#subtlety

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sullen hare
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The changes to crimson tempest to where they intentionally broke the ability because of a no fok build getting cooked in discord told me exactly what I needed to know; they're still watching, they just want to force rogue players into a specific play style and just not come out and say what they're expecting

fleet wharf
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no, but claude will

marble sail
fallow nimbus
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What if we get the "sectec is usable 1 time per dance for free" talent?

sullen hare
swift tinsel
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They couldn’t even do that during alpha/beta to finish the haste rework after nuking haste-cdr dance

fleet wharf
swift tinsel
sullen hare
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When rwf was over and sub was still left behind was about the point I gave up on this expac

wicked wadi
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I just ran a key where my guidon and blades kept desyncing by 7-15 seconds. how tf?! never happened b4

small sleet
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affix

wicked wadi
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ohhh

sullen hare
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Last Titan I'll probably just wait till a .7 patch when the game is 50% off retail

swift tinsel
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It reduces cdr on your abilities but not trinket

fleet wharf
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run 12s tbf

swift tinsel
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Ye 12’s are your friend, more crests no affixes

wicked wadi
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yeah I was hitting a bonus roll run and spam applied to 10-12s

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got my loot btw ayy

fleet wharf
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doing m+ as rogue is such pain

swift tinsel
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Honestly 12-14’s are where it’s at vs 10-12’s

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If you can

wicked wadi
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it was the first key I've run with an affix this week so gg to me

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had no clue ty

fleet wharf
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idk how I feel about higher keys not having affix

uncut monolith
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!commands

swift tinsel
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I enjoy affix-less keys because I feel like I can play the dungeon without feeling bad about not being able to do anything about most of them

sullen hare
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Imagine doing a +12 and you have to go to the other side of a boss arena to get a pulsar orb that spawned where no one was standing

swift tinsel
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Can cloak the dispel every 2mins, assuming you don’t need it for anything in the dungeon

swift tinsel
fleet wharf
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it's so fucked how badly we get screwed over on dealing with affixes

swift tinsel
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Without needing a non-orb mob to be in the radius

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It’s so stupid

sullen hare
swift tinsel
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The orbiting orbs are fine, I’d like being able to Vial the dispel

fleet wharf
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isnt Feign off GCD too?

swift tinsel
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Emissary can troll hard

fleet wharf
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jesus fuck

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wht do we bring to any group

sullen hare
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Now imagine you're able to cursor position a knock up trap right under the orbs

fleet wharf
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fucking 3.6% DR that doesn't matter?

uncut monolith
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Where can i link my gear to get some loot suggestions? Im max ilvl now.🤓

wicked wadi
fleet wharf
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but the issue is it's not really appreciated by anyone not playing rogue

wicked wadi
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ddh can send stars and slams all day with a trickster in group and not worry

fleet wharf
sullen hare
uncut monolith
fleet wharf
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just sim it and see which one gives you higher number for the content you care about

swift tinsel
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Nexus point is a good place to roll regardless

fleet wharf
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our dungeon slice is good enough iirc

sullen hare
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You can sim all of that with gear sets on raidbots

swift tinsel
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The rings are good, a few catalyze-able slots

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Dagger

uncut monolith
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Sims looks broken on max ilvl. The upgrades looks very rng..

swift tinsel
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Droptimizer doesn’t work very well with haste breakpoints fwiw

fleet wharf
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i love haste breakpoints bro

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said no one ever

uncut monolith
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Its all abou keeping haste.

vale pine
swift tinsel
fleet wharf
swift tinsel
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I’m used to that

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These are new with midnight

fleet wharf
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v fair

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I am also feeling pretty done too

swift tinsel
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Even though we rallied against them during beta

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Not enough dev time allocated

fleet wharf
uncut monolith
swift tinsel
# fleet wharf but we're low pop guiz

They gave us the time of day to rework how haste works for the spec, first iteration was bad so they changed hasted dance and Sectech cdr to just Sectech, with dance duration extended by haste but it was going to lead to breakpoint issues either way. If they had actually devoted more time to fixing the spec after the changes in November things might have turned out better but that wasn’t on the docket for us

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It’s just another case of sub ending up in an abandoned state after beta

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And it’ll get piecemeal patchwork bandaid fixes as usual

fleet wharf
swift tinsel
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Tbf most specs have become ret

fleet wharf
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yea, I understand taht we're low pop, but that can't be used to justify us getting fucked consistently

swift tinsel
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Across the board, specs lack depth

fleet wharf
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or rather, if that's going to be the perpetual state

swift tinsel
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I don’t even think it’s a population reason

fleet wharf
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fuck this, i'm out

fleet wharf
swift tinsel
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Dev team consistently get spread to thin

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Things get perpetually pushed back

fleet wharf
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it's ok though, now we get a new xpac every 1.5 years!

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you get to fork over 60 bucks every 1.5 year instead of every 2 years

uncut monolith
swift tinsel
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Ret is an interesting spec

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So many procs

fleet wharf
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they actually have this thing called utility

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that we lack

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like you can affect whether your team blows up or not

swift tinsel
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You should tell them that they have it

fleet wharf
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shocker

fleet wharf
swift tinsel
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It would be news to many of them

fleet wharf
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idk I just disliked ret because of how popular it is, but maybe I'm approaching this from the wrong angle

uncut monolith
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I meant prot pally, bcs its hell at 16+ m

swift tinsel
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Oh yeah prot paladin is paper

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The moment it has solid survivability it’s so strong

uncut monolith
swift tinsel
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Prot was a very, very plate-spinny spec

small sleet
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guys the more i look at sims

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i think ds in m+ may not be a joke

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lmao

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ive got some shit i wanna try with it, but i honestly hope it doesnt work

vale pine
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its probably alright

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if you play dark brew

small sleet
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right now im looking at dropping a point in dark shadow to take both potent powder and dark brew

vale pine
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probably better to not take pp

swift tinsel
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Conceptually it would be cool if DS was good in m+ but that would take some heavy lifting to retool a lot of it

vagrant fossil
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Surely the Blizzard devs decide to just random buff a thing, so they should make Singular Focus to like 10%

swift tinsel
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If Singular was good, DN evisc wasn’t locked to single-target Evisc, playing around Unshakeable Drive

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Which sin does now in ST lol

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Having meaningful funnel via Singular would be cool

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But sub and funnel have a troubled past lol

vagrant fossil
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I mean, it's just that Deathstalker sub isn't in a position to usefully utilise Singular Focus compared to the way Assa is

swift tinsel
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How so?

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Conceptually hitting BP’s and Mass Casualty’s should work well with it

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Or Sectech/clones

vagrant fossil
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Ye, but compared to how assa is getting funnel out

swift tinsel
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Wym

vagrant fossil
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Basically on sub, if you want to do funnel. You'd be not be doing BP. So you're just doing less funnel than assa. And if you decided to use evis, you're just not doing AOE compared to assa

swift tinsel
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Why would you not be using BP

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Singular would take the BP damage and funnel it

vagrant fossil
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Ye, but that is less effective than what assa can do

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BP is doing reduced damage at 8+ targets

swift tinsel
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They also only have one finisher

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Besides rupture obviously

vagrant fossil
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Meanwhile assa would get full SF value from every single bleed

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And then just straight envenom spam is still doing more prio damage than Sub would. And you FOK for full CP every time

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And with 8 mobs, you're basically not running out of energy

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Though, Deathstalker assa before Caustic Spatter didn't work with Singular Focus was insane prio damage

plush roost
vagrant fossil
plush roost
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Youre less ST than trick at 700/800

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And less aoe

small sleet
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you have no idea how hard im cooking right now

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and by cooking

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i mean burning the fuck out of it

nova cairn
plush roost
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I can see the smoke from here

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Whats the cook bud

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Ill go grief some keys and report back

small sleet
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no this is

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far more grief than you could imagine

nova cairn
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Cinema stream inc from charrend

plush roost
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Is it my dark shadow brainstorm from last night

small sleet
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thats one part of it yeah

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let me hit some dummies some more and see if this shit works or not

plush roost
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Lmfao share the sauuccce

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Im at work i need day dream brain exercises

small sleet
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HAVE PATIENCE

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i gotta make sure this shit cooks because if it doesnt

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its the most cooked shit

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this is 50/50 the stupidest idea ive ever had or the next step for humanity

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no in between

plush roost
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Bros about to drop tornado goremaws

small sleet
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i wont lie i talented into shuriken tornado like 30 mins ago to see what it actually did

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but thats not part of the cook

plush roost
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Its terrible kekw

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Doesnt work with brew XD

vale pine
plush roost
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I was under the impression 700 ds was below 700 trick or did the ds buffs make it neutral

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Like 1.8% below

balmy mauve
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!macros

wicked joltBOT
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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.

vale pine
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so you won't rly see a diffrence in game

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once you get your haste levels up, you would see a noticable gain on DS

wispy crystal
vale pine
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hero talents empower diffrent parts of your toolkit

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deathstalker has more power in the capstone note (DN)

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which means you want to get as many DN evis in dance as possible

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while trickster tries to fit 2 secret techniques in blades

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the haste gives you longer dance duration, which increases the chance to hit multiple dn's during cooldowns

gusty lantern
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has premediation bug been fixed? do we use it again

vale pine
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we only dropped it because of cloud cover

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cloud cover did tripple the effects of fazed related buffs

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which empowered builders by quite a bit

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which made losing aa procs more costly

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the result was the drop of premeditation

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but the "stacking" of these talents got removed

gusty lantern
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ooh that makes sense. Thanks!

vale pine
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which makes the trade off fine, and again in favor of premed

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(i mean, we don't run cloud cover anymore, or well there might be niche situations its better like potentially during leveling)

gusty lantern
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another question, if I have both secret technique and coup de grace up going into a dance, do I still use ST as the first finisher?

vale pine
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yes

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secret first

gusty lantern
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ty ❤️

warm marlin
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insane

sullen hare
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no premed was despairge times

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it was the catalyst for me ending my sub

half apex
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It's good now? Got flasks and gems 🙂

west tide
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i got the mount and the ring

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if god loves me ill get the neck

hollow spear
half apex
hollow spear
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700 with guidon, 800 without

half apex
hollow spear
wicked wadi
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just 98% timed my first ever 16. learning from all u goats

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reading this chat gives orange parses

plush roost
jagged hamlet
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in dance at 1 mark before 2nd DN and apex is procced should we cancel it?

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or is apexed mark > shadowstrike at max to proc apex > DN the correct play?

uncut monolith
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I saw some logs that someone macros Light potetial + Guidon instead of in macro Light potential+ Shadow blades, suggestions?

jagged hamlet
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guidon is outside of blades, pot lasts long enough it prob doesnt matter.

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probably better to macro it to blades tho

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lights pot

uncut monolith
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So there should be 100% sure that light potential dont suffer same bug of refreshing stats to char vs server as guidon does with haste...✍?

warm marlin
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the bug is only with the deepening shadows talent

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for haste rating

astral axle
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saturday wage cagers

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same bro...

fossil forge
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gotta get the 💰 0shame getting to these dollarz

plush roost
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Creepa

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Awww man

fossil forge
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im grinding elo on hypixel bedwars rn

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real gaming

plush roost
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I think im gonna do solo queue m+ where i auto invite the first 2 dps that queue up, mandate 1 lust class, whether its healer or dps that queues first, and then finish filling with whoever signed up first

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Thoughts gang?

keen dome
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do it

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that'd be great

keen dome
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please report back ind etail

astral axle
fossil forge
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make sure to queue up on charrote though

plush roost
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Oh wow now thats a cook

main blade
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When do i even use pbox if thats the best thing igot since no feather or light companion

plush roost
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Every 3 mins

main blade
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do i stealth shadowstrike pbox blades dance then

hazy breach
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Yerp

plush roost
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Yero

main blade
fossil forge
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nah i am getting held hostage in a key

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and they are just perma typing refusing to ff

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we are only 10 min in 💀

keen dome
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Perfect time to start a conversation

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Ask them about cooking and if they don't reply, begin to tell them about cooking

fossil forge
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i just got wished cancer and called the n word for telling them they are slow for not ffing

keen dome
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Start reading them a bedtime story

fossil forge
keen dome
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Something suitable for the intellect of someone who is that nasty online

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HAng on I've got the perfect book

fossil forge
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avg key convo

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After tank die on first pull

fossil forge
keen dome
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Can just read them this

fossil forge
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My fav

sand wigeon
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I’m doing 19s and I feel like dmg might become an issue. Anyone pushing 20-22s as sub?

gilded thistle
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you actually getting invited to high keys?

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or just pushing your own

fossil forge
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i have 1 20 timed as sub its kinda bootycheeks u have to press evis..

radiant swift
fossil forge
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play law for insta invites lowkey

hazy breach
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Salatikue has done all 22s. Sub is not horrible by any means, its actually quite solid

fossil forge
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that guy is like astronomically dialed in though

vagrant fossil
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I think the issue is that most of the highest rated rogues are playing outlaw, despite all three being fairly equal

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Different strengths tho

fossil forge
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all 3 are playable so pick ur poison

hazy breach
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Still kinda puny in comparison to assa

thorny kestrel
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honestly sub most monster in lower keys under 16 or so. beat those demos and uhdks. once groups start to last longer, you fall off

vagrant fossil
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Sub is also strong at higher keys. It just kinda plateaus damage, but it's got solid and isn't bad at anything or "outside" CDs. Assa ST when not in CDs is not doing a lot, but sub constantly has sectec etc

vestal escarp
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Me having played every flavor of olaw and assa except sub this season solely for the reason i cant drop a guidon

thorny kestrel
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sub underrated like they were in raids

small sleet
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I’ve had it sub is the worst spec in the game we need emergency buffs

swift tinsel
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  • Damage of Deathstalker’s Mark increased by 9%
graceful osprey
somber sun
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was he talking fr pepelaugh ?

red vortex
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is there a bis gear list for DS? or is it same list as Wowhead?

west tide
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
west tide
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i follow the one in fuus profile

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im sure the wowhead one is the same or as good

upbeat cradle
jagged sphinx
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is there anyway that we can get eversírate on cooldown manager?

sullen hare
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for what purpose, coup de grace?

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because coup is just kinda there

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!macr

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!macro

wicked joltBOT
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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.

sullen hare
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/cast Black Powder``` is such a useful macro for that purpose. you don't even track it
somber sun
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put it on stealth bar btw !! breh

earnest crane
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it feeels so good that i dont see any mage on leader board after 20 years

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there is one but we can ignore it

modern gull
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do we still have to roll on dungeons of exactly the same m+ level for the bad luck protection on bonus rolls? or do all dungeons above 10 share a pool now

swift tinsel
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Any level above 10

edgy imp
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what is considered top myth 1% rn for gladiator achievement

lilac stag
jagged sphinx
jagged sphinx
livid frigate
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should i balnce my crit and mastery out more cause i currenly have 69% mastery and 24 % crit

somber sun
red vortex
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closest i can get

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should be good right

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this is with haste flask and oil

livid frigate
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are we ment to be running trickster or deathstalker now?

peak ice
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If you want to in st fights

small sleet
tribal blade
spring basin
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The desthstalker rotation is so cringe

sullen hare
glacial cloak
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how bad is it to use this

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i read on icy it slightly messes with haste or something

short radish
jagged hamlet
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obviously having diff keybind for pot may be useful but you can replace the last L with a - if yhou ever need to disable the potion part

glacial cloak
jagged hamlet
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perfectly fine

short radish
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oh wait

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this doesnt have guidon in tha tmacro

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im blind

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nvm that macro is fine

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#showtooltip Shadow Blades
/use [combat]item:245898
/use [combat]item:245897
/use [combat]item:241308
/use [combat]item:241309
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Secret Technique

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this is mine

small sleet
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finished 21 resil on the sub rogue we out here

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im getting closer and closer to being as cool as salatikue

tribal blade
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now get 22 resil

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and then 23

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then 24

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and so on

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etc etc

fossil forge
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resil25

tribal blade
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they mega buff the borrowed power

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could happen 😉

fossil forge
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im struggling hard in these 20s men

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need it asap

serene notch
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So excited to try guidon tomorrow

tribal blade
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ok this is what happens when you help your guild do mythic chim with half the group being casual helpers and pugs

serene notch
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Sub is great…..when you out skill everyone :p

tribal blade
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adds stayed alive long enough

serene notch
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The lack of UDK taking all your lunch money feels good man

tribal blade
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we had 1 udk

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well my parse got bricked anyways lol

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gg

peak ice
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Arcane mage

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wtf

tribal blade
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yeah he usually mains arcane

peak ice
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Why is there a seperate akaaris soul

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Is that normal?

swift tinsel
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depends on how you view the dmg breakdown

peak ice
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Huh

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Interesting

tribal blade
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i was grp 2

peak ice
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Yea righto

tribal blade
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so we were in diff phases

peak ice
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Is that ur damage then

tribal blade
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if you look at details that was the actual dmg

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yeah

peak ice
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Top of the chart then

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Ez

tribal blade
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by a lot yeah

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oh well

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you would think they could fix this by now

swift tinsel
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that's usually me on our chim reclears too, its fun lol

fossil forge
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Hear me out we dont reclear anymore

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But someone has to test it out

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Soaking with the suiciding tank and padding tf outta the adds

swift tinsel
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we still needed people to get gaze

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but I think we're set now

fossil forge
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This has to be the tech

swift tinsel
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also we might be done by the end of next week

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also I've fully embraced the small orb pad on saladbar

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ethical

plush roost
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Our ret paladin snuck this one on us and now we life grip him downstairs and our tank jumps off

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Rip ur parse bozo

swift tinsel
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holy based

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lmao

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do I rip a DS AA

oblique grove
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am I doing something supremely fricked if I have a darkest night ready with a dance but no secret technique for like 10 secs

hearty mural
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yo quick question..for Mythic Chim. Which group is better for us? going 1st or 2nd

swift tinsel
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I like first personally

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blades for opener, sectech comes off cd rights as adds are gathered downstairs

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which you hopefully have coup stored for

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then comes up for intermish adds

west tide
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just go in every one bro

peak ice
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Cloak and go

ornate lake
small sleet
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bros it might be time to learn outlaw.... the sub warlock bug is too powerful its breaking me

swift tinsel
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outlaw isn't bad

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if you have a good way to track opportunity it kinda plays itself

small sleet
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i know, its pretty enjoyable

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but its still harder than sub lmao

swift tinsel
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everything is lol

small sleet
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and i still enjoy sub

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the relearning of all the dungeons is gonna be brutal

small sleet
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yea definitely

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i have a warlock on my m+ team and he cant play diabolist or the bug happens almost guaranteed every dungeon

peak ice
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Oh dam

warm marlin
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ur defs are the same and outlaw doesnt have cds

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zugzug

small sleet
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idk i feel like outlaw has a bit of a different playstyle in terms of maintaining uptime n stuff

dreamy needle
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if there are two elites in a pack do i use bp or eviscerate as my spender

tribal blade
dreamy needle
tribal blade
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in dance strike on 3 or less

dreamy needle
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ah okay ty

unique merlin
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when opening is the ability order Shadow Dance, Shadow Blades, Secret technic?

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and do you use Coup De grace when it pops if doing aoe?

tribal blade
tribal blade
unique merlin
peak ice
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Macroing it with black powder works well

unique merlin
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black powder?

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oh aoe spender

peak ice
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Yep

unique merlin
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doing two casts with coup first?

peak ice
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You just macro it so if you have it pop up when you’re doing you’re aoe combo it’ll automatically cast it instead of black powder

peak ice
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Your tricks makes the warlock pets pull

ornate lake
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Blizzard really hates rogue lmao

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There is absolutely no way that bug is accidental

glacial cloak
peak ice
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Apparently

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I’ve not personally experienced it but people have been talking about it

warm marlin
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nah its not tricks

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it seems to be a pet pet interaction between shadow clones and diabolist apex pets

glacial cloak
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i’ve had a warlocks pull things and complain about their pets in my groups lol

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maybe it was my fault xD

tribal blade
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but who wants to play with stinky locks anyways 😉

warm marlin
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supposedly apex talents that can proc guardians are bugged as a whole

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but sub clones bug it more often

tribal blade
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mmm i see

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i'm kinda done with the jank on sectec clones

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they need to redesign sectec and call it a day

unique merlin
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Do I use shadow dance if Shadow Blades and Secret technic are both down?

tribal blade
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the only time you will not cast dance+sectec together is during 2nd dance in blades

unique merlin
tribal blade
unique merlin
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ok

tribal blade
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the only time energy is something you think about is right before you go into dance+sectec

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you want to have enough energy to instantly cast sectec

unique merlin
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so it's Shadow dance+ secret technic, or Shadow Dance, Blades ,SecTec, SD Sectec?

tribal blade
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!blades

wicked joltBOT
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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.

tribal blade
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follow this during blades

unique merlin
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Ok awsome thanks.

tribal blade
#

@warm marlin oh is queue still dead

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i've heard from multiple people the NA key scene is very slow atm

warm marlin
#

ye

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well idk

#

im pugging above cutoff now

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im not sure how busy it should be

#

played the game a decent amount today

tribal blade
#

in general when you're keying at or above cutoff there's not a whole lot of keys in lfg

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a lot of times you'll look and there won't be enough keys to even scroll down

warm marlin
#

i got 5 of my 21s today

tribal blade
#

oh wtf that's huge

#

5 timed IO keys in 1 day

warm marlin
#

but uhh

tribal blade
#

massive

warm marlin
#

seat and aa are not often posted

#

as my last 2 for resi

tribal blade
#

yeah makes sense

warm marlin
#

who coulda guessed

tribal blade
#

people try to avoid it as much as possible lol

#

you finally time that key

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then try to reroll it

#

best you can do is find someone with 21 resil AA or seat

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and then hope they're willing to slam their head against it for a good few hours

warm marlin
#

i send pic soon

#

resi keys are not a disease 👍

tribal blade
vagrant fossil
#

Are you playing the PP build or the Dark brew one?

tribal blade
#

dude i was doing a title range resil floodgate during S2

unique merlin
#

do you want full combo points up before casting shadow dance with other cooldowns or spend points, then shadow and its cooldowns?

warm marlin
#

I am playing the rider of the apocalypse build

tribal blade
#

and the tank crashed out in disc with "fuck resil i hate this system i'm not playing anymore"

vagrant fossil
#

Ooh, mb

tribal blade
#

after we had been wiping in there for 2 hours

vagrant fossil
#

Thought you were pushing on sub

warm marlin
#

sadly not

tribal blade
unique merlin
tribal blade
#

honestly doing 1 season of resil was a big thing to help me decide to retire

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because pushing with resil

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is truly miserable

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(unless you ride someone's resil all the way up at the end of a season)

unique merlin
#

If you are Casting SD without SB, Do you wait to time SD with second SecTec for the powereful combo point?

tribal blade
warm marlin
#

i will suffer the pug life

tribal blade
#

the dopamine when you finally get them timed

#

will be big

warm marlin
#

just once you hit 20 basically every key is someone posting their resil key trying to push it back up

#

its a whole bootstrap paradox

tribal blade
#

lol so true

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i think like half the IO keys i timed around the cutoff range were resil keys people were pushing back up

#

i dunno resil is so weird, it artificially inflates IO

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and then makes it so even the keys 1 level below cutoff range are brutal

warm marlin
#

why would you ever do your own key when you can wait a bit to get into someone's resil they're pushing up with 0 risk

vagrant fossil
#

Isn't that just because it allows people more attempts at the level that would be an upgrade?

tribal blade
#

TRUE

tribal blade
#

people become very leech like

#

trying to ride other people's resil

vagrant fossil
#

Ye, for sure

tribal blade
#

and also the average key level is much higher than seasons without resil

vagrant fossil
#

Ye, but that happens because the safety net is just underneath what you want

tribal blade
#

i still think resil should be you have like 2-3 charges on a key

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then after those charges are used up it depletes -1 level

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instead of just running a key a billion times to push it back up

warm marlin
#

I think there are quite a few players in this range who are here by eventually sneaking along through someone's resil and grinding the whole way

warm marlin
#

mw in our 21 mt used life cocoon like 4 times in 30 mins

tribal blade
#

there's a lot of drama that happens around resil

vagrant fossil
#

I do agree that resil has helped a lot of boosting

tribal blade
tribal blade
#

i know so many people on the S2+3 TWW list of people who bought title

#

1 guy i know

#

legit bought every single title range key

#

from 4k players

#

ironically i know the 4k tank who sold it to him too

#

(this is when 4k was way above cutoff)

tribal blade
warm marlin
#

was a good read

tribal blade
#

i was shocked at some of the names i saw

warm marlin
#

i also knew multiple people on there

tribal blade
#

it made me so sad

#

and kinda pissed

#

because i'm the kind of player who barely squeaks into title every time

#

so seeing people steal title from others who worked hard for MONTHS

#

makes me angry

random comet
#

Just like irl

tribal blade
#

i was actually involved in resil key drama

#

with people i was pushing with at the time

#

was not fun

#

it eventually led to my guildie cutting all ties with a friend he had had for years

#

for scumbag behavior

#

that friend basically wanted to ride my resil and box out my guildie

warm marlin
#

pugs were astronomically dead prior to resil

#

too much variance

#

3-5 attempts would prob be fine

#

cut down on abuse but keep the system in

tribal blade
tribal blade
#

where you had to perform in every key

#

and your key could get run down from a string of bad luck

lilac stag
tribal blade
#

will do 😉

outer orchid
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
hollow spear
#

Idk, I've never pushed top keys, but from what I read, no system can fix that shit

vale pine
#

Good morning, the problem is fixable in my opinion

#

Basically, the problem space is a balancing issue

main blade
#

question why do we want so much haste like from the trinket any big benefit over mastery

#

from like pbox

vale pine
#

it mostly started out with the introduction of aug

#

aug allowed you to do +3 more key levels for free

#

this made it extremely obviouse that wow shifted away from a player skill centric tuning approach

#

people realized just how much easier it is to play meta in every aspect of the game as a reasult

#

and with the game moving in a direction which allows you to gear up a new character quickly

#

in combination with a typically fairly mild tuning of the OP, so they most of the time stay op or top dps for the tier

#

a systemw as created where meta chasing is the most efficient way to play

#

groups in the finder also realized just how much the right class can influence your outcome

#

and given the flood of players who will now reroll to the flavor of the month

#

people who don't either need to play with friends, guild groups or level an alt

#

The diffrence in group strength was so significsant, that it set a example

#

because, even if things are now often closer now, why not make your life easier and give yourself the highest chance of success

vale pine
main blade
#

yea

vale pine
#

guidon gives you more ressources, means more apex procs, enerty, etc

#

puzzle box gives you more immidiate mastery, however it is more in a burst

#

given that you want to line it up with your cooldowns, its a 3 minute trinket

#

and the mastery often goes into DR because you run with a high baseline mastery

#

meanwhile guidon is better in single target, and can give you similar benefits in big pulls

#

with the main drawback of a slightly lower initial burst

#

hope that makes sense

vale pine
#

i think there is a very simple solution which would allow people to play m+ without meta chasing

#

a soloq system

short radish
#

i have a solution though

#

delete aug

vale pine
#

wouldn't change much

#

the damage has already been done

short radish
#

that's okay. we can still delete it

vale pine
#

haha

tribal blade
#

the best system anyone can think of is make resil a charge system so your key has charges, and when those charges deplete then your key lowers

hollow spear
#

I don't think it's fixable

#

The problem is that it's humans who play the game

vale pine
#

ohh, i missunderstood the comment

tribal blade
vale pine
#

we talk about resilient?

hollow spear
#

We talk about high keys

vale pine
#

and how people brute force to high r.io now

tribal blade
hollow spear
#

And that no matter what, people will be unhappy

vale pine
#

hot take

#

i think resilient is fine

#

i understand that it impacts higher keys in a negative way

tribal blade
#

you have opposite ends of the spectrum, 1 was no resil and you had to perform in every single key or else it would brick, and your key could brick all the way down due to bad luck

vale pine
#

as more people with lower skill level can grind to high scores

tribal blade
#

and then resil where people are literally smashing their faces against keys for hours upon hours to push them back up

#

and toxicity of people just riding other's resil

vale pine
#

but i also think thats basically how mmorpgs are designed

#

the challange in mmorpgs is never skill

tribal blade
hollow spear
#

It's the unemployed versus people with too much disposable income, like in most games garf_sit

tribal blade
#

the biggest issue resil caused is it's now infinitely easier to buy title

#

before it was much harder to buy

vale pine
#

more people can play and experience a higher level of content is a net win in my book

peak ice
#

Agreed

hollow spear
#

Yeah, but you cannot solve the problem of "homework" keys without making boosting easier imo

tribal blade
#

homework keys will exist no matter what sadly

vale pine
#

they actually could

hollow spear
#

But it's much less egregious now than it used to be

vale pine
#

but the solution would also be not liked by key pushers

tribal blade
hollow spear
#

One tilter evening and your key was cooked

vale pine
#

mind experiment time

tribal blade
#

imagine sitting in the same key for 3+ hours

#

trying to push it back up

#

until everyone gives up

vale pine
#

what if you had a prompt at the key stone vendor

hollow spear
#

And that was different then?

vale pine
#

which enabled "hard mode" keys

#

you would exchange your key to a new one

tribal blade
#

before you were pushing back up easier keys

hollow spear
#

People always run against a wall no matter what

vale pine
#

which has no resilient at all

main blade
vale pine
#

but else has no benefits

hollow spear
main blade
#

cuz pbox also feels really clunky man

tribal blade
hollow spear
#

Now you just stay at the wall

tribal blade
#

but resil hell is very real

hollow spear
#

People are doing it to themselves is what I'm saying bottom line

tribal blade
#

i've watched people try to push their key back up for days at a time

#

quite literally

vale pine
#

and you can only group up with people who have hard mode keys activated

#

easy

hollow spear
#

Nobody will do it I tell you

tribal blade
#

you have a 19 priory and trying to push that shit back up

#

holy shit that was awful lol

vale pine
#

like

hollow spear
#

People just want to bitch and moan

vale pine
#

it solves the problem

#

for anyone who wants to have the seperation

#

while keeping resilient for the rest

#

people won't do it

#

because they don't want to wait for groups to build

tribal blade
vale pine
#

but thats on them too

tribal blade
#

i was like "nah i'm not playing this game"

vale pine
#

you can't have both

hollow spear
#

I think people will just crash and burn eventually, no matter the system

vale pine
#

both means, a high player pool to choose from to do keys

#

and at the same time only good players in that pool

#

any time content becomes more accessible/easier

short radish
vale pine
#

the skill level requirement is lowered, and the player pool becomes bigger

hollow spear
#

Good though experiment fuu

#

Won't ever happen kekdog

vale pine
#

i mean nobody would play it

#

but "there is no solution"

#

is not correct

#

its just the solution is not agreeable

#

because you would need to take trade offs

hollow spear
#

That was kinda implied

#

I just think no matter what you do, people will complain

vale pine
#

that for sure

#

also nobody wants a perfectly balanced game

tribal blade
#

it is funny how resil worked out, everyone was like "M+ is saved"

vale pine
#

what makes the game fun is a imperfect system

tribal blade
#

and then immediately when we started pushing with resil "wait this is even worse"

hollow spear
#

Too much work, too little work, too easy to boost, too hard to pug, meta is stale, aug is op

vale pine
#

What do the data show

#

i think people play more keys

#

than before

#

or at least would say that intuitively

hollow spear
#

Resil was a success

#

Who cares about title pushers OMEGAKEKW

vale pine
#

I think its a bit of a funny discussion

#

because the ones who give the most feedback are the top level players, as they gathered an audience

peak ice
#

It’s defo hard to balance

tribal blade
#

it's kind of like the diff between normal raiders and mythic

vale pine
#

and they will many times argue to only improve their position

hollow spear
#

Title pushers are just mad that they don't get the same treatment relative to what the rwf gets in their piece of content garf

peak ice
#

Cause just listening to those people can make stuff shit

vale pine
#

e.g. remember that these popular podcasts

#

people repeatedly did say

#

"idk, it feels like skill issue to me"

#

when the system was too hard or punishing for players

#

and actively hurt wow

peak ice
#

Destiny had a bit of the same issue where they started listening to the world first raiders

vale pine
#

(as you saw with engagement in m+ and the game)

peak ice
#

And it was shit

vale pine
#

I think its difficult

#

it is also independent of the game

peak ice
#

It defo is cause u want both groups engaged

vale pine
#

e.g. if you look at league of legends

#

Riot did a lot of system analysis of matchmaking and impact of changes

#

yet the entirety of the top player base wanted a hard reset of the mmr

#

riot did say "this is a fucking terrible idea, you all will hate it"

#

everyone still pushed for the change

#

riot, knowing it only affects the top end, pushed it

#

and now people are crying because its a terrible idea and everyone hates it

peak ice
#

Im for the like easing of getting mythic gear and stuff too

#

Just opens up stuff to people that might not have done it before

#

Makes 0 impact to my gameplay

vale pine
#

i think the systems we got are overall positive

peak ice
#

Yea

#

I have a few small issues with crests and raid timing

#

But minor

#

Crafting is kinda eh too idk

vale pine
#

and the example with league just highlights that not every problem has a good solution, many solutions can backfire

#

this applies to both sites, any company can make a lot of bad decisions to lose players too

peak ice
#

See Bungie for the king of that

vale pine
#

haha ye, think there are a lot of recent examples of failed games or games

#

I have my complains about the xpac too, i think everyone who is a bit critical will find points you don't like

#

I don't like how the pacing and system design keeps you chasing gear forever

#

e.g. lets say now, you just finished upgrading and collecting your gear

#

12.0.7

#

you start to find yourself with another borrowed power system and gear upgrades to farm

#

there is in general low amount of downtime, so you essentially can grind forever now

#

tho on the other hand, getting gear is now easy, so if you come back to the game or want to gear an alt, thats fast

#

(there are some problems, like "how do i get into a group without gear/experience", but generally spoken its easier than before)

left shale
#

i tend to lose interest when i get fully geared. which is what some people want i guess. i just like having something to do when i want something to do.

vale pine
#

we saw this in our raid team to an extreme

peak ice
#

Yea

tribal blade
vale pine
#

the week after crest uncap was introduced

#

we couldn't get 20 people to want to raid

tribal blade
#

and now that that's all gone the same people say there's nothing to do in game

vale pine
#

with a 28 player raid team

peak ice
#

With the like upgrade orb too

vale pine
#

so 10 players basically "noped" out

peak ice
#

Don’t really even need to hunt trinkets

left shale
#

people want to be done so they can do something else. and they want to do it as quickly as possible. which is fine, but its just not for me.

vale pine
#

there is still a lot to do

tribal blade
#

there is stuff to do yeah

#

but blizz doesn't really put their heart into that stuff anymore

#

like they did before

vale pine
#

I think its just a lot of throwaway systems

tribal blade
#

might just be them being lazy

#

yeah

vale pine
#

not saying thats bad

left shale
#

when they do people complain that they are spendiong time and resources on "things that dont matter"

vale pine
#

as mentioned, for me

peak ice
#

You can’t win really

vale pine
#

it feels like you never stop chasing the carrote

#

which i don't like

left shale
#

i still remember 12 months of SoO. im happy that we move things along at a faster pace generally.

peak ice
#

I mean they care about retention so whatever keeps people around is normally what they will probably do

vale pine
#

yep

#

trading post, housing, etc

peak ice
#

Housing is sick

vale pine
#

all of these systems are there to keep people playing

peak ice
#

I wish it was a bit more like

#

Woven in?

vale pine
#

i think housing is good as is

peak ice
#

But its a good like base

vale pine
#

i wish the levels would go up after 9

peak ice
#

My island is just kinda like empty

vale pine
#

and more new stuff would be added

peak ice
#

Like it’s full of houses and it levels up

#

But I never really see anyone

tribal blade
#

housing is good

#

they put a lot of work into housing

livid frigate
vale pine
#

you can play trickster in 100% too

#

deathstalker is better on st

peak ice
#

Yeah I haven’t changed tbh

vale pine
#

but only rly noticable if you have haste for it

peak ice
#

If I get an aleria neck I might make a set

#

But atm eh

livid frigate
#

i just did a 17 caverns and i only did 135.9 k overall dps i must be doing something wrong with my dps rotation

tribal blade
small sleet
#

bros idk if im cut out for outlaw

wild vine
small sleet
#

shit either of those are pretty good options

tribal blade
#

it's kinda tough you play with a lock though

small sleet
#

i plan on mainly sticking to sub

#

part of me just wants to learn outlaw because its a fun spec

tribal blade
#

no harm in doing it

livid frigate
#

i started playing assa doesnt seem that hard really

wild vine
#

there is no spec thats hard anymore ngl

livid frigate
#

i mean theres more to assa then sub lol

wild vine
#

those that were more difficult got dumbed down a lot

livid frigate
#

outlaw i couldnt get my heard around it early on in the expac

uncut monolith
#

Which m+ 20s do i want numbing poison please?

hollow spear
mighty citrus
hazy breach
#

Reldo was cooking some deathstalker sub for prio

#

And i linked deathstalker assa that has like 50k higher prio garf_sit

hollow spear
#

Why did you do that man

#

It was cinema

small sleet
#

its tough out here

hollow spear
#

I felt like watching Marco Pierre White

#

tight-ropeing between madness and genius

#

and Eleem just cut off the rope OMEGAKEKW

wild vine
#

its more like Eleem held a ladder for him to get off of that needless path

hollow spear
small sleet
#

i havent really had a chance to test it much lmao

hollow spear
#

idk, the ladder lead to assassination

#

who wants that

wild vine
#

as long as it doesnt lead to outlaw

#

I'll take it

hazy breach
#

Issue with assa, especially deathstalker, is the ST

#

And even worse if you want to demisemaxx like me

hollow spear
#

well, it lead Reldo to Outlaw, apparently garf_sit

hazy breach
#

The singletarget is insanely oof

small sleet
#

stupid sub rogue warlock bug led me to outlaw

tribal blade
#

yeah DS sin is mega depression in ST

wild vine
hollow spear
#

sin is just ass this season

small sleet
#

its p good in keys

hazy breach
#

Nah

tribal blade
#

FB sin is pretty good

hazy breach
#

Is good

small sleet
#

i mean

#

sin is better than sub

#

lmao

hollow spear
#

I'm not talking about its performance

#

I just hate playing it

small sleet
#

oh fair then

hazy breach
#

Ah ic, i dont really mind

#

But i can see why

hollow spear
#

tried it in raid

tribal blade
#

i mainly do not like how much energy CT costs

#

feels horrible

hollow spear
#

immediately quit

#

sin's apex is like

tribal blade
#

the KB apex is cool

hollow spear
#

it's against the tos basically, because it makes me say things

tribal blade
#

the energy part sucks balls

#

i dunno if they fixed the apex energy bug in the CDM

#

but the fact that you just randomly can't see stacks

#

is so bad

#

and making you try to run envenom out

#

feels stupid

hollow spear
#

it's 0 interaction

#

because during cooldowns you'd just waste the extra energy

#

at least that's what it feels like to me

tribal blade
#

yeah exactly

#

it's not well thought out

#

but the KB part is very cool

hollow spear
#

the filling up your cp thing?

tribal blade
#

yeah

#

it does a good chunk of burst too

hollow spear
#

nice gimmick, not sure I need that haha

tribal blade
#

and ramps your KB faster

#

yeah it's not as cool as sub's apex

#

i think sub's apex is pretty peak

hollow spear
#

imma terrorize some weeklies with ds

tribal blade
#

HELL yeah

#

@small sleet what did you cook for DS sub

#

in keys

hollow spear
#

he's shy

tribal blade
#

HAHA

hollow spear
#

doesn't wanna show it

tribal blade
#

i don't think there's any way with the talents to make DS sub work in keys

#

the gap is way too big to bridge

hollow spear
#

it's not even that bad, it's just not worth it

#

can just play trickster

tribal blade
#

i haven't actually tried using DS in keys yet

#

eleem's DB build was pretty cool

#

i can see that build being good in keys where you know you'll be doing a lot of evising prio targets and ST

hollow spear
#

what did I just read

tribal blade
#

i'm not sure i fully understand it

hazy breach
#

When you have max stacks of apex, when its at 80

tribal blade
#

you just cancelaura

#

that's amazing

golden totem
hazy breach
#

cancelaura envenom before your next envenom

hollow spear
#

Eleem is taking his TC advice directly from Cthulhu

hazy breach
#

Soyou get the energy

tribal blade
#

yeah that is pretty cursed

#

they need to rework that energy apex part for sin

#

it's so weird

#

shouldn't it be more like "if you extend envenom's duration 4-5 times you get energy"

#

but then it becomes kinda passive

#

i dunno i can see how they were trying to make sin pool

#

but that way is not it

analog hearth
#

in 3+ targets

small sleet
# golden totem What's the bug

something with our apex talents makes diabolist warlock hero talents pull random mobs that are out of combat very consistently

short radish
#

arrays start at 0

#

(didn't want to clutter tc with my shit post)

red flame
#

That’s wild af

#

Ig tbf tho ideally you wouldn’t have both in the same group anyways, especially higher keys

small sleet
red flame
#

At least it’s not ideal comp

#

So it only applies w scuffed comp

small sleet
#

unfortunately for me i play with a warlock one trick

red flame
#

That’s rough

small sleet
#

most seasons i swap off rogue but i wanted to stick with it this season

#

and ofc its the season this bug happens

red flame
#

I’d totally try ddh, fdk or ret but cba to lvl

marble sail
#

as a assa main i have beef with ret paladins

red flame
#

I haven’t played assa since tww s1

marble sail
#

they kill my kingsbane target

red flame
#

Nothing against it at all, I loved it ; sub is just way more my preference

#

So if I gotta pick 1 to die behind yk

#

If it didn’t mean farming new gear I’d prob play both

marble sail
#

dont really need to farm gear anymore

red flame
#

Oh sick

marble sail
#

just do the dungeon with ur best trinkets/weapon and bonus roll

#

u will end with all pieces in mythic and thats always a good thing

red flame
#

What’s sin trinks? Pbox + gaze I’m assuming?

marble sail
#

yes

red flame
#

Oh cool I unironically have them alr then

#

Accidentally rolled myth pbox week 1 trying for PSB before we swapped back off of CC lol

marble sail
#

only ''issue'' is they want giga bigga crit

odd marten
#

Does anyone else have problems with their sprint? I got Featherfoot but it still only last 6 seconds

marble sail
#

easier for outlaw/assa swaps to happen

red flame
#

Makes sense

#

I wont touch outlaw personally

#

On my main anyways

marble sail
#

ngl ive always been a outlaw hater untill this season, im enjoying assa/outlaw more than any spec ever atm

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really disliking sub tho because last season sub was peak for me

red flame
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My biggest thing is I generally name a character based on a theme/spec/playstyle I wanna be & swapping specs contradicts that quite a bit generally
Ik I prob sound insane

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But like I wouldn’t intend to play a FDK, name him “Subzero” (not literally just for the example) & then be like “yea I’m swapping to UH or Blood on Subzero” 😵‍💫

marble sail
red flame
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I just make new chars for diff specs
Then I don’t lvl alts
GTA_HereWeGoAgain

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1 trick pony sub rogue

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marble sail
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i do the same, my dk hits like a 306 gti

red flame
tribal blade
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i spent the entire of mop remix saying to everyone "NOBODY PANIC, I'M A PROPHESIONAL"

vale pine
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the last one is great

tribal blade
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😉

red flame
short radish
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finally fucking free

marble sail
tribal blade
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my guild is still in P1 hell

short radish
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bonus rolled this

hoary orchid
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!haste

wicked joltBOT
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Secret Techniques cooldown gets reduced by all haste sources, while Shadow Dances duration only gets increased by Haste Rating from gear or consumables. When using an on-use haste trinket, make sure to use it a bit before Shadow Dance to get the extended duration.
The recommended ~700 haste gives you two additional globals in Shadow Dance and Guidon will grant one extra on top of that.

tribal blade
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universe is trying to tell you to DS

short radish
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sorry im busy that day