decided

#

how to make haste useful

#

on a spec that hates it

#

is make it mandatory to play how it used to

warm marlin
shrewd lantern
#

Blizzard should stop adding pet/minion features

#

they can never implement them

#

without something shitting the bed

small sleet
#

thats quitter talk

#

they need to add in more pet features til they get it right

shrewd lantern
#

Thank you sir

ember hull
#

this gonna be just like cloud cover where they make mfs regear/restat for like one week

#

im coping

#

but lowkey i think i did just see the light and did more on a dummy on ds

small sleet
#

ds has been better than trickster for quite a while

shrewd lantern
#

who regeared for cloudcover

#

i swapped one neck

ember hull
#

well im out on lura prog anyways which is probs gonna take forever so ima only be doing keys so its all a wash regardless

warm marlin
#

tettles is an inside man

fossil forge
#

fuaaaaark

dire ravine
#

For DS- are we spending at minimum of 5- for the DN ?

hazy breach
warm marlin
#

ya but im talking like

#

the second

#

it was out

hazy breach
#

Ye ik

#

But also, most, if not all of your DNs should be inside dance and apexed, which makes them 7cp by default

dire ravine
#

and the 3? just make sure theyre at atleast 5?

hazy breach
#

6+, same as always

#

but thats practically always 7 anyway

dire ravine
lilac stag
shrewd lantern
#

boomkin main

#

what do you think?

lilac stag
#

is he even on the boomie any more?

shrewd lantern
#

idk sometimes i forget hes a dps

#

with how often i see him below the tank in keys

lilac stag
#

weird that you're stalking tettles

#

kinda unhealthy

shrewd lantern
#

no i've only seen a few clips

lilac stag
#

mhmm

shrewd lantern
#

and no not the legion one where he dies to skovald 3x

#

in 20 seconds

#

he doesnt produce as many great clips as gromnak though

west slate
#

Hi, I dont play sub rogue often but I see buffs to death stalker while I have been playing trickster. Seems like a lot of people at the ~700 haste breakpoint are also using the Lights Guidon, can someone help me understand why its still good as a haste on use? is it specifically to use before I go into shadow dance for the longer duration?

hazy breach
#

Yes, and to hit 2 secret techniques during shadow blades

west slate
#

ok, that makes sense

#

thank you

#

I assume the 1 sec delay on the talent is still there

#

so I cant macro them together

peak ice
#

Yep

sweet moss
#

Guys i have 2 bonus rolls, both my rings are heroic they are my only none myth, which 2 rings on myth do i aim for.

peak ice
#

Nexus

#

Well that might be different for ds actually

shrewd lantern
#

ds you probably fine using the haste mast one

sweet moss
#

fuck ds

peak ice
#

Nexus then

sweet moss
#

kk nice

#

ty

lyric iris
#

or socket? D:

shrewd lantern
#

why would you not take myth legs

peak ice
#

sockets not worth until youre basically all myth

shrewd lantern
#

those legs are good vault honestly

#

since bonus rolling spire is a high brick chance

#

4 shit trinkets

lyric iris
#

thanks for tips ❤️

shrewd lantern
#

its not like pit where almost every item in the pool is value

shell hollow
#

quick question, for DS st, after 1100 do we lean more towards crit or mastery

hazy breach
#

Mastery, but it doesnt mastter much

shell hollow
#

roger

nocturne tendon
#

so, regarding the sub rogue/warlock aggro mystery, I'll just leave this here in case it helps down the road:

  • target dummies, warlock hits the solo one, I go and auto attack - nothing out of the ordinary, hand of gul'dan hits as intended, diabolic occuli aren't acting up
  • I press backstab, apex clone procs - literally first hand of gul'dan after this we see the aoe dummies get hit by occuli, it's bricked from there on
    starege
shrewd lantern
#

so clones of any type

#

make it shit the bed

swift tinsel
#

can they fix the target dummy shit so I'm not perma-combat even after vanish/melding

lilac stag
#

just delete warlocks. problem solves itself.

shrewd lantern
#

yeah but then move closet to which class

swift tinsel
#

had to walk halfway to saltheril's haven to mount

lilac stag
#

We can hand out crimson vials instead of gel cookies

swift tinsel
#

imposter spotted

#

fake pally

bleak night
lilac stag
swift tinsel
#

it was all just projecting at @finite carbon

#

I should check on my pinkman

#

still my toon with the highest /played

#

though rogue is only 4 days played behind now lol

#

not bad for competing with a 19 year old toon

surreal orbit
#

hell yeah finished the mythic amirdrassil set and got them all

lilac stag
#

would you go ret next season as a possibility?

swift tinsel
#

probably not as a main, but main alt I could see myself enjoying it

#

we already have 3 rets in raid lol

marble rock
#

Hey guys !

i try to use the macro

#showtooltip
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Secret Technique

But nothing happen
did i miss something about macro ? i just want to optomize my burst
It's the same than in the guide

swift tinsel
#

and 1 hpal

#

very crowded loot pool

#

I'd play herald ret and really spite them all

lilac stag
swift tinsel
#

though it is kinda fun to verdict your dawnlights onto the targets you want them on vs random ds application

lilac stag
#

oldie but a goodie

marble rock
#

it's about the gcd ?

peak ice
#

You have 2 bars

#

One when not stealthed

#

One when stealthed

marble rock
#

yes yes the number one

peak ice
#

You need to drop it onto both bars

#

The macro

marble rock
#

okay thank you

peak ice
#

👍

sullen hare
swift tinsel
#

one of them is an absolute monster rn

#

dude's killin it literally

sullen hare
#

Ours are usually orange parsers

sand wigeon
#

!aa

wicked joltBOT
#

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
    If all of the above are true, use cast a Shadowstrike / Shuriken Storm (even if on full cp).
swift tinsel
#

fuckin chad ret

finite carbon
#

Rogue w for all

shell vector
#

Just remembered me being a die hard nelf player is coming in handy with hitting that 1100 haste

hazy breach
#

Well night elf doesnt give any haste rating

bleak night
shell vector
#

Why is it 1100 rating anyways?

hazy breach
#

Thats 3 extra globals in dance

#

Enough to fit 2 darkest nights a lot of the time

shell vector
#

Oh I see

#

Does the nelf racial really not count for that, just like how PI doesn't?

hazy breach
#

Correct

shell vector
#

kms

hallow night
shell vector
#

The only item that is remotely worth going for seems to be the haste/vers neck out of seat to get ever so slightly closer to that 1100 mark

hazy breach
#

Crafts are probably your best bet

shell vector
#

Sims for DS are evil like they are for Trickster right? playing perfect globals 0 latency?

sweet moss
#

are ppl actually bothereing with DS

hazy breach
#

"evil" as in you might want like 30-50 extra haste yes

subtle spruce
#

Apparently they are

#

Reengineered their whole set up

hazy breach
#

You swap like 2 items

keen steppe
#

With ds we still play gideon?

coral bear
#

whats the timer i gotta use guidon before i burst with shadowblade + dance?

latent remnant
#

like a second

coral bear
#

a full sec?

keen steppe
#

You cant nothing do wrong with a second

#

I guess its a bit more less but we are human not cats

bleak night
#

are we

shell vector
#

Sims don't like the idea of me crafting ANYTHING to get more haste and I'm sitting at 1007 so unless I'm counting guidon usage idk where I go from here lmao

#

Well ig I didn't try a ring craft

coral bear
#

Quick question, do i do more damage with my evis for deathstalker when im in dance

#

asking cause i sometime happen to have the eviscerate buff, but my dance run out, wondering if i wanna redance just for the finisher

#

then do my buildeer

tulip viper
#

are we talking 2 ranks in finality, or 1/2 and taking weaponmaster?

swift tinsel
#

herald ret kinda fun ngl

#

you can mouseover verdict your dawnlights and dance around with laserbeams

#

def gonna fw this in keys

bleak night
#

its too bad herald has fucking sucked forever

#

i didnt look after the recent buffs

swift tinsel
#

its actually simming close/above templar for me

#

at diff target counts

bleak night
#

its sometimes decent/better aoe yeah

swift tinsel
#

and wins in dslice vs templar

#

for me

swift tinsel
#

like 1.1% ahead so nothing insane but I'd gladly play herald over templar

bleak night
#

i dont hate templar but its nice to swap things up a bit sometimes

#

although i havent even played my pally this tier so

#

havent really played all that much outside of raid this patch

swift tinsel
#

it's too autopilot for me, I like being able to play around positioning with beams

#

I haven't looked at ret much since early tww so I'm rediscovering everything lol

#

I played a fair bit in DF post-rework

#

could def see myself enjoying it a lot in keys

bleak night
#

the pally in my guild has been enjoying it a lot

#

seems to be in a pretty good spot atm

#

he was mad about it getting nerfed in pvp though

swift tinsel
#

ye, good damage and their utility is great as usual

#

eh I can take or leave pvp lol

pulsar hemlock
#

Aight show me some big post hotfix deathstalker sims

forest moss
#

!macros

wicked joltBOT
#

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

/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Secret Technique

Deathstalker likes to use this macro instead:

/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Shuriken Storm

This can be combines with trinkes and other cooldown use.

/cast Shadow Blades
/use 13
/use 14
/use Light's Potential
/cast Ancestral Call

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

/cast Coup de Grace
/cast Black Powder

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

subtle spruce
#

Now do trickster

lilac stag
#

Take 6.5% off

subtle spruce
ripe flame
lilac stag
#

I can inflate it more. garf_sit

ripe flame
#

how much does pi give just to inflate the number 🥀

lilac stag
#

No pi

#

You can purposefully drop haste if you just want to discord flex

ripe flame
#

straight up clickbait

latent remnant
#

dropping down to 50 haste thanku for the advice

loud folio
#

Anyone else notice that the sims are favoring crit a whole lot lately?

latent remnant
#

crit = mastery for ST now if I'm not wrong

fossil forge
#

So funny. Im gonna kms

coral bear
#

Does the Darkest Night buff get affected by the Ancient Art buff?

#

If someone can let me know

fossil forge
#

im gaining rio but losing my sub ranking…

#

i need to lock in

coral bear
#

yall posting but like yall like pp's

hazy breach
#

You ALWAYS want your darkest nights to be buffed by ancient arts

ripe flame
coral bear
# hazy breach Yes

Is it worth to send another shadowstrike? or i might lose another buff

hazy breach
#

Thats what the entire spec revolves around

coral bear
#

simming myself rq

swift tinsel
#

can get within 2-3% of my sim as ds, getting there kinda

#

def enjoy it less than trickster gameplay

coral bear
#

DIABLO

#

I hit 200k dps during my first 35s of fight st

latent remnant
#

holy i didnt realize the lura ring was that much haste

coral bear
#

ya its big pp

latent remnant
#

time to save bonus rolls for when we finally kill

coral bear
#

where did u get them?

ripe flame
#

faq or wowhead probably

coral bear
#

which boss this is better?

#

i fill like cloak is better for lura and belo

#

no?

lucid jackal
#

Cloak duration would be good for beloren

#

Evasion giving magic DR is probs better for lura

coral bear
#

hmm i see

lucid jackal
#

Rogue has no defensives for the intermission

hazy breach
#

Generally the damage reduction one is better, but there are cases where longer cloak is good

lucid jackal
#

So evasion being an defensive is nice

latent remnant
#

love being able to take 2+ stars in intermission with cloak

coral bear
#

Im trying to understand how

#

OH

#

lemme resim

#

sorry

hazy breach
#

He simmed with vantus rune

coral bear
#

Ya, i forgot my discord for some reason now opens up edge, which doesnt have my preset on

#

so i had to reput them

#

rather than google chrome

#

some random bs

#

Im sitting at 1095 haste

swift tinsel
#

this DN buff consume delay in cdm is really annoying too

#

my brain knows its a visual bug and it works fine but still bothersome

hazy breach
#

Yep its annoying

#

But thats their fix to make DN work with ancient arts

#

So kek

alpine wraith
#

kek

coral bear
#

Is there a section of raidbot that shows ur stats? like Agi/Haste/vers etc at the end of a sim?

swift tinsel
#

also my sectech cd seems to be matching my blades duration instead of being less with guidon buff, might be me being dumb

lucid jackal
#

full HTML report

swift tinsel
#

yeah I think I'm just gonna take the dmg loss and stick with trickster, this hero tree isn't for me

ripe flame
coral bear
#

yeah i have too much crit

#

i see

#

ur a chad mastery guy

astral axle
#

Oh the DN buff consume delay is just a visual bug? it'll still consume it on time yea?

hazy breach
#

Yes

astral axle
#

ty ty

night sparrow
#

Hey guys we are apexing supercharged finishers by casting shadowstrike when full cp, then aren't we supposed to do the same if full cp + next shadowstrike makes coup usable ? Like isn't coup kind of a super supercharged evis ?

candid urchin
#

whats the sim haste breakpoint for DS with 0 latency?

coral bear
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Hmm kk i need crown leggies

hazy breach
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Or well, technically it is delayed from falling off, to make sure the buff is actually applied to ancient art clones

astral axle
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I seeee

coral bear
grizzled bay
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
tribal blade
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my vault is telling me to go DS

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intrusive thoughts