I’ve seen countless Mages healing.
I’ve seen Ret Palis do actual dps.
But I’ve yet to see a single rogue tank.
Where they at?
Still haven’t found the tank rune.
Also, we’re only good at physical tanking and have zero way of dealing with casters outside of kicking. It’s rough out here.
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I was going to play a rogue tank but they look too squishy right now. Maybe it’ll get better in a few phases
saw a NPC named Alonso by talondeep pass, might be for it, idk I’m a druid
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i found alonso as a rogue but he does not seem to do anything for the rune at all. i tried a bunch of emotes but he didn’t respond at all to any of them
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Dang. It’s just rough that all the other classes got their “roleswitching” runes handed to them early on, while rogues have none for the advertised tanking.
Feels like bad design.
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Honestly, it kinda is. Rogue tanking for phase 1 seems more in line for leveling more than anything else but I’ll still be happy to figure it out whenever we find it.
On the other hand, no one has found warlock meta yet so it looks like it’s just shamans and paladins thriving for “new” tanks at the moment.
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Pretty clear they have no intention of rogue actually tanking until future seasons, who knows what level bracket it will actually become even playable as a tank, let alone remotely viable…because even when the tank rune is found, I dont see how thats going to do much. Sure 20% phys DR and extra parry from blade dance/main gauche does “something”, but base rogue isnt remotely tanky so those runes just make it take a somewhat healable amount of damage as long as its ONLY physical damage. Spec has no self sustain at all, and has absolutely no way to deal with magic damage outside of kicking casts, not to mention it has 0 ways of generating AoE threat. How are you going to keep agro over mages doing 10x the AoE damage of any other class in the game, while also doing a ton of healing at the same time? At this point, theres no reason to play anything but stacking as many mages as you can with whatever tanks can maybe hold agro. Mages arent just healers, or DPS, they might as well be tanks too. Crazy, who would have thought giving mages even more aoe damage, and making them heal crazy amounts on top of that would be incredible broken…? Definitely couldnt see that one coming…
Balance generally seems pretty horrendous right now, doesnt seem like multiple new types of specs/roles/builds will be remotely viable or playable until later phases.
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Lock here, I feel your pain. They probably locked it behind a rag kill or something stupid like that.
The Rogue tank rune is a bit of a grind, afaik it’s obtained from getting honored with the waylaid supplies faction. Additionally it’s still kind of rough, since the parry chance comes from your finishing move, it means you start the fight squishy. Also no AOE until we unlock Blade Flurry in phase 2
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Yeah it’s really weak the more I learn about it. I’m not going to stress getting it since it shares a slot with our free and improved poisons.
Maybe by the time it’s a viable tanking spec Blizzard will have made the waylaid supplies non-unique.
having to do rep to get it
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i dont wanna be a tank!
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