I was really disappointed to see Restless Blades removed from Combat Rogue before the WoW Forever beta launched. I really like the mechanic from other versions of WoW and would love to see it represented here.
Spending combo points to reduce the cooldowns of your abilities creates a really satisfying gameplay loop. Finishers aren’t just damage buttons; every combo point you spend helps you get back to the more interesting parts of your toolkit faster.
By comparison, reducing the Energy cost of Eviscerate just feels very passive. It may end up being numerically strong, but it doesn’t really add anything interesting to the rotation or give Combat more identity.
If Restless Blades needed to be tuned down, I’d much rather see Blizzard adjust the amount of cooldown reduction, change which abilities it affects, or move some of its power elsewhere rather than remove the mechanic completely.
Restless blades was one of those talents that makes you want to try a class, I would really love to see it come back during the beta.
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Extremly dissapointed also, the combat rogue needed something to spice it up a little as its quite bland and restless blades was that.
Hopefully it sees a return at somepoint as just an energy reduction to eviscerate is not very creative
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A real big disappointment for the Combat spec. Super weak given the other rogue spec option at this level. Would anyone actually pick this talent?
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Rogues are exactly what new blizzard hates so they are destroying and making class pretty much unplayable. They making sure it isnt world of roguecraft thats fpr sure rogues are least played in beta atm. Blizzard give us back Restless Blades no one gonna pick that new talent way to destroy a spec
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I just don’t like how its only Evis why doesn’t it also effect S&D and Venom and Rupture then were talking. Even if it was just Rupture/Evis/Venom because as it is now its just a talent for combat. Assassin rogue cant cast Evis in this economy and sub is incentivized to have muti ruptures out. its not the same as cold blood or prep where the other two specs can still play with it.
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Can combat rogue please get the restless blades talent that was in the day 1 beta? That restless blades would be really good for combat rogues to be #1 damage for single target for sure
Really skeptical that a classic-like rogue would have the energy/minute or CP/minute to make restless blades exciting. Forever combat is going to be casting SnD about three times per minute, that leaves you with about two casts of damaging finishers to activate restless, so with max uptime you’re getting 16-20 seconds of restless blades CDR discounts per minute? It would likely be stronger than FE - which i agree feels like filler - but not exactly earthshattering.
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Yea Combat is to GOAT tree for leveling and raiding. But IDK how its going to play out since the energy regen is questionable at the moment. I really think they need to add Vitality (3pt/24% energy regen rate increase) to the tree in place of Aggression, then just balance it based on that.
DPS can always be balanced out, but if a class feels bad to play, very few will play it.
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Crazy that this was on the blizzcon version and removed apparently?
Considering I literally never use eviscerate while leveling this would be amazing
I’m adding another post idk where to add it—Can combat rogue please get restless blades. From the looks of it that talent and or probably anything would help make rogues #1 single target like intended. As of now single target rogue is still struggling
