Possible ways to make rogue tank feel more viable in different ways.
Problem 1: Viability of daggers in general but also for AOE tanking compared to swords is much higher (the 75% damage on fan of knives is a massive difference)
Suggested fix: Main gauche / Sinister Strike / Riposte / Saber slash / Eviscerate attack power modifiers to be increased while using swords including faster swords. Or make fan of knives work like in retail that it requires throwing weapons and start adding some of those to the game.
Problem 2: Shuriken toss costs 30 energy → Blade dance 25 → Fan of knives 50, that means you need 105 energy to do a larger pull. Fan of knives must be used at least once but preferably 2-3 times in a row to build threat (often there are some casters in the back you didn’t hit with shuriken or fan of knives so you need to get to them too). If you don’t get energy back from your fan of knives+combat potency then you’re basically at the mercy of when your energy ticks back.
Suggested fix: Blade dance from 25 energy to 10 or 15 energy cost.
Problem 3: Low threat all around, shadow priests, warlocks, hunters, all dps classes with tier 1 gear pull aggro off you when playing with the defensive rogue tank set.
Suggested fix: Increase the base threat, I believe it was reduced from 165 to 115 due to the idea of the tank 2 piece set bonus on tier 1 would affect it. But instead reduce the threat bonus on set to 75% and increase base rogue threat from anywhere between 135 to 150 when Just a flesh wound is equipped.
Problem 4: No crits, no energy. No offhand hit procs, no energy. For the lack of crit chance on the defensive tank items for rogue, add an additional effect to unfair advantage.
Suggested fix: Change the Unfair Advantage rune, to strike back at target with BOTH the main and offhand weapon instead, can occur every 2-3 seconds on each target hitting you. Allowing for it to be used with combat potency to increase the amount of possible energy regeneration we get without focussing on the critical hit stat.
How do other rogue tanks feel about the current state of the class? Am I the only one struggling because I didn’t go want to make myself a “it’s a healer problem” by going full rogue DPS gear tank?