02/04 Tigole on rogues

The Rogue Situation

We’ve done a tuning pass of many of our dungeons/bosses/encounters to ensure that nothing overly punishing occurs to “melee DPS’ that would lead people to favour ranged DPS over Rogues/DPS Warriors etc.

Also, we’ve changed the NPC cleave mechanic so that it’s now a frontal cone ability rather than a 360 degree chain attack. Sweeping Strikes has been removed from all Burning Crusade NPC’s.

We’re also reducing the Glancing Blow damage penalty for creatures 1-3 levels higher than the player. This will have a significant effect on melee DPS as it relates to endgame melee dps. More details on this at a later time.


The entire post by Tigole is posted here:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=269507044&sid=1

Q u o t e:
The link isn't really working well I reckon.

Grr. Fixed now, thanks.

Q u o t e:
How much are glancing blows getting reduced?
and does this affect druids and warriors as well ?

Don't know yet, but as Tigole said we will give more updates on this.

Q u o t e:
Also... when is engineering getting fixed.

I would assume there will be some changes in the next content patch, but we won't make all changes all at once.