Soon™

Yeah, Soon™.  That’s when the Rogue Q & A is supposed to come out.  I’m very curious as to which questions will be answered and how.  If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted anything, there’s your answer.  I really want to delve into whatever they write and write my own (highly subjective, I know) opinion.  So if you can get the blues to write the A part of the Q & A, Slice will be back to normal.

 

Update – 7/1/09:  Blue post states that we’ll get our Q & A next week:

We’ve just about wrapped up our Class Q&A Series where we answered some of the most common questions asked by the community. We’ve received a great amount of feedback thus far about the Q&As we’ve posted. If you have yet to take a look, you can find answers to a great many questions about death knights, druids, hunters, mages, paladins, shamans, warlocks and warriors. Stay tuned for the priest and rogue Q&As coming next week and, don’t be afraid to head over to our Class and Class Role forums to discuss all of the class information we’ve been sharing: 

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17223094467&sid=1 

- Sam

One Shot interview for Grinding to Valhalla

I recently did an interview for Grinding to Valhalla.  Randolph asked me some pretty good questions, and I had a great time answering them.  You should check it out if you get the chance.  Who knows, you might get to know more about the man behind the Rogue…

- Sam

Assassination Hemo?

So, I got kinda tired of not being able to put out any sustained damage in arenas.  More specifically I got tired of using Mutilate as my main combo point generating ability, because it’s so expensive.  I decided to play around with my PvP spec a bit, and altered my Mut/Prep to this:  40/5/26.  It works fairly well in 2’s, but it works even better in 3’s with the comp we’re running.  Essentially, I swapped Mutilate for Hemo, and move a few other points around that only really buffed my Mutilate damage.

This build has smoothed out and increased my damage a bit, although it’s debatable how much of the increase came from the weaponry (my swords are significantly better than my daggers).  Regardless, I’m running into less people hovering at 1k health and being healed, and finding more opponents dead at my feet.  I’m not done playing with the spec yet; depending on what I do with the talents, I could keep quick recovery and pick up cheat death too, but I don’t know that it’s necessary.

This has worked really well in 3’s as my other DPS partner is a Mut/Prep Rogue, and with the synergy between our two specs, we blow people up fast.  The best improvement we’ve seen is against plate wearers.  The other rogue does most of the burst /stuns , and I apply the steady damage/debuffs (Rupture, Expose Armor), and we can kill a plate wearer effectively and efficiently.

The bottom line:  Our 3’s rating is on the rise, but in 2’s, we keep getting close to breaking 1500, and then run into either Rogue/Mage, or DK/Pally, and one of us gets instagibbed.  We seem to fight that team or a similar one, tank the rating 50 or so points and then start winning again, but gaining far fewer points than we lost.  It’s a grind; that’s for sure.  I played in excess of 200 arenas this week between the 3 brackets.

- Sam

Rogue Q & A

I’ve been reading the Rogue questions thread on the forum.  I’m not done yet, as it is extremely long, but I’ve got a good feel for the questions being asked.  Now I’m just waiting on a blue to Answer them.  I’ll share my take on some of the questions asked, as well as what I think the core issues our class has.

Slice and Dice hits 100k

Well, we finally hit 100,000 hits on Monday, and although I held out on a 25k and 50k post, trying not to mark every single hit milestone, I feel that 100k hits is a fairly big deal, so….

/tootownhorn.

Time to get back to work (blogging).

- Sam