Comments on: DPS, How Not to Do It, #3 (Rogues)

By: Tankette

Tankette — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:22:34 +0000

I don’t pretend to understand the moves Rogues have. I do know that the good ones realize that stun moves on a mob that is hitting me means I get rage starved so the avoid that.

I have grouped with some that do way too much threat before I get going on a mob and they die an early death. The more experienced ones wait a little longer into the fight before busting out their big moves.

By: Aurik

Aurik — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:11:30 +0000

Vanish – A good rogue will find it hard to take aggro if they use vanish early on in a fight – it’s much better, in my opinion, than feinting constantly as that will eat into your dps cycles horribly. I used to use feint in this manner and had a terribly bad reputation for pulling aggro. Happily, I’ve changed my ways

I have a tendency to (after aggro is established) blow my first round of cooldowns, vanish, then come back out and start my normal dps cycle. This does two things – on long fights my extended cooldowns are available again before the end of the fight and I essentially ‘start over’ aggro wise as though I’d only begun dps over half a minute after the tank first took aggro.

I have never caught up to a tank again in aggro when doing this except on bosses with aggro resets / tank rotations and even then it’s not usually too much of an issue

I think the biggest problem some rogues have is leaving their vanish until *after* they get aggro – this is a definite no-no – aggro resets should be used when they become available.

Also, yes, dps is so dull compared to tanking / healing sometimes…

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:40:27 +0000

Just thought I would say that I have been enjoying your series on “How not to do it”. Keep up the good work.