A Look Back at Subtlety Rogue in Dragonflight & War Within Wishlist - Editorial
With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Subtlety Rogue Writer, fuu1, offers a retrospective highlighting Subtlety's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
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Subtlety Rogue Dragonflight Retrospective
Intro
Dragonflight set out with a difficult mission to revamp the talent tree design and change each specialization in the game. Now that Dragonflight is slowly phasing out, and in preparation of The War Within, I am happy to sit down and take a closer look at the progress made this expansion, talk about things that improved, and discuss what went wrong. So lets start!
What happened during Dragonflight?
Overview
If you like Subtlety Rogue, Dragonflight was a good time. The spec ended up in a favorable position in all 3 raid tiers. While Subtlety was usually tuned to be weaker than the other two specializations, it managed to usually get ahead after the other two received nerfs. The list below briefly summarizes all three seasons.
- Season 1: The talent tree design allowed for combinations with low trade-offs between single target and aoe talents. Players could take full advantage of fights like Raszageth to do relevant damage at all stages of the fight.
- Season 2: Season 2 started with changes to talents empowering magic damage sources. These would stop working on item effects. Subtlety being one of the dominant users of borrowed power systems like Onyx Annulet got a small compensation buff. The compensation increased the baseline performance and in combination with a
