Originally Posted by
Rory
No offense, but if you think 470-475 qualifies as "basically don't need gear anymore" you have no business talking in this thread. 463 is heroic blues, heroic blues are the lowest ilevel quality max level gear. By definition between that and 476 (welfare LFR/crafted epics) is undergeared. Period. No argument, no opinion, no conjecture. That's the way the game has been set up. You aren't supposed to feel overpowered with shit gear, it's never been that way and never will.
I'm getting really sick of trying to explain this common sense stuff to people. For the hundredth time: we are a gear based class, possibly the most gear dependant one in the game. Yet we are still in a good place for pve, we are easily capable of topping the charts with gear and we "feel" fine with even the smallest effort at gathering gear. I am at 471 wihout doing any raids besides LFR and Sha, I have one VP ring and no exalted reps. I have not even gotten half the VP possible each week and I only bought one crafted epic. I still already feel fine for pve, but again I don't pvp so I have no comment. But it's likely the people bitching aren't even wearing decent gear yet so I think it's probably too early to tell.
You can say "but such and such class is fine and doesn't have to gear like this" and my response is: bullshit. You don't know that class, you're making an unsubstantiated claim based on someone kicking your teeth in. If you're undergeared it doesn't take much, if they have better gear it doesn't take much. Everything looks better from the other side. Have there been cases where things got unbalanced? Sure, warriors did call for their execute to be nerfed and I believe it's coming, but that isn't a reason we are terrible. If you think it's so bad: re-roll. By don't think your opinion is the be all end all just because most of the happy people don't post in threads like this. The "consensus" is not that rogues are broken, the consensus is we are fine. It's just he vocal minority complaining, keyword minority.
I'd say this to the OP: go ahead and try it out. No one can tell you if you'll enjoy rogue or not, same as any class. I personally enjoy my rogue and have for a long time. Be ready to put in time and effort gearing and learning the specs if you want to be good. Passive dmg doesn't mean you can autoattack and be competetive, a lot goes into being a good rogue and we are one of the harder classes to maximize which is why there are so many bad rogues.
---------- Post added 2012-11-01 at 09:15 AM ----------
As a final note because I'm done posting unless someone's comment needs to directly be responded to: thank you to the people who read my comments in full and understood the point I was trying to make. I'm not trying to be an elitist or a jerk, but people think everything should be handed to them and easy these days. No one wants to work for anything and if they aren't perfect the game is broken. It's the wrong attitude and it makes me wish epics were like vanilla when only the best got tier from the final couple raids, the tears would sustain me for years. But seriously, thank you. It's good to see some people understand.