Assassination changes 6-1-2018

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Rogue
Assassination
Mutilate damage increased by 20%.
Balanced Blades (Artifact trait) bonus increased to 4% per point (was 2% per point).
Poison Knives (Artifact trait) reduced to 3% per point (was 4% per point).
Deadly Poison triggered instant damage increased by 15%.

[Varolyn]

So far, I really like what I see. Doesn't even look like AoE got nerfed that much (if at all) with the DP instant damage increase. However, this will suck for those who picked up three poison knives relics for this build....

Still sad to see that blizz has done nothing with sub t21....

[Master Guns]

These are great changes. Honestly, balance druids got a pretty big hit, from 25% to 6% per stack, I don't exactly know how that doesn't affect overall performance, even with the solar/lunar buffs.

[moredred1811]

Mind posting where you got the changes from? I cant find the source.

[Hablion]

https://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/...es-on-tuesday/ Found here on the blue tracker

[Lancun]

Has anyone theorycrafted out the values of the new Balanced Blades yet? Doubling the % bonus would make me think that the optimal build focuses on Balanced Blades and Master Alchemist now.

[Motokid600]

Rogue
Assassination
Mutilate damage increased by 20%.
Balanced Blades (Artifact trait) bonus increased to 4% per point (was 2% per point).
Poison Knives (Artifact trait) reduced to 3% per point (was 4% per point).
Deadly Poison triggered instant damage increased by 15%.

You mean on Jan 9th, right?

[Balir]

I haven't seen those Assassination buffs listed above anywhere. But I did see this

Rogue
Assassination
Fixed an issue where Poisoned Knife could apply poisons twice.
Fixed an issue where Deadly Poison could retain Nightstalker's damage bonus until Deadly Poison fell off the target.

Fun while it lasted..........

[Varolyn]

I haven't seen those Assassination buffs listed above anywhere. But I did see this

Rogue
Assassination
Fixed an issue where Poisoned Knife could apply poisons twice.
Fixed an issue where Deadly Poison could retain Nightstalker's damage bonus until Deadly Poison fell off the target.

Fun while it lasted..........

That hotfix happened three days ago (was a stealth change), and Hablion above linked the blue post about the changes coming on Tuesday.

[Sparklelord]

R.I.P. anyone that ditched good relics and funneled into PK Relics lol

[Aluren]

PK will probably still be decent to have, just not "Fok-replacing-mutilate" decent.

[Sparklelord]

PK will probably still be decent to have, just not "Fok-replacing-mutilate" decent.

Relic traits that are now useless on single target? That people downgraded relics for? lol okay

Didn't affect me so I don't care. Just funny.

I'll be over here pumping DPS as a mastery capped Outlawl

[Critical92]

Since 1 relic was enough to use the fok build, i think not many will have a problem using the itemrestoration and get a good relict back.
It also looks like that mutilate +crit relics will be very good.

[Video Games]

Seems like i can go mut now without having to worry about dfa scariness. Stilk need the bracers though.

[AceofH]

how much of a dps increase is these changes going to be for sin?

8% increased chance to crit with mut, 20% more dmg, and DP instant +15%? i think thats pretty healthy.

[Adalwolf]

PK will probably still be decent to have, just not "Fok-replacing-mutilate" decent.

They are not. Even with 7 PK traits, Mutilate is stronger on single target. The good news is that the DPS loss for those with PK relics is minor, so they won't be completely screwed next Tuesday. People can migrate over to Mutilate with no problem.

how much of a dps increase is these changes going to be for sin?

8% increased chance to crit with mut, 20% more dmg, and DP instant +15%? i think thats pretty healthy.

About 5% raw damage increase.

[AceofH]

They are not. Even with 7 PK traits, Mutilate is stronger on single target. The good news is that the DPS loss for those with PK relics is minor, so they won't be completely screwed next Tuesday. People can migrate over to Mutilate with no problem.



About 5% raw damage increase.

that isn't bad at all, and about time imho.

[Eazy]

Wasn't it obvious that they're going to change FOK? I can't believe that someone already changed their relic with FoK relics without back-ups.

That mutilate is a simple buff for me, I couldn't get used to FOK(and I didn't change my relics), but I was still doing decent DPS.

[elfporn]

Wasn't it obvious that they're going to change FOK? I can't believe that someone already changed their relic with FoK relics without back-ups.

That mutilate is a simple buff for me, I couldn't get used to FOK(and I didn't change my relics), but I was still doing decent DPS.

i changed 2 of mine, but theyt were both Master alch primary traits, the ones replaced were poop secondary traits anyways, so a small loss on tuesday, maybe.

i swapped in another backup to help mitigate the nerf, should be fine.

[Aluren]

They are not. Even with 7 PK traits, Mutilate is stronger on single target. The good news is that the DPS loss for those with PK relics is minor, so they won't be completely screwed next Tuesday. People can migrate over to Mutilate with no problem.

Exactly, I'm not saying fok was going to be stronger than mut, just that it's not a huge dps loss.