HAT is nutsFollow

The only thing I don't like about HaT is that it is too reliant on other peoples crits. Yes, it is amazing, but I still feel kinda "meh" about it because of that.

Well that's just the point ... it's a bug .. your first post mentioned that people should try it before it get "nerfed" ... nerfing doesn't come into it ... it's a damn bug, it gives the false impression of high damage numbers, and it's not really anything to get excited about tbh.

Now if you were a single HaT rogue in the raid and still performed admirably, then hats off to you. (heh .. see what I did there).

Actually, the idea of spamming a single ability, and relying on others to be able to do so doesn't seem very exciting to me - probably why I like playing solo so much ... I have to do a bit more thinking, and can use more abilities more often than you guys that raid ;-)

rofl .. I was fully expecting to be absolutely flamed to high hell by all the raiding types telling me I have no idea what I'm talking about, and that raiding involves a lot of thinking and strategy, etc, etc, blah, blah ... I definitely did not expect support for me opinion. hehe, that really tickled me.

Erm, I was talking about my post (2 above the one you quoted) where I took a cheap shot at raiders, accusing them of being one button spammers, and not having to think ... clearly people don't take as much exception you that kind of criticism any more ... good for y'all.

Or perhaps the subtlety of the insult was lost on most of the readers here.

Even with only one HaT rogue, it puts up numbers close to Combat and Mutilate. It's definitely not as good, but it's workable. I'd be switching back to Combat or Mutilate after the nerf. My point is, it's at least worth doing until then, as it's pretty fun and these opportunities don't come around very often.

Regarding the use of the term "nerf"... it's just a common phrase. Stop looking into semantics. Okay, use it until the "bug fix". Does that make you happy?

By your logic, rogues shouldn't be using poisons on their offhand weapon because there is currently a bug where it will proc twice, which is also getting fixed in the next patch. By your logic, my "exploiting" the spec, as well as, say, the mage who solo'd the military quarter of Naxx is tantamount to using terrain hacks to kill bosses (a common practice by goldfarmers in Dire Maul back in the day). I'm simply using a spec that is already present in the game. Blizzard isn't going to punish anyone for using a spec that they created. And since they aren't going to punish anyone, why not use it? You're gimping yourself if you don't. My job in a raid is to do as much damage as possible, and right now HaT spec is the way to do that.

Putting myself on a pedestal was not my intention, and I apologize if I came off sounding pretentious. My tone was more of a "hey guys, this is really neato! Come check it out and try it for yourself!"

My gaming in WoW is driven by results. For the longest time in TBC I specced mutilate and refused to respec to combat, even though combat was clearly the better spec. Why? Because I thought that mutilate was more fun and challenging. Once I finally bit the bullet and my DPS started to rise, I came to the conclusion that downing new bosses and being on top of the meters was more fun than being in the middle, regardless of spec. I was driven to help the raid succeed, and I decided to put that above my personal spec bias. But if WoW is no longer fun to you because you're "forced" into a spec where you push one button, then don't do it.

As an aside, the broken HaT spec is really really fun. I was skeptical of it for a long time and assumed it would get hotfixed immediately, and I didn't switch until yesterday.

Furthermore, I am fully capable of doing good DPS without the bugged spec. But I don't know of any rogue who can do over 5k dps with bad gear otherwise.

Edited, Jan 7th 2009 2:57pm by Makaro

Surprise surprise, no patch today. Long live broken DPS!