The Rogue
Rogues often initiate combat with a surprise attack from the shadows, leading with vicious melee strikes. When in protracted battles, they utilize a successive combination of carefully chosen attacks to soften the enemy up for a killing blow. Rogues must take special care when selecting targets so that their combo attacks are not wasted, and they must be conscious of when to hide or flee if a battle turns against them. (source)
Contents:
Our Rogue Guides for WoW 4.3
- Rogue Class Guide – An overview of the Rogue, specs, races, gear notes, etc. For more detail on the specs see the other guides.
- Rogue Leveling – Builds, tips, and notes to get your Rogue leveled quickly.
- Now click here to get leveled even faster
- Assassination Rogue – Assassination makes great use of poisons to provide increased damage, energy regeneration, and utility. Here’s a hard hitting build for PvE purposes, with some PvP notes.
- Assassination Rogue DPS guide – Maximizing your DPS in the Raid.
- Combat Rogue – Combat is as close to an all-purpose spec as any Rogue can be. It’s kindof the “Leap in and hack!” spec. Here’s a PvE build and notes on gear, gems, etc.
- Combat Rogue DPS Guide – Here’s the build and info you need for more Combat Raid DPS
- Subtlety Rogue – Like to pick your targets, move in stealthily, and kill them? Sub’s your spec.
- Subtlety Rogue DPS Guide – Sub has the damage, it’s just a it more complex. Here’s the build and info you’ll need to raid with Sub.
- PvP Builds – Tips and builds for PvP
- Gold guide – Get more gold for your rogue, without buying it.
Rogue Notes
4.3 Patch Notes
Not much seems to be happening with Rogues in the upcoming 4.3 patch. There’s just the one item on poisons. In my opinion, this will make wound poison actually valuable enough to consider using.
- Wound Poison now reduces the target’s healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
- Then there’s the Legendary Rogue Daggers, Also see here.
- Preview of Rogue tier 13 armor. Meh. Guess this is why we now have Transmog.
For a more in-depth and highly detailed resource on everything Rogue, from leveling to PvP to Raiding to earning gold and more, check out the Killer Guides’ Rogue guide.
Rogues in Mists of Pandaria
MMOmeltingpot has a complete list of the new Rogue talents for the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion. I’m going to wait awhile before seriously examining new talents, abilities, and changes since all of them will probably change. So far it looks like Rogues will be undergoing the same changes as most of the other WoW classes. That is – revised talents and abilities and any new stuff at level 86+.
This video goes through the coming Rogue changes, also covered on MMO-champion. Awful background “music,” but otherwise a decent overview.
Leveling your Rogue?
Rogue leveling is easy. All specs work well, but Subtlety is more fun. With the Dungeon-finder tool and PvP leveling you don’t even have to do any of the quests. However, If you don’t care for the pace, frustrations, and occasional jerks in PvP or the dungeon groups you’re joining, then questing is the way to go and it’s soooo much faster than it used to be. Heck, with the 4.3 changes (less XP required for 70-80) it may even be faster than dungeoning. Here’s how to get leveled even faster: This is an addon which sits in your in-game window and shows you exactly where to go and what to do, every step of the way. Go here to get leveled faster!
Our class guides for whichever class you’re playing:
Death Knights – Druid – Hunter – Mage – Paladin
Priest – Rogue – Shaman – Warlock – Warrior
The GotWarcraft Gold Guide – Cataclysm Heroic Guides
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