Flibustin log analysis

[supple garden]

I'm Pandamuelle btw

[main aurora]

Just one thing straight up, you seem to not have a domination set active?
Also you probably don't have high renown levels?

because a lot of damage this tier lies in the domination set and gems, what means not having that is already a dissadvantage

[supple garden]

only have ominious shard of dyz as dps shard and have 69 renown

[main aurora]

If you have high enough renown, its worth to switch to theodar

stronger soulbind

for conduits, if you have perforated veins, it probably beats stiletto, but thats just to sim

but lets start with the log, your rupture uptime is fairly low with 87%, should be more towards 98%

slice and dice is also only 93%, should be 98%+

in the opener you would just use slice and dice and transition into a dance

the sequence after is fine, if you want a marginal improvement use symbols slightly later

you did 2 backstabs after the first dance and then started dancing with high combo points

thats not very good givent hat flag is up and your aim is to get stacks

you just want to start dance immediately again

also you always want to start dance with low combo points

one thing i forgot to mention in the opener was the finisher use

you want to use rupture as your first finisher to get it up and running (you did use evi)

the mistake continues after the first dance, you build high combo points and then dance

then you are at 37 sec in the fight, you use dance but where is your symbols?

at 62 you use symbls for the 2nd time

then there is this

alright, so i guess we need to start with the basics

basically subtlety wants to use Symbols on cooldown

and align other cooldowns to symbols

this means aligning shadow dance to symbols

[supple garden]

All the cd are based on symbols timing I see

[main aurora]

this also probably explains to you why sequences like this are bad

you will have more than the 1 dance charge you align to symbols

so you will double dance during symbols or use dance to not cap on charges too

Venthyr is for a beginner not very good because it invalidates those comcepts a bit

the covenant ability is basically strong enough to change this base sequence up

this is why you e.g. delay your symbols in the opener to after flag

and are allowed to delay symbols for up to 10 seconds if flag is still on cooldown for a short time

to understand how to use flag we first need to go fast about shadow dance

the biggest benefit from shadow dance is that you can use shadow strike,
this is why we start dance with low combo points and mainly use finisher to not waste combo points (finish on 5+ cp)

you usually don't want to use your covenant ability during dance for the same reason

every cast of another ability during dance reduces the amount of cast of shadow strikes, and the damage amp is not strong enough to make this stronger

with this we can look back at flag

in contrast to kyrian (what would be the other strong option), you focus a lot more gameplay around the covenant ability

this means you basically play to reach high stack counts

this means we use:
flag - finisher to get stacks directly

and after that transition into shadow dance to get higher combo points income from shadow strike and more finisher

you can during shadow dance finish on 4 cp even to smooth out the stack generation and guarantee higher stacks

(esp. relevant during shadow blades)

for symbols of death, you can fire it with flag

but its marginal better to delay it for after the finisher

you will see quite a dps improvement if you chnage that

also to go over the very first thing i mentioned, slice and dice is essential, so you should keep it up all the time

towards rupture, you usually want to refresh it in advanced if you are about to use shadow dance

so to summerize things:

• use symbols on cooldown unless you need to wait for flag to come up (wait for a maximum of 10 secs)
• line up your cooldowns with symbols, also use shadow dance outside if you are about to cap
• play flag correctly, its: flag-finisher-symbols+dance
• keep your maintainance buffs up and refresh rupture in advanced if needed for your next symbols cycle

[acoustic bane]

Wasn't my log but wanted to just say thanks for the incredibly detailed description. I have same issue and you highlighted a ton of stuff i do wrong too

[main aurora]

good luck 🙂

[supple garden]

TY man, And just to be sure I use shadow blades on CD with symbol no matter what right?

[main aurora]

yes

[supple garden]

And if I have 2 charges of shadow dance I wait for symbols if it's soon or not?

[main aurora]

you never have 2 charges

because you will use it earlier to not cap

[supple garden]

I see so never capin it

[main aurora]

no

[supple garden]

Okay ty for your advices I will try to apply it. Without domination shards what parse can I aim assuming I play perfectly

[true dove]

fuu i always do symbols > flag > finisher > shadowdance so my symbols and shadow are always around 8 seconds is that correct

or is better just do flag > finisher > symbols + shadow

[main aurora]

symbols-flag-finisher is 0.1% worse than the sequence i mentioned

[true dove]

okay

[main aurora]

so its within a range that is rly low in impact

[true dove]

your rotation is more easy too

lol

[main aurora]

its not a thing i would lable as big mistake, but i assume some would that do like to min/max it

[true dove]

yeah ^^ thanks for the answer

[true dove]

fuu how you manage the second shadow blades ?

obv in raid , single target

you wait for have everything ? like flag + symbols + shadowdance or you just do shadowblade + symbols + dance

[main aurora]

you use it with symbols