first speculation at the expansionFollow

http://war-tools.darlinganime.com/index.php?i=warrior

alpha talents got leaked, and looking at the most relatable class to us (the warrior, eat it i dont care what you think on that matter) im starting to brainstorm some new talents for the expansion

so what i got so far, albeit its just guesses at this point

assassination:

0/3 talent, tier 8
you gain an extra 1/3/5 energy per tick

0/5 talent, tier 7
20% (per point) chance when you use a finishing move, you gain a buff. buff gives your critical hits from abilitys an extra 100% critical strike bonus and 20% reduced threat generation

0/1 talent, tier 9
finishing move, costs 20 energy
immobilizes target for 1.5 seconds per combo point, and makes your poisons undispelable for the duration (subject to dim. returns, no shared catergory)

combat:

0/5 talent, tier 8
you gain an extra critical strike rating equal to x% (per rank) of your agility

0/2 talent, tier 7
your sinister strike and backstab abilitys have a 4/8% chance to grant you a buff, ignoring 11 armor/level for 8 seconds

0/1 talent, tier 9
allows you to equip two-handed swords and maces. movement speed reduced by 20% while holding a two-hand weapon; cannot enter stealth while holding a two-hand weapon; all stuns effects caused by you while holding a two-hand weapon also cause a 10 second daze effect; all damage caused by you reduced by 10%

(more of a pipe dream, but i gots the gut feeling)
(if that doesnt seem realistic to you... maybe something like...)

0/1 talent, tier 9
finishing move, 15 energy, 30 second cooldown, requires slice and dice to be active
increases your attack speed by 45% and increases your hit rating by 1/level for 12 seconds. this effect consumes the current slice and dice buff on the rogue
(hidden: puts slice and dice on a 12 second cooldown when used)

subtlety:

to come, break be over ^_^

edit #1: updated combat a smidge, will get to sub later today... damn work ><

Edited, May 29th 2008 2:50pm by mongoosexcore

I think you should switch the 1st talent of your assassination tree and combat tree to be more in-line with the themes of those trees.

I just want to see rogues get chainmail. :P


Oh, and speaking of Diablo II: Shadow warrior/shadow master @.@

Edited, May 29th 2008 11:33am by digitalcraft

http://www.war-tools.com/t49335.html

Could be completely made up of course. probably in fact.

Lol, not to mention that the grammar and spelling of the abilities is atrocious.

Maybe as a combat tree talent; like shamans get dual wield as a talent, rogues could have some things that really change how they are played. I think that would be spiffy. I was looking back at the Diablo II talent trees and the variety is awesome. Some classes are like that, for instance paladins. I think they could change up rogues a bit though in order to really make variety depending on tree.

Make it far down the tree. Allows the use of chainmail but half stealth level.

Edited, Jun 2nd 2008 8:36pm by digitalcraft

Serrated Blades isn't enough passive armor penetration for you?

percentage armor ignore poison wut?

maybe 4% per stack, up to 5

something like that yo?

not yet, but thats why theres an expansion son

NEW TO WRATH OF THE LICH KING: PROPER MATH ANY WAY YOU WANT IT, COMBAT VALUES OR OTHERWISE!

in all honesty its not that hard to do inverted scaling

its like a temperary percent-based buff (coughHASTEcough) just ****** backwards

warriors has 10000 armor
we ignore 20% of it

he now has 8000 armor

not that ****** hard lol