WOW Rogue Guide

The Rogue class is considered one of the most fun classes to roll in World of Warcraft, and many people have rogue alts for some damage and PVP fun. Rogues can bring top damage in a dungeon instance, or you can spec your rogue for PVP and slice and dice some opposing faction players. In this WoW Rogue guide, we attempt to give you an overall look at the rogue class to help you decide if it is the right class for your play style.

Rogue Races

World of Warcraft offers ten races, but only eight of them support Rogues. Some of the Rogue-compatible races are actually compatible, but there are some that only look good until you start fighting people. Each race has their own specific skills and passive abilities, so that will obviously weigh in with what race you want to choose.

Alliance

Humans

Humans are a typical jack of all trades race, very well suited to most roles and tasks. As a Rogue the human typically can make good use of its racial abilities against other Rogues and in specific roles. The skills that the Human race gains is a 10% spirit increase, which really isn’t that important for Rogues. Diplomacy is another 10% bonus, however this goes to faction/reputation gains. Seeing as most of the Outland is a faction grind, you might as well have it.

Night Elves

Likely the most popular alliance race for rogues despite the fact that it possesses the absolute worst rogue racials possible, other than a Spirit increase, namely a Free stealth of inferior quality. It gives free stealth of a lesser quality, and makes up for it with a 1% dodge increase. You really won’t need the ghost run speed increase if you play Rogue the right way.

Dwarves

The Dwarves are a hardy race, and make use of their diminished size to remain hidden and perform their role. Though not very well suited to be Rogues, and their racial abilities do not lend themselves readily to the Rogue’s repertoire but can still add that pinch of flavor that a player needs to enjoy the game.

Gnomes

The gnomes are one of the ideal Rogue races. Their considerably small size and stature lends themselves to staying hidden. You might stand right on top of one and miss it for lack of looking down. Another interesting mechanic of World of Warcraft that a gnome makes use of is the ability to squeeze through small areas, which as a Rogue that kind of mobility and freedom is invaluable.

Horde

Orcs

The orc race is a race of politics, betrayals, assassination and brute strength. The orc Rogue is a brutal enemy, a foe who strikes without mercy at the weakest target to take it down.

Undead

This is another great PVP race, mostly thanks to Will of the Forsaken. It grants temporary immunity to fear, sleep, and charm, not to mention breaking any already present status effect of these types. Very useful against Warlocks and Priests. Cannibalize is good for leveling regeneration. Another great ability is Underwater Breathing, it’s self-explanatory, I’d hope.

Blood Elves

It gains a 10 point increase to enchanting, an improvement of five to all resistances, and a Mana Tap/Arcane Torrent. Arcane Torrent allows you to instantly cast an Area of Effect silence spell that lasts two seconds and affects all within eight yards, unless it’s resisted, which is fairly likely to happen. The chance of pulling it off is about 40%.

Trolls

Offensively, like the Orcs, Trolls offer a supreme racial trait that boosts their attack speed reversely proportional to how much health you have remaining. Berserking. That’s 10-30% increase in attack speed and again, like Blood Fury, putting your opponent in a stunlock before using it leads to considerable damage. Any Rogue geared for speed will learn to appreciate even a 10% raise in attack speed. Geared properly, a Troll Rogue could reach speeds of one hit every half-second, depending on their selected weapon.

WoW Rogue Guide – Abilities

Rogue skill and talent trees are quite fun to play around with, made all the more so by the fact that whether you choose to specialize in any given tree or not, all the abilities will likely remain in common use due to the simple requirement of variety to remain viable as a rogue.

The assassination tree is great for PVP rogues who love the element of surprise. It increases critical strike moves, intense stun abilities, and a wide variety of possible finishing moves to disable the target before the player has a chance to strike back. A good assassination rogue can keep the target stunned so that it has no chance of survival.

Combat is mainly used in combination with the other trees. Combat increases sinister strike, which is the main smashing key during rogue leveling. Gouge and kick are other great abilities that are enhanced from this tree. It can give the rogue enough time to bandage during critical moments.

Subtlety combines a variety of skills for leveling and end game raiding. Vanish is picked up early through the tree, and this can be a life saver for a rogue. Combine this with engineering and jumper cables and your party will be thankful for not needing to corpse run back to the instance.

Rogue Gear

There are a ton of different looks out there for Rogues, from naked to full Bloodfang there is a large amount of gear out there to support every class, race and play style. Realistically though, the Look for end game Rogues is somewhere between Shadowcraft and Death Dealers. For these reasons, people general base their opinions on how a race appeals to them aesthetically off their appearance in one of these sets. Decide for yourself:

Rogue Profession Choices

The Rogue is one class that can benefit from almost any profession in some way or another. A Rogue concerned with gathering professions can utilize stealth to approach resource nodes that may be blocked by monsters for those without the ability.

Skinning is probably the best profession for any rogue to have. If you didn’t choose skinning as one of your two gathering professions, go back and level it up. Skinning gives you Master of Anatomy, which gives +40 to your crit chance, a valuable plus for any rogue.

Leatherworking gives the Rogue the benefit of being able to make most of his own armor until later levels, as well as kits to augment the strength of his armor. Coupled with skinning, grinding levels will become a profitable enterprise.

Engineering: An ideal profession for the level 60 Rogue without money problems, engineering will give you a number of novelty items and items to cover gaps in Rogue abilities, or even reinforce existing ones. The mainstays of engineering are things such as dynamite, a thrown item that does area damage, goggles with various abilities such as Catseye goggles, and several novelty devices that do things such as root the target, reduce attack power, temporarily stun enemies, even items that allow the wearer to slow fall or stealth without the stealth ability.

Rogue Leveling

Leveling as a rogue is actually quite fun in my opinion, more so than that of likely any other class. One reason for this is that rogues, alongside Hunters and Death Knights, represent the fastest leveling classes in the game by leaps and bounds.

Combat is the easiest way to level (best is subjective depending on what you like) because it doesn’t require repositioning behind the mob (which is very hard to do solo, it involves a lot of stunlocking/gouging and most find it very tedious).

Stats are, for leveling anyway, agility > attack power > stamina > strength but you’ll also want to pick up whatever +hit/+crit items there might be pre-Outlands gear. I dunno what the options are these days, I leveled before the gear revamp. Strength does give you AP, but agility is basically the be-all-end-all stat for rogues: equal attack power to strength, crit, dodge, armor. Attack power is fine if something’s got it, but if the choice is agility or attack power, take the agility.

Using daggers, swords, or maces, Combat rogues are the fastest leveling types of an already speedy killer, however they pay for this consistent and immense damage output by being the most boring as well. For combat rogues, that is the only method of maximizing your potential DPS. However things can be spiced up by pulling multiple mobs at a time and blasting our Adrenaline rush/Blade flurry/Killing Spree to drop groups of five to six monsters at the same time.

With Rogue leveling you may want to try different talent builds before you decide on the one that best suits you. It is best to try them for a few days before you decide which you like and remember before you decide on a build with backstab, that you will need to have a sword to perform it.

Depending on how you choose to play the game will decide which of your weapons will be best for leveling up. If you are playing the end game, Rogue leveling is best with swords and using the combat tree. If you play in the PVP mode then you will find that daggers and the Assassination tree are quite possibly the only way to go.

A detailed break-down on where, what and how to hunt at which level: which quests you need to take, when you should change locations, and what strategies work best for both solo and grouped play. Rely on a Rogue leveling guide that takes full advantage of the individual strengths of the class to fly through the levels.

Rogue PvP

No matter what kind of PvP you practice, battleground, arena or outdoor PvP (which is the most fun PvP to play as a rogue) what you need to understand first is that stealth is the most important ability that a rogue has. So, stealth must be improved at maximum and used at maximum possible. The talents Master of Deception and Camouflage must be capped so that your ambush attacks reach the maximum efficiency. Also, at the moment, rogues are pretty “squishy”, that means your main card to play is attack. You must attack and kill without being hit at all, if possible, because if another damage dealer lands one or two attacks on you, you’ll probably lose a lot of health and you’ll be already with one foot in the grave. What a rogue must do is deal as much damage as possible in a very short time, keeping the enemy stunned so he doesn’t deal any damage or any heals.

The essence of a good Rogue PvP Guide is that it helps to provide a series of solid, well structured strategies that guide Rogues through the process of fighting and defeating essentially any enemy they might face. With that in mind, players are often overwhelmed if they don’t have one. Learning how to stunlock is hard enough, with its precise timing and detailed positioning, but the use of poisons, dropping combat, and using evasion are all precision skills. It is almost required for any Rogue PvP newbie to get pick up a good Rogue PvP Guide if they want to be effective.

3.2 patch notes

Here’s the 3.2 stuff that’s interesting for Rogues:

• Agility – All classes will need 15% more agility per point of Dodge.
• Dodge rating - All classes will need more rating per point of Dodge.
• For PvPers – The amount of resilience needed to decrease crit damage and chance will increase.
• Blood Elf Rogues – Arcane Torrent will apply a 3 second interrupt to non-player controlled targets.
• Axes! – Rogues will be able to use Axes, which is perfect for Orc Rogues.
• Sword Specialization – will be called Hack and Slash and applies to axes.
• Mining- provides more Stamina
• Skinning- provides more crit rating
• Glyph of Tricks of the Trade: Will increase the duration of the damage bonus effect instead of increasing the damage bonus.

1-80 Rogue Leveling Guide

If you want to get level 80 as soon as possible I recommend you to get a World Of Warcraft leveling guide. With the help of an elite guide you will be able to get level 80 in 6 days!

Zygor’s Guide is the one we use and recommend. The guide acts as an in-game addon. The install is quick and simple, just drag and drop the files into your Addons directory. When you log in, enable it the same way you would any other addon. Once you get into the game, the addon will be on your screen. From that point, it will literally walk you through every single thing you need to do to get from your current level straight to the cap.