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Encrypted Text: Why patch 3.1 won't transform Rogues

In a recent blue post by everyone’s favorite lead developer, Ghostcrawler gave us a bit of insight into Blizzard’s view on Rogue strength in PvP. One commenter brought up that “Rogues are fine, but DKs are simply insane,” which is an …. If it takes dual-wielding Frostmournes to make Death Knights fear looking at our WoW Web Stats reports, then I will slay Arthas weekly. If it takes stacking four BM Hunters and spamming one key to do it, I’ll gladly recruit some more of …

Encrypted Text: Advanced raiding, AEP and the Rogue DPS Spreadsheet

There are a lot of factors that go into balancing your rogue’s stats. Agility, attack power, hit, crit, strength, weapon skill, and haste rating all increase your DPS, your most important contribution to the raid, while stamina, dodge, …. We suggest you rogues to have a look at http://www.wow-item.info/rogue/agility-equivalence-points/leather/head. You can compare rogue items there (the new ones as well). The advantage here is that gems are taken into account. Hadamard. …

Build Shop: Rogue 13/41/7

Thus, if you can find decent fist weapons (which is a lot easier in BC than it used to be in vanilla WoW), fists are better than swords. The rest of my talent choices in Combat are fairly self-explanatory for a solo-focused PvE build, …