The problem with complicated classes, especially complicated melee classes, isn't that they have you pressing a lot of buttons. The problem is that, in a raid environment, an Assassination rogue is now watching his energy bar, health, his target's health bar, target's cast bar, combo points on the target, his own cooldowns, the environmental and AoE effects that usually show up on the floor, trying to keep three extremely short term buffs on himself up, trying to keep several short term debuffs up on the target, watching his potitioning relative to the boss to maintain DPS but not cause a parry-gib...On top of all that, a rogue doesn't really get a skill rotation like other classes, since it's so reliant on combo points which are themselves reliant on RNG in the Assassination tree.

It's a very complicated setup. And, since there's so much a rogue has to keep track of at any given time, rogue DPS is going to be much more susceptible to things like lag and latency inconsistencies, and even more reliant on the player being at the absolute top of his game lest his DPS rapidly crashing to the ground.

I like my rogue. I like the complication. But, as someone with 5 characters in the 70s and three at 80, I can say that my Assassination rogue is easily the most demanding to play, and the easiest to play poorly. If I were leading a raid, I couldn't trust a rogue I didn't already know well to play at the level the class demands if one of the classes that can comparatively AFK through fights and still manage top DPS were available.

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