subject: Rogue Leveling Guide - 3 Essential Things to Consider Before You Build Your Rogue [print this page] Rogue Leveling Guide - 3 Essential Things to Consider Before You Build Your Rogue
Similar to Hunter, a Rogue has many perks that allow him to level up faster than most of other classes. Most people think that Rogue high DPS is the only factor that allow him to do that, however, that is only half of the truth. The other benefits of being a Rogue is the cooldown, which cover almost every abilities: cloak of shadows, blind, vanish, and so on. However, there are several rogue leveling guide tips that you need to know in order to utilize your rogue potential to the fullest:
1. Race
Apart from Draenei and Tauren, you may select any race you like. Even so, I would like to suggest lots of races that can give your rogue a number of extra benefits. Here are some races I recommend:
Alliance
- Human: increased rep gains, mace and sword expertise, escape, and increased stealth detection.
- Gnome: escape.
- Dwarf: stone form, great at using maces.
Horde
- Orc: enrage, resistant to stuns, use axes.
- Troll: berserk, improved regeneration, improved damage against beast, increased critical chance with throwing weapons, lessened duration of movement impaired effects.
2. Talent Build
Similar to other class in WoW, you got 3 talent trees to choose from. You'll find a lot of other Rogue leveling guides suggest Combat or Assassination build, which are great. However, that doesn't mean subtlety is out of the question. If you are keen on sneaky things, Subtlety can satisfy that, however, keep in mind that Subtlety build isn't that great for long fights.
Combat
The fundamental and traditional Rogue talent build. Focusing on Combat tree enables you to burst high DPS with dual-wield specialization in spite of the quality of your weapons. Here are some essential talents and abilities within this build:
- Blade Flurry: attack 1 additional opponent
- Ambidexterity: improve damage by your off hand
- Vitality: improve your attack power
- Main Gauche: increased chance for extra off hand attack
Assassination
This build primarily focus on the usage of poison to get rid of your adversaries. Here are several vital talents and abilities in this build:
- Mutilate: strike with both weapons
- Assassin's Resolve: your damage improve while you're using daggers.
- Improved Poisons: increase the chance to apply Deadly and Instant Poison.
- Potent Poison: improve the damage done by your poison.
Subtlety
Like I said above, this build is the "sneaky" build. It's somewhat like ninja; you will be sneaky and attack from stealth. Here are some important abilities and talents in this build:
- Shadowstep: show up behind your enemy and make your Ambush and Garrote damage higher.
- Master of Subtlety: strike from stealth does extra damage.
- Sinister Calling: enhance your agility and increase the damage of Backstab and Hemorrhage.
- Executioner: boost the damage of all your finishing moves.
3. Leveling Methods
You might like to do it on your own, together with your pals, or utilizing a fast Rogue leveling guide. It's entirely up to you. Right now at WoW, there are only a few ways to level up that offer truly massive XP:
- Leveling through quests
- Making use of Dungeons
- Making use of Battleground weekends, but only when you are on the winning side.
In my opinion, questing is the most stable, decent, and quick way of leveling. Needless to say, that only when you know the most efficient way to complete each quest in the fastest possible way. Have a look at a list of the fastest leveling guides with optimized quest circuit at WoW leveling guide.
From the three Rogue leveling guide tips above, 2 things have really great impact on your leveling speed: talent build and leveling methods. Combat and Assassination build are the fastest way to level up, so I suggest you stick to one of those. As for leveling method, quest leveling is the most recommended, although you can still dungeoning once in a while for some extra XP and better gears.
Ps: check NE druid leveling guide for a few tips that you can also apply in your rogue.
