So 'ight, the big buzz for us rogues is our first AoE, Fan of Knives, and our first party buff and aggro misdirect, Tricks of the Trade. Has I had mentioned in a previous post, Feint had become pretty much useless. You know, why use Feint when we have Tricks of the Trade? Well patch 3.0.8 is gonna' change all that.
Feint is getting a new use. Read for yourself...
"Rank 8 now reduces the damage taken from area of effect attacks by 50% for 6 seconds in addition to its existing effects."
Fuck yeah! That's 'freakin' awesome. I doubt no one will use Feint to reduce aggro after the patch, but we will use it to reduce AoE damage taken.
It's like this... your in an instance or your in PvP and somethin' starts spittin' out AoE bull shit at you or your group. Activate Feint and, although it doesn't keep you from gettin' hit, it reduced that damage by 50%. Every class, as far as I know, has an AoE now of some kind, so that's gonna' be so useful in PvP and it's gonna' be life saving... yes, life saving, in some of these tough instances and raids where just one target doin' AoE damage can rip you up ('cuz healers aren't the quickest bunch to switch off the tank). So man, I'm lookin' forward to the new and improved Feint.
The only other change is a huge one... one I've known about for the longest time, but wanted to make sure it was really gonna' happen before I talked about it... Fan of Knives is gonna' have it's cooldown removed and it's gonna' deal 150% weapon damage if you're usin' daggers. Oh 'freak yeah. I realize, too, why they gave daggers 150% more weapon damage... not to show dagger luv, but because swords, fist weapons and maces are slow but have high damage. What that means is, even if my daggers have a higher DPS than someone usin' swords, the sword rogue will do more Fan of Knives AoE damage than me because Fan of Knives damage is based off of your weapon damage and not weapon speed and damage (DPS). So Blizzard corrected this by giving a buff to daggers so that daggers will do the same damage as swords.
So, Fan of Knives havin' zero cooldown will be fuckin' awesome. Right now, havin' Fan of Knives use 50 energy, you'll be able use to Fan of Knives once every 5 seconds (assuming you're starting from zero energy), the time it takes your energy to refill. You can do two AoE's instantly pretty much from full energy, but just consider Fan of Knives havin' it's cooldown reduced to 5 seconds to keep it simple. I'm so lookin' forward to that.
And those are the only changes to come to rogues, and that's cool 'cuz those are big changes. We get our AoE "fixed" and we also get defense against harmful AoE's. I'm lookin' forward to this...
Jeaxx
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