Rogue Changes for Wrath of the Lich King Beta 9014
Talents
Assassination
- Focused Attacks now gives 2 energy regardless of the rank.
Combat
- Vitality increases your Energy regeneration rate by 8/16/25%. (Up from 3/6/10%)
- Blade Twisting changed to : Increases the damage dealt by Sinister Strike and Backstab by 5/10%, and your damaging melee attacks have a 10% chance to Daze the target for 4 sec.
- Aggression has been moved from Tier 5 to Tier 4. Now increases the damage done by Sinister Strike, Backstab, and Eviscerate abilities by 3/6/9/12/15%. (Up from 2/4/6/8/10%)
Glyphs
- Glyph of Garrote - Reduces the duration of your Garrote ability by 3 sec and increases the total damage it deals by 20%. (Old - Increases periodic damage dealt by Garrrote by 45%, but decreases the duration by 3 sec.)
- Glyph of Preparation - Decreases the cooldown of Preparation by 2 min. (Old - Your Preparation ability also instantly resets the cooldown of Blade Flurry, Dismantle, and Kick.)
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Oct 1st, 2008 at 11:09 am
Ok, this is looking a bit better. However, Lightning Reflexes still needs to be re-done (Kalgan said that it will be) and all the Rogue 51-point talents need more work. ATM, Murder Spree and Shadow Dance are both extremely weak for 51-pointers.
Hunger for Blood isn’t looking too bad, but they should make it 90 energy for the full effect. That will make it much easier to keep an eye on buff timers.
But Murder Spree is simply terrible as is - they need to add a component where each attack increases damage done by both weapons by X amount, similar to Mutilate. It’s been mathematically proven that as is, Murder Spree isn’t much better than than autoattacking, plus when you use it there’s a good chance you’ll end up halfway across the room from your target.
And Shadow Dance is a hotkey nightmare right now. When rogues go into stealth, a new hotbar comes up, just like it does when a warrior changes stances. This allows for us to not need to have our openers (which are useless out of stealth) taking up much-needed space on our out-of-stealth hotbar. It would be like a talent that allowed you to use Battle-Stance-only abilities while in Fury Stance for _____ seconds, only without bringing up a new hotbar so you could use the Battle Stance abilities. I know that’s a flawed analogy because you can’t compare Battle Stance abilities with rogue openers, but that’s the best I can think of for now.
If they fix the 51-pointers and buff Lightning Reflexes, we’ll be looking much better.