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Introduction
Hi everyone. First, I want to say that this guide is entirely made by myself. So there could be some mistakes, I am not a high end arena player or a professional rogue.
But I hope this contribution will help some beginners, young rogues or confirmed ones. This guide will be focused on arenas.
Table of content
1. What is the best race to play rogue ?
2. Talent & Glyphs
3. Gear, Hit Cap and Stats priority
4. Enchanting & Reforging
5. Macros
6. Keybinds
What is the best race to play rogue ?
In my opinion, the Alliance’s best races to play rogue are :
• Human : Your racial is a medaillon, so you can have 2 dps trinkets in your gear.
• Night Elve : Your racial makes you in stealth and out of combat, but you can’t move or you go out of stealth. Just use a macro to cast a stealth after the Shadowmeld, and you have a new Vanish.
And the best Horde’s races are :
• Undead : your racial is an Anti-Fear, useful against shadow priests, warriors and warlocks.
• Orc : your racial is a burst spell, useful when you use Shadowdance with your trinket.
Talents & Glyphs
Talents
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Here’s my main spec, used by most 4.3.4 rogues.
This talent tree is based on Hemorrhage instead of Backstab, so your main source of damages is a combo between Hemorrhage and Slice and Dice.
Glyphs
Prime glyphs
• Shadow Dance : 2 more seconds to apply one more ambush or a garrote.
• Hemorrhage : undispellable DoT, and activate a +16% damage buff
• Slice and Dice : one of the two sources of damages in the spec
Major glyphs
• Blind : useful if you switch target in 2s/3s (example : with a warlock in RLS)
• Preparation : 2 smoke bombs, 2 kicks, 2 dismantles… What else ?
• Garrote : because... More cs?
Minor glyphs
• Poisons : if you want to reset a arena match, useful to change poisons if necessary
• Blurred speed : useful for BGs
• Safe fall : use in BGs too
Gear, Hit cap & Stats priority
Gear
Neck : Proficiency
Cloak : Cruelty
Bracers : Accuracy
Waist : Cruelty
Boots : Cruelty
Rings : Cruelty / Accuracy
Hit cap
The hit cap is 600, wich is 5%. This is the only thing we have to keep an eye on. The expertise cap of 21/21 is also interesting.
Stats priority :
5% hit -> crit -> haste -> mastery -> exeprtise (if you decided to avoid the expertise cap)
5% hit -> 21/21 expertise -> crit -> haste -> mastery (if you decided to get the expertise cap)
Enchanting & Reforging
Enchanting
Weapons : MH = Landslide // OH = Pyrium Weapon Chain
Shoulders : Vicious agility
Cloak : Crit
Chest : Resilience
Bracers : Agility (+130 Agility with Leatherworking)
Gloves : Expertise OR Agility
Waist : Gem slot
Legs : Crit and Attack power
Boots : Agility
Rings : Agility (Enchanting required)
Reforging
Head: Crit
Shoulders: Crit
Bracers: Crit
Legs: Hit
Macros & Addons
Macros
You can find all basics rogue macros here.
Addons
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I use a lot of addons, because I have my own UI, so I use Bartender4, Masque with Masque: Darion, Chatter, Align, TidyPlates, ShadowedUnitFrames, Castbars, SafeQueue, SexyMap, LoseControl, and of course Gladius.
Keybinds
Personnaly, I think keybinds are personnal preferences. A keybind wich is perfect for me can be the worst thing for you. So, find keybindings that fit you, and you’re now ready to go.
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