Rogue Guide

detecting a level 20 rogue even with the master of deception talent maxed out.

The NPC at the top of the tower is Galliwyx. He is a level 26+ elite. He cannot be soloed at level 20.

Alliance Poison Quest

Klaven's Tower
Level 26 Rogue
Alliance
Steal the Defias Tower Key, break into the Defias Tower and uncover the contents of the Duskwood Chest. Take whatever information you find back to Mathias Shaw in Stormwind.
Klaven Mortwake's Journal: 0/1
Defias Tower Key: 0/1
I've been staking out this tower for weeks, Trevvie. Recently a major shipment came through from Duskwood, and along with it came those guards.

What are they? Your guess is as good as mine. I can tell you one thing - they aren't human.

Anyhow, the shipment had a chest - which is what I assume those abominations are guarding. The one with spikes holds the key to the tower.

Get that key, get in the tower, and uncover whatever is in that chest. Take your findings back to Mathias.
Rewards:
Recipe: Thistle Tea
210-2100 XP
Start:
Agent Kearnen
Westfall Map

End:
Master Mathias Shaw
Map

This is a MUCH easier quest than the horde version. It can be soloed.

ADVANCED PVP

STUN, STUN and STUN some more. Always initiate the battle and always open with cheap shot. You are not drawing a line in the sand on the field of honor. You are a sneaky dirty fighting bloodthirsty animal. You can’t win going toe to toe with pretty much any other class, so keep them stunned the entire battle. DPS is secondary to control. A warlock lives to keep you under control not eat his pet and go toe to toe with you. A mage is going to nova and blink.

Cheap shot is the opener to use in PvP. Here is my typical combo:

CS, SS, gouge, get behind opponent, wait, cold blood, eviscerate, blind, vanish, it wait 7-8 seconds, CS, SS, gouge, preparation, cold blood, eviscerate, blind, vanish, CS, SS, gouge, eviscerate.

That is 3 full eviscerate finisher combos with complete stunlock. Two of these eviscerates are crits. There isn’t a player in the game who can withstand that much damage.

Sound easy? It’s not. First off timing and positioning are important. After you eviscerate you have to be behind your opponent otherwise they will stun you and go into their routine. You also have to time your gouge and blind timers well. You need the energy, so you do have to wait these stuns out before you re-engage, but not wait too long otherwise you lose control. You will also miss. With some luck those misses will just be normal hits, but it is not uncommon for us to miss that cold blood-eviscerate or even worse cheap shot, gouge or blind. Also the combo requires that initiative procs for that extra combo point. A lot of people ask me what I do when it doesn’t proc. I will sometimes do 2 hemorrhages instead of one SS, but that doesn’t make up for energy problems. It works, but there is an added moment of vulnerability when you do this. But the safe bet is to do a 4 point eviscerate. Control is always better than damage. We are simply too fragile to go toe to toe with pretty much any other class.

Sometimes cheapshot misses or is bugged and stuns but gives no combo points. When this happens I gouge, vanish and start again.

Kidney Shot will stun as well, but it is a waste to have a 5 point combo and not use Eviscerate in many cases. However, the truth is it will extend your stun on opponents that drop easily. Rogues are a good example. If I CS, SS, gouge, cold blood eviscerate, I will kill a lot of rogues but not the ones with good gear. It won’t take me out. I’ll easily have 1000 life left. Rogue is a dangerous class, so a missed blind will likely mean you might get stun locked yourself. Hence I will usually do the following combo:

CS, SS, gouge, kidney shot, SS, drink thistle tea, SS, SS, SS gouge, cold blood, eviscerate.

I find my eviscerate doing a 4 pointer sometimes as energy and stun duration play a significant role here even with thistle tea. The tea is to ensure you are getting enough hits in to make kidney shot worthwhile. Another thing you could do is replace SS with hem. That’s 50 energy you’d save in that combo. I’ve been working on this combination for quite some time now and I just don’t feel like a have a perfect formula down. I instead take fewer risks and settle for smaller eviscerates. It’s great control against someone that is very dangerous. Don’t use it on warriors, paladins or shamans. It won’t take them out. You will have to keep it going with blind. And if that’s the case I prefer to eviscerate.

Explosives used to be a good way to maintain control in PvP. It doesn’t seem to work now.

Warriors and rogues can disarm us. Our defense against this is a weapon chain that a blacksmith can put on your weapon to make you immune to disarming. The downside to this is that you can’t put an enchantment on a chained weapon at the same time. I prefer a weapon enchant. Di