07-06-2006, 12:26 PM
I step away from the computer for one day and all hell breaks loose.
Summary?
Drysc did the impossible. He made Rogues (well, Combat and Seal Fate Rogues, Combat Dagger doesn't have the combo points available) actually believe we had some utility for a raid beyond our own selfish DPS.
So let's go over this step by step.
Rupture: Rupture has the unique benefit of a steady damage per combo point -> 187. Whether 1 or 5, it's the same. This ended up meaning at 5 combo points, it was superior to Eviscerate (187.2 @ 5) because of armor, assuming Rupture stays up for 22 seconds. Due to energy considerations, the best boss cycle for non-Combat Dagger is 5/5/3 or 5/3/5, Rupture is better in these cases. Simply due to being a DoT, it looks to become completely inferior to Eviscerate in 1.12 again (like it was pre-raiding). Apparantly that's "intended".
Eviscerate: Drysc came up with some lame excuse about the scaling they tried to work out hurting the lowest rogues while only marginally helping the best. Apparantly "put out a new book!" every once in a while is better than actually making the ability work logically. The consequences of this are that undergeared Rogues in PvP will have fun ala "World of Roguecraft" again, in another tier or two it'll be just as useless raiding as it is now, and Seal Fate Dagger will still be inferior to any raid build. Oh, and any time a non-scaling ability starts to fall behind the masses will start screaming for a new book.
Garrote: Garrote was inferior to Ambush both overall damage and DPS wise back when I was in half blues. A 50% increase now? Yep, it's still inferior in both categories.
They managed to buff non-60 and undergeared Rogues, the two types of Rogues that needed it the least.
Summary?
Quote:I know that I had hinted at specific functionality, and I take that mistake upon myself for making statements based on information which was not final and/or fully intended. Expose Armor will not stack with Sunder Armor in 1.12.
The changes to make it perform as a percentage is still intended, and it should now give a pretty nice boost against high-armor targets versus the current Expose Armor functionality.
Drysc did the impossible. He made Rogues (well, Combat and Seal Fate Rogues, Combat Dagger doesn't have the combo points available) actually believe we had some utility for a raid beyond our own selfish DPS.
Quote: Rupture was found to be performing at-par to where we want it to be and will not be changed. While there was certainly some intention initially (and why it was included in my post) to improve or change how it functioned, after careful study it has been decided to not change the Rupture ability. I know that may be a dissapointment, but after careful study, no change was necessary.
Eviscerate is being improved by a new book, allowing a new rank and a general base-damage increase.
Garotte is receiving a damage boost. While final numbers are still unavailable, we are shooting for an approximate 50% damage increase.
So let's go over this step by step.
Rupture: Rupture has the unique benefit of a steady damage per combo point -> 187. Whether 1 or 5, it's the same. This ended up meaning at 5 combo points, it was superior to Eviscerate (187.2 @ 5) because of armor, assuming Rupture stays up for 22 seconds. Due to energy considerations, the best boss cycle for non-Combat Dagger is 5/5/3 or 5/3/5, Rupture is better in these cases. Simply due to being a DoT, it looks to become completely inferior to Eviscerate in 1.12 again (like it was pre-raiding). Apparantly that's "intended".
Eviscerate: Drysc came up with some lame excuse about the scaling they tried to work out hurting the lowest rogues while only marginally helping the best. Apparantly "put out a new book!" every once in a while is better than actually making the ability work logically. The consequences of this are that undergeared Rogues in PvP will have fun ala "World of Roguecraft" again, in another tier or two it'll be just as useless raiding as it is now, and Seal Fate Dagger will still be inferior to any raid build. Oh, and any time a non-scaling ability starts to fall behind the masses will start screaming for a new book.
Garrote: Garrote was inferior to Ambush both overall damage and DPS wise back when I was in half blues. A 50% increase now? Yep, it's still inferior in both categories.
They managed to buff non-60 and undergeared Rogues, the two types of Rogues that needed it the least.
Trade yourself in for the perfect one. No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined!