when is the spec going to get fixed?
its pretty terrible, feels bad and behind almost every spec in the game. been playing assa since legion and this is the worst its ever felt.
not asking for crazy aoe bleeds and stuff like that past two expacs, aoe silence was a cancer to the game, but the spec needs better energy regen and mobility. Its crazy how im snared longer and slower than my own poisons apply to other targets.
its so boring, slow to ramp up and if you drop bleeds with no tea you are SOL.
Blizzard is probably “done” with balance changes for a while. They just left this mess for us and went on balance vacation.
its unfortunate.
sub needs some more nerfs. and whatever outlaw changes were made recently may have been too much. assa’s damage is fine overall, but the flow of the class is way off. doesnt feel good in shuffle.
Assa isnt even that bad atm. Just the other two rogue are busted
Agree. Ive been maining it since the end of Legion and this is by far the weakest version of the spec ive ever played. Its still playable/viable for people who really enjoy it but not by much.
That said it does have a gimmicky one shot it can pull off with Kingsbane and Implacable Strikes if you have a high amount of mastery. So dont be surprised if some chronic rival/duelist players come and try and tell you its actually really good because they aggro trinketed a Disarm in the opener and got globaled later at 1500mmr.
Realistically the spec needs some of the last 6 years worth of rogue CC pruning reverted. Like yeah it covers a lot of DR schools but its all on long CDs like 2m Blind and cheap/silence being tied to 2m vanishes.
They 1000000% need to put Sub’s double cheap shot talent on the rogue class tree, and it probably needs to proc off of re-stealths too. Assa/outlaw should probably have a talent to reduce Kidney CD since they really dont play much like rogue specs anymore.
The energy situation is really bad. And what makes it worse is that assa has TEN talents it takes to help with energy and even with all ten of them this is the best we get.
Idk they really made a mess of assassination but its been building over the last 6 years and I really dont think numbers tuning can fix it unless it got REALLY overtuned. Probably needs an expansion level redesign or something if its going to actually be “better than just viable”.
Standard Assa Rogue lobby atm:
https://i.imgur.com/r6OhFmG.png
Also Whaaz was asked about it on stream the other day and he said he thinks it’s sleeper. Idk maybe better players than him and those in the screenshot have different experiences.
Assa is actually quite good right now. Playing a spec poorly does not mean its bad or behind every spec in the game. The only reason you won’t see it often is because all 3 rogue specs are very good, outlaw being the best of the 3, sub being very good and assa being very good so you’ll see a lot more rogues playing outlaw since its just disgusting rn. The other 2 specs are still very good.