Rogues typically lack an AE attack, which although would be a nice perk, doesn’t really fit the Rogue kit for me. People typically think of an AE as something that has range to it like  Volley or Arcane Explosion but Rogues being a melee class I would expect something more like Whirlwind or Divine Storm. [...]

Doomkin! Such a scary and nasty spec. I don’t want to call it overpowered, but damn they’ve got some potential there.
So this took some digging but apparently there was a change to stealth in between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 so that the stars would no longer target a stealthed opponent. The AE splash from a star [...]

Today I actually have some really good discussions about class DPS and the general feel of balance coming into Wrath of the Lich King. There are a lot of whiny little brats on the forums that are so convinced their class is gimped because they have no fucking skill at all, that it’s causing some [...]

So in a nutshell Warriors are going to be Barbarians from Diablo II, Rogues get an AOE, Warlocks can shapeshift, Druids are getting Dire Cat, and Mages will become walking explosions.
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Mage Armor will be reworked to reduce harmful debuff durations, so that’s a more suitable raid armor. Finally.
New ability: Frostfire Bolt. In itself it’s [...]

Tauren rogues lol. Slorkuz was brave enough to go in depth with his look at Warlocks in the arena. So he’s hitting Rogues now. I happen to like rogues a lot (though never taken one past 40) so I found this little write up pretty useful. He goes into the different combos for a Rogue [...]

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I got an email today from a reader asking two pretty good questions. Both of which involve PVP to some degree. They came from a J. Rundell who [...]

Thanks to Teza again for snagging this interview with Essath, the Rogue that owns a Blackened Naaru Sliver and was able to explain it’s functions and details for us.
Basically the proc consists of 2 procs. Battle trance that is the actual proc, has a 45sec hidden cd and Combat insight thats the stacking [...]

One of the only truly hard fights in MGT (especially in heroic mode) would have to be the 3rd boss, Priestess Delrissa. The fight itself is pretty much untankable and plays more like a really imbalanced 5 vs 5 arena match than anything else. Rogues are taken out of stealth as soon as the mobs [...]

See this here is something that always bothers me. Rogues by far and wide have been a Dagger using class. Matter of fact, they are the only class that requires daggers to even use most of their abilities and aside from caster gear, almost all daggers in game are pointed at the Rogue class. They [...]

With all the fluff posts that CMs have been replying too (or just flat out bans and locks) I did manage to see one post that peaked my interest. A warlock posting on his level 70 rogue alt is sarcastically thanking Blizzard for making rogues overpowered especially against casters.
What made me kind of confused is [...]

Apparently Shiv is bugged on the forums, the devs are working on it now.
I’ve spoken with the devs and shiv not being missed or dodged is a bug and was never intended. The changes to the combat log revealed some problems with how this spell is coded and it is being worked on. (src)

Happy President’s Day, Monday, whateverday everybody. I want to apologize for the lack of any real activity on the site over the weekend, this cold that’s apparently wracking the country is pretty much playing air hockey with my face. I think I’ve medicated myself enough now to make Robert Downey Jr. blush but at least [...]