This addon does a lot of things but I only use it to indicate when I'm out of range or not behind my target.

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Latest beta update gives us the t14 set bonuses:
Rogue T14 2P Bonus: Venomous Wounds damage +20%, SS damage +15%, BS damage +10%;
Rogue T14 4P Bonus: Cooldown on Shadow Blades reduced in half.

Like most bonuses for the first tier of an expansion - nothing game-changing, just plain increases to our main damage sources (although VW instead of mutilate is a bit strange). Four-piece seems like an invitation to play with our new toys more often.

EDIT: Not sure if this is rogue-related at all, but one of the new spells added in the patch is Blurring Slash, which looks suspiciously similar to our long-lost Ghostly Strike.

I think they've been petrified of Mutilate's controlled burst ever since early Wrath, they nerfed it several ways at once, and have only touched it recently when they baked the %modifier in for poisoned targets.

Not saying it is or isn't a legitimate concern in the current game design, I've just been known to don my tinfoil hat from time to time.

Latest beta patch increased rogue damage across the board,

Rogue (Forums)

Ambush - Damage increased 21%.
Crimson Tempest - Damage increased 21%.
Deadly Poison - Damage increased 21%.
Eviscerate - Damage increased 21%.
Fan of Knives - Radius increased 8 yds, damage increased 21%, AP scaling reduced to 14%, down from 40%.
Garrote - Damage increased 21%.
Gouge - Damage increased 21%.
Rupture - Damage increased 21%.
Throw - Damage increased 21%.
Wound Poison - Damage increased 21%.


Rogue - Talents

Deadly Throw - Damage increased 21%.
Shuriken Toss - Damage increased 21%.


Rogue - Assassination

Dispatch - Damage increased 21%.
Envenom - Damage increased 21%.
Mutilate - Damage increased 21%.
Venomous Wounds - Damage increased 21%.


Rogue - Subtlety

Backstab - Damage increased 21%.

Fan of Knives having a little more AoE range will be nice, and the AP Scaling nerf doesn't seem like it would hurt a Crimsom Tempest rotation too much.

Looks like the 21% buff was just a mmo-champion glitch. Only real patch notes are FoK going from 8yds to 10, and Glyph of FoK becoming Glyph of Useful Only While Leveling.

I wonder why 1.4 daggers still in game?

I remember bluepost, that was explaining disign for rogue weapons in MoP and it was said, that mut and sub will use 1.8\1.8 daggers while combat prefer 2.6MH\1.8OH and there will be no 1.4 weapons at all.

Combat potency changes looks great in that case. DP also changed to % based.

And now i see Malevolent Gladiator's Shiv

So is it double Webbed Death for mut comeback?

For PVP a fast dagger is better, because Shiv is used a lot and with a faster weapon the energy cost is lower. Also crippling poison has no ppm mechanic, as far as I remember.

Shiv's energy cost is independent of weapon speed as of right now on beta, 20 energy with a 1.4 offhand, 20 energy with a 2.6 offhand.

Blizzard has been saying that they want to make all 3 spec's more reasonable for raiding. But right now, The 4 set makes it feel like they are once again making Combat the most powerful spec once again. Since Combat puts most of its emphasis on auto attacks, Making out 2.6 sec weapon ignore armor and do pure shadow damage feels a little more powerful that it would for Sub and Assassination.

Blizzard doesn't release set bonuses that are dramatically (or even very noticeably) skewed towards one raid spec over the others unless it's to make up for a hole in the first place. We're not going to be forced into combat because the 4set looks like it'll be better for it. Maybe we'll be all-but-forced into combat by other factors, but commenting on balance based on a gut feeling when the game is months and months away isn't going to be very productive.

Edit: I should be less absolute in my language, because someone is going to link me a single set bonus where it wasn't the case. But you get my point. We don't know yet, and we won't know for a very long time, so productive discussion should really center on glaring balance issues and gameplay/class design.

The more I think about it, the more I like this change. I am sure that Rogues will be the heros on some fights.

If the tank dies in normal combat, with 330% armour, good avoidance and some parry (I assume we keep our 5% Parry), we will be able to mitigate and/or avoid direct damage as well as most tanks, and if we spec Elusiveness (which will work awesomely here) and stack Combat Readiness, we will be amazing tanks for those initial 30 seconds. We have Feint for aoe damage (dragon breaths, cleaves etc) and can kite well if needed. We can also Evasion when the Bear buff is coming to an end. Also, with tank aggro being as high as it is, unless the tank dies early, and assuming our Symbiosis taunt puts us to the top of the threat table like a normal taunt, we will be able to hold aggro for ages.

I accept we will have less HP (EDIT: apparently getting 20% more hp in "Rogue Bear Form" in the latest build) but do not think we will take enough damage for it to make a huge difference (and have Evasion as back up).

When it comes to enrage timer tanking, it is not guaranteed but we have a good chance of surviving with Evasion up, we can use Prep for a second Evasion and when Evasion is almost off (if we are still alive) we can use Sprint to get away OR if we dont spec Prep (because surviving through two Evasions is unlikely) then we can Evasion once and use Shadowstep or BOS to kite for a bit, and then even Vanish without dying.

It could save the raid and I am sure that Rogues will help get first kills for some guilds. We won't get Symbiosis much but we will get it sometimes.

EDIT: just saw the buff which makes the above even more viable