Yet Another Warlock Nerf

The latest 2.3.2 news surprised me today. I didn’t expect a rogue nerf at least till 2.4, but AR/Prep was more ez-mode than SL/SL.

* Ambush: The damage multiplier on this ability has been increased from 250% to 275%.
* Hemorrhage: This ability now correctly does additional damage when its debuff has already been applied.
* Preparation now resets the cooldown of Shadowstep and no longer resets the cooldown of Adrenaline Rush.
* Shadowstep now adds a 3 second, 70% movement speed increase.
* Sinister Calling now also increases the percentage damage bonus of Hemorrhage and Backstab by 2/4/6/8/10%.

If you’re a rogue, you can pretty much choose any spec atm and you’ll be fine in PvP. That’s hardly the case with other classes - some don’t even have one decent talent tree.

Anyway, back to the point. I’ve read Ming’s post today and it kinda makes me sick the more I look at it.

Also, a lot of people probably didn’t notice this, as a hero of the rogue community, as soon as I saw the 110% hemo nerf, I posted two bug threads on PTR and bug forum

Self-proclaimed hero of the rogue community my ass… It’s not the first time he said something like that either. Seriously, it was funny when Athene did it but in Ming’s case it’s just pathetic. But that’s just me. I bet half of Ming’s visitors would spec 0/0/61 if he said so.

Rogue needs damage more than anything else and even with AR/prep there are plenty of classes that can eat two AR’s and still wreck us 1v1. Rogue’s overall success (class as a whole, there will always be special players with special teammates like XOM) is still not top tier in anything other than 3v3.

*cough* roflcraptastic *cough*
Not even warriors can beat you, and they’re your counter class (as much as I hate using this term).

We do have the best balanced talent trees with this change, unfortunately the best balanced class tends to be the weakest class as well.

Are you fuckin’ kidding me? I thought you said rogues were finally the strongest class? No golden age?

Your Ambush is buffed (hello, anyone noticed?), Shadowstep’s tooltip will soon cover half of your screen, and still rogues complain. Not to mention the class got quite a few buffs in 2.3.
To all those ‘ima gonna reroll‘ rogue whiners out there - AR/Prep needed a nerf, face it. Rogues are fine, its a l2p issue.

Hate me, flame me, nerf me, unsubscribe me, /ignore me… I can’t help it. I’m probably the only guy in the known universe who hates Ming, but I do. There, I said it.