I’d like to pose the question in the title to all you rogues who partake in PvP to see what your perspectives are and if they match mine.
My take is that I feel pretty weak in PvP right now. Like, I don’t feel 100% useless; but I definitely feel weaker and less of a threat than I did in Dragonflight at any point. I play both assass and sub. I don’t really like outlaw, so I never touch it. The main type of PvP content I participate in is random BGs of all types and a little bit of solo rated blitz.
After doing a bunch of random BGs with both hero specs on both assass and sub, I settled into trickster sub. But I can’t really say with any true conviction that this is best or that I have any compelling reason for picking it.
I find I face the same issues on both specs. Assass has a little better sustain, but I’m consistently out-damaged by many other classes in BGs. Sub, while all about its burst, doesn’t feel too bursty or terribly effective. I’m regularly able to execute a full triple stun DR sequence without really pushing my targets very close to death. Once that’s over and they begin to react, I’m often chewed up way quicker than I was able to do to them.
CC and micro-CC is everywhere. I’m constantly stunned, slowed, rooted, and incapped. I don’t feel like I really see crippling poison slowing anyone I happen to be hitting. It’s a constant chase to keep up with people, and it’s far harder to disengage and reset a fight now with the vanish changes we got this expansion.
Part of me always immediately thinks I’m just a terrible rogue even though I’ve been playing the class since TBC. But then I log on my devoker, who has less gear than my rogue, and people melt. I mean, I chunk their health with a fraction of the effort I have to put forth on my rogue. And that’s even with my muscle memory and actual skill on devoker being nowhere near what it is on my rogue.
I know balance is always changing in this game, and I doubt Blizz will ever truly achieve it. But I feel like rogue is just in a really rough spot right now. Anyone else feel the same? And if not, what are you doing to get different results or to overcome the current challenges of the class?