What do you all think is the easiest rogue spec to play? Sub looks intimidating to me. Assassination doesn’t look to terribly bad. Outlaw maybe in between the two?
Probably Outlaw atm. Pretty forgiving and as you get better, has a ton of potential.
Outlaw damage rotation is pretty GCD heavy and somewhat hard to do correctly. If you’re a bad outlaw you’re just gonna do absolutely 0 damage.
It’s gotta be sin. Dot people up press deathmark and at lower ratings where people don’t notice these things they just die because deathmark still does insane damage.
Sub has the easiest rotation to actually do damage imo. But I’d generally say Assa>Sub>Outlaw from easiest to hardest to play.
Assa is absolutely the easiest rogue spec.
Pre dance you couldn’t mess up assa because you were a kidney bot. The only real skill cap on assa damage was making sure you went in to kidney / shivs with energy pooled so you could fit hte most envenoms inside of it and that isn’t evne a thing anymore because of thistle tea.
Sub is easy but when you have access to so many stuns so often, decision making becomes way mroe dynamic than it does on say assa.
And if you don’t know how to play outlaw you absolutely go from doing the most damage to doing less than every spec in the game. Outlaw is GCD heavy and requires an acute understanding of the spec to get value.
Playing assa, you press garrote and rupture nad then afk and you’re blasting.
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All the outlaw rogues I fought at 1600 that do 0 damage and randomly cc would disagree, every time I see an outlaw while gearing a new character I just take it as an easy win. Outlaw needs a decent to high mechanical player to pull off. At least from the experience I’ve had.
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For sure, this is all just opinion. Outlaw is really forgiving when it comes to defensives. I guess it’s just a matter of what everyone considers is easy. Assassin dies really easily, so pick your poison.
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I’ve fought some outlaws that absolutely pumped and some that did literally nothing. I see what you are saying!
I think sub is the most straightforward in terms of what’s “easiest” to play decently. Outlaw is a better spec but doing damage isn’t as straightforward imo. If you’re already good at rogue, it’s going to feel easier to push many comps as outlaw. If you’re rerolling rogue, I think you’ll have a better time as sub at first.
Assassination is also relatively straightforward and also does a lot of damage. Not super difficult to pick up and also eat stuff alive in solo shuffle with. Will be harder into other rogues than the other two though. You also play it a lot differently from the other two. Just my .02.
Only sub is the semi difficult one. Assa is basically a squishy warrior, but the learning curve isn’t very steep. Outlaw isn’t that hard either.
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