39s Worth it?

Gulbon

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So I've been leveling a new human Rogue on Moon Guard (US), right? And at the moment, he's like, level 21 so far, and it hit me. I've heard word that this bracket was starting to rise in activity about a month or two ago, and being willing to try new things, I just checked the forum. From my knowledge, games are played regularly without pre-scheduling during Wednesday nights, with a few scheduled games throughout the week. Is that true? I've heard this is a very fun bracket to play in considering every class has a variety of spells worth mentioning. If this is the case, I may make 39 my home twink bracket. More variety in gear/spells compared to lower brackets, as well as better dungeons to do when you want to pass the time. It isn't too far to level as compared to 50+, so it has decent accessibility if you're a good leveler, and I value that. When I create a twink, I usually want to reach the level within a day or two, maybe three.

So, I am making a 39 human rogue. Anything work mentioning about them? How much gold investment do you need to make a very decent/BiS (BiS is a rather loose term due to a wide variety of gear choices, I suppose). Is there a large Grandfather imbalanced putting GF'd characters at the very top, out leaguing everybody who isn't GF'd? Is there a heavy gear imbalance favouring one side for rogues more than another? I think I can muster up the gift cards for a faction change if that's the case, but I'll only do it if it really is necessary to get gear.

Are healers incredibly OP? I know they're OP in experience on, even all the way past 60, but they start to loose their glory once people start getting multiple interrupts/stuns/silences, etc from what I noticed. If they're kill-able, even if it takes a while, that would be good.

My playstyle for a rogue, at least at endgame anyways, is to mainly focus on stunning and interrupting and being as annoying as possible while doing decent damage, but mainly let the other guys stomp on them. Is that a good playstyle in this bracket (I can play both ways easily, and I can do a lot more damage playing aggressively obviously, but I find it works well to be the annoying guy in stealth who stuns and DoTs and just interrupts and distracts/disables the player.)

I have access to every rogue heirloom, though I am certain that heirlooms become unimportant unless it's head and pants looms, but even then, I think that they lose their OP-ness and just become as good as any dungeon blue.

I'm a dedicated player and I really like competitive gameplay, which is a reason why I came here. I hear it's a good, friendly, but competitive bracket. Also, the low populated but somewhat active brackets tend to feel more like a family, since a lot of the twinks you're with or will be facing are usually on TI, you usually know everybody, and we tend to know eachother as internet people rather than a random person at level 20 who you want to scream at. Lol.

Anyways, answer away!
 
Why? o_O Are they overpowered or something?

no they are not overpowered just well represented. alliance has always had a good number of rogues. yes this bracket is great, i think being BiS only requires maybe 2 heirlooms. but at 39 the blues are normally better than heirlooms thats another reason people like it. there are items that are grandfathered, but no you will not see someoen who has a lot of grandfathered gear wrecking havoc all over the place. everything you need to be successful in the bracket is obtainable.
 
no they are not overpowered just well represented. alliance has always had a good number of rogues. yes this bracket is great, i think being BiS only requires maybe 2 heirlooms. but at 39 the blues are normally better than heirlooms thats another reason people like it. there are items that are grandfathered, but no you will not see someoen who has a lot of grandfathered gear wrecking havoc all over the place. everything you need to be successful in the bracket is obtainable.

^This. Activity-wise, this last Friday night saw the most activity that we've had so far in MoP, with games lasting from about 6pm PST to 12 am. We also had enough people stick around afterward for some 5s games.

The availability of gear is great for just about any class, but rogues are one of those classes where everyone has one @ 39. Some nights it's like a bunch of those people all get a message beamed into their head by the Mothership and you'll see upwards of 10 rogues in a single game, where most of the night saw maybe 1 or 2. Last couple games of the night on Friday, Alliance was packing it in with 5-6 rogues.

So yeah, I'd say you might find rolling something else to be more fun. Spreists are OP atm, but will be soon balanced with the 5.2 changes to DP. Warlocks are great, druids are great. We haven't had many mages or shamans, so we could always use more of those. Also, if you're gearing up for an Agi user, Unearthed Bands are stupid hard to come by. And for Rogues, there are quite a few really great weapons which are GFed. You can still find two good daggers and some decent 1 handers for mongoose, but Sword of Decay is also super rare.

GL, HF.
 
^This. Activity-wise, this last Friday night saw the most activity that we've had so far in MoP, with games lasting from about 6pm PST to 12 am. We also had enough people stick around afterward for some 5s games.

The availability of gear is great for just about any class, but rogues are one of those classes where everyone has one @ 39. Some nights it's like a bunch of those people all get a message beamed into their head by the Mothership and you'll see upwards of 10 rogues in a single game, where most of the night saw maybe 1 or 2. Last couple games of the night on Friday, Alliance was packing it in with 5-6 rogues.

So yeah, I'd say you might find rolling something else to be more fun. Spreists are OP atm, but will be soon balanced with the 5.2 changes to DP. Warlocks are great, druids are great. We haven't had many mages or shamans, so we could always use more of those. Also, if you're gearing up for an Agi user, Unearthed Bands are stupid hard to come by. And for Rogues, there are quite a few really great weapons which are GFed. You can still find two good daggers and some decent 1 handers for mongoose, but Sword of Decay is also super rare.

GL, HF.
I believe I had Sword of Decay a few weeks ago, and kept on failing putting it on the AH. If it hasn't sold, I'll be sure to hold onto it.

I may reroll to a feral druid or an enhancement shaman. Dunno. Bummer that my favourite twinking class is overused, but if it really is killing the bracket, I probably will reroll, or get him to 39, get him BiS, and make another 39 and alternate between the two.
 
Say, is Horde -lacking- on rogues? Because if so, I might get Alli BiS and stuff, and send my Rogue to Horde.

Would it help the bracket because from what I noticed, there aren't much Horde rogues?
 
Say, is Horde -lacking- on rogues? Because if so, I might get Alli BiS and stuff, and send my Rogue to Horde.

Would it help the bracket because from what I noticed, there aren't much Horde rogues?

i guess that would be a possibility, there are horde rogues, so its not like they dont exist, there are a good 4 horde rogues that always que up, i think i may have seen 3 horde rogues at one time, can't remember if i've seen more. right now class's that are overplayed are Rogues & Priest.
 
I believe I had Sword of Decay a few weeks ago, and kept on failing putting it on the AH. If it hasn't sold, I'll be sure to hold onto it.

I may reroll to a feral druid or an enhancement shaman. Dunno. Bummer that my favourite twinking class is overused, but if it really is killing the bracket, I probably will reroll, or get him to 39, get him BiS, and make another 39 and alternate between the two.

I didn't say they were killing the bracket. I just said that they can sometimes show up in great numbers. You could be that guy who rolls a rogue, and then never sees another rogue in any of the games you play in.

It's just completely random, and I'd at least have a second character you can switch to when you get into games with a lot of rogues (if it happens).

Also, Sword of Decay just has a really slow weapon speed so that it hits hard on white hits. There's honestly no difference on special attacks between Sword of Decay and other weapons, since special attacks are normalized around your weapon speed. Don't feel obligated to get Sword of Decay and then server xfer or pay a lot of money for one if it turns out you don't have yours anymore.

Cheers
 
How about warriors or paladins (DPS, probably ret and arms)? I might go warrior. I like playing classes that aren't OP, but aren't UP either. I like playing the in between classes that can be OP depending on the player's skill level. xD

I'm just asking this because I saw http://us.battle.net/wow/en/item/13132 on the AH that looks like very decent twinking gear, or atleast an awesome transmogging piece regardless.
 
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Decided to go 39 warrior, and make level my rogue to max level for RP purposes on that rogue. -Cough- Yes, I'm an RPer -Cough-

Went Night Elf arms warrior for the vanish and the extra chance for people to miss against me. Doubt I can get cross faction gear on him though.

I have the time to go arms, fury, or possibly DPS prot, though I'll go arms if it's not too OP or too UP.
 
Sometimes i wish i would have went human for the 2 minute trinket, then i realize id rather play the race i wanted, besides alliance seems to be 80% human!
 

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