A little background on me before we start;
Ive played rogue for almost 5 years now, got gladiator twice, raiding, blah blah...you get the point.
My rogue hasnt gotten much play time in the last few months since I have been leveling and having fun with my new shaman and my other 80s. Anyways, 4.0.1 comes around and I don't really touch him until a few days ago (note that this is a new rogue, so im only avg gear level 235) and I am heavily dissapointed.
Mutilate PvP feels like it has such little urgency to it. Blizzard forces the spec to go deadly poison and use rupture, the biggest problem is that this is all build over time stuff so you wont be killing anyone in a nuke fest. Muti will no longer get prep and that blows, hardcore... Ive been doing some BGs and I am so beyong frusterated that there is literally no way to beat certain classes, it is such a huge hit to survivability, mobility, and damage...
The Vanish change is probably the worst thing about it, Vanish is so...fixed? It may sound wierd but you just cant do that after a class has been built around the old move (blizzard has even admitted it). Twice I can recall today times that I have tried to vanish something but to no avail, still getting globaled or frost nova'd in stealth while the mage gets away and is able to kite.
Another big problem I had was rogue vs. rogue, something that I was known across the bg7 for being very very good at. I will admit that I am currently playing with over 300ms and under 25 fps but I should still be able to outskill other rogues, but alas, Sublety rogues are actually given me problems. They have everything, more indurance, better burst with minimal setup, double cooldowns, better mobility... There isnt a thing I can think about that Muti is better than Sub at.
Ive been playing mutilate for over 3 years now, through hard times and not, but this is such a devastating blow to battleground/world pvp that I am actually considering dropping the class I have loved for so long. I will admit that Muti may have some potential in a lv 85 arena setting (as long as blizzard's estimations on damage are right...), but even then I can see very big problems.
Thanks for reading, what do you think?
edit: Sorry for god awful grammer, its late, im tired, and I don't have the mental strength to correct them all.