Skulking Visage

Dimmi

Dimmi

Dalayan Elder
I've talked with several rogues about this one, seems to have some fair support: would there be any merit/practical ability to change Skulking Visage from straight reduced aggro generation from behind the mob to increased evade success? I've talked to some rogues that didn't do the AA for a long time because they wanted to reduce their ability to pull aggro off casters/healers etc, and I don't know about everyone else, but evade just plain hates me! I don't know what numbers would be fair, maybe 5%, 10% and 15 or 20% increased evade chance non-stacking per rank? Not sure what would translate balance wise with the amount of reduced aggro generation on the AA already...
 
my rouge is only 49 but i can see your point but at the same time id rather not have to use evade even more so if am trying to unload on a raid mob (if and when i get there) but guess i cant say much i havent even started aa's yet
 
Even with skulking visage and -aggro gear you still evade on cooldown, and we still have Shadowing Stance, regardless
 
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The chance of a successful evasion is directly related to your total hide skill after item mods. Perhaps we could just start itemizing some more +hide instead?
 
is it possible for skulking visage to give +hide? i for one have not gotten that aa for reasons dimmi listed above, and i dont typically have too hard of a time controlling aggro.

making that aa increase evade chance would make it a must have imo.
 
This was the final aa I purchased on my rogue, even after the lethal strike cooldown. You sacrifice your ability to do something by purchasing it, while you can babel all you want about rogues need or not needing aggro there were plenty of times I was glad to pull it.

The sole reason I caved in to buy this shit was the bees in emberflow, and then I promptly learned that even if I pay attention someone else wont. fuck bees.

The moral of this is that I would love to see any change to this aa especially one that would make the evasion success less horrible then it currently is
 
Sign me up.

Anything that would increase evade's success rate would be fantastic.

While this AA was modified in the past to only reduce agro while your only behind your target, it still sacrifices 10% of backstab's snap agro. Backstab is really the only way rogues can snap agro off the healer/enchanter etc.

I know this suggested change might seem very minor... but I don't think the work involved would be too difficult if Whelm's idea is possible. Having the AA increase hide skill sounds like a great option to me because at max rogue hide skill - hide never fails, so any +hide past that would only affect evade.
 
Rogues do have some options for snap agro in the world of clickies. Vah Sraen banner is a fantastic option for that. That being said, I would love to see either more hide mods on gear or skulking visage changed to a hide mod, or both! :D
 
it's not your job to save the cleric/enc? keep it aggro reduction :) you are dps/assassinish not a life saver ^^
 
i just want to restate my support of changing this into some kind of hide modifier. rogues everywhere will rejoice.

bumping to make sure this hasnt been forgotten - i know there are plenty of other more important things going on, and i think giving rogues more control over their evasion is a better use of this aa than what it does currently.
 
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