Why invite a Rogue?Follow

Let the grownups talk and you go play with your gijoes or barbies or whatever.

Sorry this answer doesn't cut it.

We have one interupt and one stun that we can use in a group setting.

A stun...doesn't work on 90% of mobs, oops.

And our interupt is sub-par to most other classes. We need to be in melee range and we need to stop spamming our damage moves to insure that we have the energy to hit it.

Shamans have a ranged interupt that they can hit as soon as the GCD is up. Same with Mages. The only thing we have is that our interupt is off the GCD, which doesn't do much because if we're going to interupt we need to have stopped attacking to get the energy...which would take abuot the same ammount of time as a GCD, a little more even.

Blue post from MMOChampion.

Hey, guess what, we're gonna get buffed.

I play D&D 3.5 once a month, trust me, they're a skill monkey in that game.
They are damage dealing class in the respect that they -can- attack things (but are very fragile on the front line), but you bring a Rogue to scout(move silently,etc)/detect traps/disarm traps/find doors/etc (which is a necessity, because traps in that game are serious business). Because you mainly use them for skills, they don't set up their stats to maximize damage in that game (the one in our group has invested in high Int and Dex, but has pretty poor Str, which directly increases your attack dmg and chance to hit in that game). They can't use 2h wpns, and dual wielding has heavier penalties in that game than in WoW (have to spend feats to make it decent).

Sneak Attack requires you to either be attacking someone who you snuck up on (and trust me, Stealth in WoW is muuuuch better than it's D&D predecessor), or someone you're flanking (which isn't always an easy things to set up), right now my Fighter will do more on a swing than the Rogue with a Sneak Attack (and has a higher chance to hit).
Rogues also have a lower Base Attack Bonus than Fighters/Barbarians/Paladins/Rangers, which should tell you something (mainly that a Fighter/etc will get to make 4 attacks/turn at level 20 and a Rogue will only get 3/turn).

Edited, Dec 16th 2008 11:13pm by angryempath