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Encrypted Text: A tale of three rogues
Every week or two, WoW Insider brings you Encrypted Text for assassination, combat and subtlety rogues. Scott Helfand (@sveltekumquat) will be your shadow on this treacherous journey; try not to keep your back turned for too long, and make sure your valuables are stashed somewhere safe. Stop me if you've heard this one before: Three rogues walk into a bar. ... Mute, the assassination rogue: Man, I am exhausted. Toetoe, the combat rogue: You're always saying that. Mute: I just haven't been feeling very energetic lately. Toetoe: I dunno; you seemed pretty spry during our last raid. Mute: That's just because we were buffed out the wazoo. I mean, sure, I feel better than I did back in Mogu'shan, but -- Toetoe: Ha! I remember that! You were stabbing so slowly you just gave up and started chucking shuriken instead. Mute: Har har. Buy me a drink, will you? Toetoe: Barkeep! Hey. Jack and Coke for me; Thistle Tea for my ever-tired companion. Hush, the subtlety rogue: BOO! Toetoe: And a Sneaking Potion for my little friend here. Hush: I didn't scare you? Toetoe: You've been standing right in front of me, Hush. Stealth ain't invisibility.
Encrypted Text: Meet your new poisons
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Encrypted Text for assassination, combat and subtlety rogues. Chase Christian will be your guide to the world of shadows every Wednesday. Feel free to email me with any questions or article suggestions you'd like to see covered here. The new poison system that's being implemented in Mists of Pandaria might seem like a fairly major revamp for a class that's typically seen very little change between expansions. The conversion of poisons from items to skills and the new lethal/non-lethal categorization is a massive update compared to what we saw between Wrath and Cataclysm. A rogue's ability to provide utility in a raid environment is being expanded dramatically and has always been a weakness of ours. The truth is that those changes pale in comparison to the other poison updates due in Mists. While not carrying poisons around in our bags is simply a quality of life change, obtaining new poisons for the first time in years will have a much larger impact. The poison crit system, which has been fundamentally flawed since its inception, is being redone properly. Shiv is actually going to be back on every rogue's hotbar. Poisoning both weapons at once is merely chump change, while the rebirth of random stuns deserves the loudest possible heralding.
