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posted on what gringo feels the problem is with combat might get to see something new soon

Well they kinda had to say something after they have just nerfed our main finisher by 10% and only providing rogues with a few tweaked glyphs and pvp changes as normal so far on PTR.

Its comments like "We're not sure it's even possible to ever balance things out completely perfectly so that all specs are equal in all areas, but we do our best to at least minimize the differences." that I love, when the differences have been so obviously massive for this expansion hehe

Blizz usually acknowledges there is a problem before an expansion, I think they mark it on the calendar to make some post on the issue each time, so I wont hold my breath...
1) Expansion comes and they say "get more haste and it will be fine"
2) Mid expansion they say "We feel they are competitive"
3) End of expansion / prior to next expansion "Yeah we can see there was a problem... but its hard to make all 3 specs competitive"
4) go back to step 1

or...
1) Expansion comes...
Player "OMG rogues are so slow and boring to play now!"
Ghostcrawler "Stack haste"

2) Mid Expansion....
Player "OMG rogues are so slow and boring to play still!"
Ghostcrawler "We feel they are fine, you are not the voice of the community"

3) End of expansion / prior to next expansion...
Player "Why doesnt anyone play rogues?!"
Ghostcrawler "We feel generally players find the class un-fun to play, we'll look at updating the combat visuals"


:)

with nerfing your finisher wasnt it buffed earlier in the ptr

Nah, well they kinda increased the AP scaling on it at the same time they nerfed it, works out about a 1% dps loss to combat.

Basically its a pvp nerf to Sub, as they buffed a few Sub abilities but then nerfed Eviscerate to balance it out (as sub uses Eviscerate also)

There have been no rogue buffs apart from the PvP buffs then nerfs to balance it (as far as I am aware), but we have useful things like a glyph that makes our distract leave a decoy ;P