doing massive damage from a ranged and/or stealth mode is totally normal... the point of a rogue is to kill something preferably before it knows you are around and certainly before it pounds you. i agree the melee rogue is mmo based, d&d intended for the rogue to eventually move up to assassin or something big and nasty.
yes but it seems to get better... then worse, but it always gets better. lol hey, what do we want for free? orcs heads on platters? we just gotta ride out the newness bugs.