What was the main rogue spec for PvP. How did they play? does ambush hit for crazy numbers? Or is it just spam sinister strike?
Rogues for pvp play Sub and use Hemorrhage with Swords/Maces.
It doesn’t actually matter for sub spec and IMP ambush is a fairly common pickup. Most rogues will apply multiple poisons to different weapons and swap them around. The pvp dagger is also .1 seconds faster than the sword so its often preferred since it applies poisons faster.
Nothing about rogue Pvp is “spamming” btw. Its about tightly controlled CC, target swaps and cooldown usage while managing your energy. If you’re spamming anything as a rogue in pvp expect to be sitting sub 1000
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Was only asking because never played rogue till the middle of wrath. Guess id say I didn’t really start to try to be good at a rogue or focus on my rogue till maybe the end of WoD? Legion I got 2k with my rogue, then quit. I have 3 rogues on retail all max, basically, I don’t know how rogue work in terms of how different they play from newer versions of WoW. Like Rogue from Classic/TBC/wrath is beyond different from rogue in MoP/Wod/legion etc. or at least to me.
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Sub Daggers comes back in WOTLK, when they buff it (much lower energy cost on Backstab, Backstab dmg increase, and hemo gets a damage boost while a dagger is equipped). That’s also when we get Shadow Dance.
This spec gets even stronger in Cata, when they add energy regen on Recuperate ticks and Find Weakness changes (ignores armor % for a duration after Cheap/Garrote/Ambush). I believe backstab/ambush damage gets buffed even more as well.
In MoP, the playstyle is mostly the same… but they shift a lot of the dmg from Backstab/Ambush into Eviscerate and it becomes more about spenders than builders. Backstab/Ambush never go back to being how strong they were in WOTLK/Cata. To me, WOTLK/Cata is sub daggers in it’s prime.
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Damn, that’s a blast from the past lmao. I forgot recuperate gave us energy xD. Think I’ll just wait till wrath, playing a sub rogue without Shadow Dance feels weird haha.
Double mace hemo build. Daggers are meme
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Yea, sadly TBC is all about Hemo Swords. It’s no doubt an incredibly strong spec in TBC, I just find it way less fun than WOTLK/Cata Sub Daggers.
I, too, plan on dusting my rogue off again in WOTLK. For TBC I’m most likely going to main my Priest this time around.
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Woah that’s crazy I was also looking at playing priest haha.
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For arenas i’ll go the usual sub swords/maces/fists.
But if i can get hold of some nice slow daggers, then for world pvp and bgs i’ll mostly be mutilate. It’s a lot more challenging and rewarding.
Some people do mix it up a little and go imp ambush in their sub spec but it won’t be that common. I think you’ll find the vast majority of rogues being the common sub hemo.
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I seem to recall some rogues talking about using daggers for an imp ambush spec. They’d camp spots and gank.
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Spam hemo use prep pool energy. All there is to it lol. Same strat as always, force healer to trinket, catch him in a blind with kill target in a full kidney with full energy. You don’t have to do all the target swapping in the world in BC as rogue like in retail. Maybe to kick but thats about it.
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i remember being ar/prep with maces until they nerfed it, and then buffed hemo… think i think the spec was called harp? i dont recall. i just remember hemo was pretty weak at first, and when it was redesigned it was pretty badass.
Yea harp got nerfed when they changed prep to not reset AR in patch 2.3ish
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