Rogue

Poisons, blades and shadow. Pure damage from ambush and crowd control.

Damage

Armor: Cloth, leather
Weapons: Daggers, swords, maces, fist weapons, one-handed axes, thrown
Resource: Energy and combo points
Leveling: Average leveling pace

Pick a race Specializations

Specializations

Poison damage

Coats blades in poison and builds damage through it.

TipKeep your poisons up.

Mutilate
New: combo point builder, daggers only
Venom
New finishing move
Malice
Now also poison crit chance
Improved Poisons
50% chance not to use a charge
Lethality
20% at max rank (was 30%)

What is new in Forever

Warcraft Tavern, LFCarry

Compared with Classic. Blizzard may still change the numbers before release.

Rogues can use one-handed axes.
New abilities: Mutilate and Venom.
Poisons stack with sharpening stones and Windfury Totem.
Slice and Dice gives 30% attack speed.
Assassination is built on poisons, Subtlety on bleeds and stealth.
Hit: up to 3% from a talent (5% in Vanilla).

Races

Tap a race and the picker opens that combination: racial abilities and everything about the class.

Alliance

Horde

TipGnome for PvP (Escape Artist), Orc and Troll for damage.

In a group and while leveling

Group value

Pure melee damage with no raid-wide buffs
Sap, Blind and Kidney Shot: lots of crowd control
Kick interrupts dangerous casts

Leveling

Average leveling pace

TipLeatherworking and Skinning, or Engineering. Leatherworkers make the camp tent.

Pros and cons

Strengths

Very high damage that scales with gear
Stealth and lots of crowd control
Freedom of weapon choice

Weaknesses

Heavily gear dependent
No self-healing
Only Evasion and Vanish save you

Other classes

Mage