Since you mentioned a rogue...

I'm running rogue/lock (not boxing) in 2v2 right now and I am struggling to keep a 1700 rating. I consider myself to be fairly skilled and I get eaten up by Warriors, Paladins, DKs and Druids (including resto - Thorns FTL) in Arena. If it was 1v1 and I had the opener, I would need all of my cooldowns to kill any of these classes. A paladin can kill a rogue during a 4 second Hammer of Justice, or just bubble and faceroll keyboard. Warriors can whirlwind aoe the shit out of rogues and bleed them out (feint helps, if you play by prediction). DKs... I don't even know what to say about them. 2 pets, big self-heal, 20% damage reduction, a dancing unattackable sword, death-grip, can't stealth around them cause of spreading diseases...oh and plate. Tree-form druids...make me very angry. The reflection damage is completely screwed up. I take more damage than the druid when white-hitting a druid -for every swing-. Fast daggers = dead rogue.

I'm going assume that the video you saw was a 2v2 w/ Priest/Rogue? Yeah... it's not so much an issue of a poorly skilled rogue, but an OP priest. Out of the top 100 rated 2v2 teams, about 25% are Priest/Rogue, 25% DK/Paladin (which are, by far, the two most played classes in the game), 25% Warrior/Druid and 25% Mix of the preceeding classes w/ a very few shaman,mages and locks thrown in (sorry hunters, not a single one).

In my opinion, the healing has gotten out of control. The survivability of healers is just retarded. I would expect to see rogues start to drop significantly. The engineering items were recently nerfed. No more nitro boosts in arena, and the engineering helm no longer increases stealth detection. Almost all of the top 100 rated rogues have engineering and depended on the nitro-boosts for survivability. Expect to see more human rogues and night-elf rogues coming up.

Overall, I would have to say that arena isn't too bad right now (2v2 perspective). The new rating system seems fairly reasonable. The successful comps have already been determined and you may have a hard time if you're not one of them.


If you're interested or just want to see some skilled rogue videos, check out roguerogue.com . Akrios is extremely talented and has some really good videos.