07-06-2006, 04:59 PM
Back to the topic at hand, though, I can see Blizzard's quandry. Ideally, attacks should scale with one's equipment. If one "levels" at the level-cap by obtaining items, it's obvious that one should be able to deal more damage when one obtains better equipment. Attacks like eviscerate, rupture, and hunter volley are odd-ball in that they don't scale with equipment.
However, despite the complaints of many rogues, overall rogue dps is fine. Both in blues and in epics, they deal a *ton* of damage. Unless an encounter is designed to specifically disrupt them (e.g. Barron Geddon's fire pulse or Ouro's Sweep), rogues will dish out far more damage than any other class. Thus enters the conundrum. How do you make eviscerate and rupture scale with equipment without making rogue dps jump even further ahead than it already is?
You can make it so that an epic'd out rogue does about the same amount of damage with eviscerate as he or she does now but then nerf the base damage of eviscerate. Ah, but that nerfs all those rogues in blue gear.
Or, you can make eviscerate scale with damage, increasing its damage for epic'd out rogues but then nerf other rogue skills and equipment to compensate for the dps gain. This is probably the correct solution, but it would involve a lot of work, because it would involve changing a whole host of rogue skills and most likely a lot of equipment as well.
So, not wanting to take either of the above steps, Blizzard is saying, "Well, maybe Eviscerate isn't doing quite as much damage for high end rogues as we would like, but we don't want them to be able to go overboard with it either. So, we'll add in a new rank of Eviscerate to keep the situation controlled." It's not a great solution, but I can understand why Blizzard is making it.
However, despite the complaints of many rogues, overall rogue dps is fine. Both in blues and in epics, they deal a *ton* of damage. Unless an encounter is designed to specifically disrupt them (e.g. Barron Geddon's fire pulse or Ouro's Sweep), rogues will dish out far more damage than any other class. Thus enters the conundrum. How do you make eviscerate and rupture scale with equipment without making rogue dps jump even further ahead than it already is?
You can make it so that an epic'd out rogue does about the same amount of damage with eviscerate as he or she does now but then nerf the base damage of eviscerate. Ah, but that nerfs all those rogues in blue gear.
Or, you can make eviscerate scale with damage, increasing its damage for epic'd out rogues but then nerf other rogue skills and equipment to compensate for the dps gain. This is probably the correct solution, but it would involve a lot of work, because it would involve changing a whole host of rogue skills and most likely a lot of equipment as well.
So, not wanting to take either of the above steps, Blizzard is saying, "Well, maybe Eviscerate isn't doing quite as much damage for high end rogues as we would like, but we don't want them to be able to go overboard with it either. So, we'll add in a new rank of Eviscerate to keep the situation controlled." It's not a great solution, but I can understand why Blizzard is making it.