Hello, there is a pretty annoying bug that is hindering the rotation of the Outlaw Rogue!
Outlaw’s Crackshot Passive:
- Between the Eyes has no cooldown and also Dispatches the target for 75% of normal damage when used from Stealth.
Combined it with
Rogue Subterfuge Passive:
- Your abilities requiring Stealth can still be used for 3 sec after Stealth breaks.
This creates this pretty cool dynamic where you’re using Vanish, Shadow Dance and occasionally (if you’re playing Night Elf) Shadowmeld, so you can re-enter Stealth and keep this going as much as possible.
However, that being said, I want to point out that there seems to be a delay or something when the client is sending the request to the server or something of the sort, and if you cast your Between the Eyes as Subterfuge ends, the skill enters its cooldown window as if it was used Out of Stealth.
Note that when this occurs it completely destroys the flow and the whole rotation all together, because when you re-enter Stealth… the skill is being blocked by the cooldown timer and you either have to use Dispatch instead or you’re pretty much screwed.
I am 100% sure it’s a communication issue of some sorts, because I don’t have Between the Eyes on my Actionbar and I can reproduce this kinda easily when testing it on the Training Dummies.
I’ve already explained the what seems to be the issue here, but here are some repro steps for your Dev/QA team:
- Spec into Subterfuge passive skill of your Rogue Tree.
- Spec into Crackshot, Ruthlessness and/or Ace Up Your Sleeve passives of your Outlaw Tree.
- Enter Stealth and put Ambush and Between the Eyes on your Stealth Action bar.
- Go to the Dummies in Valdrakken and stand in-front of the Cleave Training Dummies.
- Enter Stealth and use Ambush to generate as much Combo points as you can.
- Try timing the expiration of the Subterfuge buff and start spamming Between the Eyes.
- Make sure you get Combo points after you used the initially generated ones with your first use of Between the Eyes, so it can be used consecutively.
- When Stealth bar gets shifted back to the normal Action bar, step back from the Dummy so you can leave combat naturally (you can always Vanish or whatever, but yea…) and be able to re-enter Stealth.
- Notice that the skill Between the Eyes is on cooldown all of a sudden.
Note that:
- The spamming is not important in this case, it will just more reliably trigger this bug by trying to send requests.
- Ruthlessness and/or Ace Up Your Sleeve seems to be allowing this consecutive use of the skill, which creates the spammy behavior and either causes this whole thing to occur or is just making it easier to happen.
Here are some propositions to fix this tremendous nuisance:
- Make the leeway window after Subterfuge ends a bit longer, so even if something goes wrong it will be like 1 extra shot.
- Make the Crackshot passibe augment Between the Eyes and make it a Stealth Only skill that has no cooldown.
- Add a condition to the Crackshot and say that Between the Eyes cooldown will be reset when you enter Stealth.
Hope this helps and it reaches to proper people, so it can gets resolved soon, because it’s really killing the enjoyment of Playing this build.
EDIT:
Just tested this bug with a Macro that doesn’t allow me to use Between the Eyes out of Stealth and I still managed to bug it out…
Macro:
#showtooltip Between the Eyes
/cast [stance:1] Between the Eyes
/cast [stance:2] Between the Eyes
/cast [stance:3] Between the Eyes
This kinda confirms my theory that the request is being processed after the Subterfuge condition is over and you’re no longer in “Stealth” which kept the skill with No Cooldown, and since the request is being processed and executed afterwards, it’s pretty much treating it as an Out of Stealth use of the skill…