WoW Forever Rogue

Combat. Combat gives you the smoothest start: Sinister Strike and Eviscerate from level 1, Riposte in your early 20s and Blade Flurry at 30 for fighting several mobs at once. Also good: Assassination.

Combat. Combat is the Rogue for dungeons: Blade Flurry hits a second target, Adrenaline Rush comes at level 40, and Riposte adds damage after a parry. The one public dungeon list puts it in S.

Subtlety. Subtlety wins duels before the other side can act: Premeditation adds combo points before the opener, Preparation resets your Rogue cooldowns, Vanish included, and a new talent lets you Ambush without Stealth. Cheap Shot, Kidney Shot and Blind chain the control.

Night Elf for the Alliance, Orc for the Horde, Undead for PvP. Night Elf: Shadowmeld lets you vanish out of combat and reset a fight, a second escape next to Vanish itself, and Quickness adds a little dodge and movement speed that stacks with everything else you do. Races that can play it: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Skyborne, Orc, Undead and Troll.

Daggers, One-Handed Swords, One-Handed Maces, One-Handed Axes, Fist Weapons, Bows, Crossbows, Guns, Thrown. In the beta you buy the weapon skills you do not have yet from a Weapon Master in the capitals: Stormwind, Ironforge and Darnassus for the Alliance, Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff and Undercity for the Horde. Your skill with a weapon goes up as you fight with it.

Shenthul in Orgrimmar also trains Windshaper Skyborne rogues, Blizzard says. Skyborne rogues of both factions start with Akeri Duskblade in Thendal Village.

At level 20, through a class quest chain as in Classic: it starts with Mathias and the Defias for the Alliance or The Shattered Salute for the Horde and ends with Klaven's Tower or Hinott's Assistance. In the beta client every poison has 50% more charges than in Classic.

For example Combat at level 60: open with Sinister Strike, Slice and Dice, Adrenaline Rush, Blade Flurry. Then your main buttons are Slice and Dice, Eviscerate and Sinister Strike. The Rotation Trainer shows every button with the reason behind it and lets you play it yourself.

The Rogue is medium to start with. The builder and finisher loop is easy to learn, but the first levels feel slow until your stuns arrive, and you rely on Stealth, positioning and crowd control.

9 of 53 talents are new and 31 changed. Your combo points stay on your target when you switch to another enemy, so you can Kick a caster and go straight back. They only reset once you start building points on the new target. A missed Expose Armor no longer costs you your combo points.