Note  58  Vildoran     (08/07/25 16:03)  A New Profession: Rogue

    Greetings Arda!  I'm coming to you with exciting news about an
upcoming release that we've been working on for quite a while now -
the new Rogue profession.  This release will happen the reboot after
next, approximately August 13th, 2025.
 
    Over the years, the viability of both the assassin and thief
professions has dwindled.  Assassins were once something to be
feared, but with the slow decline of PVP over the years they are
significantly less useful for playing the game.
 
    Thieves suffer from a different problem entirely.  While they
can be amazing for making large amounts of gold quickly, they are
not a rewarding profession in combat.
 
    We are addressing this issue by merging the two professions into
a new Rogue profession.  Each will gain the abilities of the other,
with the exception of the appraise ability.  Appraise will now become
a common ability based on your awareness that will not only help
determine how much gold an NPC is carrying, but also the approximate
worth of the equipment they're carrying.
 
    I'm sure there will be many questions, and in order to help
players better understand what's happening we've updated the help
files related to the profession.  
 
    I'd like to extend a big thanks to our playtesting team for
helping test everything related to this change.  It's been a pretty
massive one and we've worked hard to make sure everything is working
as intended.  Even still, we expect there to likely be a few hiccups
along the way - please submit bug reports if you notice anything
out of place.
 
If you'd like to read up on the changes, see:
 
    help rogue
    help title.rogue
    help subterfuge