Sell me on rogues, please?

[dotty]

So, at long, long last I have sorted out my plans for my army of alts, the new and improved edition. Feeling mostly good about all my combinations of classes and profs and whatnots (except maybe the BS/JC combo but they're sort of the leftovers), and have started leveling my rogue who is going to be my inscriptionist and elixir master alchemist.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Battlegrounds, eh? What level is your rogue? Because I think it's at least mid-20s that you start having stunlock fun. Basically, you need Cheap Shot and Kidney Shot, and you use those and Sinister Strike to stunlock, all the while you're doing white damage at the same time. Then you Vanish if they get un-locked, and do it all over again!

Two rogues attempting to get the drop on each other via Vanish and Stunlock is kind of amusing.

Use whatever spec will give you extra combo points when you hit things, 'cause combo points keep people stunlocked longer.

I can't help with dungeons, I fear. O:(

Good luck!

[dotty]

She's just a wee lvl 18 still, since leveling her has been such a pain (not to mention that series of bgs where my fellow hordies were all "Flag? What flag? There's a flag? HERP DERP."). I will definitely give her until level 30 before I give up, thank you! :D

[archangelbeth]

I was very perplexed at how rogues were beating my pants off, when I felt so squishy and un-usable myself as a rogue. I somehow got the bright idea on my own (*snicker*) to watch carefully what rogues were doing to me, and managed to realize, "they come out of stealth with something that stunlocks me, and then they keep doing it." I then linked up what powers stunned, and went with that, and WOAH it WORKED! Same with the Vanish trick. I kept forgetting I had that... Till I fought more rogues who were doing it to me.

Till you get all your ducks stunlocks in a row, stealth, sap, and sprint are probably your best contribution to battlegrounds (you can sap people as you pass by, confusing them!), and hunters are your natural enemies. (Even afterwards, hunters are your natural enemies -- two creatures instead of one, and a smart hunter will stand in the ice cube trap so you get ice-cubed when you try to stunlock them. Be wary.)

Good luck!!

[dawnshadow]

What spec are you in?

At low levels, subtlety is what you want for BGs. I had the same problem when I first started my rogue; figured assassination was the one you used to assassinate targets, but noooo.

[dotty]

She's subtlety, I had an assassin rogue on my old server before I found out that it wasn't a good pvp spec. You really would think from the name that it would be good, wouldn't you? I wanna be an assassin... *Sulk*

[katze_neko_mew]

I don't know jack about rogues, but it's not 'inscriptionist', it's 'scribe' XD

[halfpastfish]

[hildemv]

Yay gnome rogue with pink hair! That's what I have too. I've been stabbing around with her in assasination after having had her in combat most of the time, and I must say I'm enjoying it, especially the mutilate ability.

[continental]

ive been very sad about having to xfer my rogue to alliance but that is so cute that i feel a tiny bit better!

[dotty]

Haha, thems are some shiny daggers! XD (Fingers crossed that Blizzard does something about enchants in MoP, I keep having to use weapons with animations on my main to cover up the green leafy glow of Mighty Agility, which does NOT go well with my blow-everything-up goblin

[cleosilver]

I've never managed to connect with a rogue until my current Worgen one. She's Subtlety spec since I usually play casters and I find Shadowstep very helpful in getting the positioning to go stabbity stab with her.