Quad box rogue

[paranoidd]

Does anyone have any input on boxing rogues for arena/rated bgs? Curious to see how it would play out ty :)

[Littleburst]

It's been dicussed quite often.

The problem with rogues is survivabilty. Once you've burned your defensive CD's your a target dummy.
Same goes for offense, once you've opened and used shadowstep your very vulnerable and used most of your tricks.

[HPAVC]

Rated bgs you are likely adding too much team concentration to a specific area. You will likely need to take on more 4 people concurrently to justify 4 people always in the same area.

Sure a bg team could agree that you would be a safety / floater person moving from hot spot to hot spot. But that has similar issues.

Also coordinating rezes needs to be very very fast. There isn't a stealth mouse move your freshly rezed guy 500 yards while you deal combat, your team is down a guy which is likely a big deal in rated play.

[blast3r]

I don't think I will ever try with rogues but I could see being able to take the healer out with backstab and maybe another wack then killing spree and fan of knives then go from there. I don't do hardly any arena at all, though so I am just theorizing.

Edit: Sapping their plate wearer might be a good idea. Too bad you can't quickly focus on each of them and sap them and take care of them one by one. At least I couldn't do that.

[remanz]

Today's BG game is all about killing/more often achieving objectives with the least amount of characters required. If 1 rogue can steal the flag, bringing 4 rogues will be a loss to your team. When you do need more players (most likely to kill), Rogues are not that good with firepower.

So my thoughts on rogues: double rogues work. More than that it become a goofy team again. Unless of course, you are in a 40 man BG. Then any 5 man boxing team work.

[Toned]

If you bring 4 of a class bring some utility and big burst.

4 shamans, 4 druids, 3 or 4 demo locks and a healer...

4-5 slots in rated BGs may make or break your teams. I have my single rogue ready incase 4 ele shams hinders my teams too much.