Rogue 1.12 Preview

[Xame]

Have to love a PVP argument with two of the most feared pvp classes on the battlefield. Rogues get to pick their fights (see roguecraft video) except when they get the big red arrow (at least for now) and Hunters get a pet and wingclip, scatter shot and FD-trap macro escapes. Both are hard to kill on the open battlefield because of their large number of escapes combined with hard hitting dps and movement impairing effects.

As far as the hunters are anti-rogue, I've NEVER seen this. Both classes would rather drop clothies for quick kills then try to fight each other. The hunters mark is more often placed on a priest then a rogue. The mark and flares are only a self defence techniques against rogues if a rogue trys to go after a hunter. With near total domination over clothies and fair fights with druids and shaman (well somewhat) why bother with each other or warriors.

As far as the talent spec redo. I'm disappointed. Not because what the talents might do for the class but what they don't do for the class. For the mages talent respec it left a lot of issues as to what would be a good build. The cookie cutter builds where mostly destroyed and you ended up with mage talent builds all over the map. For the rogue builds I'm not seeing a weaking of combat. It's not that I'm calling for a weaking of the rogue, but all three trees should be equally interesting for both pvp and pve and you should have to make sacrifices to get the good talents by not getting other good talents. I expect to hear as many complaints by rogues as cheers since the rogue really isn't a broken class. I'm also not a big fan of PvP only talents and many of the changes appear focused there. This appears to be the work of the shaman talent review group :P , simply uninspired tweeking and a buff all around on a class that really wasn't broken.