Eiira Log Review

[ebon lance]

we do threads for this kinda thing

I'll get to it, I'm at work though so pretty slow

sorry in advance

[steady blade]

No worries wasn't sure how to start a thread otherwise i would of. I'm sorry to bother you Whispr ❤️ 😄

[ebon lance]

threads are only for Community figure+ since it's a moderation nightmare otherwise, lot of threads could be made with a lot of sketch stuff and we would have no good way of keeping it in control

not a bother at all though, it's what we do :)

right of the bat setup wise, easy fixes

reverberation sucks ass, don't use it, stiletto typically, planned execution

anything other than reverb is fine

double oil, same thing

sucks ass

just don't use oils

super free

[ebon lance]

this opener is kinda fine, but we would prefer the slice before that symbols, so strike -> slice, then the symbols er dance into an evisc

would be the play

could also pop the blades before the ER

but doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme

this though is a problem

we don't cast rupture during dance ever

either before, or after

if it drops during dance, or isn't up, just let it sit

and get it up between dances after

basically just swap the eviscerate before the dance and the rupture before that

this rupture is actually not in the dance, so that's cool, but we introduced 2 new issues

first one being dance is an 8 second duration, and we only got 6 gcds

that's not ideal

but the second issues is that we missed the perforated veins backstab before the dance

[small delta]

she's doing 3cp finishers, that's her biggest problem. finish on 5 or 6cp in st always

[ebon lance]

the combo should always be dance, get 8 gcds of strikes and evisc's, then backstab to clear the stacks, refresh slice/rupture, then back into it

yeh

that's the next point

a lot of those are probably kyrian cp

which are fine

but outside of the blue combo points, only finish on 5+cp

I think in general that's something they get, but they're trying too hard on the cp is my guess

like the first couple finishers look like build to 5, use, then land on 4th blue cp, finish

hit the third one, try to finish, get an auto proc, fuck it up

then try to hit the third one again, try to finish, get an auto proc, fuck it up

getting a shadow technique tracker can help with that, but a lot of it is just practice and feeling when it's coming

she has 45 seconds to hit them, so there's no rush

don't try to force it that hard

just play it normally

the next thing which makes me cry more than the cp

these are symbols casts

I should see 8, one after the other, every 30 seconds, like clockwork

but I only see 6

and that saddens me

sub is a spec that runs on a timer to keep itself honest

and the stopwatch keeping time is symbols

every 30 seconds, symbols comes up, and you press it

everything else fits into that

you dance if you're going to overcap charges, or if you're casting symbols

so you get this flow of
symbols + dance
don't overcap, prep for next symbols for 20 seconds
symbols + dance
don't overcap, prep for next symbols for 20 seconds
symbols + dance
don't overcap, prep for next symbols for 20 seconds

over and over and over

now what I do like to see, something positive here

echoing reprimand every 45 seconds like clockwork

this is great

sadly we kinda get there in a round-about way that isn't really good

we never want to hit echoing during a dance

dance is meant for shadowstrikes

the more shadowstrikes you can cast, the less backstabs you cast (and the strikes empower the backstab after the dance through perforated)

less cruddy wimpy ass non-empowered backstabs = me happy

so when we echoing reprimand during a dance

we're not replacing a backstab

we're replacing a shadowstrike

and that's no gud

she also seems to do this thing

literally all the time

it's super forced

don't do that

if it happens to perfectly line up where you could symbols -> echoing -> dance

then okay, sure

that's what we do in the opener

but forcing it like this is just not the move

the big culmination of that looks a little like this

where we have danced on cooldown, don't have a charge for symbols, but it's up, and kyrian is 15 seconds out

so now we're lost

and everything is desynced

and the spec has taken control, the human has been defeated, and the robots rise up against us

this is the reality we want to avoid

and we do that by 1. using echoing out of dance

2. only using dance to avoid overcapping, always holding a charge for when symbols comes up (usual rule is if you're at 1.5 charges, you're typically okay to send a dance)

3. symbols keeps us honest, every 30 seconds, slam it like a gameshow buzzer

the last big thing I see

this basically looks like downtime to me starting at 128

I don't see why they would be on the boss casting nothing for that long

and then from 128, follow me into the vast emptiness

145

155

and we're back!

but only sort of cause we again only got 6/8 gcds on the dance

just gotta remember to get back to the boss and avoid downtime

there is no mechanic in the game that would require you to be off the boss for almost 20 seconds

auto attacks still do a lot of damage

and any time you're not on the boss, you're not getting combo points, which means you're not dancing, which means you're not doing any damage and reducing the cooldown on dance which is more damage and the feedback loop breaks

so, big long thing, lots to work on, lets recap the whole thing into a neat package

1. don't force the blue combo points, let it happen, you have more than enough time. Finish on 5+ otherwise, if you miss the combo point, that's okay, just try again on the next one. Play it normally, breathe, let the point come to you
2. symbols, every 30 seconds.
3. dance not on cooldown. Use dance at around 1.5+ charges to avoid overcapping, or if you're casting symbols, take the time between dances where you backstab, and maybe refresh slice/rupture to evaluate if you really should be dancing again.
4. echoing reprimand, as you have been, every 45 seconds, but OUTSIDE OF DANCE! do it before or after, use it to maybe refresh rupture between dances (cause we don't rupture during dance either)
5. perforated veins, very easy, very good damage. When you finish a dance, hit a backstab, every time.
6. stick to the boss, try to minimize downtime
7. after you get rid of the oils for stones, and replace reverbation for stiletto, just cast blades on cooldown as it comes up. Don't regard any other cooldowns just press it the moment it comes up
8. As a general rule, hit all 8 gcds in your dance. You shouldn't have to pool energy at all, just make sure you're not at literally 0 energy before dancing. Keep the rupture out of dance, and make sure to get the strike+evisc chain going. The less un-empowered backstabs, the better

@steady blade let me know if there's any questions on that, and also feel free to ping me with updates in a while and we can look for improvement! I love seeing the before->after transition. If the thread disappears in that time, you can go into the threads section at the top, find yours in the archive, ping me in it and it should auto un-archive itself and be active again

[steady blade]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking the time