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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Cataclysm Talents

There are a lot of changes coming to talents in Cataclysm. For Cataclysm, Blizzard has decided to completely redesign the talent trees, the way talents are gained and spent changes quite dramatically. First off, they cut the talent trees in half, but then again, they cut the talent points in half too, ending up with 41 at level 85, so its not too big of a deal, 76 talent points would have been an awful lot of talent points anyway.

Assassination spec hasn't much, Hunger for Blood has been replaced by Vendetta, a 30 sec 20% damage buff with a 2 min cooldown, and I think they're trying to force both Rupture and Backstab into the rotation.

Subtlety seem to remain mainly a PVP spec, with a bit of DPS splashed in, all in all about as useless as ever :'( .

Combat, however, has a lot of interesting changes, and with the addition of Combat Readiness, the combat tree is putting rogues well on the way to tanking. With the talents Reinforced Leather, and Improved Recuperate, rogues get a huge increase in damage reduction, as well as being able to self heal 5% of max health every 3 seconds, and 6% less damage taken, for 30 seconds, for only 5 combo points. All these things, along with the rogues evasion ability, and inherent high dodge, are really making rogues look more and more like tanks.

  Now you might think I'm joking, but in deep in ever rogues heart, there lies the desire to take aggro and completely destroy everything. Seriously, this is every rogues dream, to tank, as a rogue. This is the reason there was a dodge debuff in SWP and now in ICC, because a rogue wanted to tank so bad, they became the perfect tank. Blizz couldn't handle that. So I believe this is an effort to satiate every rogues desire to survive while tanking aggro, maybe they just don't want ungeared rogues to die every pull in every instance. All I know is, we need another class to step up and be able to tank, and who better than the rogue ;)

26 comments:

  1. Nice write up. Showing my support for this.

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  2. I play a fury warrior. I just hate that we'll have the option of using 1handers. We'll be competing with combat rouges now :(

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  3. I haven't played my rogue in months, but i'm tempted to start him back up haha :)

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  4. I really like to play rogues.

    But I prefer Silkroad Online

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  5. I can't WAIT for this game. Wonder if rogues will stop pwning me in pvp now x.x

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  6. What is this I don't even. Just some stuff on what you said near the end. Recuperate looks to be a leveling spell, to help you get back on your feet faster. Also, it's preposterous to think Blizzard added the debuff to SWP and ICC to nerf rogues. They did it so people wouldn't smash through the content and also made them think more about their strategy. Good luck with the blog, anyway.

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  7. wow... love so much this game :o
    need the new add on <3

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  8. @Anonymous
    Actually, thats the only reason they added the dodge debuff in SPW and ICC, because a rogue tanked Illidan.
    Using end game gear, the right spec, the right buffs, the right debuffs on the boss, and all epic agility gems, a rogue hit the avoidance cap, became literally unable to be hit, and smote Illidan like only a rogue can :D

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  9. Great read here, didn't know alot of this stuff

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  10. I hate the fact that I had to sell my last 2-month renewal card to a friend for gas monies for the car... but I like reading about it...

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  11. Never played a rogue. I lost all interest after watching the epic RTZS series :)

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