Rogue Nugget from Tiggole

[Concillian]

Yeah, but even so, let's consider when you're creating a party for any one of those instances whether you'd rather have a rogue or mage along.  A rogue's primary purposes in a group are to sap humanoids prior to battle and provide single target damage.  A mage, however, can sheep the same humanoids, whether the target is in combat or not, provide the same powerful single target damage, and provide massive aoe.  I just don't see a role in a party that a rogue has over other classes other than the occational lockpicking.  They don't even provide any auras or buffs to the party.

Understand that I'm not saying "rogues are useless in a party."  I'm just saying that I don't see a special role that they fill versus other classes.  It'd be nice if on occation people had to say, "Hmmm... we'd better grab a couple of rogues for this."
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I believe he is talking, rather than different classes ability to damage single targets, different classes ability to avoid AoE damage. According to accounts I've read, the local AoE damage to melee fighters makes being a rogue doing more than standing back and plinking a bow nothing more than a mana-suck for healers and/or a very short lived rogue. The fact that mages, hunters and warlocks can all stand out of AoE damage when positioned properly (save perhaps the 'random secondary targeting' present at this level) is what makes them more desirable than a rogue.

These are situations where single target damage is very important. Rogues can sustain single target damage for hours, unlike all the other single target damage classes, which depend upon mana. But from what I understand, Rogues are unable to utilize their damage at all, save for a few situations.

Given Tigole's general focus on high end raid level contet, I believe this is the subject of the matter, not your typical 5 man or even UBRS.

Personally I don't really see a problem with it. Rogues are pretty useful in the rest of the content. Doesn't hurt to throw hunters and warlocks a bone on this.