Fans of Knives: Our Weekly News Roundup for April 14th, 2015

The big news of the moment is that 6.2 is up on the PTR. As always when dealing with the PTR, note that everything is subject to change.

The whole post:

• 6.2 PTR Patch Notes

And the Rogue bits:

General Eviscerate now deals 10% more damage. Sinister Strike now deals 10% more damage. Assassination Envenom now deals 10% more damage. Mutilate now deals 10% more damage. Combat Mastery: Main Gauche has increased in effectiveness by 10%. Killing Spree no longer prevents the Rogue from being targeted or grant immunity from crowd-control affects. Additionally, the effect is now cancelled if the Rogue is crowd-controlled. Subtlety Mastery: Executioner has decreased in effectiveness by 8%. Backstab now deals 20% more damage. Sanguinary Vein now causes the Rogue to deal 30% more damage to targets affected by Rupture (up from 25%). Talents Shuriken Toss now deals 53% more autoattack damage. Additionally, fixed a bug that caused hits made with offhand weapons to deal 15% more damage than intended.

 

Fierydemise has his first thoughts on the changes:

• 6.2 Preliminary Analysis

 

Wowhead has a fair amount of datamined information – of course this is both PTR and datamined and so is very much subject to change:

• 6.2 PTR: Spell Changes, New Follower Abilities, Tier 18 Set Bonuses, Archimonde Trinkets

Rfeann has picked out several details pertinent to us:

Newly datamined Tier 18 PvE set bonuses on @Wowhead. Here are the rogue ones. (The Assn 4p is most likely a typo.)

— Ravenholdt (@Ravenholdt) April 14, 2015

Um. Guys. The new patch 6.2 rogue trinket, with spec-specific procs, per @Wowhead. http://t.co/Sx6fiFiHoS

— Rfeann Berougin (@SvelteKumquat) April 14, 2015

And if you think *that* trinket is interesting, you’re gonna really be intrigued by this one. http://t.co/SpWm1WKvvz

— Rfeann Berougin (@SvelteKumquat) April 14, 2015

This trinket’s a bit less sexy, but could work with Combat’s Blade Flurry in interesting ways. http://t.co/66BIIzKjIs

— Rfeann Berougin (@SvelteKumquat) April 14, 2015

Wowhead has also posted some of the new PvP looks:

• 6.2 PTR Warmongering and Wild Gladiator PvP Armor Sets, Downtime Tuesday Episode 11

 

We have had warnings about trusting datamined information and @WarcraftDevs has already issued a statement about the Legendary Rings:

The Legendary ring procs that have been datamined from the 6.2 PTR are from an old design. A new design is planned for a future PTR build.

— WarcraftDevs (@WarcraftDevs) April 14, 2015

 

In non-PTR related news, Paryah posted a blog on Ravenhold talking about switching from Assassination to Subtlety:

• I Ain’t Afraid o’ No Sub – or how I learned to stop worrying and love Subtlety

 

Infexious Gaming discusses our current tier 4 piece set bonuses:

• Combat Rogue 4-set talk-World of warcraft-Wod-6.1
• Sub Rogue 4-set talk-World of warcraft-Wod-6.1
• Combat Rogue 4-set talk-World of warcraft-Wod-6.1

and gets in on the Marked for Death vs Anticipation conversation:

•  Anticipation vs Mark for Death-Rogue-World of warcraft

 

If you’d like to discuss any of this, be sure to hit our forums or jump into our #ravenholdt IRC.

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