scarizard log review | Ravenholdt | Page 1

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:13 AM

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calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:14 AM

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the only notes i have are i'd always take the first earthbreaker missiles far on intermission bc i had DoTs running and could easily sprint/shadowstep/door back to the boss

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but other than that I had basically full uptime

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:15 AM

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first thing I'm seeing is some interesting talent choices

zinc schooner Mar 9, 2022, 6:15 AM

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I knew that was coming

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:15 AM

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subterfuge only pops off with 4 piece

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and generally vigor is worse than mfd until 4 piece again when tons of energy leads us to deeper strat

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:16 AM

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yeah I did still have m+ talents on; I haven't really messed with MFD much tbh, but I probably could start practicing it

zinc schooner Mar 9, 2022, 6:16 AM

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Usually I like to chime in but this should be ez clap for qtcatboi

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:17 AM

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that being said, you only cast vanish once towards the end here

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and it wasn't in vendetta either

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the general strat is to always sync vendetta and vanish together, since they're on the same timer

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with MA, you would want to vanish during the shiv that is during vendetta

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that's when you got the most cooldowns stacked up so crit is good

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but with subterfuge you'd want to vanish during the vendetta to get the garrote uptime

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:19 AM

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kk so - begin open with sub garrote, snd, vendetta + flag + start doing stuff - then while the vendetta is still up, vanish to reup a sub'd garrote

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is that correct

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:19 AM

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close, but we would want to hold vendetta until the rupture is up

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:19 AM

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usually what I'm doing is build to 4-5 cp, vendetta + flag + instantly use a max rupture

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:20 AM

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so it would be gar snd mut to 5, flag rup vend shiv and go

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:20 AM

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oh interesting, for some reason i've been led to believe you want to vendetta and then flag

zinc schooner Mar 9, 2022, 6:20 AM

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narrow minnow so it would be gar snd mut to 5, flag rup vend shiv and go

Not the super minmax ambush tech?!? (I'm jk don't hurt me)

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:20 AM

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yeah you could also ambush XD

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keep forgetting that's an ability

zinc schooner Mar 9, 2022, 6:20 AM

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Sims do too it's k

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:21 AM

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ambush has been really bad all expac until now, bad habit

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anyway

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vendetta + flag and flag rup vendetta

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you can kinda throw them all together

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it's 1 second, that's not going to hurt you in any way

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so if you have the muscle memory to vend and flag together, go for it

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going a little more high-level on the cooldowns in general, you'll see here I'm showing vend, flag, and vanish

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we already talked about the vanish

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the first thing to note about that

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is a 6:40 kill time should have 4 vendettas, pull, 2 min, 4 min, 6 min

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it seems like you held the vendettas during the intermission for the walk

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until he settled down again

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:23 AM

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yeah it was usually coming up right as a shatter was going off

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and didn't wanna lose uptime since i'd be knocked away + didn't have ss up

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:24 AM

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yeah its' definitely a lot harder for sin with a single step

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but if you save your step/sprint for the first one, and then position well and use the other for the second one, you can get a full uptime vendetta off even during the intermission

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handling 2 of the knockbacks isn't too bad, and definitely lasts you for the whole vendetta

zinc schooner Mar 9, 2022, 6:25 AM

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Also can cloak a knock

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:25 AM

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I also like the idea of "a bad cooldown used is better than no cooldown used"

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even if you're off the boss for 5 seconds during the vend, and another 5 seconds during the next vend, you're getting an extra 20 seconds from the extra cast

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so realistically, you're still +10 on the day

zinc schooner Mar 9, 2022, 6:26 AM

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peepostudy

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:26 AM

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the bonus bonus on top of that, is you're using zoldyck (not a great single target lego btw, but I assume you don't have another crafted)

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and you would have a vendetta during execute

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which is kinda important

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and also something that you didn't have and makes me sad

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at least I don't think you did maybe you snuck it in hold on

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I guess the last vend was right when he crossed into 30

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nvm then

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:28 AM

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narrow minnow going a little more high-level on the cooldowns in general, you'll see here I'm ...

but the other thing which is bigger in this screenshot is the flags are hard-synced to the vendettas

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so with the vend on pull, 2:30, and 5, you're holding the flag for a minute, each time

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that's kind of a big no no

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the "bad cooldown > no cooldown" concept comes back on this

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yes you can sync, and get 30% more on your flag + some extra stats

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but if you miss a cast you're -100% on your flag

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and on 6 minutes, I should see pull, 1:30, 3, 4:30, 6

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which is 2 full casts of flag that you missed

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the last cooldown is shiv, which is just cast on cd every 25 seconds and win game, regardless of energy and cp

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generally, looking good, but those lines should be uniform, and there's some sketchy ones at the start there with some 40-odd second windows

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:32 AM

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Kk; yeah for flag I think I just have what you’d call

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Frost DK brain

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Where you never breath without rune weapon but also they always line up

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so I think my rogue brain esp since this is the first tier (casually) I’ve really spent raiding on my rogue

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:33 AM

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yeah if you had double legendaries, everything would line up great every minute, but atm, kinda doomed :P

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:33 AM

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From m+ and stuff a lot of times they’ll be desynced by like 10s bc of travel time

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so I’ll just hold it for a priority target

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:33 AM

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mhm

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:34 AM

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kk so, doing ok at shiv on cd but can do better - try and truly send vendetta and flag on CD,m

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Try to vanish at the end of vendetta to reclip sub garrotes or MA stuff

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is mfd on the gcd or no

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:34 AM

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it is not

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:34 AM

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When you do recommend using it

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:35 AM

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you should be using it on cooldown, but making sure you get a cast into flag

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so with MA for example, you would flag rup vendetta shiv vanish mut env mfd+env

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:35 AM

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and yeah I know Duskwalker’s isn’t amazing pre-tier but I’m thinking of eventually making it to practice - you are correct I made a 235 zoldycks and have had it for like over a year lmao

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my rogue has 100 soul cinders

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:35 AM

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hype

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choregast strikes again

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:36 AM

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eh I just yknow

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Got a pretty busy job

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when 9.1 came out

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and it’s not a shocker to say I don’t love y’all that much

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:36 AM

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:(

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:36 AM

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you’re #2! That’s saying a lot

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:37 AM

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there are 2 last things which I want to point out to round it out the whole thing though, some bleed uptimes, and some cp

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warcraftlogs helpfully isolates the cp we get from the passive

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which means all those mutilate wasted cp are no gud

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those are just a by-product of mutilating on 4+ cp and at least 1 of the cp baseline going into the ether

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shiv overcap is actually fine because it's just simply more important to get it on cooldown that it is to care about the measly cp

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and then 93.8% on gar, 94% on rup, it's fine, but it's not great

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could be higher, generally aiming for like 98%+ish

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pandemic really helps on that one

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before you have to run, if there's like 7-8 seconds left you can quickly refresh it before you gotta jet, do your thing, and then come back

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also naturally makes you dump your energy before a mechanic, so it's a nice double whammy

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:40 AM

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calm jungle you’re #2! That’s saying a lot

also this could be #2 from the bottom of the list, or #2 favorite and I'm scared to find out starege

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:41 AM

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ohi mean i've only played fdk for 12 years

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and the first alt i care to actually use is a rogue so

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that's something

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:42 AM

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but yeah, in general looks good, just tldr:

mfd > vigor, ma > subt
cooldowns on cooldown because we're not frost dk
try to avoid cp overcap, focus on pandemic a little more to avoid dropping bleeds
esoteric "just have uptime 5head" shadowstep/sprint usage

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:42 AM

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oh also - this sounds like johns but i swear it's harder to see bleed uptime on halondrus than most bosses

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bc his head frame is huge on the debuff bar - there's like

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if your bleed is in the last slot on a particular row

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it gets clipped it's very odd

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:43 AM

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yeh I would highly suggest some weakauras or at least a nameplate replacement

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I find the game basically unplayable if I have to rely on the default nameplates to track dots

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:43 AM

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so to be clear it's always okay to use stuff at 4cp even if

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i'm in flag, basically no matter what finisher

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no need to try and gar/shiv/etc to get it to 5

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i've been training myself to do 4-5 for envenom

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but i think i just need to get in that habit

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:44 AM

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yeah, 4 is fine for everything

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once you get 4 set, and you play deeper, that shifts to 5 is fine for everything

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always -1 from max to avoid the mutilate overcap

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:47 AM

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kk! and i know like, it wouldn't be optimal

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but i'm gonna guess you don't suggest going fae unti; 4p even to practice

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:47 AM

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fae is probably fine to just practice

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it's only a bit (couple %) behind, and it catches up even more with 2 piece

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I see you have 1

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:48 AM

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yeah since i'm at 1 I figure there's a decent shot atm

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(I might even try LFR for legs)

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:48 AM

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so, probably chilling

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:48 AM

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kk, and I'd assume once again that's just fire on CD

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and it'll usually line up with shiv for 2p

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:49 AM

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yup, but you should make sure to always sepsis->shiv

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that'll usually take the form of holding a shiv

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 6:49 AM

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is it ever worth delaying very slightly

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ya

narrow minnow Mar 9, 2022, 6:50 AM

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the reason for sepsis->shiv btw is the bonk sepsis does at the end is big, and the start of the dot is not big

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and since shiv is 9 seconds, sepsis 10

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you lose the bonk if you shiv first

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order matters on that one quite a bit

calm jungle Mar 9, 2022, 9:26 AM

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Ty for this btw! Sry I got yoinked into a key

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