I’m making a rogue for fun. I’ve never played the class seriously but I’ve always been a Sassination rogue fan (I love Dot specs). I just find the stealth element odd to be used constantly.
A rare? Sure. But on goats in the field. It seems weird. I’m just hoping people can give me their 2 cents on what they find appealing about it.
If you want to rely less on stealth, play outlaw.
I enjoy rogues in the open world because I gank people and mess with them 
I havent found a groove with Outlaw. It feels like a skow Fury warrior to me.
Outlaw heavily relies on stealth to do damage now.
Assassination does best because it can dot up multiple targets in open world.
How do Rogues feel about this? That feels, to me as a non-rogue, like a step backwards.
We’re rogues. We should be using stealth.
You could maybe argue it should be a defensive instead of an offensive cooldown, but it shouldn’t feel like a useless button either.
For open world content, I like Subtlety. The Shadow Dance windows allow for quick busts of crazy damage. I can easily handle 3-4 mobs at a time, restealth and move to the next group.
Regarding stealth as a rotational ability. It doesn’t feel right. It’s something Blizzard shoved in our face with this expansion via the hero talents. The part I dislike the most is having to hold Vanish in case I need to reset the hero talents. For 20 years Vanish has been an iconic tool for Rogues. Now I have to hold on to it just in case I have to refresh a talent.
It just feels wrong. 
I do not mind Vanish being used as an offensively but when an entire spec revolves around it makes doing world content very hard.
That is why BlizZard needs to give Outlaw Rogues alternative builds that do not rely on Crackshot stealth/vanish windows.