Rogue 1.12 Preview

[Lissa]

Lissa, you are so beyond exaggerating that it's not even funny at this point.

Yes, Vanish will now break Hunter's Mark. Big deal. Every class still has tons of ways to break stealth (which is different from preventing stealth). Let's say it's just you (a Hunter) versus a Rogue. We'll even make it a Preparation Rogue to skew the argument in your favor. You of course Hunters Mark at the beginning of the fight. Rogue gets caught in a bad position and Vanishes. Oh my god, you're done for!. Wait, no ... you can Flare. Hit up Hunters Mark again, and any non-Prep rogue can not stealth for 2 minutes or until he dies. But you're fighting a Prep rogue. So the Rogue gets in a bind again, and Vanishes again. If the 15 seconds is up, you just Flare again. If not, well guess what? You didn't DoT the Rogue, live with the consequences.

Every other class DoTs us, why didn't you?

This isn't a huge change mid fight. It's a very minor one at best. What it does change is after a fight, or if a Hunter is 100 yards away and gets a freebie Hunter's Mark in, the Rogue is no longer screwed for 2 minutes.

And you forget that Flare has a big red sign saying "DO NOT STAND HERE" now Quark. Come one, the Rogues cried about Flare, now Blizzard wants to take away another aspect that makes the Hunter anti-Rogue. Every class in this game has two foils, for Rogues it's Hunters and Warriors. For Mages it's Warlocks and Priests. For Warriors it's Warlocks and Mages. The list goes on.

The whole points of Hunter's Mark is to add some RAP against the target AND make the target trackable. So why suddenly should Vanish be making you no longer trackable when things like FF stop you from being able to use Stealth or Vanish. As much as you don't want to think about, HM is designed to act in a way like FF, it is there to make the Rogue trackable and prevent them from getting away.

So don't give me this crap about I'm exagerating. Go read what HM says sometime Quark and you'll see why this change is bad.