Here I am again, I haven't had as much to say lately and I found myself uninterested in learning video editing just to make mostly guide videos. One of these days I might actually get into it and video the new encounters in LFR/Reg/Heroic Dragon Soul, that would be nice, but it is really tough to find time and energy.
It is week 1 of the new raid (technically) and I managed to clear 6/8 with my friends/pug fillers on 25 man on Sat night. Of course I also cleared 4/4 LFR multiple times, it is a nice feature, most of the time you can do all 4 in about an hour, occasionally less. I happened to do the legendary quest line before my raid so I began collecting gem shards on boss 1. We have two rogues (who are regular) and Schiran didn't have the pre-line done so she pickpocketed when we got to Hagara. Ended the night 6/8 and 71 gem shards, depending if we do 6/8 or more it should take me 3-4 weeks to finish tier 1 quality daggers and move onto the next.
It is tough to really evaluate the damage of each spec at the current time outside of theory. Once worldoflogs has more data I'll be able to give more sound advice on which is the best. My current thoughts lean Assassination > Combat > Subtlety. The 3 specs have advantages fight dependent this tier, but there is very little for Subtlety as usual.
Some would say Morchok (reg/LFR) is a sub fight due to being able to stay in for Corrupted Earth mechanic, and they'd be right, kind of. If your healers know you're intending to stand in it then you're also fine as any spec. You take more damage without enveloping shadows, but you can still feint once you have a few stacks, cloak mid way through and feint again when it runs off to take very very little damage. The problem arises when you get to the 2nd set of corrupted earth, you won't have cloak up so all you have is feint, what I did was feint right away, wait till my stack was high then feint again toward the tail end of the cast and pop my healthstone while I had a bunch of damage hitting me, and heals coming kept me up(thanks Spiceynugget). I was lagging pretty heavily for some odd reason, low fps, delays, but I still managed 34.5k dps and a 13th world parse (mind you it is early and parses weren't being logged very long to this point). Embarrassingly enough I realized I was -1.6% hit from the cap, which is pretty huge for Assassination...I was really low on gold and couldn't reforge, it had been days since I tried and by the time raid night came around I had clearly forgotten. Oops. Hopefully I can post some better #s this week, not that it was poor by any measure in my opinion.
There are some newer things, or changes, to Assassination building and stat priorities I'll cover next post. Some of the fights are "frontal" only and not being able to backstab hurts plenty, so do the parries (except Ultraxion who can't parry).
Anyway, thanks for reading, feel free to msg me or tell your friends to msg me in game or out if you/they have questions or something they wish to address. Here's hoping to post more and see more people stop by.
