respec time

feeds@yuku.com (shadowthorn) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:34:38 GMT

k since day 1 my rogue Shadz has been speccd mace and i loved it and the stun effect.... now they go and remove stuns ... i used to use

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27901
and

The final nail in the coffin for daggers

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:13:43 GMT

For some unknown reason they have decided to nerf Renataki's Charm of Trickery to return only 20 energy... WTF!!!
Daggers have been dieing ever since the xpac was released and now this. Makes no sense at all considering mutilate rogues are a minority. Where are the shadowstep nerfs? If any rogue specs deserve a nerf atm its that and cheatdeath. I thought they said they were going to buff daggers, not kill the only...

Ouch

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:18:41 GMT

Shiv has been nerfed. It can now be dodged and parried, in addition to being resisted.

This could be the biggest nerf yet. Combat rogues have lost their edge against other rogues, all rogues have lost any chance to kill a warrior turtling in pve gear, and most of all we get to waste even more energy spamming shiv's in hopes of snaring our target as if the resists and abolish poison weren't already bad enough.

They're trying to play this off as a "bug...

PTR Change to Imp. Backstab

feeds@yuku.com (Trodan warlock) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:31:15 GMT

Puncturing wounds will take the place of improved backstab. The talent keeps the 10/20/30% increased crit chance, but it also gives a 5/10/15% increased crit chance for mutilate.

Also, most poison immune mobs are going to lose their immunity. The only exception is nature-based elementals.

As a warlock, I don't know what all that means, but some raiding rogues tired of the boring combat swords builds say a mutilate build will again be raid viable. I'll leave...

Going back to AR/Prep

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:26:00 GMT

I was 1-2 wins away from my s3 weapons running combat swords with a sl/sl lock. Had a warrior down to 5% and just threw a blind on his druid. But the druid was dotted so the blind didn't last long and the warrior got healed to full After that we ran into a mirror match but the rogue was shadowstep. Despite getting the opener on me several times they won by just a few hps. Then we ran into another shadowstep...

Interesting PVP builds

feeds@yuku.com (Trodan warlock) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:30:26 GMT

From a rogue blog.

Ok, so…a while ago I wrote about my extreme dissapointment with the changes to the subtlety tree. Specifically, the hemo nerf and the mash-up of additions to shadowstep. Well, I was wrong. Dead wrong, in fact.

Over the weekend I tried two different builds, 20/0/41 and 0/20/41…both with surprising effect. Where before I had limited (with a very narrow point of view) my x/x/41 evaluations by assuming improved ambush as the opener and improved backstab as...

Rogue Raiding Tips

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:22:07 GMT

Here's a thread on EJ that'll help you maximize your dps: http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t16940-roguecraft_101_a/
Here's a gear spreadsheet ranking the highest dps items: http://shadowpanther.net/armor-max.htm
And Here's a dps calculator:

AR/Prep's Death

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:22:18 GMT

New 2.3 Patch Notes:

* Ambush: The damage multiplier on this ability has been increased from 250% to 275%.
* Cheat Death: When multiple attacks land simultaenously, all those resolved after the attack which triggered Cheat Death will now have their damage reduced by 90% as intended. However, the combat log will still report them doing full damage.
* Hemorrhage: Rank 4 of this ability no longer has its charges consumed by non-physical attacks and spells.
* Hemorrhage weapon...

Hemo Nerfed

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:51:02 GMT

From 125% weapon damage to 110% its still good and better than it was. AR/Prep will still be amazing.

But I have decided blizzard has no effing clue what they are doing, they really need to stop nerfing the underepresented classes and start nerfing the warriors,mages,shammy,priest, and pally that are on every damn arena team instead of buffing them. This game is losing all variablelity very fast. Who seriously wants to play against the same damn make up over and over again.

Combat Hemo Build

feeds@yuku.com (Trodan warlock) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:01:08 GMT

Nice blog about analysis of a combat hemo build. Looks like a powerful raid build.

doomilias.com/?p=67#comments

Neilyo & Gumbot PVP Podcast

feeds@yuku.com (Macnchz) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:20:28 GMT

Neilyo is a fan of AR/Prep build. I keep going back to this build mainly for the extra chance to stun with maces.

Link to podcast:
www.pvpsource.com/podcast...t_ep02.mp3

Original source:
www.pvpsource.com/

Where's that damn Haste Build thread?

feeds@yuku.com (Nietchze) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:03:15 GMT

I remember reading a post about going full haste for rogues & in theory it may rock & all that, but I cannot find that post.
It had links from Trodan? I think with all the various haste items & enchants. . . anyone remember?

Nietchze Adamas - Rogue of the WoW!
Fatalities - Effing Priest. . .
Tichondrius -...

The Bandwagon Build of Season 3

feeds@yuku.com (Macnchz) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:32:23 GMT
I found this to be an interesting read.
Original Link...
www.pvpsource.com/2007/11...3/#more-68

The Bandwagon Build of Season 3
November 6th, 2007 by Sunken

My name is Sunken, a lot of you might know me from my pvp edits, the forums, my gameriot blog, amongst other things. My real name is Todd, I am 23 years old and live...

Hemo buff!

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:22:36 GMT
Hemo will now do 125% weapon damage instead of just weapon damage. Thats 45% more when combined with the Dirty Deeds buff. I've already seen a few 2k - 3k hemo crit ss's on targets with expose armor on them. Thats a pretty good buff considering my highest has been 1900 with zerker buff on an exposed target.

Also the +36 damage debuff is staying if anyones wondering about that.
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tichondrius&n=Neckrataal

S3 arena set

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:42:12 GMT
www.mmo-champion.com/imag...tments.jpg

Finaly get some + hit and increased armor. The armor penetration is gonna be pretty damn good too.

Now they just need to announce a sprint buff and I'll be happy.
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tichondrius&n=Neckrataal

2.3 Changes for Rogues

feeds@yuku.com (Macnchz) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:41:29 GMT
These are the announced changes we're planning in 2.3 for the Rogue class.

Blind is now a physical attack and the reagent requirement removed
forums.worldofwarcraft.co...&sid=1#217

Fleet Footed changed to increase movement speed by 8/15%

Riposte Macro

feeds@yuku.com (Macnchz) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:33:25 GMT
Hey guys I'm looking to spec this talent again very shortly. Anyone have a good macro for it? I know it's just as easy to hit the button when it procs, but I have enough buttons to push as it is.

I found this one on the internet, but it's from like 2005. I'm still at work so I can't test it out.....

"Well I've finally taken the time to figure this one out, here you go people

Pickpocket Macro

feeds@yuku.com (Trodan warlock) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:08:29 GMT
From a Rogue Blog. This might be very helpful.

"I've seen this particular macro posted on other Rogue sites, but I'd never tried it before this weekend.

What prompted me to do so was when I checked the auction house for fadeleaf to make some more blinding powder...only to find 1 measely piece. Since blinding powder can be found in junkboxes, I figured what the hell. I must say, it is glorious. In one heroic Sethekk Halls run, I made about 10g just from pickpocketing (coin...

HUGE incoming nerf

feeds@yuku.com (Neckrataal) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:48:30 GMT
Channeled spells are being reworked... This affects our energy, we currently get 20 energy the next tick after the opener. With the changes to channeled spells and such we will only get 5 to 10 energy back after the opener!!. This basicly increases the cost of our openers by 10 to 15 energy!!!

This is huge for any pvp rogue... just about all stunlocks will become useless (That is if you're lucky enough to find some nub without pvp gear and no pvp trinket!!!)

If this goes live...

Thinking of leaving Subtlety

feeds@yuku.com (Nietchze) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:33:38 GMT
What do you think about this spec for Arena fights? Ive never been without prep and never experienced Adrenaline Rush or Blade Fury. Im thinking of trying something new and completely different. Looking for feedback.

Rogue Talents Talents
Minimum Required Level: 70
Required Talent Points: 61

Assassination Talents - 15 point(s)
Improved Eviscerate - rank 3/3

Remorseless Attacks - rank 2/2

Malice - rank 5/5

Lethality - rank...