Armaggedon's coming!

I have previously shared Naysa’s and Phlanker’s opinion on rogues.

While as a general rule I treat rogues like mosquitoes, slap randomly at the air and they pop their Cloak of Noob, there are times when I find myself reduced to inarticulate Rogue Rage myself.

I had two of those moments over the weekend in quick succession. In fact it was the proximity of the battles and the juxtaposition of their performance that has me still raging days later.

Act I

We enter Arathi Basin to find our team stacked with rogues… Seven of them, 7!

I’m not above using an unfair advantage and 7 rogues in AB is an unfair advantage.

The gates open, the rogues disappear, as they do, they are stealth after all.

The problem, it turns out, is that while masters of stealth, they were masters of not very much else.

Two of them stealthed at Gold Mine the whole time. They were active in BG chat so obviously not AFK, yet for the purposes of AB objectives, might as well have been. The others.. well I saw a couple defending the roads…

Rogues are born ninja cappers, I’m pretty sure that is the definition of a rogue somewhere on Blizzards website.

Sure they can be handy at guarding a node, but that just isn’t the best use for this BG resource.

If they were there to AFK bleed honor, then they might as well have stepped away from their keyboards. If they were there to get real honor, they could have joined in.

We lost that BG miserably and I admit I was mildly annoyed, but then we had the next BG.

Act II

Ahhh relief, we aren’t a team of AFKing rogues… thank god for…

Ohhh shit, the Horde has nine, 9 rogues!

Damn it, they had read Blizzard’s website, they were a nightmare.

Roving Rogues, in hunting packs of 2-3, they just dominated.

They didn’t need to ninja cap, they just sliced and diced us to minced meat.

• One rogue tapping ineffectually at your back is one thing.
• Two rogues slicing appropriately sized fillets is a pain.
• Three Rogues butchering you post haste is a insane.

Sap, Blind, Destroy

Sap, Blind, Destroy

Sap, Blind, Destroy

Sap, Blind, Destroy

That was the flow of the battle. I felt like Dr. Who hearing the 4 knocks.

I knew the outcome, there was little I could do but call out in BG chat

ST… rogues… ST gone… Stay away from the rogues.

But there was no escape from the Horde rogues.

They were playing their class, playing to win, playing to demoralize and humiliate.

I would have traded all of the Alliance rogues for one of the Horde rogues.

So after these BGs Warlocks have lost their top KoS position replaced by rogues. My list now goes like this.

1. Rogues – Alliance
2. Rogues – Horde
3. Warlocks (because it’s right to hate on Warlocks when you are a Mage)
4. Paladins (actually their death isn’t necessarily, but I want their buffs… I want their wings!)

Speaking of Warlocks.

I was speaking (well playing BGs) with Keredria over the weekend and she mentioned the resurgence of Warlock rerolls. I know we have gone from one inactive Warlock to 3 active ones recently (in a guild of about 10 active players). How about you guys?

edit: Cynwise tells us Warlocks are on the decline… mmm…

Luckily Bear is holding up the Mage end of the rerolls.

I had the honor of doing BGs with Keredria, Bear, Pugnacious Priest and a few of their guildies over the weekend.

Bear was concerned about his lack of resilience gear, I was just concerned that he was getting more killing blows than most of us.

Although there was that one Resto Shaman, even with both of us going all out we couldn’t get him below 50%.

It was fun.
It was an honor
It will be repeated.

Thanks to all of you that participated. I had a blast, it felt more like a single group of guildies than a muddled up conglomeration of 4 guilds.

Gnomer and Out!

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