The New Overkill
I’ve had a chance to play around with the new overkill and I’ve come to a few conclusions that were generally what I expected going into the patch. Yes, it is absolutely and unequivocally a nerf from a pvp standpoint. You are essentially losing at least one instant ability from the old iteration of overkill in pvp in most scenarios.
The big thing here is that the new overkill would be fine for PvP if rogues were a class that steadily trained the same target for the entire duration of overkill. As we are not, often times we will use it and have a lot of the energy go to waste. It’s also true that during the old overkill, you often got an extra finisher out of it during your initial stun lock. This usually would give you an extra 25 energy from relentless strikes, so not only are we losing the initial instant ability in our burst, we’re also losing the instant of an extra 25 energy.
The other PvP issue is the fact that often times if vanish doesn’t work we immediately have to prep and vanish again, essentially wasting overkill, and the last thing rogues need in pvp is for vanish working to be even more important. Simple solution to this would be to make overkill stack. This really wouldn’t be OP because it’s not like rogues will blow all of their vanishes in arena just to stack overkill at the start, if they did then they’ll probably be dead soon enough. It would just not penalize a rogue for having to vanish twice within 20 seconds.
In PvE however, this is a buff for single target encounters. You no longer need to pool energy to vanish which means you can use it at any time, so it’s one less thing to worry about. For aoe situations, however (ie. Hodir arena floor, freya’s ads, ect) it’s a bit of a nerf because aoe situations usually don’t last very long. Pooling energy for a full vanish fok spam with the old overkill was superior. Overall I’d say the benefits of this change outweigh the negatives for PvE, but in reality it’s not going to significantly change PvE damage or play style.
I will say that it was a fair nerf. If someone had a problem with rogues it was usually regarding our ridiculous burst damage, especially off the start. As far as nerfs go for PvP, this is reasonable. It cuts down on the strongest aspect of our class that could be seen as a bit out of balance without breaking the class. At the same time, it’s a pretty lame and uninteresting 31 point talent now, even when compared against premed, and more so when compared against adrenaline rush. I’d be happy if Blizz kept going with these nerfs to burst and gave us some survivability instead.
Personal Rant, In-game tells
I know I’ve given this sort of disclaimer before but I know I need to again; I’m not trying to be melodramatic and I thoroughly understand that this is a game. Since this is a blog and blogs are designed for people to bitch I think I’ll take that liberty.
Honestly, I try my best to be nice in and out of game. If I can help someone under reasonable circumstances, I will. If I can choose between being an asshole or not I try to do the right thing. No one’s perfect and I don’t always do the right thing but I usually try to when I can.
When you start making videos or provide public opinions in this game (as I’m sure anyone else in this situation can attest) you will start getting in game tells, questions, and general attention. In the past I’ve tried my hardest to answer these as well as I can.
As time has progressed, however, the volume of tells I get has risen exponentially. It’s gotten to the point that I get an in game tell, on average, every 5 minutes I’m in game. Sometimes they are good questions, sometimes it’s people who just want to talk, sometimes they are stupid questions (yeah, your teacher was wrong when they said there are no stupid questions), or questions I’ve already addressed. Sometimes they are just outright hate tells.
A lot of the questions I get could just as easily be answered using google, or often times taking a few minutes to search through this site. Questions about using pve gear or strats against druid/plate teams as mage rogue are a bit frustrating when I’ve written full articles about it.
I appreciate that people enjoy videos that I make for fun. I try my best to share my experiences and relevant information through this site, but I’m aware that not every answer can be found here. I’ll try my best to continue to post relevant information to help people.
In the end what I’m kind of announcing here is that I’m finished responding to in game tells because I get way too many to respond. So if you think I’m an asshole because you’re server is down and you’re bored and you thought it would be a good idea to say what’s up or ask me something, and I don’t respond, I’m sorry. I just don’t have time to cycle through tells in the the middle of arena or a raid or even when I’m just dueling. I appreciate that people ask if I’m busy, but if I’m in game I’m not idling waiting to answer questions, I’m probably going to be busy.
If you do have a question or need to talk to me about something, the best way to contact me is feedback@roguerogue.com, which I cleaned out generally a few days ago and I’ll try to go through at least once a week. If I didn’t respond to a question you submitted, the question was probably outdated (my fault) or the answer was already available. Try to keep questions concise please. No offense, but I don’t care what server you’re from and I don’t have time to check out your armory.
I’ll probably have some updates about how Eviscerate x is going in the next article.
