Vendetta, Nightstalker and snap-shotting:

[Rockford]

While I've been playing my Feral (Main) there's been a focus on snap-shotting our bleeds for their duration on application. From what I understand, Nightstalker works in a very similar way in that you'd vanish before laying down your bleed for it's duration.

Couple of questions:

On using Nightstalker, would it be better to apply a Rupture or Kingsbane for maximum output?
Does Vendetta work in the same manner? Or is it a straight buff to already existing Bleeds?
A Weakaura (from Moonbunnie) on my Feral helps to track existing snap-shots. Is there any such weakauras around to help in that regard for Rogue?

And I'm sure there's other subtleties (no pun intended) of the spec that I may not be aware of. Any info would be much appreciated ♥

[glowpipe]

Wouldn't kingsbane overwrite it when it gained a stack ? In all guides ive seen, ive never seen anyone use kingsbane with Nightstalker. I am 99.8% sure you use it for rupture.

There is a pretty nice WA for rogues. I think its by Notter.

http://www.ravenholdt.net/notters-ro...s-compilation/

I use the Cooldowns, energybar, buffs, concordance and the combopoints 5 from core.

and i use the assanation debuffs and the kingsbane stack. The assassination debuffs have a rupture and garrote tracker which is green if you have it empowered with Nightstalker/subterfuge, and white if its not. Also the frame lights up when to reapply for pandemic

[therealstegblob]

No, Vendetta doesn't need to snapshot. When you pop it, it just increases all damage happening, including existing bleeds/poisons. Conversely to that, once it ends, your current DoTs lose the damage increase.

Nightstalker on the other hand is different. It's a snapshot that increases the entire damage of your DoT, so you want to use Rupture (more damage than Kingsbane) on Vanish CD. Make sure it's a full 5 CP Rupture, too, because the Nightstalker increase is fucking huge.

[silkworm]

On the other hand, IF you have the 4PC T20, I recommend using Subterfuge over Nightstalker. It works in the same way, increases the Garrote damage by %125 when used from stealth, add %60 bonus from 4pcT20 and its a huge Garrote you have. You must let it run its full duration after used from stealth. Especially if the combat is over 6 minutes (as usual on progression combats), you can use it 3 times.

[Rockford]

Thanks for the info guys. It cleared some things up, especially the non-snap-shotting of Vendetta.
Much appreciated ♥