It’s basically a concept lifted right out of Hollywood. The most historically inaccurate “pirates of the caribbean” garbage that was brought to the outlaw spec.
It’s dumb, has nothing to do with pirates outside of a few Hollywood depictions, and makes no sense for a rogue to be rolling magical bones for RNG power. A “dice gambling” ability would make much more sense, though even that would suck, but PotC was all the rage and basically the entire reason for them ruining combat with this stupid spec.
They just need to scrap the entire spec and start over. Outlaw is Blizzard doing fan-service to fans of an entirely different product.
You always get a buff that is useful now, but it ranges from “will help you do slightly more than tank dps” to “all of them combined will give you a window of godliness” so that doesn’t really tell me much.
The fact that Roll the Bones made it past the concept stage and into the live game was just sad to begin with. The fact that Outlaw is still saddled with it almost a decade later is a travesty.
The fact alone that every feature and addition they’ve made to RtB since it was added to the game to make it more palatable to players has served the purpose of fighting back against its own entire gimmick of maximized RNG should have long ago clued the devs in that it’s an inherently awful ability.
The fact that someone looked at a class with two specs both built around Stealth reliance, managing multiple DoTs, and exclusively wielding Daggers… and decided the elegant hyperskilled fencer needed to be turned into a drunken slob with a gun in their pants to stand out is just so emblematic of Legion’s class butchery.
Instantly took my Combat rogue from one of my favorite alts to barely touched ever since.
I logged into her for the first time in a while to open some lockboxes the other day and noticed they’ve changed Killing Spree to be a bunch of gunshots.
I hate everything.
That’s kind of the most insane part of the whole mess. No matter what the RNG spits out at you, it doesn’t really change your rotational priority that much; it just makes it faster or slower. For all the extreme randomness in the buffs, RtB has virtually no impact on your gameplay, but massive swings on your performance.
It maximizes the worst part of RNG while minimizing the benefits.