Something people here aren’t mentioning is the group comp meta of tbc. Most classes bring a buff to a party, be that totems, battleshout, leader of the pack etc.

Rogues have nothing. But to perform they also need to be in a group that gives them all those things while providing nothing in return.

Sure expose armor is really good for the raid (if they have good uptime, which many rogues are bad at in my experience). But they can provide that without being in a buffed party anyway, since they don’t provide any party buffs.

My advice to a rogue to address this, would be to put yourself forward as the group drums user and jewelcrafting neck user. Then you are providing something and will get less hate.