Hi there, and welcome to Zal's guide to PvP as a 70 Rogue. I'm going to be covering a number of talent specs and their pros and cons that work in a 70 PvP Environment.
Doesn't lose utility on focus targets like Envenom does.
Has surprising spike damage, especially on Kidney Shotted targets.
Can easily use Mind-Numbing poison if desired.
Cons:
No Preparation (hurts a lot)
60 Energy Cheap Shot and 50 Energy Garrote makes openers harder.
Low levels of utility
Note about Envenom: Don't do it. You don't gain enough damage for the loss of talents, and it doesn't work at all without the deep Subtlety talents like at 80.
Largely a one-trick pony; need Killing Spree up to succeed.
Slow/Long cooldown Stealth.
Longer Blind, Vanish and Cloak of Shadows cooldowns.
If anyone wants further details on the specs or their rationales, don't hesitate to ask. I've tried and utilized all of these talent specs to success as a 70 Rogue Twink (including against other fully geared twinks and even a number of 80's) on other servers.
Hemo specs don't perform better with non-dagger weapons since the abilities include higher (and well balanced) coefficients for daggers. Hemo and ghostly strike both. This was, I believe, a 3.3 change that isn't considered in most wotlk guides, as daggers sucked for non-BS/Ambush specs until this change. Is this why you say the build requires non-dagger weapons?
Question about :6) 0/51/10-Killing Spree Combat
- Could you not swap out Master of Deception to get faster stealth, just move the 3 points? It seems fair that it's an either or - both make it easier to get the opener. Do you feel MoD helps more than faster stealth? I'm wondering myself.
Fantastic guide and always good to have more rogue discussion, can be hard to find wotlk-related discussion.
"Note about Envenom: Don't do it. You don't gain enough damage for the loss of talents, and it doesn't work at all without the deep Subtlety talents like at 80."
What makes you say that ? Which deep subtlety talents affect Envenom ?
Cookie-cutter Sub talents: http://armory.warmane.com/character/...ckrock/summary,
Glyphs are: Shadow Dance, Preparation and the 3rd one is a bit of a debate between glyph of Sprint and glyph of Vigor. Extensive playing with both makes glyph of Sprint the superior choice for me.