Official expansion talent previews

[oldmandennis]

It's a bit early to start slinging about terms like incompetent. You are making a huge assumption that crit % will be maintained in the expansion.

I don't feel it is. When can the Rogues expect a change that is mathematically sound the first time, before the players run the numbers themselves?

Never. It woln't happen ever. No alpha (or beta) will have numbers that are spot on. That is the whole point of having them. Over the past 2 years they have done pleanty of stuff you can call incompetent. Showing you some alpha talents without putting it in the context of gear, encounter design, or combat mechanics is not one of them.

And there are a whole pool of mechanics that need to be adjusted. Many have gotten distorted by the fact that bliz clearly didn't plan for level 90 gear on level 60 characters. Weapon skill/glancing, crit, downranking, mp5/5 sec rule. They may even (gasp!) make finishers other then SnD relevent again, which would mean that missing a combo point is actually a big deal.