So if you haven’t noticed, Shadow Dance is currently a capstone talent in the “general” rogue class tree, meaning that both outlaw and assassination will have the option to pick up dance (though they will only be able to have one charge of it).
What I want to know is that do you think that this will be problematic? In the case of assassination, this gives the spec a lot more control than it has now, while still retaining the burst/pressure that it brings to the table. In the case of outlaw, it gives them insane damage potential, thanks to some talents that interact with ambush, and could allow outlaw rogues to lockdown teams for a very, very long time.
So not only do I think that this could be an issue of making assassin and outlaw too strong, but it also may make sub a dead spec if it’s centerpiece ability, shadow dance, is available for the other two rogue specs.
So do you think that this will be a problem in Dragonflight pvp?
Hard to say what the full scope of baseline dance will be, although I think the more interesting discussion revolves around garrote and dance being available simultaneously.
I think having both would actually be fun for once. I was actually very excited to see garrote and gouge return to all specs, but then garrote was promptly removed from shared tree. Was hoping to see more thoughts on this from other rogues, but I would take more utility over 3% physical reduction any day.
Sure, rogues being able to kidney - double cheap - double garrote is pretty toxic, but isn’t that a shadow dance problem? With kidney shot already being limited to 5cp = 5s stun, I do believe it’s not as much of a problem.
Of course, if the damage is going to be as high as shadowlands, and people will die in a cheapshot, I think rogues will be broken, but that also sounds like a damage issue, not rogue issue.
Does everyone hate cc or something, is that why we end up with 3 button specs all around?
I think Dance baseline availability is a massive mistake and it should remain sub only. Blizzard has never been able to balance sub or this ability though. Sub either does godly burst or tickles.
I will personally be avoiding using dance at all costs I dont like sub why would i want to inject sub gameplay into my assassination gameplay?