Rogue : Gameplay & Guide / Tips & Tricks.
Hello guys and thank you for reading my rogue guide.If you think I have any mistakes or you have some other tip that you can share please post it.
I am nowhere near perfect as a rogue and I do not claim that I am,I am just enthusiastic rogue player who wants to help people that want to start playing a rogue. If you have any remarks for certain aspects of the guide please forgive me.
Table Of Content
- Itemization & Stats
- Gems & Enchants
- Races
Itemization & Stats
The general stat priority is as follows
Hit(3% Cap) > Agility > Expertise(3%) > Mastery > Crit
Hit Rating
- - The 3% hit cap assures that none of your special abilities will miss [I.E. Blind, Backstab]. However, white auto attack damage will still miss. The hit cap for white damage is extremely high and isn't worth going for in PvP.
Agility
- - Agility is our best PvP main stat. Agility gives both Attack power and Crit. The ratio is 1:2 Agility per Attack Power point.This is a very important stat as Subtlety as a large portion of our damage comes from achieving a critical strike
Subtlety also has the trait Sinister Calling, which increases your total agility by 30%. Agility is the best stat currently because gear in PvP is scaled to a specific item level.
Expertise
- - Expertise lowers the chance of an enemy player dodging or parrying your abilities. There is no 'cap' for Expertise, you can stack it as high as you want. But it isn't ideal to pour all of your rating from gemming and reforging into expertise.
Mastery
- - Mastery vastly increases the power and effectiveness of our finishing moves.
Critical Strike
- - Critical Strike rating is very important as sub. A high crit chance assures effective pressure and high burst output during your offensive cool-down up-times.
Currently, while critical strike is a powerful stat, the amount of crit % received from reforging is rather low.
Gems & Enchants
You can mess around and gem/enchant to your preference but this is the most optimal way (according to me that is).
Meta Gems
Tyrannical Primal Diamond & Agile Primal Diamond
Red Gems : Delicate Primordial Ruby
Yellow Gems : Adept Vermilion Onyx
Blue Gems : Assassin's Imperial Amethyst
Enchants
Shoulders : Greater Tiger Claw Inscription
Cloak : Swordguard Embroidery OR Enchant Cloak - Superior Critical Strike
Chest : Enchant Chest - Super Resilience
Wrist : Enchant Bracer - Greater Agility
Hands : Synapse Springs OR Enchant Gloves - Superior Mastery
Waist : Living Steel Belt Buckle
Legs : Shadowleather Leg Armor
Feet : Enchant Boots - Blurred Speed
Main Hand : Enchant Weapon : Dancing Steel
Off Hand : Enchant Weapon - Glorious Tyranny
Living Steel Weapon
Races
Alliance
- - Human
A common choice because it opens up a second slot to use for more itemizations
- -Nightelf
Shadowmeld allows you to instantly drop combat and gives you a guaranteed restealth.You can also use shadowmeld to immune different forms of CC.
Horde
Undead
- - Undead are the most popular Horde race for rogues in PvP. Will of the Forsaken gives you another way out of Charm, Fear and Sleep effects.
Orc
- - Orc racial lowers the duration of stun effects on you by 15% and provides a nice survival boost to rogues as well as Blood Fury that increases our attack power and provides a nice little boost to our burst class.
Part 2 is in work.
