Rogues are in a sad state of affairs

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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Wish I knew ahead of time just how crappy rogues were in TBC… i would have saved my boost for a lock or mage.

I spent 8 hours today looking for a group to do heroics and was told 50+ times “sorry looking for caster dps”. When I did finally manage to get a group, it didnt matter how perfect I played, I was no match dps or utility wise to the under geared mage and lock in my party.

Think it’s time I retire my rogue and make a pally tank

Obviously “no changes” but something needs to be done to address rogue dps

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pally tanks are also trash in phase 1

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You’re only in a, “sorry state” because you’re one of a thousand Rogues on your server, and one of five thousand DPS players on your server. You can’t AoE outside of cooldowns so your AoE trash DPS is very low, and without good weapons - which are much more important for physical DPS than a stat stick for casters - you’ll never catch them.

Rogues are kings of PvP though, and that’s what the vast majority are playing Rogue for.

The best dungeon tank and much easier to get uncrushable.

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yea poor rogues… they so bad :frowning: qq. Only best 1v1 class in tbc but is k

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I honestly think a BM Hunter could 1v1 a Rogue. I stand zero chance on both my Enhancement, and my Shadow Priest (admittedly while leveling).

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all he has to do is vanish and wait out the beast master talent

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While the hunter flares himself, drinks back to full health/mana, mounts, and flies away.

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So your point in posting this was what exactly? Any simple search into tbc online would point to giant red signs saying “melee dps are bad until end game”. Just because you and all the other rogue players are suffering from being gear dependent doesn’t mean we should change the game right now because it’s not fair. Rogues won’t be looked at, enjoy your paladin.

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thats that sweet sideeffect of TBC… flying mounts are garbage

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I wqs lucky. I chose lock having no clue how good they were.

Now i enjoy topping meters in every dungeon i do. Pull over 1k dps ST and finish a lot of dungeons at 1.5-1.6k dps

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Don’t worry. There’s this lovely new stat on gear starting in T5 called armor penetration…

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I think ArP didn’t become relevant until late T6 and Sunwell where you could finally stack enough of it for it to matter over other stats.

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You sound like the horde community asking for Merc Mode.

Yup.

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probably should’ve done more research before making a one-time decision.

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If you look at LFG addon almost half of players creating groups are rogues. There’s simply too much rogues. Make your own group or find a guild and u r good.

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Can’t hunters track invisible?

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Why didn’t you do minimal research? People on the forums were talking about how bad rogues would be compared to their classic dps. Many of us rerolled. If you boosted a rogue and didn’t know they were going to suck it’s your own fault for not checking to see if they were good. Rogues and warriors not being number one was being talked about here, on Reddit, and even Facebook groups.

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The paladins in my guild are pretty epic tanks. I’ve healed them almost exclusively.

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lmao ye right

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Is there anything worse for enhance than a hunter? We can’t do anything except get kited to death.