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But if blizzard doesn't want to give rogue healing or taunt based cards then why would you give rogue a control oriented card? Also weapon removal tech is a thing
I think I have the answer to this.
The issue with Rogue, and this has been backed up by tweets and interviews with Blizz staff, is that Rogue's skillset is so very easily bordering on OP, not to mention so many of those skills are non-interactive and don't need board presence. I think to compensate, Rogue is consistently given card which needs to be creatively used in order to get results. This lessens the chance that they will completely break the class.
Consider Patron Warrior. It wasn't actually OP because it took such a high skill ceiling to be able to pilot it well. However, by the time it was nerfed, even bad players could pilot it effectively through sheer attrition.Rogue also has the same types of combo effects scene in Patron, but the complication is that Rogue is quite difficult to play, therefore, people think it's bad. And when a deck appears which is obviously really good, that balance has become disrupted. The exception being Quest Rogue, which I thought was totally fine. I have a feeling that Valeera is going to, in the next few months, going to come out as one of the best Death Knights.
rogue has never been terrible. what are you talking about? miracle is always viable and just last season they had a broken deck that got nerfed. just because people don't play it much it doesn't mean it's not good. you actually have to think when playing rogue, that's why not many people play it.
As it has already been stated, average Rogue deck (Miracle) is complicated to play, and unless you master the strategy, you always feel like being extremely vulnerable.
You need winrates to decide Rogue's state on the meta, and I bet it's fairly high.
However, it is true however that no new reliable archetype has been given to Rogue yet, which also helps explaining why Rogue population on ladder is so low.
While Burgle, Deathrattle, Jade and now weapon archetypes (and mixes of all) are waiting for a little bit of serious support to become competitive. Without even speaking of Pirate and Mill decks.
Rogue does have archetypes to develop, some of which are also inherently safe from OPness (ie. Burgle and Mill).
I expect when the meta shakes out miracle rogue will be about where it was during Ungoro: Low tier 2ish, played a lot by enthusiasts and useful as a counter to slow druid and priest decks.
Right now I think few people are playing rogue because they want to try the shiny new cards other classes got.