You didn’t actually think vanish would change, did you?
Today Blizzard posted the rogue Q&A. They’ve all been pretty marginal since the shaman one, I suppose because shaman are getting a lot of interesting changes this patch so there was more immediate stuff to talk about. Rogues are in a good place for both PvE and PvP, so a lot of the answers were along the lines of “yep it’s fine bro, no we’re not changing that”. Also, are people really still complaining about “stunlocks”?
Anyway, yeah, it’s all pretty bland. The only thing I couldn’t believe was that it seems like they’re happy with 90% cloak:
Q. Cloak of Shadows is an incredible ability; it helps rogues avoid most incoming spell damage and effects. However, how do we feel this ability stacks up versus classes that possess both melee and spell damaging abilities? Do we still feel the 90% avoidance is sufficient to aid Rogues in PvP encounters against spell casters and hybrids?
A: It’s meant as a tool that’s part of a toolkit, not an I-win button. It’s sufficient, and extending it to 100% would make rogues largely immune to interesting PvE effects they shouldn’t be (e.g. Mimiron’s Shock Blast).
It’s not supposed to be an I WIN button except that 94% (or whatever) of the time it is, and 6% of the time it randomly fails and you die. I’m usually fighting to maintain some level of RNG to keep things interesting, but this is just too stupid. I have faith they’ll eventually come around like they did with heartbeat sap resists and other stupid crap.
It’s a shitty answer to the question anyway, which explicitly mentions PvP and hybrid damage.
STILL LOOKING FORWARD TO AXES THOUGH GUYS.
PS. Let me cloak scourge strikes if you’re not going to let me mitigate their damage!
I completely agree about the RNG factor for cloak in PvP. The devs do have a point in PvE, but it still sucks to have one abilities chance to fail decide an Arena match. I know you know this more than I do, but it does happen, and more often than it should.
Anyway, after taking some much needed advice to the bank and working on my PvP, I agree with you that we’re in a good place right now overall. I kill things, or keep them busy so they can’t kill things. I can live with that any day of the week. Hopefully they’ll implement that Vanish band-aid in the near future; hey, at least they’ll admit it’s an issue now
- Sam
My ideal solution for PvE would make cloak work 100% of the time on the things it works on, and just have exceptions for important spells like Mimiron aoe or Emalon nova or whatever you like.
Possibly this would be hard to do for technical reasons, although I can’t see what’s preventing them from marking certain boss spells as “this spell cannot be made to miss”.
I totally agree that it’s great to finally have a dialogue open about vanish issues now. The band-aid you mention sounds like a decent quick win to me.