Rant of a new rogue.Follow

Just hit 53 today. Yay. 31 levels of Vanish failing for no reason. 43 levels of pick pocket being resisted by sapped targets. 53 levels of sometimes being in stealth but having some guy running at me from out of nowhere and attacking me anyway.

WHO WROTE THIS STUFF?!


Standing in the middle of a field. Still in combat because someone stole my mob. No dots on me, so I choose to vanish just to mount up and go somewhere else. *POOF* Wait, why am I not stealthed? Nothing touched me? I'm not in combat... *mounts*

Fighting way too many mobs. *POOF* Mob's melee swing hits me for 156. WHAT?! *dead*



And seriously. Why can a sapped target resist pick pocket? Especially when it's alone. Suddenly, you're just standing there, unstealthed, behind some mob that can't do anything for at least 30 more seconds.. but you're in combat anyway. You could waste a vanish to try again, you could kill the guy and miss a pick pocket, or you could run away and waste near a minute of time before you can try again.

Then there's PvP. I'm stealthed standing way off to the side of a fight, waiting to see if I could help without getting slaughtered.. and some guy starts running my way. I'm at least 30 yards away to avoid any chance of AOE, but I target him, and he's already targetting me. I hope that the target-of-target is messed up, and run to the side. He follows and hits me.


And finally, there's the mobs that cast spells at random party members other than their target. I'm not even close to the fight yet, and out of nowhere some stupid dragonkin casts sleep on me. Or SW:P, or lightning bolt, or any other number of THEY DIDN'T SEE ME!

tl;dr

Go roll a warrior or something, I guess?

Okay, read the post.

Welcome to World of Warcraft. Every single class has things that **** off the player base. Case in point, go talk to a shaman (or a druid, really) about melee specs. Unfortunately for you, having crappy melee builds can be fixed with enough work on Blizzard's part. Stealth, on the other hand, is controlled client-side, while mob damage and other malarkey is controlled server-side (or in the case of PvP, client-side as well). The lag between the two is what causes these fun little anomalies, and there's almost no way to fix them without making rogues ludicrously OP.

Yes, it sucks. Deal with it.

Just wait till another rogue's vanish breaks your stealth and huntard/lock pets still come at you when you restealth.

Vanish earlier.

eleventy billion? Is that close to threeve thousand?

Vanish works better if you have /stopattack in a macro before it. You also need to consider your surroundings, and try to put a few feet between you and your attackers before you vanish. If it's a Hunter, run around a corner. If it's a caster, CloS-> Vanish is pretty reliable.

One thing I can tell you for sure is that whining, rather than trying to be constructive, won't help you at all.

True, but that doesn't make it less annoying. I've had vanish fail on me in the arenas for no reason once or twice, nothing more irritating than that.

Edited, Aug 6th 2008 3:09pm by Mozared

Didn't the 70 gimp your XP?

Shows quite clearly how little you understand the way the game works underneath. Just because you don't think that you attacked after you vanished doesn't mean the server doesn't think so.

Use this macro in place of Vanish:

/stopattack
/cast Vanish

It will improve the likelihood of vanish being successful by a bit. It's better than nothing.



Your post was NOT constructive. It was a whiny rant without so much as wit to make it more enjoyable.

I'd check out a vision test at your local optometrist. It's quite obvious you're having vision problems.

I really love my puff of smoke attack... 90% of the time when I have used vanish, in 2.4.3, when I use vanish without anyone on me, or an DoTs/bleeds on me I perform the animation and just run around out of stealth with vanish and stealth on CD >.<