The dev team must have forgotten to level a rogue in SoD. I’ve played every iteration of this game. I’ve even leveled a warrior on hardcore, but this has to be the most painful leveling experienced yet. I get flashbacks from pushing rating in arena.
For you new players out there, don’t pick rogue if you want enjoy your leveling experience. You need to be using first aid, pots, gouge to gain energy and eat after most fights against mobs in your own level. You get parried, blocked or miss most of the time even against mobs bellow your level.
Warlock pulls agro from me when they try to be nice and put a dot on my target. Leveling a boomkin druid in vanilla felt more rewarding lol.
Lets hope Blizzard fix this in the next phases or the only lvl 60 rogues will see is people who have paid for boosts.
Granted I haven’t leveled a rogue above level 7 in SoD as of yet, but… Have you leveled a rogue in Classic before? They don’t really steamroll anything before level 40-ish.
Rogues are great in pvp, they’re great in raids, but while leveling they can be a bit rough during the early levels. FA/Pots/gauge/blind/evasion/vanish is used frequently while leveling. Once you get poisons so you can kite it’s a little easier too!
I will level an another char now since I done bfd too with this main, had some good gold farm as well. I thought of rogue, I will boost it with boes.
I like how people crying, love playing hard to level chars. Sure hunter was so easy to level but it was boring. Rogue at 25 is cool btw, just there are not enough rogues to unleash it’s fully potantial at 25, most of them changed class, rest is casual rogues…
I haven’t found it to be that painful tbh. I have levelled a dagger rogue and it definetly feels like the runes we have are pretty bad. I have mutilate, slaughter from the shadows and between the eyes and honestly the rest of them you get later on don’t seem worth the hassle.
Unlike other classes it plays mostly the same. I did level 13-18 solely in RFC though which probably did help with it feeling “okay”.
Now that I have ambush it is fun in both PvP and PvE even if not “optimal”. In PvP rogue has definetly went from the “king” of low level PvP to something else though. Maybe it is slightly better if you are combat or something, I don’t know
But as dagger rogue you can one combo most classes and if their low, pick them up with between the eyes. After that though, unless their bad most classes beat you now.
It does seem more like I’m playing a “rogue” to be fair. I spent the whole evening on living flame tonight ganking people in Redridge and it was great fun, got about 3k honour and 200 or more honourable kills (I think!) And only died maybe 6-7 times.
They could / should have fixed than by giving the tanking rune easily before 15. They made so many weird choices with runes.
This is just a reminder beta are nice sometimes…
Hopefully they will listen the feedbacks of rogues and locks and make it easier and earlier to get the tank runes. If not is SoD (which feels like a beta) then in the final product (Classic+)