Warlords Rogue Alpha Update #3: Blizz Won’t Back Up on Backstab
In the week and a half since my last update, we’ve seen a flurry of conversations with WoW game designers on Twitter (a Blade Flurry, some might say, ahahaha, ahaha, ha), but no major new developments...
View ArticlePatch 5.4.8 PTR: No, Burst of Speed Isn’t Being Nerfed
When the datamining robots of doom at Wowhead and MMO-Champion caught an extremely odd tooltip change for Burst of Speed last night, they did what any good Internet robot would do: spit the data out...
View ArticleWarlords Rogue Alpha Update #4: Take Back the Knives
Updated Warlords of Draenor alpha notes, a new slew of datamined spell changes, a gaggle of designer tweets: Gee golly, it’s almost enough to make a person think there’s actually something substantial...
View ArticleWarlords Rogue Alpha Update #5: The Roguevolution Will Be Twit(ch)evised
Inscrutable headlines ftw! This is what happens when I put off updates for too long: THINGS. SO MANY OF THE THINGS. A gaggle of notable rogue players are now running around willy-nilly in the Warlords...
View ArticleWarlords Rogue Alpha Update #6: The Sound of Snipping
Just when your spellbook thought it was safe to come out of your virtual desk drawer… WHAM. Edward Scissorhands strikes again. Yep, those gasps you heard late in the evening on June 13 were the dying...
View Article5 Rogue Weapon Damage Coefficients Go Wackadoo in New Warlords Beta Build
Oh, hey everybody. I’ve been away for quite a while (real life can be so rudely demanding some summers), so I’ve missed a whole mess of important Warlords-related class updates. Since I had prided...
View ArticleAssassination Up, Combat/Subtlety Down (for Now) in New WoD Beta Builds
This Warlords datamining update is cross-posted on Ravenholdt, the very bestest rogue class fansite in the history of ever. A pair of new Warlords of Draenor beta builds — 18967 and 18973, for those of...
View ArticlePatch 6.0.2 Rogue Hotfixes: Wound Poison Down; Hemo Up; Cloak and Dagger, Um…
(This is cross-posted on Ravenholdt, the most rogue-iest rogue site in historogue.) Tuning changes for all classes have continued into the first week following the launch of the major pre-expansion...
View ArticleAt BlizzCon 2014, Rogue Issues Are Highly Visible
(Photo credit: Wowhead) (As always, this is being cross-posted on Ravenholdt, which thinks you should be calling your mother more often.) It was a very stealthy BlizzCon. In the live raid competition...
View ArticleOne Week Into WoD Raiding, Highmaul Rogues Are Riding High. Ish. Sorta.
(This is, as always, cross-posted over on Ravenholdt, where all the hip rogues go. Do people even say “hip” today non-ironically?) Week one of Highmaul, the firstest-ever raid in the Draenor-iest...
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