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Comment on Assassination is the New Combat by Rogue 3.08 PTR Changes | Game Blog

Rogue 3.08 PTR Changes | Game Blog — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:45:01 +0000

[...] A few posts ago, I mentioned mapping Feint. At the time, I was completely wrong. I haven’t had to use it once since Wrath. However, as Zaltu discussed in his latest post, Feint is back. The latest change to Feint reads “Feint: Rank 8 now reduces the damage taken from area of effect attacks by 50% for 6 seconds in addition to its existing effects.” This is incredible. Not only is it great now for raids, but also for soloing and PvP. [...]

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Rogues Gallery | Game Blog — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:45:01 +0000

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Comment on Rogues and Armor Penetration by Valenna

Valenna — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:12:40 +0000

Merele: Thanks. I had thought about making a more recent post to reflect the WotLK changes, but I’m currently taking a break from WoW and the blog. However, I did want to let you know how it works now. Armor penetration works by reducing their actual armor value by that percentage. So if they have 20000 armor and you have 10% reduction, they lose 2000 armor and then their damage reduction is recalculated via the standard formula. This is a radical change from the previous numeric reduction which affected cloth wearers more than other heavily armored opponents. This new percentage reduction affects heavily armored opponents more point by point you get, but it’s still just a percentage value. While before you could completely strip a cloth wearer of 100% their protection and barely make a dent in the damage reduction of a plate wearer.

So, to review:

Target Armor after ArmPen = (1-ArmPen %)*Target Armor before ArmPen

Then damage reduction from armor is calculated:

=Armor/(Armor+15232.5)

Thus, given 3 different targets: Priest (2036 armor), Rogue (5768 armor) and Prot Warrior (24768 armor). If you have 10% armor reduction, you reduce their armor value by 10%, so Priest goes to 1832 armor, Rogue to 5191, Warrior to 22291. After you determine the difference between the initial damage reduction to the new damage reduction, a 10% armor penetration would result in a damage increase of 1.2% against the Priest, 2.8% against the Rogue and 6.6% against the Warrior.

Another thing to notice is that even with 10% reduction, you’re not going to a 10% damage increase.

Comment on Rogues and Armor Penetration by Merele

Merele — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:23:33 +0000

Hey I read it it is still understandable but can u make a more recent one Wotlk Wise? :)

Arm Pen has been changed to % here and i’m kinda lost are we -% from their % of dmg reduction or is it -% of the % they have?

1. they have 50% i got 10% armPen = 40% will be blocked
OR
2. They have 50% i got 10% ArmPen = 45% will be blocked

Thx and great article btw :)

Cheers

Comment on Rogue 3.08 PTR Changes by Whis

Whis — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:44:42 +0000

I think that if it can work with Blade Flurry, it can be a nice ˝AoE˝ damager

Comment on Beta 9014 Combat Rogue Buffs by Arbaal

Arbaal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:13:08 +0000

Well, killing spree stacks with blade flurry…which is very sweet.

Comment on Rogues and Armor Penetration by Knob

Knob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:50:10 +0000

Having a trillion armor penetration will not raise your envenom damage.

Comment on Rogue 3.08 PTR Changes by Oodles

Oodles — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:05:12 +0000

“You just suggested giving a high end Subtlety talent to all Rogues, in exchange for an “improved” skill, which we all know always suck. It’s insulting.”

They did this for the mage Ice Block.

they did this by giving cat druids - the yiffy version of rogues - feral leap. no one told them they HAD to go bear form and do feral charge just to reduce downtime. and they don’t even need the mobility fix.

they did this by fixing shadowmeld to essentially be a stationary vanish.

and Cloak of Shadows used to be the 41pt Subtlety move as well. so what’s your point? baseline ShS would fix our mobility in every spec and back up the whole “let’s make all 3 trees pvp viable” garbage blizzard is smoking. it doesn’t even work when rooted either, so what’re you complaining about?

Comment on Rogue 3.08 PTR Changes by Dosequis

Dosequis — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:19:00 +0000

GHOST CRAWLER ADMITS IT:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14697492760&pageNo=2&sid=1#27

Blizzard owes Rogues more DPS.

Comment on Damage Meter Junkie by water restoration

water restoration — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:23:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing your expereince with us, I look foward to reading more about this from you.