Rogue with epic & haste

[dasdraco]

I have had 2 rogues tell me epic rogues should still get worn haste because it affects BS cooldown. I do not recall this at all from live, and don't have worn haste item atm to test it. Has anyone heard of this or tested it?

[Cecily]

As in get worn haste on top of your ragebringer? If they mean something else besides 41% (faster than epic), they are dumb and you should not listen to them. By all means get a 41 sky belt or grey suede boots, etc. Haste stuff beyond that is just stat gear for us.

[dasdraco]

Ya, they claimed that fbss or any other low end haste along with epic reduced their BS cooldown, which i had never heard and seemed implausible.

[KorafRN]

Haste is not working correctly here. As of last patch they converted items from "Effect: haste" to "haste: +xx%", which affects backstab cool down. This means any haste item that is not sharing the same haste type < Haste: +xx% > will NOT affect backstab cool down. Auto-attack damage is unaffected by this.

I think this also effects kick/bash, but I haven't tested it much.

Up until last patch, most items were NOT <haste: +xx%>. Only a handful, not all, of Velious item had that haste type. Which means for year(s) it was broken.

[Cecily]

Yeah they broke skill timers when they removed visible percentage. And yeah, Rage doesn't show a %... Oh that's dumb.

[KorafRN]

Getting a 36-41% item should be a rogues #1 priority after ragebringer. =\

[dasdraco]

Wow, is this a permanent break or are they going to fix this?

[KorafRN]

I would guess epic item haste will be fixed eventually, but who knows when. I'm sure the next patch won't be for another 2+ months

[Erati]

I am confused - you are saying Seething Fury from Ragebringer no longer gives proper 40% haste to your backstabs and only items that list the effect as "Haste: 40%" are?

[gildor]

That is what OP is saying, yes.