Want to Start a Rogue and Just want to Make Sure I Understand a Couple Things

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Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And tanks and pullers and bumpers. If your conception of a rogue is limited to half afk DPS, that might be more a reflection of your own ability at this game.

I am continuously amazed at how little people expect from Rogues in general. People expect DPS and corpse drags, but basically nothing else. There's a bunch of pulls that Rogues are really good at, we have the fastest recharging and second longest lasting bump disc, we have snap aggro on engage using poison. Furor's the only person I've raided with back during an old...Freedom? teamup with Aegis that has ever asked for an opening bump with snap aggro to allow a warrior to totem aggro, and he wasn't even asking for Rogues. I volunteered because I knew I could fill that job and we didn't have a ranger, and we were getting crickets from anyone else who could possibly do it.

I think part of the reason is that Rogues can do their main job as a semi-afk warmbody, so people who do not want to be part of the pull/engage team are more likely to gravitate towards the class since you can get away with a pretty simple role if you want. People get mad at monks who just DPS and refuse to pull, but people don't do the same to Rogues.

There's nothing really wrong with that, sometimes you aren't in a position where you can step up to do anything complicated and it can be nice to just have a job where you stand there and press two buttons every 5 seconds. But its also nice to be able to try to use some of the other things the class can do and stretch a little sometimes.