Deathmark is Assassination’s Rogue - Ultimate Ability - as every class possesses( Frost Mage has Icy Veins, Moonkin has Incarnation, Warrior has Avatar etc etc ).
Difference is Deathmark is being treated as a physical dot, and can be purged in almost every high lobby ( paladins, evokers, ) also a lot of people play dwarfs so dwarf removes it also.
There are lobbies that you end up not pressing Deathmark at all, waiting for an opportunity in fear of it getting dispelled.
It’s very unfair and makes no sense to have your biggest, most important ability removed very often, and other classes have undispellable big offensive cooldowns as mentioned above ( icy veins etc ).
So, the only logical thing, in my opinion is to go back to Vendetta.
Everyone loved Vendetta, it complemented Assassination rogues.
Bring it back please.
Apart from being a cc bot I feel like rogue has really fallen off.
Don’t see many, not even outlaw/sub… But I guess sub suffers from most of the popular classes right now can use a defensive cd when stunned.
On topic though, I strongly agree that at the very least it needs some kind of dispel protection/penalty.
everyone loved it, but still blizzard removed it, now u understand the logic what blizzard is actual using
There is no rogue dev anymore. From now on there will be only aura buffs.
Its unfair when I am getting disarmed and cced while in ascendance. You gotta live with it. Everything should have a counter.
Sub can still delete people alone in a ssmoke bomb so can’t really say it’s bad.
Outlaw has been nerfed to the ground, thx to awc abuser… Still you can push with the usually rmx/rlx/ sub boomy or even thug but beside cc outlaw does no dmg.
Assa is disgusting, kinda squishy but that spam garrrote and subterfuge being still extremely op makes the spec so unfun and broken to face.
My biggest defensive can be removed by mass dispel and shattering throw.
My mobility can be purged and spell stolen.
My bop…
Good thing you don’t need to move to do your dmg then
Im so sorry ill say this, but the way you typed it… you reminded me a scene from “Robin hood Men in tights” Movie…
-*My Father? (he was killed at war…)
-My Sister? (murdered)
- My mother? (died in birth)
- My Goldfish?! (cat ate it)
- My Cat? (a carriage went over it)
- #sad face
I played pala/mage since vanila… ik your pain btw hahahh…*
As a rogue player my main gripe with it is, if you’re a dwarf, paladin or evoker. The lethality goes from 100 to 0, especially in a 2v2 environment where healers rn are matching some classes damage.
Sure you can technically go a poison build or something or focus more into kingsbane etc but the off button vs assa is alot more easier to replicate than sub or outlaw, especially sub in current game where every stun is a kill go in theory. Assa definitley feels like a lower quality feral right now considering you’re compared to feral with its 3 minute god tier incarn goes.
Tbh Deathmark is probably the worst offensive CD in the game. Just make it like Vendetta but more like Avatar and remove the requirement to be in stealth to do damage and nerf subterfuge etc. The whole stealth/dance playstyle has been a failure imo.
I bet the Deathstalker combat bugs still exist too