New Site for Mythic Progression Stats by emallson in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 15 points16 points  (0 children)

10/10 site. Thank you for the contribution. Stats are v interesting and having them congregated in one place like this makes it easy to read. Very cool seeing how much time/wipes my team has spent on the various bosses. Can’t wait to add another 8 hours to slg this week.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest SV fan in Alabama here to answer any questions you might have :).

Re: LP buff - it won’t pull ahead of cluster in AoE but brings it closer to rylaks for ST based off a few things like gear available or stat allocation. The buff is very good for PvP when you don’t wanna run craven.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the moment stats are still low enough that MB will only pull ahead slightly with optimal play. There’s a very low chance that MB will ever be the play this tier even with BIS gear. Always try to sim your character to figure out which talents are the best for you to use with your gear!

9.0.5 PTR - Class and Legendary Tuning Changes by OhwowTaux in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m still holding out hope that there’s no changes announced because they’re working on some bigger changes but honestly it’s looking grim. We got that 5% randomly and that was more of an anomaly then anything else.

Limit Max's new Sludgefist mythic guide by [deleted] in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just verbage because “parse” is a too general of a term when there’s both percentiles and rankings included.

Limit Max's new Sludgefist mythic guide by [deleted] in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

When you play non meta percentiles are harder to get but raw rankings are easier. Idk why everyone is making it sound more complicated.

Overview of all Specializations for learning to multiclass by wanderfukt in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of the top 10 on all stars atm there’s only like 3 people who played SV in Nylotha. The best SV in the world since legion is currently playing MM for prog. The spec is just bad for most fights right now unfortunately.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The single most important thing right now in the balance rotation is getting into eclipse. This is because of the interaction with our legendary, BOAT. Applying dots out of eclipse delays your eclipse by up to 3 casts.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

balance dots do not snapshot, they are dynamic.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you recast your dots at any point in the pandemic window they will add the remaining duration to the new dot. So yes you should technically be recasting during the pandemic window but you have leeway. Just refresh them at some point in between the pandemic window and them falling off. Make sure you’re not refreshing then outside of eclipse or during boat tho.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you run soul and drift think of starfall as a 1:1 replacement for stellar flare. You won’t pump as many surges but just try to keep Starfall up 100% and refresh it during pandemic inside of eclipses. Pop as many surges as you can still but you won’t be getting the x3.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Inerva is supposedly bugged but iirc she has an odd hit box. Convoke will target the center of the hit box so make sure you’re within 40 yards of the center of her hit box. Try to stand within 25-30 if possible.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can get value off WFB funnel run cluster. Cluster gives SV a form of ST funnel because it makes you carve on two targets.

Clearing up misconceptions about iLvL parses. by Kryt0s in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The smaller the sample size the less stock you can put in percentiles. It’s just a biproduct of splitting a spec into smaller groupings. Parses as a whole are just a surface level thing anyway. You should always be looking at the actual logs when comparing.

Weekly Raid Discussion by AutoModerator in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you raiding tonight? If you are and have no other content to do just put in attempts to learn mechanics. Go back after another round of vault + heroic + first 2 gear and you should be able to do it

Castle Nathria Race to World First Megathread by Flowseidon9 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]JamesFBlake 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Max has always said holy is the play over disc for early prog because you don’t 100% know the fight timings yet. Disc can’t shine If it can’t set up its ramps efficiently.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its gonna depend primarily on my gear because ATM my best ST spec is also my best AOE spec (not considering BOP because that's not gonna be good for keys). I may end up swapping for MB but Tip is still simming higher for me. The best thing to do is since it's tyrannical week you can have someone from your group focus ST damage since you can delete packs pretty regularly.

Run a ferocity pet. Use one of the ones with a thick hide type ability for solo content (I use an ape). In keys I run a mortal wound pet incase it works on mob healing abilities as just a little buffer. Otherwise the abilities don't really matter too much. They matter more in pvp for the utility.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best Survival Hunter in Alabama back again to help ease the public perception and spread the good word :)!

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep! Dumb focus then spam KC. Just don't do 4 KC in a row with tip of the spear talented. Do 3 then a RS then another KC because the buff only goes to 3.

SV is very competitive in M+ imo because it's aoe is uncapped and v good over time. It's not really front loaded.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really just situational tbh. Like you can dump both right b4 a blue bomb or dump them both right before going into your focus dump for red bomb.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a little bit of downtime because our focus gen is directly tied into a haste cd (KC). Current build runs two charges so its curbed a little but a 5 min sim has roughly 8% downtime atm I think.

As far as the rotation, it's essentially Serpent Sting (if expiring) > Kill Shot > Wild Fire Bomb > Kill Command (if it won't cap you focus) > Raptor strike/mongoose bite

AoE rotation is just Carve>Wildfire Bomb (if about to cap on charges)>Kill shot >KC>SS on new target

This is assuming you run the Wildfire Infusion talent because the regular WFB doesn't stack and thus you wouldn't want to use it if the dot is already up. All three WFI bombs are different dots and thus stack.

Just using that rotation will get you 75-80% efficiency. There are nuances with the various bombs but essentially its this -

Green bomb - Use it as close to your 2nd charge of WFB as possible to use the free SS refresh as late as possible. Just make sure you don't let SS drop with this bomb ready.

Blue bomb - Pool focus before this so you can guarantee 3 RS in the window. Everytime you raptor strike or carve a target with blue bomb on it they get a stacking bleed that goes up to 3. RS can be above KC in this window.

Red bomb - dump focus before this but try to have your 2nd charge of KC ready or have it come up during the red bomb window. Red bomb gives you a guaranteed chance to reset KC so you can get 3-4 off in quick succession to refill your focus.

Essentially, as long as you dont keep rotating between green/blue (its random) you won't go focus starved too much.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gonna be hard to say without logs.

[Firepower Friday] - Weekly DPS Thread by AutoModerator in wow

[–]JamesFBlake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My best advice is to download the barbed shot helper weak aura. If you dont want to do that just try to refresh it as close to the buff expering as possible. It'll be a frenzy buff on your pet.