Encrypted Text: Remembering 2011 as the year of the rogue

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Encrypted Text for assassination , combat and subtlety rogues. Chase Christian will be your guide to the world of shadows every Wednesday. Feel free to email me with any questions or article suggestions you’d like to see covered here, like how to sneak around wearing a gaudy sweater. With 2010 fading fast , rogues apprehensively looked forward to Cataclysm and how it would shape 2011. We were the crowned kings of Icecrown Citadel , with armor penetration and attack power as our top stats and both assassination and combat battling for first place. Mutilate rogues still tied down by Hunger for Blood , and combat rogues were spamming Blade Flurry on cooldown for the attack speed increase. Looking back, we have grown since Wrath . Each of the rogue specs has evolved and found a niche, and even subtlety can make a reasonable claim for a raid spot now. With the massive talent system revamp, the developers struggled initially to balance each spec against the others. Rogues entered into 2011 and Cataclysm with a whimper, as the loss of armor penetration and the conversion of attack power to agility was not as smooth as Blizzard would have hoped. Continue reading Encrypted Text: Remembering 2011 as the year of the rogue Filed under: Rogue , (Rogue) Encrypted Text Encrypted Text: Remembering 2011 as the year of the rogue originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink