A Study Of N00bs

[Treesh]

Now, the Ambush.  Ask Darian how often I Ambush.  Then ask Darian how often I don't steal aggro from him, and how often if I do it immediately goes right back to him (with Feint).  Now I'll admit, sometimes I open up a little bit too early and get destroyed by a Mortal Strike and lucky crits, but unless my Feint misses and I don't realize it quick enough to Vanish, I'm not gonna keep aggro unless I specifically want to.  However, there is no way I'd be nearly as usefull if you took my Ambush away from me.  There's already other Rogues I play with who use Cheap Shot, and the battle is too quick for Garrote to be of any use - if Garrote could even compare to my Ambush in the first place.  Should a Rogue consign himself to Cheap Shotting an already stunned mob?  No, if aggro's a problem he should be watching the debuff bar for a Sunder Armor and then start fighting.
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I've got to agree with Quark here. If I wait even just two seconds into the fight before ambushing, I generally won't take aggro from the warrior. Now, blade flurry + slice and dice with my sword will pull aggro to me a lot of the times which is part of why I don't use it in dungeons unless a group of non-elite things go to the druid healer. Then you bet I throw on blade flurry, slice and dice and then hit evasion. If there's a third one, it gets blinded for a bit. Since they're non-elites, they are either dead by the time evasion wears off or else the main target has gone down so the tank (or a real offtank) can get things off of me. But I keep the druid safe and able to heal everyone else.

But honestly, opening with ambush does not make a rogue a bad rogue. There aren't a whole lot of other openers from stealth and the smart rogue knows how to use ambush and feint (when necessary). There are rare cases such as way too many crits right in a row, but that's an exception and not the norm.