Around the time the first bit of datamined info on Patch 5.2 was being leaked by MMO-Champion and Wowhead, Ghostcrawler was taking to the twitwaves for another round of responding to irrationally angry messages from Twitter users. (Happy holidays, everybody!) Among those exchanges:
GC already knew, when he tweeted that, that Subtlety’s Sanguinary Vein passive ability was slated for a buff in Patch 5.2; as of this post, the official patch notes have its bleed debuff increasing damage by 20% in the next patch, up from 16%.
Between that Subtlety buff, the above tweet, and the massive nerf to Combat’s Blade Flurry ability, Blizzard’s clearly trying to set the stage for a resurgence of raiding Subtlety rogues in 5.2. Haileaus, you must be on Santa’s good list this year.
Dawww you…. Yeah I’m pretty excited about these changes, but for sub and for rogues in general. But for the latter its more how I can use the general changes to make sub better so…meh. Hey I never claimed to be unbiased, even though I’m better at being it than most people.
I know we can’t make a direct comparison, but it’s a little bit eerie to me that it was also at roughly this point in the *last* expansion when GC and Blizzard CMs started a similar “Guys, Sub DPS really isn’t so bad” mini-campaign. We’re such lemmings in this game, flocking en masse to whatever it feels like the leaders are doing. (And I include myself in that lemming mass; I’m not much better than anyone else in bucking trends. I’m just maybe a little more aware of how silly it is that I’m going with the flow. :) )
Hehe, yeah, although for most people sub will pull lower dps since they aren’t used to the spec and mut/combat are so much easier.