So I'm writing this having just got off of the PTR and all I can say is DAMN! I knew I was going to be doing mostly pvp (battlegrounds) so I specced 5/32/24 and it was a lot of fun certainly more fun than full combat was in the BG's. The only problem I found with this was while I got 2 AR's and pretty much every cooldown reduction known to Rogues the damage isn't really quite there when I need it as compared to other builds. The talents just don't seem to click quite so well compared to when I compared deep subtlety.
On that note I have also tried Shadowstep Hemo going 17/3/41, now prior to 2.3 this would make no sense, but now that Shadowstep:
A. Does 20% more damage instead of 10%
B. Does not require stealth.
C. Has a 25 yard range.
It's actually pretty damn good. Now I do realize that many of you are going to say that lag makes shadowstep good in theory and bad in practice, but I've used it for other things other than it's damage utility. That blink comes in handy for sapping a mage or warrior 25 yards away and when you combine that with dirty tricks it's pretty hard not to sap it. Additionally, I've actually been able to blink up cliffs and end up behind enemies. Finally, Dirty Deeds has made burst damage possible again. Now with this I add this dislaimer: I don't think this is going to go so well in terms of the old Ambush+Backstab combo from the days of yore. But coming from combat it's pretty badass to get 5 combo points from doing cheap shot -> hemo -> hemo. I was employing the strategy of eviscerate and then using more hemos. Normally with that combo you can get them close to the 35% range very quickly and with that talent that's the strategy you want to employ in PVP at least IMO. The good, old-fashioned stunlock still did well it just seemed to take longer than if I had done eviscerate.
Another spec which I saw but can't do because of a lack of maces for Liminus is combat mace hemo. Now I've not got a chance to try this but from personal experience I can say it kicks ***, in particular mine. Not to say that I didn't ever beat them, but those mace procs are damn annoying and frequent! I think that those of you using maces in arena are just going to kick more *** once you go hemo and pick up dirty deeds as you'll easily be able to combat stun lock (as if you couldn't do that before). So far for PVP sub is looking very, very promising.
Edited, Nov 6th 2007 6:37pm by FelRogue
Edited, Nov 6th 2007 6:38pm by FelRogue