First, thanks for all the ninja nerfs. It certainly made me waste my time leveling Rogue to 225 just to reach utter disappointment on C3.
Feeback on the ninja nerfs,
Vendetta’s bonus STR doesn’t get increased anymore through class rank stat bonuses.
This was abit too good I guess but you have to consider that Vendetta is really situational as it needs to last hit to get that short duration buff. The STR value scaling with rank bonus was fine, removing it was uncalled for. It’s unreliable therefore the old version was balanced.
Backstab’s damage nerf.
Karacha Set was already nerfed from X4 to X3 but you still had to nerf Backstab’s damage to oblivion. Karacha Set is now the only reason why Backstab can do damage decently. To make backstab do decent using certain gears, this is really an unreasonable nerf.
Backstab’s old damage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8bIxVvTQGg
Backstab’s ninja nerfed damage: Unofficial Rogue Nerf Megathread + Class Discussion
Let’s talk about Burrow. Burrow disables tons of skills w/o saying on the tooltip. This misleads players to fail their builds simply because we assumed we can really fully attack while burrowed which in my case, I could not use Running Shot while burrowed. In the end, Rogue C3 has to follow a strict meta, a build where the skills or the other ranks can be used while Burrowed like Archer C3. This is really disappointing, so much for build diversity.
And please, stop with the ninja nerfs. It really leaves bad taste.