Well I live in Orlando and I am receiving the day off due to the "hurricane"! Hurray! Hopefully we wont lose power at all and I ll be able to spend time online and then have a good hurricane party. Anyone else in the Florida area getting the day off? Stay safe see you online!

~CS

Well it looks like the ones that were leaked were not to far off. There might have been one or two that didnt make it but whoever released the first set of talents and spells caused blizzard to rush an official release.

Rogues are making out like kings on this last patch and the burning crusade. Were receiving a ranged eviscerate with a built in snare. A garunteed chance to apply our offhand poison which is super cool... Now you can lace up your primary with crippling and also shiv deadly for rogues... or mind numbing for casters... very good stuff!

Of course our real power is in the talents we already posess... How about a Seal Fate 120 Energy Preparation Rogue. Talk about pvp utility! Not to mention any combination of the old builds can be put together Combat / Prep looks like it could be the number one DPS king though. The ability to use Adrenaline Rush and Blade Furry even more often? Our dps will be sickening.

You can check all this stuff out here http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/talents-and-spells.html

I myself need to run back and check out what everyone else is getting :-)

~CS

So here are the changes for the Rogues. I see alot of negative stuff on the official wow forums but im gonna say I really like this patch so far... ill even bold and highlight the stuff I really like!

Rogues
- Due to significant talent changes, Rogues will have all talent
points refunded and can be re-spent. Training costs for all talent
spell replacements have been significantly reduced.
- Vanish now removes effects that allow the caster to always remain
aware of their target (currently Hunter's Mark and Mind Vision).
- Pickpocket can now be used on targets that are in combat, as long as the rogue remains stealthed.
- All manner of rogue reagents can be found in locked junkboxes
(obtained from pickpocketing).
- Fixed a bug where the Slice and Dice ability wasn't playing an
animation.
- Lethargy Root has been removed from poison vendors and is now a gray item.
- Reduced the number of messages in the combat log when using the
Vanish ability.
- Fixed a bug that made Combo Points disappear from your target when
using Vanish.
- Eviscerate: Manual of Eviscerate (Rank 9) now drops off Blackhand
Assassins in Black Rock Spire. In addition, Eviscerate now increases
in potency with greater attack power.
- Garrote: The damage from this ability has been increased. In
addition, Garrote now increases in potency with greater attack power.
- Relentless Strikes: This ability will no longer trigger when your
finishing move does not hit your target.
- Rupture: Rupture now increases in potency with greater attack power.
- Sap: Enemy rogues will now always lose stealth when you Sap them.

Warriors
- Thunderclap: This ability was left at 10% despite the haste effect
changes. This means its potency has been reduced slightly. -- Any warrior nerf is a good nerf!

Bug Fixes
- Bonescythe Armor: The Eviscerate bonus will no longer trigger when
your Eviscerate does not hit your target.
- Chain-targeted abilities cast by creatures no longer hit stealthed
or invisible players.
- Fixed a bug that caused some non-combat pets to be referred to as
Minions instead of Pets. Mini Diablo however has escaped this fate
and will continue to be referred to as a Minion.
- If a Hunter is unflagged for PvP, an enemy faction rogue won't be
able to disarm his trap. -- Awwwwww!
- Players can no longer drop from combat by repeatedly placing their
pet into passive mode. -- Cheatin' Hunters!

World Environment
Neutral guards are now able to see through the rogue Vanish ability.

Mac
- Added support for controlling iTunes from within World of Warcraft.
You can bind a set of keys for play/pause, next track, back track
and volume up and down. -- NO FAIR!

With the changes I bolded above Rogues will be unstopable!

For those of you that were a fan of Upa's Rogue comics, Hes back! His scope has expanded a little bit to include his friends... meaning it wont just be Rogue Comics but im looking forward to see what the gnome puts up there. There has already been a couple of updates to the site so check em out!

Blizzard has released a lot of new information about the burning crusade... small things like the actual flying mounts we will get to fly as well as more important things like how the pvp system will be revamped and 40 man raid instances will bite the dust. Jewelcrafting looks like it will be interesting adding a whole lot of customization to your character and the outdoor pvp that they are starting to implement in 1.12 will continue throughout all of the new zones.

Just because there is no 40 man content dont think that the new instances will be push overs. I've heard that one of the 25 man instances will only be reachable via flying mount. (that doesnt speak for its difficulty but it does sound really sweet).

I have gone through all the links on the side bars and removed any of the ones that I couldnt get to incuding thottbot's... lol ... and changed it to the right link! I have also added a great deal of stickies from the Europe forums as well as a great class loot list. The SI-7 Library has also been brought up to date so you should be able to see all the articles that are currently in the library.

Remember I am always looking for new sites to link to from RogueSpot as well as broken links already on RogueSpot that need to be removed. If you find any of this and I am logged into Meebo you can shoot me a pm and ill be able get to it quicker. Remember to change your name on meeboMe so that I know whos sending the pm.

~CS

This is the post by Drysc on the Rogue Forums...

Below are the current values that we are currently working with for the scaling of Garrote, Eviscerate, and Rupture with Attack Power. As with everything in the review, these are subject to change.

The original thread detailing the most recent changes announced for the review can be found here: https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-rogue&t=1337254

Garrote 6:
Old Damage: 432
600 AP: 660
800 AP:696
1500 AP: 822
% Increase for 1500 AP: 90%

Eviscerate 8:
Old Damage: 936
600 AP: 941
800 AP: 971
1500 AP: 1076

Eviscerate 9:
600 AP: 1048
800 AP: 1078
1500 AP: 1183
% Increase for 1500 AP: 26%

Rupture 6:
Old Damage: 935
600 AP: 944
800 AP: 992
1500 AP: 1160
% Increase for 1500 AP: 24%

Personally I would like a 50% scale in damage at the very least... there wont be alot of Rogues running around with 1500 Attack power... thats a just a huge amount of Attack. They have the right Idea with garrote though...

In other News Item Buffs on the Public Test Realm have been nerfed again. Poisons no longer last while zoning. Supposedly whatever hack they made to get this to happen is stressing the servers... however this is supposedly a temporary fix and will be put back in as soon as the hardware upgrades are finished for burning crusade.

~Cerias Shadows

If any of you are regular users of meebo.com at work. Then you have probably heard of their new service meebome service. Against my better judgement I am going to try this out. I have a widget installed on RogueSpot halfway down the page... maires is my username on meebo.

Feel free to say hi or pm me if your having difficulties with registering with the forums or something like that. If the forums are down though ... probably best to let it go... i ussually know about it.

If the tool is abused obviously ill remove it but lets see how it goes!

~Cerias Shadows (maires)