This week we had a lovely demonstration of how player/developer communication can and should work.

Last week Assassination got a couple of hotfixes:

Hotfixes: January 31

  • Agonizing Poison application no longer increases Kingsbane damage by twice the listed amount.
  • Crippling Poison, Pistol Shot, and Nightblade/Night Terrors now reduce the movement of targets by 50% (was 30%). The reduction remains at 30% in PvP situations.

 

Rogue DPS Guide told us what that means for us including a possibly unintended nerf to Kingsbane:

 

And Blizzard Community Manager, Kaivax, responded on the forums:

We’ve been watching this closely. Rather than tweak Agonizing Poison at this time, we’re going to increase Assassination damage by about 4% for most abilities. We’ll have that change go live as soon as we can.

That will mean a +4% damage to Ambush, Deadly Poison, Death from Above, Envenom, Fan of Knives, Garrote, Hemorrhage, Kingsbane, Mutilate, Poisoned Knife, and Rupture.

Thank you for the feedback!

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Lo, the promised hotfix was delivered – albeit with a caveat for PvP:

Hotfixes: February 3

  • A 4% damage increase has been applied to the following Assassination abilities: Deadly Poison, Death from Above, Envenom, Fan of Knives, Garrote, Hemorrhage, Kingsbane, Mutilate, Poisoned Knife, and Rupture.
  • Assassination Rogue Agility reduced by 5% in PvP situations.

 

And Neverrz of Rogue DPS Guide looked at how to maximise Assassination DPS in The Nighthold after the week’s rebalancing:

 

As always, check out Rfeann’s Changelog for changes to our class:

 

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