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Overview

At home in the shadows and skilled at disappearing from sight, the Rogues of Azeroth are most comfortable when acting in the background. Twisting events to their favor, striking only when advantage is greatest: this is where a Rogue excels. With their cunning tricks, physical abilities, and mastery of concealment and disguise, Rogues have no trouble finding employment as thieves, cutthroats, spies, and assassins.

The Rogue is a very involved and fun class to play. Your effectiveness depends on how well you learn to use the Rogue. There is a lot to take in, but players can master the Rogue with knowledge and experience. Rogue's abilties fall into two major categories, damaging attacks and utility. These are described in the following sections.

Rogue Damage Abilties

Rogue Utility Abilties

Quests

Poisons : Quest walkthrough and general info.
Poisons

Talents

* OUTDATED

No guide would be complete without a discussion of the class' talents. This is such a large topic it has a section of its own.
Rogue Talents

Rogue Talent Templates:
Ambush/Backstab (30/8/13)
Ass/Combat Builds
Ass/Sub Builds
Balanced Rogue Build
DoT Rogue Build
Group Rogue template
Combat Dagger
Mutilate

Leveling guide

Rogue Levelling Guide - Guide to get to level 40

Level 40-49

Dagger list

Offhand Sword list

Level 50-59

Dagger list

Offhand Sword list

Offhand Mace guide

Level 60

At this level it is time to start optimizing armor as well as weaponry.

One type of armor that may be useful is armor that provides bonuses to melee crit chance.

Another useful type of armor is High agility leather armor.

A third type of armor a Rogue may look for is Leather armor with Attack Power.

The source of weaponry shifts to Alterac Valley, Zul'Gurub, Molten Core and beyond. See the level 60 dagger guide.

Level 61-69

Enter the Burning Crusade, the first expansion for the World of Warcraft. This expansion adds ten more levels, maxxing out at level 70. This means we need a list of Burning Crusade Daggers, Burning Crusade Swords, Burning Crusade Maces and Burning Crusade Fist Weapons.

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+==Overview==
 At home in the shadows and skilled at disappearing from sight, the Rogues of Azeroth are most comfortable when acting in the background. Twisting events to their favor, striking only when advantage is greatest: this is where a Rogue excels. With their cunning tricks, physical abilities, and mastery of concealment and disguise, Rogues have no trouble finding employment as thieves, cutthroats, spies, and assassins.
-The Rogue is a very involved and fun class to play. Your effectiveness depends on how well you learn to use the Rogue. There is a lot to take in, but players can master the Rogue with knowledge and experience. Here are a few sample skills available to Rogues.
+The Rogue is a very involved and fun class to play. Your effectiveness depends on how well you learn to use the Rogue. There is a lot to take in, but players can master the Rogue with knowledge and experience. Rogue's abilties fall into two major categories, damaging attacks and utility.  These are described in the following sections.
-Stealth
+[[Rogue Damage Abilties]]
-Sinister Strike
-Pick Pockets
+[[Rogue Utility Abilties]]
-Evisceration
+==Quests==
+Poisons : Quest walkthrough and general info.<br>
+[[Poisons]]<br>
+<br>
+==Talents==
+ * OUTDATED
+No guide would be complete without a discussion of the class' talents.  This is such a large topic it has a section of its own.<br>
+[[Rogue Talents]]<br><br>
+Rogue Talent Templates:<br>
+[[Ambush/Backstab]] (30/8/13)<br>
+[[Ass/Combat Builds]]<br>
+[[Ass/Sub Builds]]<br>
+[[Balanced Rogue Build]]<br>
+[[DoT Rogue Build]]<br>
+[[Group Rogue template]]<br>
+[[Combat Dagger]]<br>
+[[Mutilate]]<br>
 == Leveling guide ==
-== Level 1-9 ==
+[[Rogue Levelling Guide]] - Guide to get to level 40
-In this level range your role is pretty much as a light tank.  Stealth works very poorly with mobs even one level above you.  You will do large amounts of damage in short periods of time however and will be fine.  If you manage to get adds you should quickly consider running.
-At these levels, Sinister Strike is a Rogues bread and butter skill.  Evisceration is the only 'finishing' attack that is available in this level range.  Backstab is another useful skill while grouping when another player has the mobs attention.  Gouge and Evasion become available in this level range.
+=== Level 40-49 ===
+[[Dagger_guide#Levels_40-49|Dagger list]]
-The key to success as a low level Rogue will be your weapon.  Rogues start out with training in Daggers.  In order to train more weapons you must visit a major city and spend 10 silver to learn the new weapon skill.  It is suggested that you just stick with daggers for the first 10 levels.  Following is a list of low level easily obtainable daggers:
+[[Offhand_Sword_guide#Levels_40-49|Offhand Sword list]]
-Thottbot lists 22 daggers between the levels of 1 and 9.  3 are available from vendors, 1 craftable, 6 are quest rewards, 11 are random drops and 3 have no documented source.  Of the 22, 9 are listed as green items, 2 are grey items and the rest are all yellow items.  8 Daggers are discussed below.
+=== Level 50-59 ===
+[[Dagger_guide#Levels_50-59|Dagger list]]
-The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=2471 Copper Dagger] is a craftable dagger that can be used at level 6.  It has a 5DPS capability.
+[[Offhand_Sword_guide#Levels_50-59|Offhand Sword list]]
-For the Horde the [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=1594 Jagged Dagger] is a very good quest reward for a level 8 quest.  +1 Str and 6 DPS.
+[[Offhand Mace guide|Offhand Mace guide]]
-The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=2766 Ceremonial Knife] is another Horde quest reward that could prove to be useful, if not as good as the jagged dagger.  5.4 DPS with no stat bonuses.  This is the reward from a level 12 quest that is the 4th in a quest line.
+=== Level 60 ===
+At this level it is time to start optimizing armor as well as weaponry.
-The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=360 Pruning Knife] is the first questable dagger available to Night Elves on Teldrassil.  It is a 4.1DPS weapon from a quest that is first available at level 6.
+One type of armor that may be useful is armor that provides bonuses to [[Melee Crit Leather|melee crit chance]].
-The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=669 Long Bayonette] is available through a quest in Elwynn Forest at level 7.  It provides 4.4 DPS to its user.
+Another useful type of armor is [[High agility leather armor]].
-For random drops the [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=626 Carving Knife] is fairly common and nice for a level 6 item.  It provides +1 Str and 5.9 DPS for level 6.  The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=102 Curved Dagger] is a nice drop for a level 9 dagger.  It provides +1 Agi and 7.2 DPS.  It should be fairly easy to obtain in Ragefire Chasm.
+A third type of armor a Rogue may look for is [[Leather armor with Attack Power]].
-The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=549 Stonesplinter Dagger] is a random drop from Troggs in Loch Modan.  It provides +1 Agi and 7DPS at level 8 or higher.
+The source of weaponry shifts to [[Alterac Valley]], [[Zul'Gurub]], [[Molten Core]] and beyond.  See the [[Dagger_guide#Level_60|level 60 dagger guide]].
-In summary go with whatever drops until level 6.  At this point try to get a crafted Copper Dagger.  Try to get a Carving Knife or a Curved Dagger as you level.  If you are Horde, getting the Jagged Dagger is a very good idea.  If starting as a Gnome/Dwarf a Stonesplinter Dagger makes a nice alternative if it can be found.
+=== Level 61-69 ===
+Enter the Burning Crusade, the first expansion for the World of Warcraft.  This expansion adds ten more levels, maxxing out at level 70.  This means we need a list of [[Dagger_guide#Burning_Crusade_Daggers|Burning Crusade Daggers]], [[Rogue_Sword_guide#Burning_Crusade_Swords|Burning Crusade Swords]], Burning Crusade Maces and [[Fist_Weapon_Guide|Burning Crusade Fist Weapons]].
-== Level 10-19 ==
-The [http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=558 Blade of Cunning] is widely available from a variety of quests at level 10 for the Alliance and level 13 for the Horde.  This dagger improves your Subtlety skill by one and does 6.7 DPS.  The appropriate quest can be obtained from the Rogue Trainer in the race specific level 1-10 areas.
+[[Category:World of Warcraft]]