I’ve taken some time away from WoW recently, well kind of. I’ve just played the game a lot less and haven’t been paying much attention to patches and the meta.
I only have a few more days left on my subscription and am wondering if a few things have changed.
1.) Are both sub rogue and outlaw still better than Assassination for pvp? Hoping for a change here, it’s been the case for like 90% of the last 3 years.
2.) Are there currently any bugs pulling rogues out of stealth? This seems to be happening way too often and blizzard completely ignored the one from the tier set in season 2.
3.) Is 2v2 with a healer still the best bracket for Assassination rogues? Finding a healer the last time I played was so bad that I’d end up always having to take healers with terrible gear or much lower rating to just get some games running.
4.) Are Assassination rogues a strong pick/viable for rated battlegrounds? Or will I get booted from groups because I am not playing sub rogue? I had to switch to sub rogue in shadowlands to reach 2.1k rating in RBGs and it sucked. I just want to play the spec I enjoy.
5.) Are there any upcoming changes that will effect Assassination that I should be aware of?
Side note; I enjoy 2v2 arena, my highest rating is 2.2k from shadowlands in the bracket. I just don’t enjoy sitting around waiting an hour to find a healer with similar rating/gear. I also have no interest in playing double dps.
they are decent pretty squishy though
s++ is still better than s, yeah. it’s cringe to let that stop you but live your truth
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A good assa rogue is viable. Like Nelphy said it’s a pick between s+ and s
The balancing in this game hardly makes sense right now. It’s all Dhs/dks/locks/rdruids.
The gap between those specs and the rest is pretty massive.
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In what bracket? I just watched a tier list video from a couple of high rated/experienced players and both are putting Assa in B tier and sub/outlaw in S.
From what I watched, apparently Assa rogue in solo shuffle is a pretty terrible time?
Tier list are fried and hardly worth considering.
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Yeah you’re probably right at high levels. I’ve seen them ganking in bgs and bgblitz. I haven’t done any ss this season. He said he had 2.2k exp , I figured he being a good player could make it work.
They are mostly used to see people’s bias.
I can dominate in bgs and blitz, usually topping the charts in both killing blows and damage while only getting killed maybe once or twice the entire match, but rated pvp is different. Beating up casual PvPers isn’t hard with the amount of hours I’ve put into my rogue haha.
Rated PvP seems so freakin sweaty this expansion compared to shadowlands. In shadowlands I could easily get 1800 within the first week of every season for multiple classes… In Dragonflight I was going against people riding glad mounts at 1500, like ??? lol
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They probably will not be good for a bit since rets just got buffs and they can just bop their stuff.
assa is very squishy in RSS rn, you may see one here and there doing well or even great, but for the most part, they’re the first blood…
can confirm its brutal
in 2s assa is very strong
outlaw is by far the best rogue spec right now but it’s objectively broken mechanically
assa was competitive all of bfa, most of sl, and half of df so far so i’m not sure what you’re talking about
this isn’t a tuning thing as much as a mechanical one
sub mechanically will always be better at doing the things rbgs want from rogues
assa is like it always has been fine/strong in 2v2
Yeah it’s super fried how predictable every tier list is. Whatever the person mains is always at A tier but towards the bottom or F tier and whatever counters them is at S+.
Hard to find wow content creators with good takes who aren’t super biased which makes it easy for people who don’t know better to fall into the trap of taking everything they say as a fact.
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I don’t think Assa is bad however I do not think its on an S tier level like Sub and Outlaw are. If you decide to do shuffle Assa is pretty miserable. For 2v2 I would say Assa is in a ok spot its best healers are probably Rdruid, FW and disc priest but if you are wanting to do double dps look at sub. In Rated BGs Assa I hear is pretty decent into Guardian Druid EFCs but I haven’t really done RBGs lately to comment on how good Assa is in it.
Assa is really strong it’s just u can actually get punished for trinket cloak evasion vanishing in the first 30 seconds of the game
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Sin is golden. It’s a 10% outlaw nerf away from being what the rest of the meta shifts around.