that is to say that i have no desire for any existing spec to be reworked/changed but rogues and bows go together just as well as rogues and daggers/swords. i wonder why that is. i recall reading that in vanilla-wotlk i believe there were ranged weapons many melee classes could use, so it wouldn’t necessarily have to be centered around bows, either.
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Rogues and Warriors could use ranged weapons in vanilla, yes. But outside of Aug, Blizzard have never made new specs for classes. Hence no ranged rogue.
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Druid went from 3 to 4 specs when the split feral into guardian/feral.
I would have loved for Sin to be an all dagger throwing spec.
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Yeah but those were not so much “new”. Just Feral Combat being split into two specs.
As much as I’d love to have a ranged spec that uses dual pistols or something which I’m not saying is impossible because the animations for those have been in the game since Cataclysm but there is no winning with adding it to this class.
One of two things would happen no matter what which would be, A) you’re forced to play it because it’s ranged aka Boomkin / Marks / BM and ranged just get to payphone, or B) the ranged spec brings literally nothing and it’s left to rot because the other spec(s) bring a mandatory buff aka Enhancement with Windfury.
They did. It’s called hunter.
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I know this isnt a real answer but who remembers MOP sub rogue with the shurikens hitting like a truck?
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loving the SOD runes that make us ranged, and the preview that blizz showed had a gnome rogue with a waist shuriken toss rune, so we might get even more ranged, but hopefully you dont need a throw weapon equipped for it
when i picture hunter i dont really picture somebody chucking a knife from stealth with deadly accuracy
I will stream a low level ranged rogue pvp spec in SoD tomorrow sometime.
There is probably a VoD on my Youtube or Twitch already.
dark ranger should of been a hero 4th spec for rogue. Shadow death magic, leather, bow and daggers. Just makes sense.
If not dark ranger some kind of pistol dagger engineer mid range spec.
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Rogue should get their ranged weapon slot back, and a few skills that use it, like in SOD.
You can’t beat the aesthetic of a cloaked thief with daggers at their hip and a bow on their back. D4 got it right, (one of the few things it did right…) WoW should take notes.
Dark Ranger, especially for rogue would be literally #1 on my Wishlist, both class fantasies go together really well and i think would be a good addition. (Shadow Focused, Ranged, Rogue, Maybe even some Necro like Warcraft elements)