I tried SS as Sub. It... did not go well

Classes Rogue
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Well, I took advice from people here and wanted to make sure I was well prepared before I did my first shuffle. I made sure to gear up decently and then did a good amount of skirmishes and BG’s before I decided to jump into my first shuffle round.

I am not really all that excited to report back that it did not go very well. I think I won a whooping 3-matches out of two rounds and I can’t imagine it was anyone else’s fault besides my own. I think I only died twice but I’m 99% sure I wasn’t applying enough pressure and I’m looking for help.

I’m operating under the impression here that I have a few jobs: I need to try and disrupt their healer as much as possible and open up kill windows for the other DPS on my team. I generally open up on their DPS and try and burn as many defensives as possible, then get to stunning and disrupting their healer. I find myself struggling to do a lot though once Blades and SD are down. I figure once Blades is off of CD we will be into dampening and I need to switch to whomevers lowest but it’s almost always around this time the other DPS or the healer goes down.

I am well aware I still have a lot to learn but does Sub really just need a coordinated team or am I total balls? I watch Pika when I can (Kavlish videos are just watch-me-make-insane-plays) but I’ll obviously never be that good. I really would just like to make this work and am not sure where to go or what to do.

TL;DR: Could use help and guidance for playing Sub in SS.

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I found Sub to not be great absent a coordinated team. Sin worked much better for Shuffle in my experience. I think it is due to the greater amount of pressure I could apply outside of Deathmark and that poisons actually do a lot of great stuff when you don’t have to choose and can just have all.

Sin’s damage also doesn’t necessarily require you be on top of someone the whole time and getting hard CC’d won’t entirely negate your damage. You’ve probably experienced the getting stunned or rooted and watching your SD just waste way. Sucks.

My advice is run Sin until it no longer works for you then jump to Sub because it means you’ve out grown the skill ceiling of Sin. A lot of the stuff you need to learn about Arena PvP as a Rogue can be learned while playing the relatively less complex Sin spec and it transfers over to playing Sub.

Sub being so complex means it’s harder to focus on the fundamentals of Rogue’s in Arena and that when you fail you can be certain it was a fundamentals issue or a spec issue.

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