Rogue - Chaotic Stab AA

[Tryfaen]

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Chaotic Stab 6
This is a passive Ability; it does not need to be activated.
Requirements: Level: 59, Must spend 12 ability points in the Archetype Abilities.
This ability will allow you to do a low-damage backstab against a monster while facing its front rather than performing a normal attack.


Id like to request that chaotic stab be increased to do more damage than it currently does.
As it is now it does about double the ammount of damage of a melee attack.


Higher frontal damage output will not change a rogues role in groups or in a raid, we will still die if we pull agro.
It would only allow us to maintain high sustained dps through hectic fights(no other class loses out as much as rogues do here) and increase rogues solo-ability(laffo), neither of which would turn rogues into masters of the universe.

Rogues get a style at lvl 10 that allows us a chance to do full BS dmg from the front on occassion when tanking, increasing chaotic stab even to full frontal BS damage would not change a rogues play style, fighting from the back will still be preferable in every situation.

 

[Brimztone]

As it is, when the mob turns to face you(as a rogue), you lose at least 50% of your DPS. It's pretty pitiful when a rogue hits from the front.

Before talking to a couple other Rogues who had the AA in question, buying this AA was already low on the priority list. Before innate stats, but after everything really useful. After talk to other rogues and hearing have ridiculously low the damage is on it, I'm pretty much not getting this until the very end of AAs. Right before innate Wis/Int.

Giving it more damage won't be unbalancing, it will just give rogues somewhat of a reason to attack from the front in exp groups as in they steal aggro accidentally. Most situations it will be useless in raids, seeing as if a rogue is getting hit, he's going to be hitting evade like mad, or hes dead.

 

[Kirin Folken]

/signed

 

[Ponden]

It would be nice to see this AA be different in some way than s/4 (full backstab during 'openings'). They are basically a wash with s/4 comming out ahead most of the time. (not to mention you can assasinate with s/4 and not with Chaotic Stab.)

 

[Wiz]

Sure. I'll give it half the backstab multiplier that you normally get from the back.

 

[Tryfaen]

A glorious day in Dalaya, rogues everywhere rejoice.