Devs love rogues [Archive]

Sagerix

10-03-2005, 02:13 PM

And rogues love them right back.

http://12.129.217.203/thread.aspx?FN=wow-rogue&T=620535&P=1

2 hours, 8 pages. The only places you could get away with a thread like this for so long are possibly the realm forums, and the rogue forums. They're the only places with no blue paying attention.

Haeze

10-03-2005, 07:42 PM

Dead link.

Kylia

10-03-2005, 10:27 PM

They finally deleted it. Took em long enough.

Sagerix

10-04-2005, 12:40 PM

I have no idea where it ended. It had been up for 6 hours and was 23 pages long when I left work.

Kylia

10-04-2005, 01:42 PM

It was a pretty good illustration of how much rogues get ignored by devs. It's unfortunate that many of the good points contained in the thread were probably never seen because the thread was likely deleted as soon as it was seen.

Sagerix

10-04-2005, 02:28 PM

Well, if you've been watching that forum lately then good stuff going to waste is nothing new. One of the rogues there did an absolutely amazing in-depth mathematical breakdown of the 1.8 change and specifically why it's a bad thing, and even went so far as to put forward his own formula which accomplished exactly what the devs are hoping (bringing certain blues like Arcanite Reaper and Barman Shanker into line) while also not overstepping and doing the things that most rogues aren't happy about (nerfing epics in the name of helping epics). In the same thread where he put all that information, there was so much amazingly good rogue information I couldn't believe it and there was almost no trolling or bile.

The community rep said he took the info to the devs and they basically said it wasn't what they were looking for and they were going to stick with their 1.8 changes. Now nobody is sure if the devs truly got all the information (and the overwhelming evidence that rogues took quite a bit of time to put together) and still shot it down, or if the community rep dropped the ball and just gave the devs his own impression of what we were asking. Personally, I've felt pretty strongly the community rep boned it up and the fact that the thread yesterday existed for so long really helps solidify my opinion.