Outlaw Rogue is no longer fun in pre-patch

[Lothlorial-the-maelstrom]

Outlaw rogue in BFA was easily one of the smoothest and most fun specs in the game. The rotation flowed perfectly. However, playing the pre-patch and beta, I can’t help feel with addition of Slice and Dice as our maintained buff and Kidney Shot as our stun, it now plays extremely clunky and the fun seems sucked out of it.

While I don’t personally like it, I can understand why the stun was moved from Between the Eyes to Kidney Shot and can live with it. On the other hand, I don’t see why Slice and Dice (if they insist on us having it) and Roll the bones can’t be the one spell. Maintaining the two just isn’t fun and if you want to include kidney shot in your opener, it feels like ages once doing so and buffing up before we start doing any proper damage. If they could combine the two spells and make it cost 50 energy (so we don’t have a large advantage over the other rogue specs), I think it would be a step in the right direction towards making the gameplay feel fun and smooth again.

Hopefully something changes because I really want to main outlaw throughout Shadowlands but know how uninspiring it is to play a class you no longer find fun. Would love to hear everyone’s feedback thoughts!

[Terres-ravenholdt (Terres)]

I wrote a long and (in my humble opinion) elegant rant on how wrong RtB and SnD felt together on the prepatch forums, but the discussion didn’t gain any traction and then my sub ran out.

But yeah, the Outlaw Rogue got kind of neutered. Throughout Legion and BFA I was hoping to see more emphasis put on the Outlaw Rogue’s mid-range capabilities but instead we’ve been brought further into melee again, with the pistol acting as nothing but a gimmick.

[Testonek-draenor]

The ranged stun was a spec-defining skill.

[Vulrin-argent-dawn (Vulrin)]

Assa and outlaw are dead, only viable spec to play in any content atm is subtely rogue from what I am aware of, it easily performs twice over the other specs.