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Top 3 Tips for Rogue PVP

Rogptor — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:43:24 +0000

There’s a brand new WoW site coming up that has some good PvP stuff with more coming, WorldOfWarcraftChamber.com (That site is now dead.). The Author of the site has kindly agreed to write the following article.

1 - Know how to re-stealth

If you can’t re-stealth in combat, you are drastically reducing your survivability. The main techniques for acheiving this are to

blind and wait to leave combat
gouge/kidney shot your oppenent and run out
get your oppenent crippled and sprint away
vanish

2 – Don’t blow all your energy

If you sit on a person and spam mutilate, you won’t have enough energy for legitamite burst.

- for example, get 5 combo points, wait for full energy, then KS (Kidney Shot) and you will be able to, assuming you are Assassination, mutiliate twice then eviserate.

It’s more efficient burst than if you were to KS with 25 energy and maybe get 1 mutilate and some auto attacks in.

3 – Know the different playstyles and adapt

You don’t try and beat a warrior the same way you beat a priest do you? There are unique ways of handling each class. Generally though, the two main styles a rogue can play are burst and control.

Burst: When you do a lot of damage in a short period of time. This usually involves getting back into stealth again multiple times to get max damage possible.
Control: When you use all CC (Crowd Control) methods available to control an opponent and take them out of the game, so to speak. This means you have to always leave enough energy to gouge and be ready to kick the right school magic. Also blinding into a sap can be a game breaker when speaking in terms of arena.
Defensive: A rogue who needs to be”defensive” would simply try and avoid as much damage as possible. This would include moves like evasion, vanish,blind, dismantle, gouge, and trying to re-stealth.

For more PvP info check out Phil’s site and read the full pvp guides for rogues and all the other classes.

For more see the GotWarcraft Rogue guides:

Druid Leveling Guide Updated

Rogptor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:36:16 +0000

No, we’re not dead, but while we’ve been out the Mighty Bliz had been patching away and breaking all of our builds and guides. Sigh. Ok, repairs will be made at a far more rapid pace than they have been for awhile.

First off is our Druid Leveling Guide. The builds now work and the page will be expanded very soon.

More coming real soon now

Recommended WoTLK Guides

Rikto — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:32:54 +0000

I just wanted to recommend some really good leveling guides to you all that have been upgraded for WoTLK so you can get to 80 in just a few days. I also found a good in-depth Death Knight Guide. It has over 100 pages of information about good talent builds and leveling tips.

Ok, here are the leveling guides:

First is my favorite one, Zygor’s In-Game Leveling Guide.

Although I think Zygor’s guide is the easiest to use, Joana and Brian Kopp’s guides have also been updated and are now also in-game similar Zygor’s guide.

Brian Kopp’s Aliance Leveling Guide: I would recommend this if you play an Alliance character. It has a slightly better 1-60 leveling path IMO than Zygor’s guide. You should take a look at both of their websites though and see which looks best to you because for Alliance both guides are really good.

If you play Horde though I think Zygor’s guide is still easily number one though.

Death Knight Guide: I know that many of you are now playing a Death Knight or are about to make one soon, so I really want to recommend the Killer Guides Death Knight Guide. It has tons of useful information.