Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces

It seems that the path you don't want to take, is often the correct one. Transitioning from always playing the straight up plant your feet and attack whats in front of you to playing the things that mess with people's heads to obtain their goals is quite a leap. Never before have I considered myself the kind of person who would enjoy the more subtle roles that, while potentially being less noticed, are often so much more important.

As I have been playing my rogue more often, I have found a more increasing liking for PvP. The ability to remain unnoticed until the opportune time to strike presents itself is very satisfying (Well, until someone else gets that same opportunity with you at the receiving end). It is surprising to me that I find rogue so exhilarating to play. Hell, at one point I was literally yelling with excitement after killing someone in PvP. I have never been a fan of the slow pace of energy, or the feel of how combo points worked with the rotation. It wasn't until recently, with my growing distaste for my paladin, It's lackluster performance in a competitive DPS environment, how I have so many opportunities to excel at so many different roles, yet only actively partake in one of them, that I figured I might as well give a pure DPS class another go. My warlock was rather unsuccessful in this regard, more-so in that I didn't care for the feel of it, than it actually under performing for what I feel it could do. At the moment, my rogue is level 66 and subtlety is fuckin' awesomely fun to play, in all aspects of the game.

On a related note, My spying is nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Learning how to manipulate people's assumptions of what they THINK a spy will do and use that to your advantage is one key I have found very helpful, in both avoiding a fight, or just trying to separate an engineer from his sentry long enough to sap it and get him on his way back to fix it. My old fallback of the soldier now feels foreign to me, and I have noticed myself more often hopping on my spy when I am having difficulties with someone, which I consider a very, very positive change.

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