Am I the only around around that plays certain specs just because they're fun to play? Fighting for #1 on DPS meters is so Wrath of The Lich King hahahahaha
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There are one of three options.
1. You get to keep it and play a spec that has to be way more alert than any other class resulting in the slightest mess up screwing you over just to "Be on par with fury"
This could be fun for some but most will not want to do this. Therefore you are going to hope for the second option.
2. When they run through the spec and realize they need to nerf this, only to balance assasination again and to put it in a good place so rogues maybe can have a good dps spec.
This is what you want to have happen, because as a pure dps they are pretty mediocre and need a viable spec. A dot spec seems to be doing well this tier. However My faith in blizzard will lead me to the third option
3. They nerf it and screw rogues :]
Last edited by ymirsson; 2018-01-05 at 05:58 AM.
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Rogue
Assassination
Mutilate damage increased by 20%.
Balanced Blades (Artifact trait) bonus increased to 4% per point (was 2% per point).
Poison Knives (Artifact trait) reduced to 3% per point (was 4% per point).
Deadly Poison triggered instant damage increased by 15%.
Sin getting buffs.. did not expect that
Secret to getting an underperforming spec to be buffed: Find something broken or bizzare, and take complete advantage of it. That will cause blizz to see something is up and buff the standard way of playing the spec. It happened with WW a couple months ago with their tier mixing, and it's about to happen to assassin.
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Well i wasn't far off when i expected them to try and keep dmg at the FoK build's threshold.
But these buffs are fairly hefty. the PK nerf should be offset by the DP buff, and the mut buff coupled with the significant balance blades buff definitely puts that incentive to use mut front and center. An indirect buff to the Master Alch trait too, through that dp increase.
Not what i expected(more than i optimistically expected). Balanced blades looks really nice now - i might have to get 5-6 traits and see how 66% crit on mut feels.
I would be surprised if Balanced Blades doesn't overtake Master Assassin after the first relic considering how much it drops in value after 1x.