Originally Posted by
shoegazing
I don't think the spec needs any further nerfs than the 5% agility that it already received. I have watched a lot of streams of top players this week and haven't seen sub rogues dominating at all.
Tempo Storm, the best RMD team in North America and the outright winner of the last two Road to Blizzcon tournaments, was struggling the other day at 2.4k mmr. Pika might be the most talented rogue in the NA PvP scene but he's clearly frustrated atm and having some trouble adjusting. Others like Nahj and Roastyz are doing quite well but not any better than you would expect from perennial R1 players with heavy tournament experience. Other players of similar caliber playing different classes are right up there with them.
I think people are just complaining about rogues right now because they haven't adjusted to the fact that we can deal burst damage again. But the burst isn't any different really from what we had in WotLK, Cata, MoP, and WoD. And we have a lot less control now than we did then.
Maybe I'm biased but I think it's far too early to conclude that the spec needs nerfed. Give people some time to figure out that a single monk Incap or warrior Disarm shuts down an entire Shadow Dance now, lol...
Have a look at the leader boards here: rogues look decent but we are hardly dominating.