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The History of Rogues and Roguecraft

Warcraftmovies Comments
The following are a small collection of comments from Warcraftmovies.com. The most nasty and bitter posts have all
been deleted by the admins, along with posts that gave low ratings out of spite. These were the posts that went
along the lines of "FUCK YOU MUTE! RATED 1, BECAUSE I HATE YOU!". Unfortunately I didn't keep a record
of these. There are still several entertaining posts remaining. These players do not rate the film or will add
a comment about "nice editing" to prevent their posts from being deleted. These posts were made on Episode 3 several
years after it's release (after TBC).
Flozii
Fully agree with Dreadweight. this video is actuly not true. and for the rogue with no armour
and low level server. that could have been on a Private server.. and people say rogue is 1-4 button press and
requires no skill? this is coming from a Warlock.. i must have to say warlock is 3 button kill if that. 1 Dot macro,
1 fear, 1 n00bcoil... this movie sucks big time this video's for all the whiners out there that say nerf rogues.
try playing as one. as i now 8/10 say they have a rogue and dont truely have one. you need cool downs to evern kill
some one as rogue since the 2.1 patch as well as Mutilate = Gear dependant (+Crit Need'd) Surprise Attacks = Broken
doesnt work at all, Cloak of Shadows = 3 seconds? dot remover nothing more.. with a 3m cd (pointless as dots can be
placed back on you instantly / pointless 41 points for nerf'd dps)
KingDelight
Lol, cannot say how much i hate those movies, they suck so hard and the whining warlock
ZOMG WARLOCK? Warlock = deathcoil dots watch tv and bang enemy dead. and ur only fighting no skill nuub players wich
is like half afk just looking at ya and ur like omg im so imbbaaa! no rate.
Iceyeye
I liked the ganking... but... The agruement the warlock was using was pathetic. Yea.
Give me a buncha dodge, attack and crit with no stam. See where it gets you. We DO need stam with that agility.
As for his whole "I need a whole class set to do something to my dmg" Okay. Yea. Sure. I guess 4k dmg of DoT isn't
enough already? Trinkets? C'mon... get real.
Freelancehero
Holy crap...this is by far one of the lamest movies ive ever seen. You come in complaining
about how overpowered rogues are so you make one, spend the time to gear him just to show us. Really what i think
this is about is you getting sick of being a noob warlock so you decide to create a rogue. As for the not using
cooldowns everyfight...WTF!?! I saw in MANY occasions you using all of your cooldowns not once but TWICE!!! More
than half of these fights were OBVIOULSY staged. Who the hell in their right mind would just sit there and auto-attack
you to death while your attacking them with a worn dagger? STAGED UP THE BUTT!!!!!!! QQ more about rogues and go
L2Play your warlock.
Preesey
I don't like these movies at all. Read the comments in Polzie's movies who are so true,
coming from a way more skilled rogue. This movie is suposed to show that rogues are imba. Well, watching a UD
rogue running around with 2 HW dual's and rest full epic cant say proofs me much. And when you fight those
players when you only where that low lvl dagger etc, they look very unskilled. I think you need to play more
on your lock and less on this rogue.
jlathrop @ 06-08-09
Also I will not, as reVengeance did, these are the most gay, staged encounters I could ever
predict. I have a 60 Rogue (Laughing Skull, Alliance) and a lvl 28. I owned 60 Shamans, beat 60 Mages when my
first Rogue was just 29. No geared Rogue in their mind would run from a sisified Undead with a Worn Dagger. I
know I wouldn't and instead turn around and beat that ass like Mama used to. Also, a 21/8/22 build is the most
overused piece of crap I have ever seen and you demonstrate pure lack of skill. How many times did you burn your
cooldowns on these mock enemies and how often was Prep used. Talk about a ure demo of no skill coupled with no
real enemies.
I mean look at some of these Warrior fights. I fought Epic'd Warriors and Shamans working together and got owned
with Mortal Strike, Deep Wound, Execute out the mother loving ass. These gay staged warriors auto-attacked you like
WTF did you just buy your account. Please redo this lame garbage before you attempt to bash the hell out of the Rogue
class with this crap. Fight real opponents and not sisies. Stop this staged crap!
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jlathrop wants everyone to know he beat 60 Shamans and Mages when his rogue was only 29, and only loses to
teams of "Epic'd Warriors and Shamans working together". Mute's fights were the "most gay, staged encounters"
jlathrop "could ever predict". Mute's using "the most overused piece of crap" build jlathrop has ever seen. And using
his cooldowns, as everyone knows, using cooldowns is a "demo of no skill". jlathrop wants us all to
know how awesome he is. He's much better than Mute. That liar who said rogues were overpowered. He just didn't
realize that players like jlathrop, who were beating 60s at 29, and only lost when they fought epic Shaman/Warriors "working
together", without cooldowns (because cooldowns is "no skill") are just super skilled. You
are awesome jlathrop.
I'm better than you!
21/8/22 is a noob build!
You fought noobs!
The fights were staged!
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tairen125 @ 06-06-09
Ok first you need to play a rogue before you assume they are overpowered the fights you
see in this video show the rogue using all of his coodlowns... htats once every 10 and it doesnt work out in
every fight.... in videoes it is very easy to show what happens when you own rather than what happens every time....
if you saw all the fights he had to lose in themakeing you wouldnt think the same thing... yes rogues can
destroy but so can warlocks warriors mages... every class... some more than others yes.... but blizzard cant
be perfect... thats just part of the game you ahve to deal with it sucks... but you can't do anything about
it so enjoy the game... these fights were selective but i can still see skill you really are playing the class
well but that doesn't mean that its overpowered ... thats why i love hte test server i can play any class at
60 that i want and not level it... and i do find that casters get better bonuses from their gear... havnt you
heard of the high crits casters
take away their gear and they dont have that high crit 1 crit from a caster and the target is nearly dead...
i played a test server mage and i can kill anyone wihtout them hitting me warlocks too... i have destroyed
some people without anyone... so really please try a class before you deem it overpowered because gear+skill=oeverpowered
please consider this before you just consider a class overpowerd ... and when is the last time you saw a buff for
rogues... they have been getting worse since the begginging whether it was noted nurfs or not.. sometimes they nerf
rogues without saying anything in the patch notes and i really get tired of hearing people tell me my class is
overpowred they really need ot learn to play theirs... because i have beat multiple rogues with everyclass without
trying you just need to know what your doing blizzard gave you the powers there is a warlock on my server that uses
a firestone + swrd to destroy everyone in tier 2 rogues especially so please please con
Ermraven @ 07-01-31
Drakedog doesn?t use deathcoil. During The example of how useful fear is, death coil
isn?t used either?Hmmm?l2 deathcoil, then fear. That?s all a well geared warlock needs to kill any rogue.
Their health will be 75% gone before fear wears and they get back to the lock. Pali in the beginning of the
video doesn?t use stun once to heal, only shield. The hunter in the begining scatter shots once, then keeps
his pet on you so it takes the effect off. The warrior that?s around 6:50 in to the video doesn?t keep a DOT
on your so you couldn?t restealth from far away to cheap shot again. The pali thats 8 min in to the video doesn?t
stun once to heal. That is how you could win with two buttons alone against those people. They suck bad. You
didn?t rapture the rogue that you attack around 7 min in to the video so she couldn?t vanish or blind and bandage.
So she sucks because she didn?t do either. Hunter has huge advantages against rogue and always have...until lv66
now when we can get CoS n
babai @ 06-11-06
You ask DD about PvP trinket. I ask you about death coil. You have skill as a rogue and
movies are good more or less. Now try to learn your warlock as good as you learnt rogue. And then I quess we can
see your pwnage as Mute. Personally I have rogue, lock, shammy, priest and warrior all 60. Rogues life is hardest.
Just because I am not always in stealth. And who are always? :)
Kireel @ 06-10-13
did you ever stop to think the fact you cant PvP on your warlock is because you dont
know how to play your warlock, when you demonstrated that rogues have a "advantage" over warlocks, you had
respec'd your rogue to enhance that particular aspect of its play, and the duel with "drakedog" wasent very
good, when he got out of stunlock its common sense to use death coil, then fear because the rogue had already
used both will of the forskaen and the PvP trinkit, also most rogues i know dont use a PvP trinkit all the time,
when they see somone to go and "gank" you dont realy think twice about that your wearing, because they get away.
asside from what i said ubove, i love your humor and i love the movies. rogues are ALOT harder to play than
you make out, yes they are "overpowered" in a way but they also require skill, not as much as other classes
but they still need skill.
SpacemanXzan @ 06-10-13
lol this is actually pretty lame XD rogues are definetly NOT overpowered, look at your
own class plz? maybe a rogue can 2 hit someone if he's very lucky but u can 1hit ppl; or place a few DoT's on
another player and its certain that that player is gonna die within 15 sec -_- . Pretty lame to make such a vid,
as rogues are already nerfed, but ok i liked the way u edited etc. all nicely done :)
NebazTrollkarlen @ 06-09-23 17:47
Well you are not totally right.. When a rogue meet a warlock in duel we most keep them
stunlocked or else we get so much pwned 1 death coild and we need to use some Coldowns to have a chance to win the
duel the locks just put up curses and we die other classes just heal and pwn, its hard to be a rogue, in ur movie
you just duel noobs
tonydanger @ 06-08-28
was proven that the fights where staged editeing was great but staged fights....
Forum Posts
I wish I had kept more of the classic forum posts. There were so many absolutely retarded posts that would have been fun
to permanently record. Unfortunately I only have a few. If you have a record of or link to an interesting rogue post,
feel free to send it to me.
The following is a real post. It was written by a rogue named Savajtreyl in response to Episode 3. Keep in mind this was
written at a time when world pvp was alive and well. This was an extremely popular thread on the rogue forums, and
became the standard for the rogue essays that followed. Many rogues did not actually watch the video, instead
they just read anti-roguecraft posts and repeated them word for word. You can find a
record of this post at http://blue.cardplace.com/cache/wow-rogue/537688.html. Eventually Savajtreyl admitted
one of his accusations wasn't true. Yet he left it in, and continued to repeated it.
"Retracted, despite being an a**hole about it, Rhand is correct. The other points still stand, tho!".
Okay, first non class stuff:
Cool choreography. Decent acting.
Now thoughts:
If what he is saying is true, I would agree that warlocks get the shaft equipment wise.
Now Problems:
1) The maker lied. He claims that while using his good rogue gear, he uses no bandages and no potions. Watch carefully
and you see that he uses both in almost everybattle. (*1)
2) Several (if not all) the battles were staged. Notice how the maker uses potions and bangages? Notice that almost
NONE of his opponents do? Notice that he gets the first shot everytime? EVEN WHEN IN IRONFORGE! When he fights
the elf warrior naked, the warrior is wielding a 2 handed axe, he uses evasion and, strangely, the warrior NEVER ONCE
USES OVERPOWER! Despite being in Battle Stance almost the entire battle! Only one of the warlocks casts fear.
The druid waits until he is damn near dead to cast entangling roots. 2 of the paladins never bubbled. And don't even
get me started on the sorry ass rogues he kills. (not to mention, what does killing another rogue prove?
Especially the same one over and over again?) And the list goes on...either it's staged or he found the biggest bunch
of newbs on the planet to kill. (*3)
3) He only shows his best. Everyone who has played a rogue to 60 should have noticed that he uses EVERY MOVE
including those with LONG cooldowns in every fight. We only get to see battles with the most topnotch shots.
(*3)
4) He GANKS. Most of the battles involve him either attacking someone WHILE they are fighting, him vanishing
mobs onto his target, the target being clearly labeled AFK, the target is clearly doing something
(talking to vendor, trading in IF, etc) and he never once doesn't get the first shot in.
(Granted ganking is Easier with a rogue, but a warlock employing the same tactics would #@!& most other
people, too. Warlock: invis potion, shadowbolt, fear, exhaustion, corrupt, immolate etc...and
the Warlock could be just as 'good') (*4)
5) He changes builds to suit the situation. He is obviously a ghost rogue for fighting some people
(premeditation, imp sap, preparation, ghostly strike) and clearly combat against others (Coldblood,
imp gouge, imp kick). (*5)
Final thoughts:
Yes, when a rogue gets the first strike in they are damn effective. Yes, when I get to use ALL my long
cooldown move against a target who can't or doesn't I am gonna Own them. Despite being a pretty cool video, this movie gets 2
thumbs down for Hollywood-like unrealism. (*6)
Ok, let's take a look Savajtreyl's work of absolute brilliance.
*1 - He starts right off lying. This can't be a mistake. Mute never
said he wouldn't use bandages. English isn't that hard is it? How can you mistake this? And Mute never used a potion
during the 27 fights of the pvp section. Yet he says "he used both in almost every battle". It's disturbing that
Rogues seem to have no hesitation lyng to create "lies" in the video.
*2 - How does he prove the fights are staged? By lying. He repeats that Mute used
potions. Then he states "almost NONE of his opponents do", a high number did, most weren't given the chance.
Mute only fought two paladins, they both bubbled. It may be difficult to see the second paladin's actual bubble
animation, but it's impossible to miss the dozens of "immune"s. There were only 2 warlocks. One seduced (you can't
use both, they share diminishing returns). The other is standing in a crowd in Ironforge. And which rogue does
Mute fight over and over again? Why didn't the NE warrior with the axe overpower during evasion? Because A)
Mute didn't dodge and B) he feared and bandaged instead! How does he know he's in the battle stance?
He did not use any moves that require battle stance. The druid was alive a total of 15 seconds. About 10 of
those seconds he was stunned. It's not like he had long to wait. And finally, the author ignores
basic aspects of his class. Mute gets the first shot every time? "EVEN IN IRONFORGE!" No shit? That's called being
a rogue. Has he ever played a rogue? What does it prove to kill other rogues? That stealth, surprise, and
stunlocks are what wins the fight.
*3 - He ignores that Mute was naked when using "every cooldown". And he claims
that Mute selected only the lucky fights. This reveals that our author was a very bad rogue. Only the most
unskilled rogues at this time lost often. These were not lucky fights. We showed what we had. We were
showing actual pvp. This retard had no idea what "the best" was. If we had wanted to impress, we would have
taken several months to hunt down the best players on the server, as Mute did the next year. We would not have
included players who made mistakes. And this would not have shown real pvp. Rogues fought players
who made mistakes (this is part of being surprised), they always got the first hit, and they almost
never lost.
*4 - The author again proves how clueless he is, or dishonest. "He GANKS", "he never
once doesn't get the first shot in". GANKS YOU SAY!?! FIRST SHOT YOU SAY!?! Surely a stealthed rogue never
gets the first shot? And warlocks "use the same tactics"? I wasn't aware that warlocks had stealth.
Oh, wait, he meant they should buy invisibility pots for every fight. And he continues to make shit up.
Mute didn't fight anyone on a mob. Who did he vanish mobs onto? Only one target was labeled afk, and that
player was fighting back the entire time. The players trading in the IF auction house were standing
in a crowd of ~50 alliance.
*5 - Another classic accusation. "Changes his build to suit the situation"...
Mute had 3 builds in this video. His leveling build, full prep (he never
used ghostly strike), and CB/Prep. A total of 6 gold was spent on respecs. The author, like most rogues,
failed to grasp the near astrophysics concept of videos being shown out of chronological order. How
exactly, when Mute fights warriors, mages, etc with both daggers and swords, is he "[changing] his build to
suit the situation"? Some warriors are easier with daggers apparently, some with swords?
*6 - A rogue gets the first strike every time. That's stealth. "When I use all of my
long cooldown moves who doesn't know I am gonna own them" lol! When do opponents know beforehand that a rogue
is going to own them? And he continues to ignore that Mute was naked while using all of his cooldowns.
"All of my long cooldowns". This video was made in the days of world pvp, when rogues were free to wait on
every cooldown before a fight. In battlegrounds, it was pretty rare to find a rogue naked, usually they had
dps/dodge/crit/stamina, and weren't in the same situation. With gear you could just spam ss like a retard.
Like all of our critics, this rogue refused to acknowledge the strengths of his class. As if every rogue ran
around unstealthed. He lies in order to create the "lies" he accused us of. And did not understand the concepts
he was discussing. His entire post was foolish nonsense he spewed because he didn't like the message of the film.
What would remain if you removed all of the stupidity and lies?
Now thoughts:
If what he is saying is true (it was), I would agree that warlocks get the shaft equipment wise....
...Final thoughts:
Yes, when a rogue gets the first strike in they are damn effective...
And yet this was an very popular post, QFT by countless rogues, and became the blueprint for the endless threads made
afterwards.
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