Please kill Rogue PvE weapon-swapping

#0 - Oct. 28, 2009, 1:46 p.m.

For rogues to compete now, they have to swap their offhand twice every 12 seconds or so. Please kill this like you said you would, as it is completely ridiculous and horrible to do. Give some minor haste and white hit buffs to rogues so they can compete with the better scaling plate wearers, etc instead.

Edit - For those who do not know, weapon swapping of this manner involves getting 5 deadly stacks up (deadly on your offhand), then swapping to dual instant (or wound for some combat fights), then swapping back to deadly offhand a few seconds before the deadly stack fades. GC stated this was not an intended mechanic, and would be killed if it became too viable/prevalent, which it has.

Ghostcrawler

#56 - Oct. 29, 2009, 7:33 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Patch 3.2.3: Swapping weapons now removes any buff/debuff applied by that weapon

This is a myth. We haven't made a change like that.

We think the problems with swapping weapons get overstated a lot. There is some theoretical evidence that you can get a small dps increase by swapping weapons. In reality, many of the rogues who try it find that it's too prone to error given the marginal benefit. If you can make it work, that's great for you, but we don't think that weapon swapping will be the typical way for rogues to max out their dps.

Now if it got the point where the typical raiding rogue was dependent on swapping weapons, we'd probably do something about it.