Hello my fellow rogues, I would like to discuss the current state of rogues and what I think are the core issues with our beloved class.
Last time I’ve played a rogue was in Season 1 of DF, played Outlaw and Sub. I tried to play the rogue these days and oh boy I feel like there is so much missed opportunity and QOL stuff that needs to happen…
I’m not a cutting edge player, I used to raid hardcore from vanilla to woltk with my rogue but now I’m a casual player playing 2-3 hours daily and not every day doing only m+ around 3,3k+ rio so I have a fairly good game knowledge.
In no particular order, lets get into it what I think has to change and what is not good:
CLASS IDENTITY / FANTASY:
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The class really lacks some visual identity and class flavour
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I fell like all the abilities share same 2-3 animations
CLASS TREE / ABILITIES / ROTATIONS:
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Slice and dice - Its a relic of the past and has to go, all rogue specs are bloated with abilites. Having talents that makes you press SND once and forgetting about it just proves the point that SND shouldnt exist in the first place
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Cold Blood - is this really worth it being a capston in this day and age? Has to go or needs to be reworked
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Thistle Tea - bring back decent energy regen to our specs and remove this, no need and also just another ability that adds bloat
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Shadow Dance in class tree - removing this in alpha is a great step in the right direction, having SD in the class three was terrible since we have all 3 specs revolving around it.
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Removing Nightstalker - also a great thing, it only promotes degenerate gameplay with dps windows insde dps windows which is really not fun and just adds more artifical complexity
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Button bloat - for example, do we really need 6-7 rotational buttons as Assasination plus 3 cds which we need to manage within damage windows? ( getting better in Alpha with nightstalker gone tho)
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1. Hyper fixation on unnecessary “complex” rotations and damage windows that dont feel that hard but just unfun and tedious to play
HERO TALENTS:
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I’m sorry rogue devs but to me all three hero specs looks like they were made with chat GPT.
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All three spec look so uninspired and just unfun with serious lack of class flavour.
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Take a look at paladin templar or warlock diabolist for example it feels like we are playing two different games.
TLDR
I could ramble on few more things but simply I’m tired and just wanna enjoy my rogue, but after i play something like a Ret pala and come back to the rogue it feels like such a chore to play…
I really wish that rogue devs would start communicating what are their plans for rogue in TWW, do we get any QOL changes that community is asking or anything at all just give us some communication back.
EDIT: No ide why is the post on my alt drud that i didnt play in like 12 years