Rogue: Overall the pruning was well executed..... Except for Subtlety. This rotation is borderline brain-dead.

TL;DR - After pruning, what's left in Sub feels like unfinished Spec design.

My title more or less summarizes my feelings on the skill pruning.

For both Outlaw AND Assassination, I feel like the pruning was well executed. There are still considerations you have to make throughout the rotation, and enough cooldowns / buffs / debuffs to track to keep it engaging, but not too many that it feels overwhelming

IMO, regardless of current tuning, they both FEEL good.

Subtlety on the other had, was pruned so much, that your burst window involves activating two buffs, then 1>3, 1>2, 1>2, 1>2, 1>2 with 1 being Shadowstrike, 2 being Eviscerate and 3 being secret technique. Even outside of burst windows this is basically the rotation.

Getting getting rid of Symbols, Flagellation, and rupture is good on paper, but once you take away those, IMO the spec feels unfinished.

(Side note that is completely personal: I feel like backstab is such an iconic rogue ability, I wish we could go back to a world where it didn't tickle the enemy)