Here is a link to the gems, the first page are epic quality and the recipe page has some uncommon and rare quality gems.

Profession - Jewelcrafting

They do have an ArPen gem, as well as some good combos with it that seem to lean on more of a PvP side. One gem that really interests me though is the deadly Flawless Ametrine, which is 10 agi/ 10 crit, since mutilate builds lean on crit for better CP generation, wouldn't that make this more useful for assassination over an agi/hit gem?


Edit: Just noticed this one, seems like they wanted to make our job a bit easier.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...lcraft_122.jpg

This is my view as well. If anything, the nerf to Salv will improve the rogues' value to the raid, because we will be a high DPS class which doesn't need Salv in order to be effective and stay below the threat cap. For once, there will be a DPS buff that other classes need to leech more than we do.

Perhaps my view is colored by my own experiences (top 5 DPS in a T6 guild), but I know that for the vast majority of boss fights now, I wait about 2 seconds, then go all out for the remainder of the fight. More often than not I don't even need to vanish, but if the need arises, I do it lackadaisically whenever it is convenient for me after I hear the Omen warning.

This change might even make Feint a requirement for maximum raid DPS, even if it doesn't get buffed. Let the locks and shadow priests fight over the Salv rotation. We'll be forced to use vanish. And if that isn't enough, we'll use Feint (since the alternative are to stop attacking entirely, or pull aggro). Even if it "sucks", good rogues will still use it to maximize their personal DPS within the context of rDPS, and we'll feel like our class is more challenging to play well to boot.*

* Note that I'm not positive that using Feint isn't a worse use of energy than just stopping attacking and energy pooling, but if it is, then let's hope that they buff it at least to the point where it is not.

Neither of the classes you mentioned will need salv with any urgency.

Shadow priest group mana regen is already slated to be ~50% of what it is in TBC, and docking an extra 10% off that is just silly. Plus, between the changed shadowform (-30% threat) and their original talent, i can't see them whining about salv. Destro warlocks may have more trouble managing threat due to spiky crits with ruin, but bliz seems to be moving the class towards affliction and demonology, so a single soul shatter per fight is likely enough.

Don't forget that any "nerf" to dps due to threat for caster classes will not be relevant to hunters, potentially bringing them up yet another notch.

Feint, no matter how pathetic the aggro reduction, will always be better than just not doing damage, for the simple reason that it actually lowers your threat. "Doing less damage" is equivalent to just burning energy (or some other damage source) - you spend 20 energy to get absolutely no damage. Feint, on the other hand, spends that 20 energy to do absolutely no damage... and lower your threat, which increases the amount of time before you have to waste energy (or another damage source), thus increasing your DPS. Hence, if you are in an aggro-limited situation, it is always better to feint than to stop attacking or otherwise lower your DPS.

Other than damage, and in gimmicky fights which involve interrupts and mana drains, rogues bring nothing else to the table. Due this fact, raids have not been called if a rogue or a few rogues misses the raid. The same cannot be said of a survival hunter, destro lock, arms warrior, shadow priest, or any other class that provides useful group/raid buffs. So I agree that there should be at least one rogue spec that high-end raids cannot do without.

Some of the existing rogue mechanics are already there to provide this but Blizzard just has to expand on it. In light of the threat changes, perhaps vanish can be modified to give all party members within 20 yards an aggro drop. Another idea would be to have expose armor stack with sunder armor but up to a certain cap. Or have mind numbing poison reduce attack speed in addition to it reducing casting speed and have it work on all bosses.

Blue post from Korma in a thread asking whether or not the exclusion of new poison ranks was intentional.

Needless to say, waiting with bated breath.

e: WoW Forums -> No new poison ranks: Intentional?

My raid group is preparing to make attempts at Kael soon and since the encounter provides us with two legendary weapons, i have been considering a spec that would use both of them well, rather then just grabbing one that best fits your current spec. My plan with this build would be only for kael of course and i think it works out well, its a combat dagger/sword build. My only concern is how my dps would fare before getting the weapons.

Rogue - Talents - Thottbot: World of Warcraft


Edit2: Nvm, thought this was a WotLK only thread for some reason.

i was planning to wield that main hand, thought it was a 1 handed weapon. The point of this was to wield both the dagger HM, and the sword OH.

This is so incredibly wrong that I don't really know where to start.

Spec cookie cutter. Wield the dagger OH and the Sword MH. Go reread the TTT article and try to understand WHY it's a bad idea - I'll give you a couple hints. You're wielding a.. what, 2.8 speed offhand? With no relentless?
(Editted, misread the spec)

I am specced cookie cutter currently, i was wondering if for, kael only, speccing backstab with dagger MH and sword OH would work out to be better only because of the fact we get legendary weapons. I thought it may work but it has a couple issues, you already mentioned some of them. If you got what i meant, then I'll stick with the norm and thanks for the advice. If not, then help with the talent build would be great, i think the combat tree is the best it can be for this but how/where for assassination is a different story.

Yes, and you don't even have to use the dagger in your OH until Phase 4 anyways (assuming you've got a fury warrior doing it). And in addition to that, when you ARE using the dagger OH, you're probably running around shivving off the MC a lot of the time so it doesn't even matter how much damage you're doing. So in conclusion, stay with your current spec.