#9.2 Feedback and Discussion
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Yeah that’s what I was doing
lethal poisons is only instant poison dmg tho
thats like
almost nothing
Why are you yelling at me


yea sudden fractures is really fine
fix suddenfractures bug please thanks
Is it though? It’s bugged
whats the bug?
Not convinced 2pc needed a nerf unless we're gonna see nerfs to demo and fire
that is the thing, you can't rly compare atm hence a lot of those set bonuses are not balanced
i just remind you that wl when it was totally busted and #1 or #2 in dps on every fight did say
there is a certain amount of fights that we are not #1 on, and hence we are not broken/op
i don't think its a healthy approach, but its one that is easy to fall into
I get what you mean but I have faith in daddy Scar when he said that they are going to work on tuning and balancing base classes/specs after getting tier to around the same %'s
did the assa opener change in any way on ptr
Yes, quite a lot
Necro is still dead for assa even with zyldock insignia ,right?
The thing is that a lot of it isn’t even just the tier bonuses making some specs broken beyond measure, it’s the double legendaries as well
thats correct too
But hopefully all will be right with the world before patch 
sbs dot kinda nutty so far
double legendary balance can be delayed as it won't be relevant for the early progression
nothing is dead. patch is still in tuning mode.
necro looks rly good in m+ too
m+ and some of the cleave fights
if anything kyrian on the surface looks to be dead for assa but we shall see.
No unfort.
dang i have no homies to ask or help from
I'm topping dam right now as necro but i'm playing it so sloppy it's not even funny

It's too much dude
good nameplate configurations and addons like https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/enemy-grid could help
What's the thinking on multidotting during vendetta. Not worth until it falls?
i have solid plater setup (modified cev's) it's just that the 4p makes it quite hard to spread bleeds and maintain dam on the prio target
yeah it's crazy
Need to force an env for snd eventually
and we hard energy cap with just 2 targets
not even in vend
or at least i did full gemming haste
oh kekw i know why now nevermind me
Mastery fight tbh
Topping dam with how much dps? Just gimme a range
Also have you been logging your testing 
Would you mind sharing with the class?
i can after yeah
that was top damage?
on some pulls yeah
I mean you can burst that yeah
i'd like to play with those DH's then
dh is quite strong atm ^^
tuning is just very hit or miss on ptr testing
and it shows, its also the reason devs tell people to not cross compare atm
(what people still do)
for what its worth, i would advice everyone to stay critical with tuning
i just remind everyone that subtlety was assumed one of the best melee dps early in SL due to tuning in beta
and only ended up middle of the pack/lower 3rd on release
yeah i agree with that
also mechanics
and such
and people use cheese gear sometimes
Venthyr fire mage 
like my fcm is def over performing because it's scaled to raid gear
Yeah we are, simply pointing out observations 🙃
It’s funny how much some are doing
tbh its fun to comment on ptr testing and complain about the current op

there is a valid concern that dh will be just a better rogue in 9.2
Tbh I think there’s valid concern for warlock, mage and feral as well
Yeah
the problem is that there is only a small amount of melee slots
As long as we’re the best at boss damage, we will continue to fill that role I think
Feral just does the same thing with more utility
i guess the dh in my group is just buns cuz on the guardian add fight he's only doing 12.7
as nf
I'm doing 15k
one thing to consider is that pure damage was less a concern in the last race
the current raid had no hard dps checks, what allowed higher dynamic with dps
yeah and rogue's best shot is needing prio damage for checks
subtlety brings funnel
assassiantion with the tier set has rly strong low target cleave
so there are some niches that rogue can shine
Yeah I think our sustained cleave is going to be a lot better
idk i'm doing more on this fight consistently than this other sub rogue and he has a dagger
But is he good at the game tho 
I haven’t tested sub yet since double legendaries hit the PTR
I was doing 11k sustained on dummies as sin with a couple pieces of the 272 pvp gear
Hmm
Dagger was doing negative damage every time I’ve tested
Idk why, double dagger and it’s doing like half as much as on live
Weird
yeah it's doing less than his phial
Maybe it was shadow nerfed for 9.2 
Entirely possible
Correct
welp my conclusion of the day is that Korayn is probably better than necro for add fights
and managing dots in multi cleave is near impossible
@molten ore
korayn 
I mean sbs slaps if you are cracked enough to manage it i think
i wouldn’t expect to have managing sbs mastered after one test
it's not like it's my first time playing necro
if anything i've played more NF during testing than I have in retail and getting better results than expected
If Deathspike wasn't dog tier, then it would probably be pretty nice
Still kinda annoying that you have to go to Oribos to change your covenant
yeah agreed
I would love to change every fight, but that's not happening with how the system works now
I mean if you have your soulbinds pre-set then you could just hearth and get a lock sum back so it'd take all of 30 seconds to swap
Korayn actually kinda goated on some of these fights
yeah it is
we’re arms warriors now
ty btw
Man fuck night fae
lol
Why’s it gotta be good
covenant loyalty was so 9.0-9.1. good news is you have comp stomp in a week or two. lol
if you enjoy getting whipped by Daddy D sure
If the new vita trinket is good you're gonna have to be NF to stay in windfury group

nf masterrace
bro?
I've been hurt before

i wonder if it cna bring back whispyr to assa
degen sub spec. can play it again when legion classic come out.
will you welcome me back father
[TBD]
tier 3 sub to be welcomed back.
It's not as terrible as it seems. You just press it and shiv your sorrows away
Time to level up night fae
were there new sims?
no because obedience is still cucked
@pale roost found another what, 120 dps? for fae
by changing talents
and the subterfuge optimization that was talked about a while ago
ambush back on the table type beat
....blindside?
interesting
ambush from subt I should say
just gear things making it usable
as well as subterfuge making ambush making closer to mut
but yeh
reposting this here for the vibe
idk why but ive always kept it on 4
even though i only use it on one boss the entire tier 
wait this ability doesnt even do damage with the fucking conduit
why are we entertaining NF this is illegal
the ability does big damies
it's like 8.5% dps or something
insano levels of deeps
shiv + 2 piece is a double buff for sepsis
first the nature buff
then the poison buff
i think im only going to be able to spin this if i can actually get vendetta to a cleanly 45 second cooldown so its just one on/one off
You have a better chance of KA with NF too i think
is there a reason the current sim uses sepsis before shiv/vendetta? wouldnt that lose some of the benefit from 2pc/4pc/vendetta/shiv/conduit damage all together
obviously itd only really be one to two globals worth
you lose 1 global of sepsis and gain shiv on the sepsis explode
but like that dot needs to be juiced the whole way through id think?
oh the sepsis explodes
oh so thats how that ability works okay
The final tick is a big hit
didnt know it exploded LMFAO
Yeah I'm not 100% sure if it's better still after the conduit change but
It is
figures
The bonk at the end got some heft to it
We save vanish for it when running ma as well
very interested to see the results of these sims next week
especially with sub potentially getting nerfed next week
The thing is
I'm sure that venth is still better slightly on paper
But the fights suit Korayn so well
and NF is so much easier because of timing stuff
In case you didn’t hate it already, if you crit the sepsis cast, it still gives 1 cp, but the seal fate combo point will proc off the bonk at the end

what in the god damn
You just don’t know if it crits
Until 10 seconds later
When you randomly get a cp
Like a shadow tech proc

I mean at that point you'll have shadowblades too so would it proc an extra extra cp?
also just interested to seeing the opener rotation
this feels very unique
even feels different than nyalotha and its using the same focuses of damage
No, because shadowblade doesn’t apply to seal fate
And you wouldn’t get it at the start for the application cp
That’s why shadowblades mutilate only gives 3cp as well
Cause it’s “on cast”
And the cast is mutilate
Even though mutilate is 2 hits of 1 cp each
Blades works on garrote?
yessir
Crazy
That used to not be a thing
Because garrote doesn’t have an instant hit
But maybe that snuck in with the sepsis changes that sub got with blades in 9.0.5 or whatever
yeah must've
Cross spec abilities
and obviously nobody noticed since nobody played it xD
hey wait a second
you still dont need to do that
because sepsis would get dropped to a 5 second duration bleed
so all of it stays inside vendetta/shiv either way
🤔
It's supposed to work with 4p
Yeah
I think they've marked it as a bug
Well “supposed”
alongside with sbs and doomblade
Who knows at this point tbh
would be pretty nifty
But I wrote about it in my tier set revisit post
would probably give us like.... 0.04% increase!
I think it'd be a bit more than this btw
but i get what you mean =]
Right now if you're shivving on cd you generally get half a shiv for the start of vend and half of it on the back end / snapshotted bleeds. So having sepsis sped up could make timing better
dumb question thats hard to ask, would we rather let a subterfuge garrote inside vendetta run out at the end of vendetta, or would we rather throw a normal garrote ontop of the subterfuged garrote to reapply a full pandemic (normal) garrote right before vendetta drops
not sure i asked that in a coherent manner but gl
yeah it's pretty normal question imo
I'm not sure about sim but i'd think that it's better to let empowered gar expire then reapply as close to instantly rather than reapply before
cuz you're overwriting 4 ticks at 2 seconds for example
not sure how powerful a 3-4 second subterfuged garrote is compared to a 8-9 second normal garrote
yeah
I think optimally you would want to let it expire
but it's worse to let it drop and then not instantly reapply than to overwrite
if that makes sense
vendetta subt garrote
The vanish garrote runs out well before vendetta finishes
let it drop and reapply or overwrite
You can pandemic stealth garrote with vanish garrote
yeah then after that one
Well it’s empowered so you let it expire
exactly
you could get an 11 second extended garrote for the overhang vendetta if you reapply a garrote at 6-7 seocnds of vendetta left
which would eat into the subt garrote
just let the empowered gar expire and reapply at 2s before vendetta ends or whatever it is
Garrote is 18 seconds, you gar snd ambush mut flag rup+vend, Thats 5 gcd’s before vendetta, 13 seconds left on Subt gar, turns into 6.5, you pandemic that with a vanish garrote which is 18/2 is 9 seconds, 9 and 6.5 is 15.5 seconds
You then gar that
And get 4.5 seconds overhang because the new gar is 18/2 again is 9, 4.5 seconds until vend falls off
FLAG?
Can do the same math with sepsis and it would only gain you half a second
The alternative would be to double gar from stealth and vanish, which would add a pandemics worth (or half a pandemics worth) of time onto them, which would be 2.7 seconds each, totaling back to 5.4, which would leave 0.9 seconds of overhang if you don’t refresh it
That’s one way to guarantee subt garrote through the whole thing
But double gar from subt is still really bad last I checked
Wdym
cringe
Like gar snd gar vend?
Yes normally but you think if we make vendetta stronger then that changes to mean we should prep for the vendetta less?

i know it's cringe but something that genuinely crossed my mind
You’re losing even more than normal by ripping it before rupture
I can’t see how that would viable
Like you’d need to gain something that overcomes an already insane loss
(Think it’s like 0.8%, it’s one of the bigger opener optimizations)
So gar snd ambush rupture vend?
And you’re hoping to achieve that by getting an extra maybe 3 seconds of a subt gar, while giving up the same 3 seconds of rupture
Seems not great
Yeh that seems like the sauce atm
yeah i get it like i said i knew it was cringe but my mind works like that you know
Ambush mut
so given -> gar snd ambush mut rup vend sepsis shiv, is the ambush much bigger than adding another gar ?
Yes
probably because of cp + instant dam right
Yeh
Getting 5 seconds of garrote just isnt worth without some giga buff
Shrouded made it worth cause it was like subterfuge on crack and gave a ton of cp
Ye the shrouded
But it’s never been worth ever outside of that
So my next question
after sepsis pops
and shadowblades
would it be worth to gar gar or still just gar ambush
during that vanish
Ye I was holding vanish for after sepsis for multi target on opener
Just trying different things ya know
I mean if you’re holding for multi target then you would gar every target once
I don’t see the point

Sooo uhhh yeah niya's poison is trash we all agree right
i really like the haste from dreamweaver
feels like it would lend itself further into the sepsis damage
But do you like 
thats true pod might be annoying or a blessing
and idk how korayn really sounds to me
it never appealed to me in a raid scenario but i know it IS good
first strike refreshing all the time is nice
try standing in flowers for any of these fights tho
i always thought the soulbinds are just a math problem
idk how the fights are gonna be, or how it plays onn rogue but
on other classes that can play korayn it just feels SO good
except pod 
pod 
Korayn is poggie
fuck dreamweaver
you only really need the flowers for a short duration tbh
all my homies hate dreamweaver
its never bad to stand in flowers 
it still provides aton of haste to all of our dots in that time though
Yeah true
pretty sure you would ideally want the flowers to come up right before you apply your last dots in vendetta
but doesnt really matter
No shot you get to stand in flowers for that time though on any of these bosses
close enough to snapshot the garrote and rupture before exiting vendetta
ehh idk
the bosses have pretty decent windows of damage
They do but why would you hold your sepsis until after they're in position or whatever
I mean dreamweaver still gets the 3% dam buff so it's fine even if you dont get high flower uptime i'm sure
for sure
but i think youre already holding sepsis a little bit to line it up with every other vendetta, yeah?
or do we full send like venthyr and cry about being outlaw rogues still
wait how is this sim getting a 1:30ish vendetta
ah might be lust
im not getting anywhere near 1:30 even with haste/crit geared and vigor, with no lust
wait the sim holds vendetta all the way to 1:30, how is dusk even worth
vendetta should be around 1 min with dusk what do you mean
he means that sim is holding it for next sepsis
hmm interesting
instead of sending it and holding sepsis for next vend
you can get vendetta lower than a minute by quite a lot
45s vend is very reasonable as NF
might wanna put the sync threshold diff who knows
yeah im getting a 45 seconed vendetta, and then my third one which would be paired with next sepsis is almost 2 minutes....
like it's holding for that long?
i have to hold second sepsis until 2 minutes basically
instead of at 1:30
not sure im making any massive energy mistakes resulting in that much of a decline in CDR, but sheesh
with the 4p, will we have to refresh garotte and rupture before or after the vendetta ? tried it a bit and feels like all i do is refresh bleed (with dusk leggo)
nvm scrolled up and found
how do we acquire legos next patch? cinder + ash or something else?
Yep that’s staying the same
dont have any idea the current losses of overwriting a dot outside of pandemic, but could we maybe see overwriting a rupture before vendetta runs out to get a maxed pandemic rupture right before vendetta drops
im focusing on this vendetta thing too much over the last few days
its probably barely even worth minmaxing
that's something we do, yes
koji put in apl for that when he implemented the tier set
im starting to lock in the opener, feels much more strict than current
maybe i naturally know every global to use on live and dont even think about it, but this nf subt tech makes feels like its like a 15 second rotation i gotta checklist through
it'll feel more natural once it sets in more
yeah im ironing out the 10-20 second mark in the opener
sometimes i get a rotation that feels real good, trying to see what causes it lol
i think its a difference of when im using the sepsis ambush
and whether im choosing to use an envenom or reapply a reupture the first time it goesd pandemic
yeah thats it, not sure if thats better or not. feels doable
i've tested nf + dusk + nf priest. looks pretty op
I haven't gotten faeries yet but kindred is nuts
sit at around 57% haste with alac stacked with current gear
Parsing next tier on farm...already dreading it
wont be as bad as this tier i'm sure
KA stays big but it's surely not 1.3k cuz no frost set
ye figures
like a world where you KA a sin rogue over enhance, demo, shadow, fire, survival
kinda fucked
we're like a solid middle of the pack spec for KA
must have been dogshit for venthyr
it's like 850 for venth
yeh
yeah
📈
More haste more win
what’s the gain from glory when we “accidentally” step to the warrior?
i've gotta say when we first got this tier set it seemed like it was going to be a mess, but its actually so specific on where you need to put your bleeds up on opener and during vendetta
your garrotes always just perfectly lines up
well's certainly still a mess on pantheon but that fight just seems messy in general
Someone on boomy discord did a new sheet that put sin at like 875 still? But it was using dashing scoundrel with the 4pc lmfao

Just saw the 1.3k NF Sims hahah
More reason for NF - enhance and KA begging
Tbh I'm curious how big the gap would have to be to make venth -> enhance
Enhance?
Something that enhance does encourages cov stacking i guess?
Couple levels of assumptions here, but if elegy winds up even remotely as strong as it looks
Our enh will be demanding the 4 melees in their group be NF
that i think drops off of last 3 so it wont really matter too much 😛
Yeah, that's just wrong. With NF it's around 1.4k, and probably even more when we get gear. Or well, who knows honestly.
Ah right yeah
Ripperino
The real strength of KA on NF would be if it would reduce vend timing at all
more than 2 seconds
Wait so is KA on NF the biggest? Last I saw enhance was top at 1430
Cause our boomies will be kyrian...
No, Enha still holds the spot for the best KA
If it's even remotely close then the entirety of farm logs will be filled with it
KA also doesn't feel quite as strong as it does currently on venth with frost shards
Prog is fun n all, but the majority of the tier will be spent on farm. Parsing keeps it interesting
I got it a few times in PTR
Do you just slam sepsis on CD?
Yeh, externals ruin farms
Or hold for shiv/vend/both
Kinda
Sucks trying to compete for ego rankings when we have classes whose logs aren't fucked by externals
You want to sync whenever possible without losing casts
So it's pretty much same logic as flag except you have to factor shiv in too
Pretty much the same story as always, but a bit more aggressive this time around
Vend should line up with it decently assuming you're allowed to tunnel
Vend is 1min on NF so yeah everything flows smoothish
Cant wait for externals to not matter in 10.0 
I will say, I did like
2 sims
With KA and PI
And we kind of are really good targets for them
Not the best
But like with tuning and nerfs to crazy shit like enhance (they’re actually like close to 16k I think)
We might be very very appealing
For externals
I was hoping KA would be dead next tier
Maybe they can buff everything else instead of nerfing enh
But hhere we are.

Same issue though
If we’re 1350 at 12.2 and they’re 1450 at 16
Bringing us up just makes us more viable targets again
16k sim 
Tough luck cowboy
Because its more than 12k
Time to look for a new spec
I will be posting/pinning some more sims
KA-havers
Now that night fae got fixed

And we have other apl changes
Get to gap my raid even more than usual ig
I feel more comfortable sharing some more numbers
Its a maybe, if he makes me pay for it i wont get KA
I will do this though
I'm pretty sure I could at least approach some rank 1s with KA but idrc
all hail our lords
I only care about next tier now
Tier set opinion revisited
I want to be like you guys when i grow up

How much u wanna bet ur older than both of them

IK I am
Age is just a social construct
And a big dick
That’s what I told your mom too after she said it would never work
What a bitch
Love you mom. 
Yeah that makes two of us 

@proper veldt do you think the "better sepsis" opener is pretty spot on at this point?
im aware the better sepsis sim wasnt specifically a change in the opener, just wondering if the opener is fleshed out already
I’m trying to think of what could be optimized or what’s sketch about it
Without actually seeing it since I’m still in bed
But I think it’s fine
ima gonna need some updated race sims
i honestly dont know if theres anything sketch about it, been trying a few different things but dont want to "learn" a bad habit
I think the only weird part is the rupture sepsis shiv part
or rather i can possibly be weird
ye but you also want to have a full rupture up not just a 3p right so depending on if ambush after slice crits / mut etc
but that's not too different than current, rotation /prio still wouldn't change so doesn't matter i guess
gar slice ambush mut rupture sepsis vendetta shiv?
yeah guess it doesn't matter about crits anyways cuz deeper
yeah if neither mutilate crits when youre trying to get rupture up on pull, it feels super akward
MFD time to shine
@pale roost nf mfd ns when?
I've tried some shenanigans, but it's unfortunately pretty dead.
unlucky
Found a gain for Nightstalker, wasn't enough to beat out Sub
can you still clip sepsis explosion with nightstalker like in pvp ?
With the subterfuge mutilate change @pale roost talked about bringing ambush back into light, as well as a 0.7% gain for duskwalkers being added into the sim default, I thought I should share the tentative shiv sync logic for fae that I’ve wrapped up on. Fae Sepsis Shiv Sync Logic
Here is the sim with the consolidated shiv changes compared to the new default with both the duskwalkers 0.7%, as well as the 0.3% from the ambush changes from Cev
Some of you saw the madness on stream already, but as a tldr on the change: shiv on cooldown for fae is no more. I want to stress this is FAE and sepsis related, and there may be different logic for other covenants going forward.
Shiv logic for fae is now as follows:
Hold roughly 12 seconds for vendetta
Always hold for sepsis
Cast sepsis->shiv whenever sepsis is cast
Use on cooldown as long as rupture and garrote are currently ticking
The most common use of this is with duskwalkers, as that seems to be the legendary of choice in 9.2
With duskwalkers, the cooldown of vendetta is roughly a minute
This creates the cycle of:
Vend+sepsis+shiv (opener)
Shiv (around 0:30)
Vend+shiv (1:00)
Sepsis+shiv (1:30)
Vend+shiv (2:00)
Shiv (2:30)
Vend+sepsis+shiv (3:00, repeating the cycle)
You still want to follow the sync logic of “if you won’t lose a cast”, which may result in some simulations holding either sepsis or vendetta. This 30 second shiv cycle is still consistent with that, for example:
Vend+sepsis+shiv (opener)
Shiv (0:30)
Vend + shiv (1:00)
Shiv (1:30, holding sepsis 30 seconds for vend)
Vend+sepsis+shiv (2:00, using the sepsis here)
Shiv (2:30)
Vend+shiv (3:00)
Shiv (3:30, again holding sepsis)
Vend+sepsis+shiv (4:00, with the fight ending before 4:30)
The second example requires a fight of between 4 and 4:30, but the logic can be extended to sync the final sepsis with the final vendetta of the fight in general. Keep this in mind depending on your kill times next patch
It is 2:30 in the morning here, and kojiyama is looking over the changes in the next couple of days, so the line itself might change, but the logic is the important part here
If you have any questions please let me know :)

This time-line is cursed
9.0 - 9.1.5
Players: pooling & shiv windows are important.
TC’s: nope. Full Send Freddy
9.2
TC’s: Shiv windows matter!
Players: this is cursed
Great news @proper veldt. Does that mean you'll look into LBE/shiv 2pc implementation next now that you're done with fae?

In relation to the above - just making sure I am reading this right. If we're NF, we Sepsis THEN Shiv and we hold Sepsis for Vendetta?
Yes, if you shiv>sepsis, the bonk of the sepsis wont be within shiv anymore. That's why you Sepsis>Shiv. No holding Sepsis for Vendetta unless its the last one of the fight
Every second Sepsis naturally lines up with Vendetta (due to dusk cdr), meaning delaying one sepsis for Vendetta just desyncs the next one, gaining you nothing.
Ohh, okay. Glad I asked then. One day I'll get as good as you guys, I promise.
There's always theoretical DPS gains if fights are within a certain duration, where holding CDs would allow you to line up CDs slightly better. These typically aren't cases to concern yourself with during progression, though.
Sure
I mean tbf NF has had custom logic for Shiv since I put it in 9.0.5 to optimize for bonk damage. The main reason it had to be changed APL wise for 9.2 is just some of the timing implications with 2pc and not always working out.
NF has been the exception to the “use on CD” for a long time it’s just most people haven’t played NF so don’t know about it
Sepsis actually had quite a lot of special timing cases already in the APL for both Shiv and Vanish.
I had actually noticed in 9.1 when screwing around with hero rotation testing. Just makes me laugh for how long it has been TBoCD in general.
how many envenoms do I need for toxic blade?
all of them unless you have 36% crit

very easy logic to understand. 
What is the talent build for the sim? 3/2/1/x/x/2/1?
I was gonna play around with it on PTR
or do you take DS now?
ep subt ds pb
thank god for pb
Everyone plays ep subterfuge pb
Venth plays mfd
The other 3 play Deeper
ohh kk
was confused because of the mention of ambush
so I assumed it was BS
but kk
ty ty
nah its just talking about using the free ambush from sepsis and subterfuge
OHH
before we werent because of MA/ stats
its 3rd best for nf
kk
wps>lp>septic shock
Hmm
venthyr is lashing>wps>lp
ye
maybe some cases for first strike korayn
idk when you would run it though im not a full expert
its some kind of bug
also waking dreams looks nice too
1 min cd on a 12 sec shield that is worth 20% of your max hp
when you fall below 80%
yeah that one is ok
not sure if its better than nadjia healthpot shield or theotar token though
token is pretty good
esp if you run with the snd heal conduit
since it can proc off that
nadija health pot is a consumable tho
procing from consumable
this doesnt require it
consumable + HS
I think the way it works is if it hits hard enough after some threshold it’ll proc both
Idk if it’s 2x max hp like cheat
But bigger hits sometimes just pod you
And proc cheat
Leeching poison bruh
ya ur trolling
Sylv prog I played Elusiveness

also I realized that a bunch of aoe abilities were double dipping w/ Elusiveness and Feint base
that shouldn't happen if I understand the mechanics of elusiveness correctly
but maybe there's jank
it did, Push also tested it
but its like... weird
it was like that before in past expacs too
both stacked together
Same for Bonesmith as well fwiw
Really drove me crazy in CN
yeh
Cheat still has issues with the DR kicking in too slowly which probably contributes to it
Spreadsheet is updated with some first take APL changes (including the shiv change above): https://bit.ly/3yX1GQc
More APL changes to come most likely. I will be simming early mythic week profiles, please read the disclaimers and info on the sheet for more on that.
The heavy hitting findings:
- Dusk is literally inescapable everywhere, we're playing dusk with 4 piece, end of story.
- Fae, as expected, is about 200 ahead in single target due to the shiv lines.
- Necro and Kyrian suck but at least necro can do mad m+ damage I guess
- Shadowdust in m+ seems pretty... aight. You'd be weird to play it, but I guess you could.
dusk with 4 piece, end of story, dun wanna hear about it 
bro we are Fae for real, but what about m+ .. is it still zoldyck ?
you could, you know, open the link
he just spoon fed you the sims
there's Dslice is see my bad
50 dps more for dusk jeez that leggo really skyrocketed with 4p
King work, as always. Truly leading by example.
it's actually amazing the work you do, Mr. Whysper. Thank you.

Love to help provide info and numbers
you're all most welcome
I think I'm caught up on wowhead stuff as well (only had to stay up till 5am apparently), so those shiv APL investigations for necro, venth, and kyrian, will take place next week
if you look at the sims and see something odd, feel free to submit a form here: https://forms.gle/xxWmFe76XfhaML7J9
This google form submission gets posted directly to a channel in my discord for me to review and look at. The submission is also completely anonymous, if you don't want to DM me directly :)
What's the opener and rotation for NF looking to be? 

https://mimiron.raidbots.com/simbot/report/eK3JWjgQbWBgWuL7VAiVDF/simc
But go there, under Fae 4p Base > APL, open the sample sequence table and it’ll show you how the bot plays out the sim
garrote, slice, ambush, mutilate rupture, sepsis, vendetta shiv, mut envenom
i gotta run this on target dummies for a few minutes, i got used to not using ambush at all except Blindside procs
how to go about vendetta sepsis sync? you get vendetta back up before sepsis o_o
There’s a sample sequence literally 3 messages above your question
thank you

Honestly Necro is closer with the set bonuses than I’d expect. If the legendary wasn’t literal zdps it probably would be in the mix. 😦
Wdym, proto is a necrolord fight 
Actually it can be, you use 2 BS charges and have all 4 hit
And then generate mad cp
From 1 single BS
For last phase *
I mean assuming the legendary actually worked right which it basically never has. 😛

It has multiple bugs with both CP gen from cleaved dots and refunds from cleaved dots that iirc has never been fixed
Haven’t tested if all of them still happen on 9.2 specifically but don’t really have any reason to believe they were fixed lol
I tested it in torghast and they're definitely not fixed
anyone got top build in the ptr? and gear if possible ❤️
just type !bis

I've tried doing searches and couldn't find it. What's the ambush logic that's referenced a few times?
Use it.
Planning to use a generator during Subterfuge? Use Ambush instead of Mutilate.
Sepsis procs? Use Ambush.
Even then
Gar - SnD - Gar is completely wrong
That's a 8.3 rotation
Doesn't work without 80% haste and shrouded suffocation
That was the last time I touch subt
Kk
Use Sepsis on cooldown, use Vend on cooldown, hold Shiv for every Vendetta
Making sure to sync Sepsis/Vend and Sepsis/Vend/Shiv whenever possible
Will i need to go necro for keys in 9.2 as per the sims or fae will be enough?
We are 3 necro, 1 kyrian and 1 venthyr(me) already
How long would you hold sepsis or vend for each other if dusk winds up with funky timings
They should not
Sepsis is a 1.5min cd, Dusk makes Vend a 1 min cooldown
You hold Sepsis for Vendetta, not the other way around - unless you won't miss a cast.
Right. But that's assuming you can slam energy for dusk. There's downtime on fights that could impact that, no?
Sure, but you can spend energy during downtime as well
You might generate less, but it shouldn't be too too bad.
I guess that's true. Sit in a corner spamming fok
FoK spam? 
Yep
But yeah, Sepsis on cooldown. Hold it for the third Vendetta if Vend doesn't line up al naturel
@pale roost did you do any keys in PTR with 4-piece?
Worth it to snipe sepsis on adds or better to let it full tick
I did not, no.
Why would you do that though?
What benefit do you get from that?
There is no reset-mechanic on Sepsis
Can you do and share your experience with us key pushers? 
The 30 second CD?
Ah right
It's probably worth especially since we're playing TO everywhere in 9.2 whenever we get double legos
Completely forgot about that mechanic LUL
But yeh, I'd still look for 50% value at least
I wouldn't probs snipe a 1hp target with it
Yeh
They're not really too too giga though
So basically we should treat sniping sepsis just like how we rupture an add about to die in a few GCDs? 
Assuming we don't have a big pull or boss in next 50 seconds
Well, not really.
Rupture sniping is used for completely different purposes
It's used for instant energy gain and more often than not is not even a gain
Septic shock or maim?
You definitely do not want to snipe asap with Sepsis
Yeah i get different purpose though. Was wondering if it's in the same manner
Always Septic Shock
Can be good to also refresh frost shard tho ;)
No, because like you said you have to take into account what happens next and how your cooldowns are looking like.
Rupture doesn't have any conditionals like that
Gotcha
You just slam it if you need the energy - and more often than not you probably don't.
So idk if I'm doing something wrong but there's definitely ~15 seconds where third vend is off CD before sepsis comes up
I'm starting to farm NF renown tonight boys.
yeah if youre doing the vend/seps - vend - vend/seps rotation
your next vend/seps will always be at like 2 minutes
instead of 1:30
if youre on a patchwerk fight or a target dummy you might be able to get it down to like...1:50 at best
Im doing the one that was posted a few days ago that theoretically has them line up at 3
dont think ive seen that
You do not want to do that
This creates the cycle of:
Vend+sepsis+shiv (opener)
Shiv (around 0:30)
Vend+shiv (1:00)
Sepsis+shiv (1:30)
Vend+shiv (2:00)
Shiv (2:30)
Vend+sepsis+shiv (3:00, repeating the cycle)
This is the rotation
it's less of "2 rotations"
and more of the concept
like if you take sylv for example which is like a 14 minute fight right
you would cast on cooldown
to avoid missing hella casts
so you get something like this
right
lets say it's 14:20
you would hold that last sepsis for the 14:00 vend
Do we have a minute mark / cast mark yet or is it still just theoretical
the logic is just more jarring on shorter kill times because you end up having less casts
Doing this on a dummy had the 3 min vend coming up 15 seconds early. That sound about normal?
yeh that happens
vend cdr from dusk isn't exactly 1 minute
sometimes it's like 1:02, or 1:05 reduction
and then you end up with a couple seconds of delay
Like how many extra shiv casts makes it worth to hit shiv on cd vs holding for stuff
Or does that point never happen
never happens
with how powerful 2pc is, i imagine just 1 or 2 shiv losses is big
na
but I don't see it
I screenshot this and made this an NFT, you cant share this anymore
but jokes aside, ty
yeah it would need to be a huge time line
I guess the only other thing I'm kinda wondering would be shiv with adds
the blockchain doesn't lie, you are a thief and a crook and the police WILL be hearing about this
if we just keep the same timeline roughly or if it's worth to shiv early / late when adds are coming
Twitter jail
also remember we can snap sepsis and assa does not lose much because blades/ar are a buff on you
big gainz
wdym by snap
@dry night yeah I just checked on 20 minutes and the sync logic barely lost 0.2%
ah yeah
yeah it is
you know what would be sick
or even add fights as subterfuge is a thing
if Subterfuge Garrote amp worked with post Sepsis stealth ability
kekw imagine
that would be such a cool interaction
There isn't really a logic to m+ when it comes to sync and send honestly
There's a lot of downtime running between packs and whatnot
m+ is all planning nowadays
It's a safe bet to just send everything on cd in m+ anyways
Of course, again, syncing wherever possible
same reason as sub playing stiletto most of the time is a good choice as it flexs more the 40 mins spreadsheet
Have you considered selling NFT links to sim reports?
as assa with vanish etc it can get dicey as those garrotes are quite valuable even on st now
Azortharion already does it on Patreon

shiv APL for only 1 eth
wait are his hunter sims actually a patreon thing
i think i have a clip of the 400% exsang somewhere
yes
in a server
they are
thats pathetic
also told entire community that Kyrian was bis for SoD when he himself was playing NF for prog and past prog
have you not seen warlocks? 
i still love the old rendless arms sims
yep
Now I understand why you broke it into 8 lines.
or behind pay walls
kinda weird behavior
Gonna make people pay for the APL DLC packs
i remember he hated me in legion because of a difference in opinion of BM builds lmao
Wordup has his own local sim apl that he doesn't share to anyone
hey okay low blow I compressed it back to 2

idk
1 eth per line


was doing 8k consistant on a dummy on ptr, at 252 not sure if thats good or bad
i pat whispyr on the back like twice a year thats enough support
do you want it to be good or bad?
with 4p and 2L? @weary nacelle
yeh
lol I think it depends on the situation and if it’s pure PTR or not honestly. Part of me is very torn on releasing PTR sims in general because folks get the wrong impression from it so much.
NF?
yeh
yeah thats not great
should be closer to 10-11 over an extended period of time
o-o
i can do about 11k sustained as venthyr
ye
oh i wasn't using vanish ig
my man
but there is a difference between spreading wrong/misinformation vs behind a paywall
thats not a big diff tbh
i gotta be fucking something up big time then o-o?
yeah
most likely
Yeah I mean the Azor thing paying to access sims is kinda lame imo
are you using deadly poison?
LOL
just get hired by liquid/echo
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