Blue Post: Raiding Combat Rogues, Get Ready for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Who knew that Ghostcrawler held such a deep affection for the world’s wrist-brace manufacturers? As a Valentine’s Day gift to them, he announced last night that Combat rogues in Patch 5.2 would have a chance to spam their buttons like they’ve never spammed them before:

We are going to do something unusual and allow the [new PvE Tier 15 four-piece] set bonus to also reduce the global cooldown on rogue abilities to 0.7 sec during Shadow Blades.

This means that, if you have the four-piece, and you pop glyphed Adrenaline Rush and Shadow Blades at the same time, your global cooldown for most abilities will actually be HALF A FREAKING SECOND. I KNOW.

(GC did not say whether this change *only* impacted the Combat spec; his words were general enough that I think it’s likely it affects all three specs. Only Combat will see a massive benefit from it, though.)

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On Twitter: Ghostcrawler Ponders Subtlety’s Third-Class Status in Raids

@JamesWire1 Potentially. If you take Combat for any cleave fight, then Mutilate for the others, you don't have a spec left.

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Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) December 10, 2012

 

The bigger question I think this tweet raises is: What should be done about the problem? After all, if it’s only underplayed, not underpowered, you can’t really buff it — that would likely just push the see-saw in the opposite direction.

And heck, while I’m at it: Is this even really a “problem”? Is it automatically a bad thing if we only use two of the three rogue specs in end-game PvE? Is it possible that, in this crazy, mixed-up, dual-spec world of ours, we players simply can’t handle the concept of three truly viable raiding specs?

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Twitter: Ghostcrawler on pure DPS not bringing anything “useful” to raids

<140 character limit? @awwatggawg spits on you.>

@awwatggawg: “@Ghostcrawler I’m not sure what is the point of hunters in PVE, dps? just above our disc priest CC? not much use in current tier (continued)”

@awwatggawg “@awwatggawg @Ghostcrawler AOE? need to respec to survival, but at the cost of single target dps, and i can go on (continued)”

@awwatggawg “@awwatggawg @Ghostcrawler some classes/specs does not bring anything useful generally, hunters rogues come to mind these problems -continued”

@Ghostcrawler “@awwatggawg We don’t like balancing around awesome raid utility – just shifts the problem to who has strongest utility.”

@awwatggawg @awwatggawg @Ghostcrawler can be easily fixed by buffing the ability by lets say 10%, without changing much in playstyle -continued

@awwatggawg @awwatggawg @Ghostcrawler I dont know why should i wait for major patch, just bring a mage or a lock instead, why make it harder?,

Twitteringed 11/25/2012

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Twitter: Ghostcrawler on Tricks of the Trade usage

@crazysummer2004: “@Ghostcrawler Nobody uses Tricks of the Trade anymore in Raids. You found a way to make that useless too! Get a dev 4 rogues. ur useless.”

@Ghostcrawler: “@crazysummer2004 Quick poll of the raiders in my office, and they all use Tricks of the Trade. Small sample size is small.”

Twitterized 11/16/2012

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Twitter: Ghostcrawler on Garalon hotfix

@Leonardo_Felixx: “@Ghostcrawler Why do nerf cleave on Garalon, it always worked the same, on Zon’ozz for example, why dont nerf it before?”

@Ghostcrawler: “@Leonardo_Felixx if you get a 400% bonus, the intent is not that your cleaves get that bonus. Rogues etc should be desirable not mandatory.”

Twitterized 11/10/2012

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