Because that took HUGE SKILLZ amiright.
Also, for everyone else in the thread: Ignore shoegazing. I know I'm kind of breaking the flaming rule with this, but the dude is either legitimately just trolling or is uironically a giant asshole. Don't let him derail stuff.
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If this thread has taught me anything, it's that knowing what you are talking about will get you labeled a troll by those who have no idea.
Anyone who doesn't see what I'm describing must have only begun playing Rogue in Legion.......
Subtlety Rogue was an amazing, incredible, unique, and fun spec prior to Legion and BfA
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It's really disappointing and kinda hurts to be honest, my rogue is 13+ years old, but i don't play on him anymore, just use it for alchemy. "PLAYS" that are considered to be amazing and mindblowing right now was just a casual thing that every rogue above 2k would do on a regular basis back in tbc, wrath, or even cata, but they've dumbed the game down sooo much that it's just.. i don't know man, I don't wanna turn this into a rant
gl tho
You can do a lot of fun things in WPvP with outlaw, but in arena...
Might I recommend turning it into a rant? If you could for instance give one or more examples of what big plays 2.4k+ Rogues were pulling off back then that were blowing everyone's socks off, OP probably won't be able to recreate them (Being only 1850 - and mechanics limitations) but certainly they can serve as inspiration, much appreciated.
With the new server tech most iconic rogue tricks are no longer possible.
Haven't been possible for a while now. So unless they downgrade the servertech themselves (or emulate the spellbatching) they won't even be possible in classic. You can't really do the old tricks without spellbatching.
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There used to be classics like shadowstep charge/intercept, vanish coil, bait the fakecast with kick and then do a sidestep and interrupt actual cast with deadly throw ( this one is deep tbc, needed to be few yeards away to use deadly throw and it had kick built in ), mouseover kick/ mouseover step kick succubus, don't let the lock summon another pet with fel domination, sap healer out of gouge, sap enemy rogue's vanish mid combat.
With wotlk we got few more interesting "glitches" like you could ambush the guy and sap him right after, do that twice in a row with cold blood/prep and you'd end up vs the guy with 30% hp and still sapped, then cata introduced redirect and smoke bomb, with new amazing opportinities to sap the healer out of kidney or even out of stepkick + bomb, sometimes you wouldn't even need to kick the healer, you'd just wait for him to start something long, bomb your target at very last 0.1 second, it would take the healer at least 1 second to react to what happened, another 1-2 seconds to get close to you and by the time he'd get to you he'd already be out of combat - another opportunity to sap.
I'll just add that entire assassination kit on tbc was just something else, you needed to be standing behind the target to use mutilate, deadly poison had stacks which you had to wait forever to reach maximum of 5 and then use envenom, it took some balls to play assa back then
I probably can't even remember most of the shit we used to do, but there was alot more
Gosh....your post really brings me back to the old days. Thanks for that
(your good luck wish paid off. I DID IT! I avoided a kidney shot with Death from Above just now. Second day of recording)
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I made the video and thanked you at the end.
I hope you dont mind
Thank you so much for the Death from Above idea!
Subtlety Rogue was an amazing, incredible, unique, and fun spec prior to Legion and BfA
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
― Douglas Adams
I don't know why some people are so outraged by shoegazing's posts. There's nothing controversial there and it's been the main critique of pvp design and specifically rogue pvp design for years. Rogues used to be "playmakers" (leaving aside that awful ARprep period) and the difference between a good rogue and an elite rogue was enormous. These days rogues are rotation-bots.
I'm guessing it's a bunch of younger players who started the game late on and get butthurt when 30 year old boomers remind them that the game used to be a lot better back in the day. I can see how that can get annoying, but it's true.