7.3 changes?

[Logen Ninefingers]

Having checked patch notes, there seem to be no changes to rogues, no buffs, no nerfs?
Is that true?
There seem to be plenty of changes on PTR a bit surprising that none of them made it to 7.3.

Can anyone confirm?

[Varolyn]

Apparently Blizz is saving the assassination aura buff once the Netherlight crucible comes out, but we'll have to see if they keep their word on it. They are waiting until that moment to supposedly balance out the other specs that gain more from the +15 ilvl boost on weapons when compared to assassination and other specs.

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We got a vanish nerf for pvp sub, cd is up from 30s to 45s.

[kyhnau]

and they fixed the faint bug on Avatar

[Nekroman]

Can i take elusivness for avatar now? Killed myself last night standing still with cheat death..

[Xanatu]

So far we have: vanish bug fix, feint bug fix for unbound, weaponmaster fix for sub (works with DFA), and a 20% garrote buff from the tier bonus.

[elfporn]

So far we have: vanish bug fix, feint bug fix for unbound, weaponmaster fix for sub (works with DFA), and a 20% garrote buff from the tier bonus.

yea that bug fix for unbound chaos seemed spotty, i died to 700k ticks last night, and then was fine on all the other unbound chaos' that went out.

I also took extra damage when i cloaked goroth's infernal burning on mythic.

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So far we have: vanish bug fix, feint bug fix for unbound, weaponmaster fix for sub (works with DFA), and a 20% garrote buff from the tier bonus.

The garrotte "buff" was a tooltip correction.. Right?

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So far we have: vanish bug fix, feint bug fix for unbound, weaponmaster fix for sub (works with DFA), and a 20% garrote buff from the tier bonus.

Was the weaponmaster fix to make it no longer proc off of the first part of DfA? After about 40 casts I'm still yet to have a proc on the 5 training dummies in class order hall. Though wouldn't surprise me if it's just RNGesus hating me.

[Xanatu]

The garrotte "buff" was a tooltip correction.. Right?

Nope, definitely a buff. I compared all of my kills at various spots and unless there's some insane RNG swings that I didn't notice it's just flat out more damage. It's equal to rupture now on the majority of pulls.

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Nope, definitely a buff. I compared all of my kills at various spots and unless there's some insane RNG swings that I didn't notice it's just flat out more damage. It's equal to rupture now on the majority of pulls.

What does this mean for the garrotte relic? Is it still not worth considering?

[Varolyn]

What does this mean for the garrotte relic? Is it still not worth considering?

If you are using a bleed build maybe, but if not, Master Alchemist, Master Assassin, and Envenom relics are still far better, especially the first two.

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So if Garrote is buffed will that put assassination closer to sub dps wise?

[Varolyn]

So if Garrote is buffed will that put assassination closer to sub dps wise?

Sub will still be better than assassination as this buff is still relatively minor. It does however make sin even better at cleave and multi-dotting for fights like DI. Also note that assassination is apparently getting an aura buff when the crucible comes out, but even with that I still think sub will be better at ST.

[Blayke]

Apparently Blizz is saving the assassination aura buff once the Netherlight crucible comes out, but we'll have to see if they keep their word on it.

Anyone have any more information on this, such as the size of the aura increase?

[nocturnus]

So if Garrote is buffed will that put assassination closer to sub dps wise?

No, especially since this wasn't a SiN buff, but a Tier20 buff, which we will lose pretty quickly.

[Varolyn]

Anyone have any more information on this, such as the size of the aura increase?

it was 6% aura(so 22-28%) on ptr but they removed it along with a bunch of other aura buffs to other classes about a week before the patch came out. Then Lore said in a blue that the buffs would be hotfixed back in when the Crucible came out to help "balance" the gains that other specs would gain from the 15 ilvl increase on the weapons.