Its not haste, at least classically not haste as a stat. Its attack speed, that’s actually different.
It does a few things, first it causes your auto swings to be more frequent giving you more consistent white damage as a component of your DPS.
Second it increases your poison proc rate based on the increase in auto attacks.
right now its not like Mutilate or envenom actually do anything, most of the damage in retail is passive or RNG, so something a little more under your control is not so bad.
Also SnD is good because its a very easy to adjust ability that blizzard can use to tune rogue DPS more accurately for PVE while tuning PVP abilities like Mutilate, Dispatch, envenom, etc more correctly toward actual damage rather than application buff modifiers.
Assassination is basically a DoT spec at this point…yeah adding SND isn’t exciting for Assassination but Blizz can add something to make it work if it slows down the spec too much.
I assume you mean attack speed by this since it’s the spec that needs Haste the most for energy regen. When it comes to SnD think of it as your first Envenom though. You’ll be using it after your Rupture. You might not use it at all if you’re quickly killing mobs for a world quest. SnD would have higher priority if it actually interacted with the spec at all such as granting the Energetic Recovery effect that Sub has.
Actually no, they can tone down the mastery a lot and move the damage into active abilities again.
Not sure why you guys are so obsessed with passive abilities and procs and RNG BS now days.
Moving damage from passive into active is good because it removes the training wheels from the class build, making bad rogues bad again, and good rogues good again.
I agree 100%, I’d much prefer my actual abilities being the bulk of my damage, but with the way Blizzard balances things, instead of nerfing the power of passive damage sources and redistributing that to actives it’s more likely that the actives are going to be nerfed to make room for Slice and Dice’s increase to passive damage sources (Autoattacks and Deadly Poison/Instant Poison procs).
I suspect that rogues are passive damage because they hate rogues, not even kidding. They dont want us to control our damage because then we might kill something and flex our skills.
A few people looking at the PPM of poisons with and without SnD found that the increase in attack speed didn’t increase the PPM of poisons.
Blizzard is really, really trying to make SnD not feel rewarding. They’ve limited it to only white damage, no interaction with poisons, no interaction with energy regen, no interaction with cooldowns… it’s as boring as Blizzard could make it.
In classic it’s 100% pure % chance on hit as far as I can tell, making high speed attack rates proc more awesomeness.
It was % based at least all the way into wrath and potential even in cata and mop.
Is it become PPM as a component of blizzard being spiteful to rogues with WoD and later?
Some will say blizzard doesn’t hate rogues, but I know better. Super Sticky Glitter Bomb says hi.
That and the over simplification of the class into basically all passive damage from what was formerly the most active damage of any melee in game.
The sharp contrast of rogues in classic vs what they are in retail annoys me greatly.
PS how do you like P5 Dungeon set 2 4PC vs P4 BiS?
I’m on the fence about the dungeon set2 because as long as the raid comp is good and as long as my guild isn’t too drunk or high I can put down damn good damage even without world buffs, hell most of my raids are just mongoose for consumes and standard raid buffs because I like the dirt nap on the first pull, it’s my thing.
That affected Druids too though. And we know Blizz doesn’t hate Druids.
Affected Mages too if we want to include Greater Invis, but I think that’s reaching.
I like how the one spec that actually wanted snd back, combat, still has to deal with the stupidity that is rtb… this deb team definitely didn’t play rogue before our specs were destroyed after MoP. They certainly don’t listen to us about what makes the class iconic… rip gouge.