Originally Posted by Nolanhadhoof
My one on topic comment is that, with respect to all their powerful abilities, I don't see much being added that will counteract rogues. This is keeping in mind that all changes may not yet be apparent to us.
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Rogues only are really strong at the moment because of the strong scaling of gear with the end Sublety tree. The introduction of another plate wearing class hurts as well. And the 2-DPS combos will most likely not work to well in the first season, when every competitive player has tons of resilience and rogues the equivalents of 71 oder maybe 86 DPS weapons. I can see Mutilate making a huge comeback during the first season as it won't be to easy to drop someone really fast. But rogues will be far from the dominance 4/4 human rogues with wargleaves have had in season 3.
Mutilate works really good with mediocre gear but it lacks the mobility and stealth and lots of the utlitiy that Sublety has. Sublety on the other hand just won't hit hard enough in the beginning.
A build like this looks altough very amazing. It may not be the strongest but it has many fun talents like Fleet Footed, Camouflage, Cold Blood, Improved Gouge, Shadow Step...
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I expect Paladins and Caster classes to dominate season 1. Death Knights will have some problems early on as most other classes will have more gear and 75k honor and 100 of each badges stored. Perhabs it will even be possible to store arena points.
Another big point will be the glove boni. The new combat talent indicates that rogues won't have Deadly throw as an ranged interupt anymore unless they spec deep into the combat tree. So it seems that rogues will actually lose one main ability (try duelling with a mage without it).