One Rogue's Journey

Another two-fer today. Boy am I being generous. I wonder why? Maybe it’s the phase of the moon or maybe it was a post by Ghostcrawler saying that they owe rogues more dps. Oh GC, you wily crab, how did you know I liked presents in the form of big numbers?

Here’s the comment everyone’s favorite crab for those of you who hate visiting the forums:

1) I think this is totally valid and we owe rogues some dps. We have been cautious because we can’t afford to give them any more PvP dps and those crafty rogues tend to use PvE dps for PvP.

2) This is not a big concern of ours. The goal is not to make every dps class equal on every single encounter. Mages, locks, ele shamans and boomkins (and possibly hunters) have great AE. Not every class needs great AE. We want rogues, DKs, ferals, warriors, enhancement shammies and everyone I have forgotten to do decent enough AE that they don’t feel dumb standing around on AE pulls. Every pull currently feels like an AE pull. It won’t always be that way.

3) I think this falls in between 1 and 2. Classes aren’t supposed to have buffs so good that you always want to bring them. We built a lot of redundancy into the system. However we are taking a hard look at cases where someone’s buff comes easier or more reliably than another class. Saying “every raid has a warrior” isn’t very compelling in our mind. Saying “their buff is a passive ability while ours is a proc that takes 5 talent points” is a bigger deal we need to fix.

Now on to business.

Everyone knows Vanish can be a little finicky at times (I personally don’t have a lot of trouble with it but every now and then it just doesn’t take). This is little macro is just a little bit of extra insurance.

A little bit of love for you Sub rogues out there. Since Preparation resets the cooldown on these abilities why not fire them off before you use it? Just don’t spam it or you’ll waste your second use.

So I have big announcement/surprise set for next week. Are you excited? I’m excited.