Hey !
I’ve been thinking about Vision of Perfection lately. As you know this essence scales with Heart of Azeroth level and now many people have reached level 70. At level 70 Vision of Perfection minor effect reduces Vendetta cooldown by 21%, which makes it a 1m35s cooldown. This will be even lower in the next patch, which might make it competitive without a doubt, but lets look at the now.
I’d like fellow Rogues opinion on it in competitive PvP and PvE environment.
To me it looks like a bad major everywhere since there is always something better (Flame in ranked PvP, Condensed Life Force in raid, Blood of the Enemy in mythic+). But the minor effect ?
In PvP I feel it can be good as a minor because by slightly delaying the Kidney Shots we can have one Vendetta every three Kidney Shot, which is insane. In PvP Vanish isn’t needed to deal damage so there’s no issue here. The only issue I see would be desyncing Vendetta and on-use trinket, which could be solved by having one Badge and one Medallion (well, I happen to have a 455 of the first and 440 of the second but maybe it’s not worth with lowish ilvl) and pressing one of them every Vendetta. Also, using two Nothing Personal traits (since four traits pretty much need to be Twist the Knife x3 and Shrouded Suffocation x1) would make it even more valuable. My real question about PvP is : is it worth dropping Conflict and Strife as a minor to get Vision, even with two on-use trinkets and two Nothing Personal ? I feel like it can’t be a major, we need flame, and we can’t really not pick Memory of Lucid Dreams as the energy gain is massive. That leaves only Conflict and Strife, but this is a really good versa gain that increases damage done, even by essences (Flame!), reduces damage taken… A really good minor in my opinion ! So I’m not sure whether Vision is viable here but I like the idea of the essence, it feels a bit more fast paced.
In PvE there is Mythic Raiding and high Mythic keys.
For raiding Vision of Perfection looks like a sub optimal pick because we do NEED the 3s of Master Assassin, given by Vanish, alongside Vendetta. Not doing so is a major loss. Also it would replace another minor, probably Iris, that is a decent damage addition. That being said I have thought about doing something like Vendetta + Vanish in opener, 1m35 later Vendetta is up, we wait 1m43 into the fight to use it so we can pop Vanish at 2m00 and get the 3s of crit on a Toxic Blade Vendetta window, then we use the third Vendetta at 3m18, so as soon as it’s up, without Vanish, and we delay Vanish to use it with the fourth Vendetta on 4m53. That way on a 5m20s fight it’s possible to gain one Vendetta, without Vanish, and keep 3 Vendetta + Vanish that we’d have without the essence. Which MIGHT be worth losing another essence especially if we play one or two copies of Nothing Personal (3 traits need to be Double Dose, 1 needs to be Blightborne Infusion, and I like one Twist the Knife plus a filler, but this Twist the Knife isn’t mandatory). After 5m20 then the loop begins again so when we reach 10m40 we just did 7 Vendetta and 5 Vanish while we’d have 6 Vendetta + Vanish combos without the essence. Losing 3s of close to guaranteed crit (100% damage increase) during one Vendetta to gain another full 30% damage increase for 20s ? I’d take it. Mathematically it’s slightly better. But that requires specific fight timing, no mechanics when CDs need to be used, and I didn’t account for the loss of a minor in favor of Vision…
For high level keys again Vanish is kind of needed alongside Vendetta on tyrannical weeks since we need those boss killed in an efficient manner so I would say it’s not that amazing, but still that is to be debated because we mostly play Subterfuge in mythic+, even on tyrannical weeks so on the trash Vendetta would always benefit from the Garrote used in the opener, Vanish or not. So it’s less of a deal that Vendetta isn’t 2mins. On fortified weeks I do believe that it could be a good third minor. Vendetta every 1m30-ish is great for priority adds and it has the added bonus to line perfectly wity Blood of the Enemy. And once again since the play is Subterfuge, every Vendetta should have the empowered Garrote from the opener with it, so Vanish is less of an issue. But, as for raiding and PvP we lose a good minor for that.
I’m aware for PvE the easy answer would be “look at the best warcraftlog parses” but most of them were done with neck level below 70, and since the essence scales with that, you know…
Any thoughts/discussion points regarding Vision of Perfection present and future uses in high level end game ?
Apologies for any typos, that was done on phone.