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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:

The Combat Rogue

Rogptor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:56:59 +0000

The combat rogue is excellent for leveling and raid DPS and is no slouch at PvP. Ok, Death Knights and certain ranged classes may pump out higher raw DPS numbers, but ours ain’t bad.

And there’s something to be said for ganking Hunters and Mages on the battlegrounds…

That said, here’s our updated combat rogue guide. Builds, specs, tips, and stuff.

YAUP – Yet Another Update Post

Rogptor — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:38:57 +0000

More updates.

Rogue guide – a general class guide. Tweaked the page, added leveling notes, added a Mutilate PvP build.
Paladin leveling guide – tweaks and a working Ret build. Guess I should move the Prot A of E build here… Ok, done.
Paladin Guide – A general Pally guide, tweaked, some info added, builds now work.
Mage guide – Added a list of 80 gear (stolen from another site,) PvP builds, and fleshed out the page somewhat. It’s more better now.

So what’s the nutty order these are being done in? I pulled a “most popular pages” list from my stats program and I’m working from top to bottom.

Next up: Shadowpriest, warlock class guide, then arms warrior.

Guide Updates

Rogptor — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:35 +0000

The Rogue Class guide has been updated for the 3.1 patch and also with extra info, such as Hit caps.
The Assassination Rogue page has also been updated with new build info and such.
The Inscription Guide and the Herbalism Guide have also been updated. The former for the 3.1 patch and the new “Book of Glyph Mastery.”

On the Cookbook are some new posts:

Assasination Rogue Build

Rogptor — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:42:20 +0000

We’ve updated the Assasination Rogue page for level 80, with builds for leveling and PvP, plus some additional info.