severe flame
Rogue has been my favorite class since beta...and while I'm not the most adept at combat...it seems to me that after this update rogue doesn't have really any viability in combat anymore.
I was never a fan of the dagger shotgun blast, it's IMO as bad the ZweiHammer.
But now that that's gone the class seems to be dead and dying...
So here's my proposal. Think about what the class is meant to be. A more cerebral style of gameplay that is reliant on being very opportunistic and sneaky. Rogue isn't meant to be the most confrontational class.
KoT being constantly nerfed and all of the movement reductions with stealth make that immensely difficult. Now it's just as difficult to escape players as it is to fight them.
So...
Give rogue back it's stealth. Either buffing speed again while in stealth, or removing the ping detection from stealth altogether. Or, give rogue the ability to jump while in stealth. Slightly reduce cooldown time for stealth. Reverse the last KoT nerf either way. It's a damn near useless skill already...quit making it worse puh-lease!
Rogue profits most from open areas that allow getting to places where other players can't. Those areas are very limited and most of the high reward areas are in tight, narrow places. So we need something. Otherwise the enviroment changes have been one of the biggest improvements for rogue with the last update, since terrain matters a lot in this game. If we could couple that with a bit more viability without some OP meta, rogue would be a good class to play again with a modicum of difficulty.
As of right now everyone is primarily using fighter and barb. Cleric is toast. Wizards still seem just as OP. I don't want to complain too much, but if this is the modus operandi the developers bring to global release this game will die a slow death. It's got so much potential...I'd hate to see it go to waste.
I'll get off my soap box now.
meager lance
worthy wigeon
