Official expansion talent previews

[oldmandennis]

No. Not with the history of the rogue class. Our review would have looked exactly like the first glimpse if we had done nothing about it.

Oh you are the only people who ever get screwed by devs? Or you are just a ton better at whining then priest who don't like lightwell, warriors who want trainable TM, or Pallys who hated thier review? Besides the fact that this is _Alpha_.

I don't need to be in game to know how much Suprise Attacks sucks.

Yes you do. The idea that SnD will be the only finisher that matters should be blown away in the expansion. Combo point should matter. Repeating math that doesn't take into account any of the changes in the game is just a waste of time.

... So wait, I'm supposed to be happy about a change where if a Rogue specs it the person that suffers the most is me? Besides the fact that someone who goes 31 points into Combat is not speccing for PvP in the first place.

Why can't a combat speced person pick up a couple of nice pvp tools? Who says that combat daggers needs to go 41 deep in combat? Who says that combat daggers needs to be the king of the DPS charts still?

Additionally, stunlocking in raids is a myth. Stunning helps sometimes, but diminishing returns make a stunlock impossible. And then we're back to the whole useful/required argument. If Blizzard makes getting rid of a 5% non-landing rate on stuns good, then they have a good chance of making it necessary, and forcing spec.

15 second stun, 15 second evasion, 15 second stun, somebody else comes over to taunt the mob off of you. You can easily picture a 10 mob fight where that could be a good thing. Or when "things go bad ™". It doesn't force it - if you have enhancement shammys or BM hunters they can fill that gap as well. But it makes things more flexible, which is their stated goal.

Crit/hit bonus from items is changing in the expansion. I know that much from item screenshots where crit/hit is given a "raiding".

I can guess too - I think crit has gotten out of hand a bit. It's just another thing that didn't scale properly over ilevel 60-90. I strongly suspect that crit percentage will be far lower in the expansion. But that's irrelevent.