Players who prefer violant combat should consider the Rogue when choosing a class. Rogue are fantastic Melee DPS making them a natural choice for this playing style. I’ll introduce the Rogue’s talents and strengths in the WoW Rogue guide.

Let’s begin by looking at the Rogue’s strengths.

• High DPS: It’s this high damage per second that makes the Rogue such a great Melee fighter.
• Stealth: This allows the Rogue to sneak up on enemies without being easily detected.
• Excellent at PvP: Rogue are fantastic when it comes to PvP. The Resilience attribute is really important among other gear you need to stay alive in this situation.

Now let’s turn our attention in the WoW Rogue guide to the Rogue’s weaknesses.

• Target in PvP: Their dangerous reputation can make them a primary PvP target.
• Damage Ratio: When you’re dual weilding the damage ratio of the off hand weapon is reduced.

Learn more about the Rogue Class in the World of Warcraft Rogue Guide

You’ll have much more fun if you choose the right talent build based on your own playing styles. The next section of the WoW Rogue guide look exactly at that. All the talent builds of the Rogue belond to one of the categories below.

• Assassination: The build I’ll talk about is called the Mutilate build.
• Combat: We’ll look at the Combat Swords build.
• Subtlety: We’ll take a look at a build called the Subtlety.

The Mutilate build in a dagger and poison based build. This can be a problem if your enemy happen to be immune or have some kind of healing ability against poison. Here’s a list of some good talents to have for this build.

• Mutilate: Instant 2 handed attack
• Hunger for Blood: This causes you to become enraged and cause more damage.
• Improved Poison: This is an essential talent
• Master Poisoner: Increases critical chance of your attack by 3%
• Vile Poisoner: Increase damage of poison and Envenom ability
• Dual Wield Specialization: Another essential talent

For high, sustained DPS choose the Combat Swords build. Sinister Strike is an absolutely essential thing to have for this build. Here’s a list of other talents to have.

• Duel Wield Specialization
• Killing Spree
• Improved Slice and Dice
• Blade Flurry
• Blade Twisting
• Surprise Attacks

The Subtlety build takes advantage of the Rogue’s unique stealth abilities. A list of additional talents that are good to have is below.

• Honor Among Thieves
• Premeditation
• Preparation
• Sinister Calling
• Initiative
• Elusiveness

I won’t go any deeper in the WoW Rogue guide into leveling or the talents themselves but one thing to remember is that the talent builds lend themselves to your unique playing style so choose wisely.

Learn more about the Rogue Class in the WoW Rogue Guide