KP - Log Review

[dim shuttle]

Please post the link from WCL in this channels for others to see.

[digital radish]

What I think I'm doing wrong:

• 8GCD use during dance is off. I can't use all 8
• Rupture uptime looks pretty bad I think

What I think is ok:
General understanding of sub seems right, even if I;m not optimizing.

@steep merlin for you later on. Thanks for agreeing to review

[zinc obsidian]

a couple quick things i noticed, but others will likely have more indepth stuff at some points:

you don't use cold blood. ever. you likely don't have the macro properly on your stealth bar.

your openers look weird. taking just ner'zhul, you open with strike from stealth, then rupture. then 3x gloom, evis, vanish strike into s&d, and then dance. just a huge delay getting into your cooldowns.

i think you're missing your last gcd in dance, so trying to tighten up your play there might be useful. if you can find keybind space setting up a dance->strike and a dance->storm macro pair might help shave off some delay.

[digital radish]

yup, I see what you mean. Fixed the CB sectech macro.

Will see how I can fit it into keybind space. Wortha thought.

For Nerzhul opener, I had no cd's up. Was on cd from the previous 2 void thingies

[zinc obsidian]

even without cooldowns, its a weird opener

[digital radish]

when you say CDs, I assume you mean dance, sod, shadow vblades

[zinc obsidian]

dance is the only cd worth talking about in terms of play

the others are pretty much incidental bonuses

i'd also suggest not using shurken toss unless you're about to cap on energy, even when you're forced out on boss mechs

[digital radish]

had to read and think through. What you're saying is even with dance on CD, the choice of opener was weird.

Where I'd think its the vanish strike specifically? I'm not sure what else could be changed for the opener. Cos you'd want rupture up ASAP, then evis while waiting for CDs?

I think I did Vanish/Strike specifically to get CDR for dance, altho that is a mindset thing I should change

[zinc obsidian]

yea like, going in with nothing running and dance on cooldown, thats prime "do maintence buff crap" time to me.

though honestly spending dance on the void spawn there is probably the bigger mistake

[digital radish]

so in that scenario, strike, rupture, gb, snd I guess while waiting

and yeah spending dance in the late stages of that fight was bad ev

[zinc obsidian]

using the cp spent on evis to either lay in a long snd, or if dance was <10 seconds to consume the finality buff and get that cycle going would be what i would be looking at

[digital radish]

Thanks man, lots of small nuances I gotta do. My decision making seems pretty poor

[zinc obsidian]

you might have some low finisher action going on too

ignoring wasting the last global of dance on nado, that snd post dance shouldn't be anywhere near pandemic range i think

sblades buffs builders not finishers as well, you like to use that with sec tec. on st i don't think it matters much because post-dance gloom is big damage, but in aoe sending it at the start of dance to juice the in-dance builders should be bigger. though this is a very small thing

nado being used right before dance should be better than post-dance, though stealthi might call me out on being dead wrong on that one

[digital radish]

Oh damn, yeah should do that. I'm trying to send sblades off CD rn. But where possible maybe hold it for start of a sectech?

[zinc obsidian]

sblades doesn't effect sec tec at all

i'm up like 3 hours past when i normally try to go to bed so i'm a bit rambly, sorry lol

i peeked around a few random places and the trash stuff seemed decent enough if you were getting good rupture spreads. there is likely to be some room for better uptime though

[digital radish]

All g, appreciate you taking the time man.

[digital radish]

@steep merlin if you have time?

[steep merlin]

looking through it now

[steep merlin]

Okay so I'm seeing a lot of the same stuff, so I'm just just gonna write up some pointers.

Many times you are pressing Tornado mid dance, don't do that, either you press it before dancing or after not during.
I think you can be way more aggressive with dancing on AoE, I think you are holding it to much, wanting to get ruptures out, if the pack is grouped as you pull it just rupture once and then send the dance or if you have Tornado + dance you rupture as first global in dance.

Don't vanish strike outside of dance, either use it during dance for dmg, or use it as a gap closer. Id only really do it if I'm desperate for CDR
I also see you pressing Shuriken Storm alot during dances, there is 0 reason to do this if you already have FW up (which should basically be up like 96% of the time on single target), just follow the Gloomblade rule we have and try to get used to doing that instead.
A trick that can help with this is to just Storm before you dance ill show a screenshot of what I mean

And ofc you have some dances with some missed globals, now i cant tell the reason just from the log without going neck deep, but try to always make sure you have the energy for a full dance and don't dance if you can be forced of the mobs 3-4 sec later.

Your Tea usage looks fine

Other than that is just the same repeating things through out the dungeons

ps. don't tornado when boss dies 8 sec later. But still try and use it as much on cooldown as possible.

This is what i mean with Storm before Dance

[digital radish]

Thanks for the feedback! Sorry I got called back to work and couldn't reply earlier.

Yeah the storm during dance is a bad habit. Lemme work that keybind and muscle memory. I see what you mean about the FW application too.

Missed globals during dance, I've noticed myself sending dance on low energy. Need to stop doing that.

Hm OK, quite a few things to work on for basic rotation. But between what you and @zinc obsidian mentioned, things have been looking much better in M+ recently

Can I ping both of you in a few weeks to get more feedback?