Encrypted Text: Rogue roles in PvP

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2-23-2011 @ 1:46PM

Gramlet said...

Rogues exemplify a facet of pvp that I think is a poor game mechanic. Nobody wants to go into a battle and be helpless. Nobody pays 20 bucks a month to play a game, so they can go into a battleground and have a rogue sap them three times in a row, stunlock them after with backstabs, kidney shots, blindness, etc..

People want to feel like they had options. Good game design follows a rock, paper, scissors strategy where you were outplayed because you picked rock when you should of picked paper. But fighting a rogue is just walking into a "can't do anything situation"

I remember reading blue posts that echoed the above sentiments slightly, and talk of making rogues less dependent on "stun lock" but like so many things, it never seemed to materialize.

2-23-2011 @ 2:44PM

Moeru said...

And I, as a rogue, don't want to go into a battleground, get feared 5 times in a row, sheeped twice, frost nova'd, frozen, stunned, disarmed, feared again and finally killed before I do anything. But it happens, and good CC is part of PvP, not just straight up DPS.

2-23-2011 @ 3:48PM

Cheeselandman said...

Anyone can beat a rogue. Even without a pvp trinket, a rogue and another class have equal footing. What a rogue specializes in is mind games- that is, making their opponent panic and do something stupid.

Rogues are PvP powerhouses, and if played well they will succeed, but that is not limited to rogues.

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