zingys log review

[meager eagle]

will come back to you later or tomorrow 🙂

[meager eagle]

unless there is a reason for it, i would start with flag-finish-tornado instead of using flag later

the timing of your shadow dance here was very unfortunate

you lost most of the use, so i would in general suggest to not use dance if the last mob is that low and you don't chain pull

i am unsure what stops you here from directly starting with your cooldowns

you can possibly start out with storm and directly go into flag-finish-tornado-symbols/dance

in this case it would have also probably made sense to wait for cooldowns to align

i didn't look at your exact cooldown timing, but i am fairly certain it would have been better to stack those

cooldown alignment with flag is a repeating thing, so i won't repeat it too much

one little thing, rupture isn't worth to use on pure st, so better to apply it before or after

i would also start with strike - slice and dice if possible and then go further into the rotation

just to emphasize why playing flag correctly is so important:

as you see, you only have few globals after flag with strong builders, you mostly lose stacks there by not being able to generate combo points efficiently

rupture once again 😉

just to iterate a bit on cooldown efficiency

it is possible that you had downtime here due to mechanics in the dungeon, but i just assume you had not to showcase my point

symbols of death was off cooldown far earlier, what would make you waste time waiting while holding it

and using it efficient there would have lead to a use on the red mark in this sequence

what would mean symbols of death would have ended on the violet mark, what is in this case very positive for you

as you in the log did end up using symbols + dance just before going into downtime

my point is not that you played incorrect in this situation, just want to emphasize how important it can be to not sit on cooldowns if not nessecery

the above downtime also did lead into a very long period of backstabbing

this is the point that breaks

thats a whopping 57 sec without using shadow dance or symbols

that def. seems like something was played incorrectly, i can't image that this amount of time you don't overcap on charges and neither have options to utialize symbols/dance

one thing i just can't emphasize enough is to consider your cooldowns a bit more

if a mob is about to die and you will go into small downtime, it is better to not use symbols/dance for the last 3 globals it survives

in addition just make it a habbit to use cooldowns before shadow dance

like tornado or flag

you benefit more from shadow dance this way

for flag, you will be able to generate more stacks this way and have higher cdr/more casts as well as more damage from if

for tornado you don't lose a global during dance to cast it

for cache, you rly need to use the trinket

the cast sequence shows 2 uses in the entire dungeon

the cooldown of the trinket is 3 minutes, and the dungeon run was 36 minutes, so you could potentially use it 12 times, ofc it might be a bit lower due to weapon rotation or pulls

also in general, try to paly a bit more around uptime

you can use vanish-strike, shadow step, sprint, etc. aggressively to gain more uptime and there isn't rly a reason to not do so

the biggest/easiest improvement you can do is playing flag/tornado correct

nvm i think the cache filter was buggy, it shows 12 casts now what should mean a efficient use

after tornado/flag the next thing would be to use cooldowns more agressively and don't hold as this seems fairly common

[real loom]

Cheers dude, alota great stuff in here. I can defo feel when I've misaligned stuff slightly cause of those sections of backstabs xD.

Is there a duration that's okay to hold stuff like symbols/dance to align with tornado/flag before its not worth it?

[real loom]

Wait Rupture isn't worth in pure st?! 😮

[meager eagle]

no, i think i missphrased it

it is not worth to use during shadow dance on pure single target

so i missed to type during shadow dance in the sentence

rupture is only worth on low target counts

so 1-3 targets

or if you have a target that you funnel on

[real loom]

Ah! Yea ofcs that makes sense.

Defo a bad habbit of "oh f*k i forgot better apply it now " 😛

[meager eagle]

if you forgot it, just apply it after dance

it is not a big problem

[real loom]

Good to know! thanks again. Off to the training dummies 😛