Patch 8.1 brings minor tweaks and a few straight up changes to the rogue kit.
Ability Changes:
- None
Azerite Power Changes:
- Nothing Personal replaces Poisoned Wire.
- Echoing Blades replaces Fan of Blades.
Miscellaneous:
- Tooltip corrections and updates
Ability Changes
- None
Azerite Power Changes
- Keep Your Wits About You replaces Storm of Steel.
- Snake Eyes has 10 stacks instead of 5, but they deal half as much damage.
Ability Changes
- Shuriken Combo has been removed.
- Shuriken Storm damage has been increased by 35%.
Azerite Power Changes
- The First Dance has been updated. Shadow Dance now grants 2 combo points and Haste for its duration instead of a flat one time Critical Strike boost.
- Blade In The Shadows damage has been reduced by 40%, but now also reduces the cost of Shadowstrike by 2.
- In addition to its damage increase to Backstab, Perforate now reduces Shadow Blades cooldown by 0.5 seconds when Backstab is used from behind .
- Replicating Shadows replaces Sharpened Blades (Note: this ability is currently buggy on the PTR and can cause some unexpected side effects).
New Azerite Trait
- Lying In Wait effectively gives an out of combat heal and an in combat speed boost.
Tl;dr: While all three spec have changes, the biggest are to Subtlety. Assassination and Outlaw are only mildly affected.