Patch 0.3 A Town in the Barrens

A Town in the Barrens, version 0.3, is dated 22 Oct 2026. Rogue joins, with Assassination and Subtlety. The lobby stops being a menu and becomes a town. That town is where later systems land: duels in 0.13, friend invites in 0.17, Save Progress in 0.11, and the practice NPC.

I will name a few rogue tools from the independent list and mark them single source: Sinister Strike, Eviscerate, Kidney Shot, Cheap Shot, Kick, Gouge, Vanish, Sap and Blind. Subtlety’s first full rewrite is 0.7, and the numbered buff is 0.21. This page is only the day the class and the town showed up.

The map pool is still Nagrand Ring alone. Ruins arrives tomorrow in 0.4. The rogue guide carries the spec split.

I treat 22 Oct 2026 as the day the game stopped being a bare queue and became a place you walk around. Later patch notes keep pointing back at that town, so this page is the anchor for those references rather than a second rogue spellbook.