Rogue Changes in 3.3.3
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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
“Rogues
- Improved Poisons: Bonus chance to trigger Deadly Poison from this talent increased.
- Murder: This talent now provides a flat damage increase of 2/4% against all targets, instead of only targets which do not appear in Icecrown.
- Preparation: The cooldown on this ability has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.
- Filthy Tricks: The cooldown reduction this talent provides for Preparation has been reduced to 1.5/3 minutes, down from 2.5/5 minutes. “
With the changes still being in “testing” none of these are final till they go live. Ill go over each change and give my thoughts and critique accordingly.
“Deadly Poison: In addition to its existing effects, when a rogue applies Deadly Poison to a target which has already reached the maximum number of applications, this will also trigger the poison which the rogue is using on his or her other weapon.”
Such a great buff to the assassin tree and the class in general. In pvp this allows you to use wound/deadly much more effectively, its almost as if you did have double wound. Right now on the PTR i have been using wound/deadly and i still apply crippling. poison at almost a identical rate. Its also nice to have envenom useful in pvp again.
“Dual Wield: Rogues now know this ability upon logging into the game at level 1.”
About bloody time! That is all.
“Stealth: This ability no longer has multiple ranks. While active, the single rank of this ability (available at level 1) allows rogues to move at 70% movement speed.”
You could call this a buff, reason being is that you have one rank which is the highest rank of stealth at a starting lvl. Meaning you can sneak by things a lot easier, even horde while lvling.
“Improved Poisons: Bonus chance to trigger Deadly Poison from this talent increased.”
Combine this with deadly having a chance to proc your other poison you get a crazy proc rate of both poisons going off at a time. In turn it will up your pve dps and you pvp damage, along with apply the poisons you need.
“Murder: This talent now provides a flat damage increase of 2/4% against all targets, instead of only targets which do not appear in Icecrown.”
Honestly one thing i hate about blizzard is that they take for ever to change things that the community have been asking for from WOTLK launch. Now that its done, your damage will be 4% higher now.
“Preparation: The cooldown on this ability has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.”
This was changed due to the fact they are not allowing any cooldowns in 3.3.3 with a base CD of 10 minutes to be used in arena. ( “All abilities that have base cooldowns of 10 minutes or longer cannot be used in Arenas, down from 15 minutes.” ) For us this is a great buff it allows us to use preparation 2 minutes earlier, which means all those times you wish you had prep just a few minutew before hand you now have.
“Filthy Tricks: The cooldown reduction this talent provides for Preparation has been reduced to 1.5/3 minutes, down from 2.5/5 minutes. “
Filthy Tricks: The cooldown reduction this talent provides for Preparation has been reduced to 1.5/3 minutes, down from 2.5/5 minutes. “
This was only changed due to the fact that prep was changed from 10 minutes to 8 minutes. I wish they had kept it, a 3 minute prep would have been awesome 🙂 I see why they didn’t though, it would have been a little silly how many you could vanish and stay alive.
Well i hope to see some more good changes and fixes to one of the most fun classes to learn and play.
PS. Fix Vanish plz 🙂
Stealth Setup 
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