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I always kinda laughed at Rogues with the Subterfuge talent. Anytime I started taking damage and nobody was there, I reacted so it wasn't too big a deal. But I was looking at some of the top flag returning rogues like Lucieon! With 89k hks and 5538 flag returns. He's won 82% of his games. He's sub with subterfuge which got me thinking...
So I tried out subterfuge with assassination. It sucked, but after switching back to sub, it was awesome. With 600ap, 40% crit, and double DS on my daggers, I can often kill the FC before I unstealth (which is 3 seconds). With shadowmeld, I can of course restealth right away, or just never be seen which is pretty funny. I didn't know this, but you can double ambush too since you are still stealthed. Just wait for 20 energy to regenerate and ambush again, then eviscerate with 4 points, or hemo once and hit it for 5. Often your victims don't do anything, other than die. Most aren't expecting it. Seems to work great if you have a geared rogue, not so much for f2p unless they have damage debuff stacked.
With DS, dancing steel reportedly will double proc 90% of the time after the first ambush. That puts me around 900+ AP for the second ambush and evis. You can also sap for the 3 seconds which could be an interrupt if they try to heal, saving your kick. You can also mount up before the 3 seconds. As soon as you mount, stealth breaks. Ambush, ambush, evis, mount, and spilt!
Anyways, it's another interesting way to play a rogue. Can't tell you how many flag recaptures I got yesterday, it was more than usual and I was soloing. Even with a few people hovering around the EFC. Downside is you walk slowly all the time and your opener isn't huge anymore.
So I tried out subterfuge with assassination. It sucked, but after switching back to sub, it was awesome. With 600ap, 40% crit, and double DS on my daggers, I can often kill the FC before I unstealth (which is 3 seconds). With shadowmeld, I can of course restealth right away, or just never be seen which is pretty funny. I didn't know this, but you can double ambush too since you are still stealthed. Just wait for 20 energy to regenerate and ambush again, then eviscerate with 4 points, or hemo once and hit it for 5. Often your victims don't do anything, other than die. Most aren't expecting it. Seems to work great if you have a geared rogue, not so much for f2p unless they have damage debuff stacked.
With DS, dancing steel reportedly will double proc 90% of the time after the first ambush. That puts me around 900+ AP for the second ambush and evis. You can also sap for the 3 seconds which could be an interrupt if they try to heal, saving your kick. You can also mount up before the 3 seconds. As soon as you mount, stealth breaks. Ambush, ambush, evis, mount, and spilt!
Anyways, it's another interesting way to play a rogue. Can't tell you how many flag recaptures I got yesterday, it was more than usual and I was soloing. Even with a few people hovering around the EFC. Downside is you walk slowly all the time and your opener isn't huge anymore.