Subtlety Rogue Interaction with Demonology Warlocks Speculated to Ninja Pull Mobs
Due to the rising popularity of Subtlety Rogues in Patch 12.1.5, a long-standing bug has gained attention, where Demonology Warlocks are speculated to become ninja pullers when grouped with a Subtlety Rogue.
In Patch 12.1.5, Blizzard fixed a bug with Subtlety Rogues and gave them a 14% damage buff as compensation. While many players thought that this buff was net neutral, this ended up being a large damage buff, which has caused Subtlety Rogue damage to explode, as seen on Warcraft Logs statistics.
Source: WarcraftLogs
Because of this damage, many groups are now bringing a Subtlety Rogue to their keys. Subtlety Rogue is currently one of the highest-scoring specs in Season 2 alongside Arms Warrior, Holy Paladin, Blood DK, and Elemental Shaman according to Raider.io and has solidified its place in the meta.
Source: Raider.io
With Subtlety Rogue being part of the meta, attention is being drawn to an old bug where Demonology Warlocks are speculated to start ninja-pulling mobs in dungeons whenever a Subtlety Rogue is also present. This has made some Demonology Warlocks unhappy and feel that they're being forced out of any groups because of how common Subtlety Rogues are. Ninja-pulling mobs will wipe a lot of groups across any key level. Remember the Omnium Folio incident?
Phellxgodx posted on Reddit providing information about the interaction and how Blizzard has tried to fix it before, but it is still happening.
/u/Phellxgodx on Reddit said:
For those who do not know, Sub rogue & the diabolist hero talent (Demonology & Destruction) have a weird interaction where shadow clones from the rogue apex talent will bug out the targeting of the Diabolic Oculi (Hero talent node) or Alythessa Blaze (Apex talent) from diabolist warlocks to basically attack virtually anything at range.
If you've been wondering why sometimes things are being ninja-pulled in dungeons, it might be because of this bug. Double-check that you don't have a Demonology Warlock and a Subtlety Rogue in the same group, as this interaction makes it so that you really don't want to mix them.
