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We realise that there are some confusion regarding the Hemo change, and that many of you feel that the damage reduction is too much. The developers felt that Hemo was overpowered. Pretty much every rogue was switching to Hemo because of this, so they made the change to tone it down somewhat. The developers want the subtlety tree to be a good support tree instead.
Seriously, what the ****? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Let's examine the sequence of events leading up to this.
1. Rogues complain about having only one tree useful for any situation, Combat.
2. The devs respond by buffing Hemo. It opens up interesting hybrid specs and Rogues everywhere rejoice at having a little leeway when choosing a spec.
3. Less than two weeks later, Blizzard sees that lots of Rogues are using Hemo, and uses this to determine that it's overpowered.
4. Blizzard CM spews garbage from his mouth trying to explain why this nerf happened.
Seriously. My mind cannot get a grasp on this. Rogues didn't want to be full Combat for every application, so Blizz buffs hemo. People use hemo, so Blizzard nerfs hemo. Good ******* job Blizzard. Crack team you have working for you.
RandomDev wrote:
OH SWEET JESUS! ROGUES AREN'T ALL FULL COMBAT ANY MORE! NERF IT QUICK!
Aside from this being incredibly stupid, that last little bit has got me twitching and muttering obscenities every few seconds.
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The developers want the subtlety tree to be a good support tree instead.
******************* This has only two possible meanings. A, it's supposed to be a group/raid support tree. B, it's supposed to support our other trees and help us do more damage or survive longer. Let's examine both possibilities.
A. Well, seeing as there are exactly zero group buffs available to Rogues, much less the Subtlety tree in particular, this is just ********* Hemo could qualify if you were retarded, but even a halfwit can see that sacrificing more DPS than you give to the group is a bad decision. This obviously cannot be true.
B. Well, in 2.3, Subtlety became exactly this. Many people specced into Subtlety to support Combat and Assassination. This is what caused Blizzard to nerf us, so this obviously can't be their motivation. On a side note, if this is true, it means they don't care if deep subtlety sucks or not, because they don't want you to make this your main tree.
You do the math. If A is false, and B is false, then Blizzard is full of ****. I'm ******* tired of this attitude of "We never make mistakes, and if we have made them before, we have already corrected them." This public response to the outrage over the Hemo nerf is absurd. It's an outright lie, and as such, it shows that Blizzard doesn't give a **** about what we think.
Christ I need a drink.