Backstab is so bad

[Cipusan-silvermoon]

I feel your pain, my fellow rogue. Had a similar post this a while ago.

Toxic Classic Design. Abilities’ damage are designed around cooldowns and not the other way

Another expansion where we are drowned in cooldowns and everything is balanced around them. Cooldowns are a huge problem, they are very powerful and they can stack. Instead of toning down the power of cooldowns and buffing the dmg outside of them, blizzard did the opposite resulting in seeing abilities such as Templar verdict hit from 3k to a Ludacris 23k crit or even more. This is not fun in PVP or PVE! Example for rogues: Backstab deals 800 dmg, shadowstrike 1900 dmg, eviscerate 2500 dmg …

What I noticed is that most of the people did not play older expansion where the distribution of dmg between the abilities was more balanced. They don’t understand what you are talking about, so don’t bother taking them serious.