...Awesome
And now some more words: Chase's impressions of the rogue's skills additions and modifications made me very, very excited about playing a rogue come expansion time. Although it was a long time ago when I levelled Sealskjaers to 80, my enduring memory of that time is of buying half a bag of food every time I went back to town. As all other non self-healing classes will agree, sitting down for 15 odd seconds to replenish your health bar is a repetitive excercise in frustration. Not any more though!
With the addition of Recuperate and Deadly Momentum to our bag of tricks the days of sitting idle are long gone. Not only do we have a self-heal ability, we are compelled to be chain pulling engines of mass destruction.
Pictured: Chain pulling engines of mass destruction.
I know a lot of people are bemoaning the fact that Blizzard are making classes and the 3 specs within each class more generic to fit in with their whole "bring the player no the class" ideology. However Blizz seem to have taken a step in the exact opposite direction with their redesign of the rogue talent trees. I may be completely wrong - and if I am feel free to ridicule me in the comments section - but with the rogue talent redesign not only do we have greatly decreased downtime, we have three increasingly unique specs to choose from.
Where once there was stealth killing (subtlety), stealth lite (assassination), and very little stealth mostly hack and slash (Combat) there are now three very different paths to choose from where hacking down armies bad guys is concerned. Now we have subtlety's super stealth ninja, assassination's tricksy master poisoner, and the head-on juggernaut of combat and ultimately, three very different playstyles to choose from. With any luck this means combat's old 1 1 1 1 2 levelling style is well and truly dead and buried.
With that all said, I can't help but be excited for the release of Cataclysm. Now the only problem is deciding which spec to choose.
-Seal
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