Rogue Development Changes Posted (Tier Sets, Fatebound/Tricker)

Classes Rogue
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  • Assassination Rogue

    • 2-set bonus: Garrote’s damage is increased by 30% and it also applies your weapon poisons.

    • 4-set bonus: Garrote’s Energy cost is reduced by 10. Mutilate, Ambush, and Fan of Knives deal 25% increased damage to targets affected by your weapon poisons.

  • Outlaw Rogue

    • 2-set bonus: Blade Rush’s damage is increased by 30% and its damage to your primary target is increased by an additional 25%.

    • 4-set bonus: Blade Rush’s cooldown is reduced by 6 seconds and it increases your damage dealt by 5% for 8 seconds.

  • Subtlety Rogue

    • 2-set bonus: Finishing moves deal 1.5% more damage per combo point spent.

    • 4-set bonus: Shadow Blades has 4 seconds increased duration and causes your attacks to deal an additional 6% damage as Shadow.

  • Hero Talents

    • Fatebound

      • New Talent: Sometimes Lucky – Critical strike chance increased by 3%.

      • New Talent: Controlled Chaos – After flipping a Fatebound Coin that ends a streak of 4 or more, flip another that matches the same face.

      • New Talent: Ravenholdt Mint – Flipping Heads increases damage by an additional 4%. Damage dealt by flipping Tails is increased by 15%.

    • Trickster

      • New Talent: Hoodwink – Fazed increases damage taken by an additional 3%.

      • New Talent: Flashing Steel – Unseen Blade may now occur once every 15 seconds and has 25% chance to strike twice.

      • New Talent: Clever Combatant – Pistol Shot/Shuriken Storm has 20% increased critical strike chance and now triggers Unseen Blade when available.

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Blade Rush… really? I was hoping to skip that talent as I was tinkering in the talent calculator. Oh well.

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I love Blade Rush but the way they are forcing usage of BR and Kspree which are both talent choices is the wrong way to go about it IMO.

I think with BR being part of a tier set it indicates they ARE balancing the spec’s energy and damage profile around BR now.

Sub’s bonuses are pretty straightforward but the spec may see more changes so that is maybe why they kept it very simple.

Assassination set bonuses are really interesting to say the least right now.

:surfing_woman: :surfing_man:

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And Assassination’s Sanguine Blades has been removed on Alpha build.

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blade rush is actually pretty cool this expansion, and you’ll need it for energy anyways

a large painpoint since df was how blade rush was left abandoned

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1 shots are back on the menu and Fatebound PvP dominance again.

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Yeah new FB talents are huge W’s right now on paper.

:surfing_woman: :surfing_man:

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I wouldn’t call them interesting. They are just simple damage increases. I like simple so I’m not complaining.

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as a long time, user and advocator of blade rush, I have a slightly mixed feelings on blade rush being the tier set bonus. Is that 30% actually good? like how hard is BR hitting for on alpha? hopefully, 700k +… I know there’s a squish happening, but we should be able to make a comparison.

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i mean, its a fairly substantial button in midnight so it being a tierset is fine. someone did napkin math in the discord a bit ago and it ended up being decently strong as far as first season tier sets go (remeber the goal is 5-8% goal increases for season1 tiersets). obviously its not that cut and dry, but considering you slam br on cd anyways. this ends up being a net positive

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The only problem with that in pvp is I used it as a charge, especially against those pesky kiting classes. with the cdr and the 4pc shaving off 6 seconds, should be back up in a relatively short time I guess.

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