Rogues need to be nerfed in arena

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I don’t think since the start of DF I have ever beaten a rogue in there, no matter if I go WW or BrM, doesn’t matter who I have as a team mate, doesn’t matter if it’s 2v2 or 3v3, at the very least I can survive somewhat as a tank, but it’s always the same outcome, the rogue wins.

Yes, I have a PVP iLVL, currently at 420.44, yes I know how to play arena, that’s not the issue.

It’s the rogues and how OP they are in small fights like arena. Sap, sap again, sap again, disorientate, oh look my team mate is dead. If my team mate lives, it’s blind, or gouge or something else that the rogue has that can lock you out of a fight. If they run out of CC than their partner can throw something, it’s almost always 1v2 in favour of the team with the rogue.

Once today I got close, got the rogue down to 20% or so and it was just us 2 left, but the numbing? poison, that kept me moving at a snails pace, than more CC, than the rogue vanished, so I collected the eye to ‘see’ the rogue, but I could not find them, so I collected the other eye on the other side of the arena, still could not find them. But they found me, more sap, than they unloaded all their CD’s and it was game over.

If a rogue cannot beat you they will just vanish and wait for their CD’s to be back up, and since the eye thing is useless, they can simply run in circles while you try find them until vanish is back up, and it just goes on and on and on.

It was never this bad on SL, I don’t know what’s changed, but every rogue I encounter in arena it’s an automatic lose for my team, and since they are so strong, they are in every second game.

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Rogues have been in the top meta since arena became a thing. I don’t think it’s ever going to change.

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It feels worse now, I know they have been strong and 2 x rogue are basically a free win, but during SL at least I could kill them at times, now I can’t even get a single win against one.

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They have too much cc and ways to lock you out of a fight. It is why they also have good harmony with mages and priests.

I think their damage is a bit extreme as well, but I would rather have them time down their crowd control, than to nerf their damage.

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They would have to reduce the CC, but that’s what makes rogues rogues, if they nerfed their CC than they would just be another class that hits hard and can stealth. But if they reduce their damage than they can still CC you out of it and force a 1v2 or 2v3 fight. Can’t win either way.

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play rated battlegrounds instead of arenas maybe? or play 5v5 wait are 5v5 even still a thing sorry i only play casual bgs on leveling toons

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I don’t know if 5v5 was ever a thing, but arena used to be the fastest way to spam conquest and honour and it’s much easier to find 1 or 2 people as opposed to 9. It’s not so fast now when you run into a rogue that spends so much time in stealth waiting on CD’s.

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If only there was a class that could light up the area and knock a rogue out of stealth. A flare, if you will.

:slight_smile:

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Rouge would just pump as. We get two shot by most of them.

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I agree.

Nerf ret.

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i agree nerf draenei rogues.

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Demon Hunters. Don’t leave home without one.

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My sub rogue agrees… nothing to see here and no hunter has ever been 2-shot. Ever.

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Are you using Camo?

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My last arena today I used the eye thing, twice, and couldn’t find the rogue.

I even had a DH with me but I was CC’d out of the fight. Any stealth class with half a brain knows to avoid a flare and kill the DH before hiding again.

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Pretty sure they already were. They had their T4 nerfed hard. But rogues were always meant to be CC rats. They thrived in the arenas. Just gotta be careful when facing one

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Monks need to be nerfed everywhere.

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You must be talking about a Hunter of average skill or better. I’ve been none shot a few times in my day. 3 or 4 separate occasions where I feigned death and straight up stayed dead. …and now I’m an undead Mage. Go figure.

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Your transformation is complete… need undead rogue-mage talent trees.

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Honestly I hate monks, I’d rather face a rogue than a monk. Monks are just a confusing mess that’s hard to tell where the damage even comes from or WTF they are doing and seem to have way too much utility.
But maybe that’s just me.

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