rogue legendary is true.

[abecx]

The new legendaries are two daggers (main hand and offhand) that are only usable by all three Rogue specs. Combat Rogues will be made to use these daggers as well without a DPS loss. The questline will revolve around the pure black dragon (from the egg in the Badlands) and features several Rogue-centric elements.

[abecx]

Holy fuck, are they actually doing shit.... right?


Patch 4.3 Interview with Greg Street (Ghostcrawler)
Below is a quick summary and the full thanks to Simca. Be sure to read it so that you don't miss anything! (Extra info via Joystiq, Eurogamer, TenTonHammer, and Tankspot)

Deathwing Raid
The new raid is called The Dragon Soul. It contains eight bosses, and boss 7 and 8 are both Deathwing.
There will be a mount reward for killing Deathwing.
Deathwing will only drop weapons.
Heroic Deathwing will eventually be made easier after the top guilds kill it so that more people can experience it.
Tier 13 will not be available at all from valor points.
The new legendaries are two daggers (main hand and offhand) that are only usable by all three Rogue specs. Combat Rogues will be made to use these daggers as well without a DPS loss. The questline will revolve around the pure black dragon (from the egg in the Badlands) and features several Rogue-centric elements.
Melee classes will be getting a buff that is only active in the new raid to help them compete with ranged classes.

New Five Man Heroics
You will enter the new 5-mans and raid in Caverns of Time.
The first new 5-man is called "Endtime" where Nozdormu will show players the future if Deathwing wins.
The second new 5-man, "Well of Eternity" is a journey into the past, the War of the Ancients specifically, to help Thrall recover the Dragon Soul to use against Deathwing.
The third new 5-man, called "Hour of Twilight", has players escorting Thrall in present day to Wyrmrest Temple, where the final battle against Deathwing will take place.

Looking for Raid
Looking for Raid probably won't share a lockout with Normal and Heroic raids.
Looking for Raid gear will be stronger than the new five man heroics, but weaker than normal raids.

Other
There will be raid melee buff across the board. The attack power buff will apply more to melee attack power than ranged attack power.
Tank rotation changes that are related to survivability won't be in this expansion.
Epic gems will drop in the new raid in Normal and Heroic only. Each player gets a geode when a boss is killed which has a small chance to contain an epic gem, most will have rare gems. It is rare enough to take all of 4.3 to replace all of your red rare quality gems with red epic gems.
Firelands was nerfed so that players could see the content and continue progression instead of hitting a wall in heroic modes.
"Quite a few" new profession recipes will be added.
Northrend will require 2/3rd of the experience it does now, making leveling alts faster.
Corrupted Ashbringer won't be available for transmogrification.
Old PvP armor will come back for transmogrification.

[Crazy Diana]

Corrupted Ashbringer won't be available for transmogrification.

poor gemg

[CAN]

yeaa go smokebomb and fatrandy

[Firecrest]

I'm pretty disappointed with the legendary. I understand that they want legendaries to be fairly unique, but they should have broader class appeal. The healing mace, melee two-hander and caster staff were great. The Hunter bow, not so much. I also think it's dumb that they're skipping Tanks once again. And I'm not impressed with the reasoning they gave. I mean, "We've got a really cool idea in store for Tanks that works with the beginning of the next expansion” I could have handled. But "A tanking weapon would be hard to do so we're sidelining that whole role" is pretty bullshit. Make it a trinket with static Stam and an amazing proc. Allow them to choose one of 4 different weapons at the end of a legendary quest chain. It’s not THAT hard to solve. It's pretty stupid that Rogues saw what was pretty much a class weapon already with Glaives and now they're getting another.

On the flip side, I liked the rest of what I saw. Deathwing fight sounds epic if they don't fuck it up and it will be nice to get some new Heroics out there besides the same two Trollics over and over and over. The way they're releasing Epic Gems makes me ROFL. So many retards who've only ever seen Wrath stocked up on Pyrite thinking they'd JC gems out of it.

[Thorran]

Deathwing fight sounds epic if they don't fuck it up

Two words from the Chilton interview scared me. Balance Mechanic.

[Talith]

Corrupted Ashbringer won't be available for transmogrification.

poor gemg

I don't know where you read that, what I read was:

Corrupted Ashbringer won't be available for transmogrification from any vendor.

Which in no way means that people that already have one can't use it.

[abecx]

II also think it's dumb that they're skipping Tanks once again.

I am 100% ok with this. I hate legendaries that come out at the end of an expansion, I want something i can use more than a few weeks.

[Bläckup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFVratN53wc&NR=1



Thought this was appropriate.

[Firecrest]

II also think it's dumb that they're skipping Tanks once again.

I am 100% ok with this. I hate legendaries that come out at the end of an expansion, I want something i can use more than a few weeks.

That's a pretty valid point I hadn't thought of. I hope they get around to it sooner rather than later though.