World of Warcraft Rogue Information

The Rogue got a straight goal in the game, doing damage. The Rogue class is the only melee class that isn't a Hybrid, like warriors can be dps and tanks, same with Death knights, paladins and druids. They do good in both PvP (Player vs Player) and PvE (Player vs Environment) and top the damage meters quite often. For doing attacks, a rogue needs energy, which starts at 100 and goes down for every attack, but it quickly goes back up. Some of your abilities will make a dot, a 'combopoint' which makes your finishing move hit harder/last longer. You can use your finishing moves when you have 1 up to 5 combopoints on your target.

They're also known for their Stealth ability which basically makes them invisible until they want to attack, or when hunters flairs them out of it, damn hunters. The Rogues also have great survival abilities like Evasion, Vanish, Dismantle, Blind, Kidney/cheap shot etc.

The demand of Crowd Control in instances has increased in Cataclysm so the rogues Sap makes them attractive for a party, they kick ability and all the stuns makes them even more wanted. They can dish out high amounts of stable damage on bosses and blind ads if needed.

The stuns, or 'Stunlocks' as they're called is essential in PvP (Player vs Player). Stuinlocking and using the new cloud ability that was unlocked in cataclysm while 3 of your arena partners attack the target is quite a successful strategy in arena, as well as the new Rated Battlegrounds. Some good Rogues are able to 100-0 players before the stun ends, but you need good gear for this so don't expect to kill a 100k hit points warrior with your newly dinged Rogue during a stunlock.

Rogues also have an arsenal of poisons which can be applies to their weapons, they can do DoTs (Damage over Time), reduce healing, instant damage and of course slow down the casting speed.

Most Rogues are undead, which is probably because they look awesome but they have some useful racials, Will of The Forsaken, which works like a trinket on all fear effects, high shadow resistance and being able to eat dead mobs to gain health which is useful for when you're out of food and bandages.

There 3 different talent trees, Assassination, Combat, and Subtlety. Combat is for leveling and PvE, Assassination for PvE and PvP and Subtlety for pure PvP because the sub tree recently got buffed, and of course Neilyo use it so every arena Rogue will follow in his footsteps.

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