Update #2 - We mirrored the interview in this post if you want to check it out.
Update - Looks like the escapist took the article down, probably went up earlier than expected.

Rogue Legendary and Patch 4.3
Another interview showed up today in The Escapist. The most important part is the Rogue Legendary dagger and new raid level difficulty, but the important points are all below.


  • Rogues will get a legendary dagger and exciting quest line to go with it. The lore for the dagger has not been decided upon yet.
  • Looking for Raid tool raids will be easier than normal raids using a new level of difficulty (Looking For Raid).
  • The Looking for Raid tool will only work for 25 man raids, not 10 man.
  • Players will get different achievements and loot from doing Random Raid mode, no normal mode achievements or perks will be gained.
  • This will introduce players to the content and mechanics of the fights so that they are more prepared for an actual raid.
  • The new five mans will have tighter story integration with the Deathwing Raid than Icecrown Heroics did.
  • The Dragonflights will work together to help take down Deathwing.
  • Deathwing's random zone burning will continue at least until the end of Patch 4.3.
  • They might be talking about Pandas at Blizzcon.


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This article was originally published in forum thread: Rogue Legendary Dagger and Patch 4.3 Interviews, Comics started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 574 Comments
  1. mmoc8c32716f2c's Avatar
    LOL at the feral QQ. You just got a staff that turns you into a flame kitty - OK it isn't legendary but NOBODY else benefits from that. Greedy @ss druids as usual...
  1. Olzagg's Avatar
    Yeah, this interview sounds waaaaay to half assed and unprofessional. Pretty sure we are looking at a troll of an interview, it hits way too many people's buttons to not be fake. Probably the same guy that did "Vengeance of The Void" did this shit. I am surprised Boub even posted this garbage on the front page.
  1. Navitas's Avatar
    Is this a joke? As an enhancement shammy I'd have been happier with a sodding tanking legendary than this.

    GC re-rolled rogue has he?
  1. Redecle's Avatar
    To be fair I understand where tanks and enhancement are coming from, since i play both classes semi-main (especially enhancement that has constantly just been spit on starting from performance compared to other classes.). But also as a rogue, I can say finally a legendary i don't have to wait 4,5+ years to get an outdated item (yes, weekly grind for nearly 4,5 years and never dropped so far, so glaive arguments are invalid in the sense that it's available to people with "reasonably hard work" like every single legendary in the game besides Thori'dal, yes legendaries are supposed to be rare, but fucking 4,5 years of work i mean c'mon!).
  1. kaintk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by nansu View Post
    rogue legendary? they already got swords on bc... so where the F*** is tanking legendary?! :
    vanilla thunderfury was a tanking sword
  1. dragon171's Avatar
    wait wait..single class specific legendardy!!? that's just unfair... What are the chances that your raid team has a rogue in it, 25man sure its really likely but in 10 man not so much..so looking at alot of excluding of guilds/teams... Now if this legendary was pointed at those with use of AGILITY...that could work, rather than just making a single class really really special..
  1. invader's Avatar
    what a load of fukking bullshit, FU blizz
  1. mmoc9238fc433e's Avatar
    Yeah! Rogue Dagger 4tw.... Not. Comen on Blizz make it at least a Axe or a gavel or something.

    There are 10 Serios 10man raids with at least 5/7hc on my server and not one is "carrying" a Rogue in the Setup. Why? Melee disadvantage, no raid utility, mediocre dps...

    I love Rogues and the design... but hell...
  1. mmoc65c75425f9's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dragon171 View Post
    wait wait..single class specific legendardy!!? that's just unfair... What are the chances that your raid team has a rogue in it, 25man sure its really likely but in 10 man not so much..so looking at alot of excluding of guilds/teams... Now if this legendary was pointed at those with use of AGILITY...that could work, rather than just making a single class really really special..
    I run a 10 man team (4/7 hc atm) and we have 2 rogues in it
  1. Jimmyx's Avatar
    The next legendar should be rogue/shammy fist named Deathwing claw or something like that :]
  1. invader's Avatar
    fukk off ;p feral says HI GIEF FEKKIN LEGENDARY.............. seriously tho, blizz are just fail after fail these days,, fukk wow its just turning into retarded bullshit now with raids easier than dungeons pff pff n fekkin pff
  1. mmocce676f6b0f's Avatar
    Would be more exited if it was an agy axe, that way rogues and shamans could use it and maybe hunters.
  1. mmoccd790dad49's Avatar
    Omfg...come on...next legendary for rogues ?
    Melee = 4 times legendary ( now 5 ? -.- )
    Rdps = 1 legendary
    Heal = 1 legendary
    Tanks ? nope................... WE WANT FU*CKIN LEGENDARY SHIELD...come on

    ---------- Post added 2011-09-14 at 08:49 AM ----------

    Omfg...come on...next legendary for rogues ?Melee = 4 times legendary ( now 5 ? -.- )Rdps = 1 legendary Heal = 1 legendaryTanks ? nope................... WE WANT FU*CKIN LEGENDARY SHIELD...come on
  1. Redecle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mûe View Post
    There are 10 Serios 10man raids with at least 5/7hc on my server and not one is "carrying" a Rogue in the Setup. Why? Melee disadvantage, no raid utility, mediocre dps...
    Looking at the section in the blue posts few days back asking classes what do they think is wrong with their class and what they are satisfied, from the bold you may guess what has been the major issue in the rogue class post, leaving out the class that doesn't bring anything to the table, unless it's the player behind the class that they bring, no matter what their skill is, cause they just can't out do 3 death knights or something else that's popular.

    I sense a compensation to this being legendary dagger ("This will shut them up, cause we're too lazy to start overhauling a class anymore after doing that to nearly every other class in the game)" and still no intention to fix the actual issue in hand.
  1. markdall's Avatar
    I dub the new raid dificulty level the Derp level... and my alts will at least try it.
  1. Austilias's Avatar
    The amount of complaining about this is reminiscent of when Paladins complained that they couldn't use Glaives (and still they can't! Despite them having been altered so that Death Knights could use them). Dust yourselves off and deal with it.
  1. Exoticazz's Avatar
    The problem of doing an axe would give combat rogues again a legendary while assa rogues never had one. The QQ would only increase if they made a dagger later. Ofcourse they could make the dagger usable for feral / enha shamans as well depending on how they shape it.

    The biggest problem i have with tank legendary's the way people describe them as a choice from 4 options, is that it will make the item absolutely not legendary. With 2-3 tanks in a raid all tanks will have the legendary at some point. It's better two have a shield legendary, and after a polearm legendary usuable by bear, cat and hunter, than making one legendary that every tank can use and than tanks need to sit out 4 expansions again before getting all one at same time again.
  1. mmocc362e14455's Avatar
    Nice. Raiding 10man nowdays, and do not even have a rogue in our setup.Why make a legendary for 1 class? Then they might aswell have 10 different class legendaries with the same quest line, just the weapon in the end would be different.
  1. Khanjin's Avatar
    Say what. Instead of making an axe, mace or fist weapon usable by 2 classes, 3 specs... They make a dagger usable by... assassination? Unless it's an offhand? Unlikely. Why wouldn't they hit another fly in one go by making it usable by enhancement? They haven't had a legendary, ever and no Sulfuras doesn't count.

    Lame, Blizzard. What are you thinking?
  1. mmoc8b06f67515's Avatar
    Just lost all faith i had left in humanity...

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