Concept ideasFollow

I have a few questions on some concepts I've been pondering. I figured instead of trying to regear/respec and try them (and I'm not 70 yet) I might ask and see what people's experience with them has been.

1. So first, in most games, rogue is the king of the burst damage opening attack, but with resilience and people stacking so much stamina, that seems to have changed. Opening with your improved uberleet ambush is barely a scratch and you're left with your pants down.

Either a) in PvP its just not enough damage to give you a big enough lead to win the rest of the fight, or b) in PvE, you open with it in a raid or instance, and you now are main tank. Rogue main tank on boss = Pavement paint.

Has anyone been successful with any BOOM HEADSHOT builds since BC came out? We have a couple burst abilities and ways to enhance them by a large amount, but are they ever useful enough? Or is WoW combat just incompatable with burst damage.

One idea they should try is have attacks from behind and stealth cause no threat. The dude didn't see you; didn't know who did it. Since it's only your opening attack (or once each time vanish is up) I don't think it would be game breaking and it'd make burst damage actually useful. Maybe that's a conversation for a different thread.

2. Roguelock(i.e. DoTs) Opening with garotte, shiving a few times with deadly poison, rupture and vanish. Either they are hunting for you while their hp ticks down until you pounce them again, or they stop to heal and then you cheap shot them. Has anyone tried this with much success? I see people usually doing a combination of this and more direct damage.




If anyone has their own concepts they want to know if anyone has experience with they can post it or if you've had any success with either of these please explain.

Edited, Dec 7th 2007 1:33pm by digitalcraft