[Guide] Kirshenbaum's Rogue Arena guide
CREATOR OF THIS GUIDE IS NO LONGER ACTIVE.
Yo out there, i am Kirshenbaum from Sargeras.
about me: im a 21 old guy from germany playing wow since wrath, achieved the Gladiator title in season 10 on the realmpool Emberstorm EU as rogue in RLS (no thats not the season where rls was incredible op!). with 2690 Rating. If you want a proof feel free to contact me per pm.
Since i dont like the MoP playstyle for rogues im currently only pveing on retail and started on Warmane with a few friends to arena a lot )).
now to my guide ( i focus mainly on 3v3 as a MCH (Meele Caster Healer) comb
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General informations about Rogue:
Unless most people think, you are not here to deal sick dmg and nuke something down (jk s11 rmp).
no, Rogue means CONTROL ! you are the guy peeling as much as you can for your mates so THEY can deal sick damage, only in an offensive dance you should do as much pressure as possible.
lets say you play rls vs tsg: what most rogues on Warmane would do is sap pally if possible and then go hard on dk / warr with dance + dps trinket and smokebomb. so you guys are unlucky and they survive you're dmg, what do you do now? you dont pool your energie and spam backstab every few seconds when you have enough energie for it, no pressure is comming and you're team gets raped. sucks doesnt it?
so what I suggest you to do in such a situation is wait until they run to your lock / shaman, cheap shot dk pop dance and cheapshot warr and garrote / cheapshot pally. now your lock has time to spread his dots on all targets. spam shiv on everyone to keep them slowed and disarm warriors bladestorm. now you're team survived a tsg burst. and the pressure from your lock is incredible high on all targets. you can NOW do some dmg on that target you are on. with a few good switches you won. GG
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SPEC:
What i prefer in 3s is the Hemo spec. this is where you put 2/2 into Improved Recuperate and 3/3 (instead of 2/3) into Coup de Grace instead of using Puncturing Wounds. you gut a lot better energie pool, surivability and sustained damage instead of bursty one.
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Poisons:
MH: Wound Poison
OH: Crippling Poison
Thrown: Cripping Poison.
what i do is: ive got another 2 daggers in my bag with Mind Numbing and in wotlk even anesthetic poison. i switch to them with a macro and shiv casters / warrior's Berserker rage, so they cant pop enraged regeneration.
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Macros:
you dont have thaaaat much macros, but anyways these are mine:
/startattack
/cast backstab
/startattack
/cast hemorrhage
you will find yourself binding /startattack on all your offensive abilitys since when you switch with 0 energie you will do some meele hits instead before having enough energie for one backstab / hemo.
/cast cheap shot
/sw 20
/sw play
/cast kidney shot
/sw 20
/sw play
/cast sap
/sw 20
/sw play
since im not using any addons (ill suggest you to do this too if you wanna be really succesful since you cant use addons on tournys) this is my simple "dr tracker" for my cheap shot / kidney / deep and gouge / sap / poly
/cast [target=focus] sap
/stopattack
/cast [target=focus] gouge
/sw 20
/sw play
/cast [target=focus] kidney shot
/cast [target=focus] dismantle
/cast [target=focus] redirect
/cast [target=focus] shadowstep
/target focus
/cast [target=focus] kick
(cya full kick gg)
/cast [target=focus] kick
/cast [target=focus] blind
but bro, when you focus blind a disc priest or pally, remember to nut run to him like a ****** and blind him. if he is over 1200 max rating he will death your blind and then your teammates will laugh about you. so run to him , go back, run again to him and THEN blind CYA CANT SWD ME
use them believe me its nice. what i sometimes do is building up 5 CP on my current target, redirect them to the healer, giving him a full kidney and after that kidney i pop dance / vanish and sap him full. CYA
and now the most essential macro all time:
/cast deadly throw
/cast throw
this is so sick, you can do ranged dmg w/o having cp!
/cast [target=fmagestar] tricks of the trade
(replace fmagestar with your mate, in 3s use 2 macros for both mates) use it whenever you have pressure or your mate calls for it like a 12 years old
what i forgot: the sap macro, im using this one but there are 1000 more out there.
/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast sap
/sw 20
/sw play
now you got all my macros and you just increaed your 1300 maxrating to 1700 congrats.
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ADDONS:
use w/e you use, but try to not get used to them.
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UI:
http://oi40.tinypic.com/2eun8eu.jpg
these are my binds, simple and effective. i found out that these key binds are the most comfortable for ME, you can use them but i suggest finding perfect ones for yourself.
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COMPS:
Rogue/Lock/Shaman / Druid
Rogue/Shadowpriest/Shaman
Rogue/Hunter/Shaman / Disc
Rogue/Mage/Priest / Druid
Rogue/Ret/Disc / shaman
Rogue/Feral/Disc / shaman
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CLIPS:
what you generally have to do (this enemys arent good, but its a general show of to get a clue how to rogue)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVJFW...ature=youtu.be
