Rogue Guide

One important talent here is remorseless attacks. It will keep you from being slow and lazy when it comes to moving from mob to mob as you will always want to get that remorseless bonus. Your remorseless improved ambush will crit almost every time. It is amazing at low levels and as mobs gain ridiculous amounts of armor at higher levels ambush will do mediochre damage. Avoid those mobs and you will be a grinding machine.

Open with ambush do sinister strikes and close with eviscerate. If you really want to maximize damage, use a weapons switch macro to switch from daggers to swords when you come out of stealth. You could use the weapon switch in Cosmos. It’s in the combat stances section. Activate it and put a dagger in your main hand while stealthed then come out of stealth and put a sword in your hand. You could also get this addon mod: http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=121

I have been asked a million times what build order they should use. I have outlined that near each talent above.

I would not use this build at 60.

Note that grinding with this build requires that you are extremely aggressive. If you stealth immediately after you kill one mob you will often find the 20 second timer on remorseless go away. You will learn exactly how close you can get to a mob your level before you have to go into stealth. This is exceptional training for a new rogue.

Get yourself a good dagger. I’m starting to see daggers with decent stats that are green pop up in the AH lately. Slow daggers with a high min/max damage are key.

POISONS

Poisons are a huge boost to our game. Simply put, use them. I have broken down each poison below:

Crippling Poison- It slows your opponent’s movement speed. No one can maintain a stunlock consistently and some mobs like to run away. I almost always use it in PvP. You will not kite me, you will not get away.

Mind Numbing Poison- This significantly slows the casting speed of a caster. In PvP this isn’t such a great thing. Mages in particular have more instacast and channel spells than we have attacks. It is hard on warlocks and priests. It’s hard to keep us feared when your fear spell takes 9 seconds to cast. A lot of PvP rogues like to have crippling on one weapon and mind numbing on the other.

Instant Poison- This is a very good poison to use in PvP to boost your damage. This is particularly so for ambush rogues who like to pick off wounded stragglers. It is nice for soloing elites. I commonly gouge and blind elite mobs, so deadly poison is out and caster elites are easy to kick.

Deadly Poison- This poison used to aggravate me. I can’t use it in PvP without sacrificing gouge and blind. But it is our best DPS poison. I use it when I solo grind normal mobs for cash. My killing speed gets a huge boost against them.

Wound Posion- Gee Blizzard, thanks for the new poison. NOT. It’s worthless. I’m hoping I can find a reasonable application for it in battlegrounds. It only lasts 15 seconds. If I stack it 5 times it will reduce a priest’s healing by 500. So a crit big heal will only do 2500 instead of 3000. Oh man they’re screwed. Then again I could stunlock them which keeps them from healing and then well……kill them.

Be stubborn about using poisons. I admit I can be lazy about it. My shamans take poisons off of my main hand and my offhand doesn’t hit much. But DPS is DPS. You need to pull out all of the stops.

Horde Poison Quest:

Mission: Possible But Not Probable
Level 26 Rogue
Horde
Steal Silixiz's Tower Key from Foreman Silixiz to enter the tower, then kill two Mutated Venture Co. Drones, two Venture Co. Patrollers, and two Venture Co. Lookouts.

Assassinate Grand Foreman Gallywix and take his head, then unlock Gallywix's lockbox and steal the Cache of Zanzil's Altered Mixture. Take the Cache and Gallywix's Head back to Shenthul in Orgrimmar for further instruction.
Mutated Venture Co. Drone slain: 0/2
Venture Co. Lookout slain: 0/2
Venture Co. Patroller slain: 0/2
Gallywix's Head: 0/1
Silixiz's Tower Key: 0/1
Cache of Zanzil's Altered Mixture: 0/1
: 0/2 You will need to steal the tower key from Foreman Silixiz, Tils. Once you've got the key in your possession, unlock the entryway and slip inside.

Remember, the poison has weakened everything in this tower. Use your abilities to bring chaos and destruction to its inhabitants. Slay them all -- show no mercy!

Once everything inside lays in a bloodied heap, unlock Gallywix's lockbox and steal the cache of Zanzil's mixture held inside. Take both the head of Gallywix and the mixture to Shenthul in Orgrimmar. Rewards:
Recipe: Thistle Tea
2100 XP
Start:
Taskmaster Fizzule
The Barrens Map

End:
Shenthul

Durotar Map

You obtain this quest at level 20 but it cannot be soloed. Your first challenge is being able to pick the pocket of Silixiz in front of the tower. He is level 25 so he will have an easy time