Best Rogue Leveling Spec

Hey Darrick here,

This will be your Subtlety Rogue Leveling Spec for 4.3. If you have any questions or suggestions on the build, please let me know.

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Subtlety (31 Points)

Nightstalker – Rank 2/2
Increases your speed while stealthed by 15% and reduces the cooldown of your Stealth ability by 6 sec.

Improved Ambush – Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike chance of your Ambush ability by 60% and its damage by 15%.

Relentless Strikes – Rank 3/3
Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.

Elusiveness – Rank 2/2
Reduces the cooldown of your Vanish and Blind abilities by 60 sec and your Cloak of Shadows ability by 30 sec.

Waylay – Rank 1/2
Your Ambush and Backstab hits have a 50% chance to unbalance a target, increasing the time between their melee and ranged attacks by 20%, and reducing movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.

Opportunity – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage dealt with your Backstab, Mutilate, Garrote and Ambush abilities by 30%.

Initiative – Rank 2/2
Gives you a 100% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.

Energetic Recovery – Rank 3/3
Empowers your Recuperate ability, causing its periodic effect to also restore 12 Energy.

Find Weakness – Rank 2/2
Your Ambush, Garrote, and Cheap Shot abilities reveal a flaw in your target’s defenses, causing all your attacks to bypass 50% of that enemy’s armor for 10 sec.

Hemorrhage – Rank 1/1
An instant strike that deals 110% weapon damage (159.5% if a dagger is equipped) and causes the target to take 30% additional damage from bleed effects for 1 min. Awards 1 combo point.

Honor Among Thieves – Rank 1/3
Increases the critical strike chance of all party and raid members by 5%. When any player in your party or raid critically hits with a spell or ability, you have a 33% chance to gain a combo point on your current target. This effect cannot occur more than once every 4 seconds.

Premeditation – Rank 1/1
When used, adds 2 combo points to your target. You must add to or use those combo points within 20 sec or the combo points are lost.

Preparation – Rank 1/1
When activated, this ability immediately finishes the cooldown on your Evasion, Sprint, Vanish, and Shadowstep abilities.

Sanguinary Vein – Rank 2/2
Increases your damage dealt to targets who are afflicted with a Bleed effect by 10%.

Slaughter from the Shadows – Rank 3/3
Reduces the energy cost of your Backstab and Ambush abilities by 20, and the energy cost of your Hemorrhage and Fan of Knives abilities by 6.

Shadow Dance – Rank 1/1
Enter the Shadow Dance for 6 sec, allowing the use of Sap, Garrote, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Premeditation, Pickpocket and Disarm Trap regardless of being stealthed.

Assassination (10 Points)

Coup de Grace – Rank 2/3
Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate and Envenom abilities by 14%.

Lethality – Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, Mutilate and Hemorrhage abilities by 30%.

Quickening – Rank 2/2
All healing effects on you are increased by 20% and your movement speed is increased by 15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.

Puncturing Wounds – Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab ability by 30%, and the critical strike chance of your Mutilate ability by 15%

This is my pick for a 4.3 Sub Rogue Leveling Spec. Like I said up top you can’t really go wrong with Subtlety it has great DPS and Shadowstep really speeds up questing.

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Hey Darrick here,

This will be your Assassination Rogue Leveling Spec for 4.3. If you have any questions or suggestions on the build, please let me know.

Note: I’ve been getting tons of emails recently asking me how I Keybind my Rogue, If your having trouble, Click Here for a Program with Pre-Made Keybindings and Macros

Assassination  (31 Points)

Lethality 3/3
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, Mutilate and Hemorrhage abilities by 10%.

Coup de Grace 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate and Envenom abilities by 7%.

Deadly Momentum 2/2
After killing an opponent that yields experience or honor, you have a 50% chance to increase the critical strike chance of your next ability within 15 sec by 40%, and to refresh your Slice and Dice and Recuperate abilities to their original duration.

Ruthlessness 3/3
Gives your melee finishing moves a 20% chance to add a combo point to your target.

Quickening 2/2
All healing effects on you are increased by 10% and your movement speed is increased by 8%. This does not stack with most other movement speed increasing effects.

Puncturing Wounds 3/3
Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab ability by 10%, and the critical strike chance of your Mutilate ability by 5%.

Vile Poisons 3/3
Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 7% and gives you 33% of the normal chance of applying poisons from your equipped melee weapons when you use the Fan of Knives ability.

Cold Blood 1/1
When activated, generates 25 Energy and increases the critical strike chance of your next non-periodic offensive ability by 100%.

Deadly Brew 1/2
When you apply Instant, Wound or Mind-Numbing Poison to a target, you have a 50% chance to apply Crippling Poison.

Seal Fate 2/2
Your critical strikes from abilities that add combo points have a 50% chance to add an additional combo point.

Overkill 1/1
While stealthed, and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth, you regenerate 30% additional energy.

Master Poisoner 1/1
Increases the spell damage taken by any target you have poisoned by 8%, causes your Envenom ability to no longer consume Deadly Poison, and reduces the duration of all Poison effects applied to you by 50%.

Cut to the Chase 3/3
Your Eviscerate and Envenom abilities have a 33% chance to refresh your Slice and Dice duration to its 5 combo point maximum.

Venomous Wounds 2/2
Each time your Rupture or Garrote deals damage to an enemy that you have poisoned, you have a 30% chance to deal 675 additional Nature damage and to regain 10 Energy. If an enemy dies while afflicted by your Rupture, you regain energy proportional to the remaining Rupture duration.

Vendetta 1/1
Marks an enemy for death, increasing all damage you deal to the target by 20% and granting you unerring vision of your target, regardless of concealment’s such as stealth and invisibility. Lasts 30 sec.

Combat (3 Points)

Precision 3/3
Increases your chance to hit with weapon and poison attacks by 2%.

Subtlety (7 points)

Nightstalker 2/2
Increases your speed while stealthed by 5% and reduces the cooldown of your Stealth ability by 2 sec.

Relentless Strikes 3/3
Your finishing moves have a 7% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.

Opportunity 2/3
Increases the damage dealt with your Backstab, Mutilate, Garrote, and Ambush abilities by 10%.

This is my pick for a 4.3 Assassination Rogue Leveling Spec. With this build you will do tons of burst, and still do decent amount after that initial attack.

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Hey Darrick here,

This will be your Combat Rogue Leveling Spec for 4.3. If you have any questions or suggestions on the build, please let me know.

Note: I’ve been getting tons of emails recently asking me how I Keybind my Rogue, If your having trouble, Click Here for a Program with Pre-Made Keybindings and Macros

Combat  (31 points)

Improved Sinister Strike 3/3
Increases the damage dealt by your Sinister Strike ability by 10% and reduces its Energy cost by 2.

Precision 3/3
Increases your chance to hit with weapon and poison attacks by 2%.

Improved Recuperate 2/2
Causes your Recuperate ability to restore an additional 0.5% of your maximum health and reduces all damage taken by 3% while your Recuperate ability is active.

Aggression 3/3
Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, and Eviscerate abilities by 7%.

Improved Slice and Dice 2/2
Increases the duration of your Slice and Dice ability by 25%.

Lighting Reflexes 3/3
Increases your chance to dodge enemy attacks by 3% and your attack speed by 2%.

Revealing Strike 1/1
An instant strike that causes 125% of your normal weapon damage and increases the effectiveness of your next offensive finishing move on that target by 35% for 15 sec. Awards 1 combo point.

Reinforced Leather 2/2
Increases your armor contribution from cloth and leather items by 25%.

Combat Potency 3/3
Gives your successful off-hand melee attacks and Main Gauche attacks a 20% chance to generate 5 Energy.

Adrenaline Rush 1/1
Increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% and your melee attack speed by 20% for 15 sec.

Savage Combat 2/2
Increases your total attack power by 2% and all physical damage caused to enemies you have poisoned is increased by 2%

Bandit’s Guile 3/3
Your Sinister Strike and Revealing Strike abilities have a 33% chance to grant you an evolving insight into an opponent’s defenses, increasing damage to that target by up to 30%. Opponents can adapt over time, negating this benefit, and Striking a different opponent will begin the cycle anew.

Restless Blades 2/2
Your damaging finishing moves reduce the cooldown of your Adrenaline Rush, Killing Spree, Redirect, and Sprint abilities by 1 sec per combo point.

Killing Spree 1/1
Step through the shadows from enemy to enemy within 10 yards, attacking an enemy every 0.5 sec with both weapons until 5 assaults are made, and increasing all damage done by 20% for the duration. Can hit the same target multiple times. Cannot hit invisible or stealthed targets.

Assassination  (10 Points)

Deadly Momentum 2/2
After killing an opponent that yields experience or honor, you have a 50% chance to increase the critical strike chance of your next ability within 15 sec by 40%, and to refresh your Slice and Dice and Recuperate abilities to their original duration.

Lethality 3/3
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, Mutilate and Hemorrhage abilities by 10%.

Ruthlessness 3/3
Gives your melee finishing moves a 20% chance to add a combo point to your target.

Quickening 2/2
All healing effects on you are increased by 10% and your movement speed is increased by 8%. This does not stack with most other movement speed increasing effects.

This is my pick for a 4.3 Combat Rogue Leveling Spec. This gives you tons of survivability to take on multiple mobs at once, but not a lot of burst.

If your having trouble figuring out your Rotation or need help finding the right Macros, then check out the Program I use, called Iwinbuttons. They will show you the easiest way to Keybind every class, what your Rotation should be, and give you tons of Pre-Made Macros.

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Hey Darrick here,

Like I promised this post will be over the Best Rogue Leveling Spec , and why I think some specs are better then others.

Combat Leveling Spec

Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I play a Combat Leveling Build it always seems like I am playing my Warrior, don’t get me wrong it’s a totally awesome spec. Some positives are you don’t have to worry about stealthing all the time and getting that opening Cheap Shot, so that of course will make leveling faster. Another great thing about this Rogue leveling spec is Blade Flurry! I absolutely love it, and it’s one of the only reasons I spec Combat. If you don’t know what it does I’ll explain real quick. All it does is let’s you hit multiple people at once with the same attack. Which is great if many enemies are on you and your in a bind. Overall this kind of Rogue talent build can be really good. Especially if your new to a Rogue and just want to hack and slash.

Assassination Leveling Spec

I tell you one great thing about Assassination Builds they have crazy burst damage, and in some cases even can do more damage then Combat Builds. The reason why there burst is so good is because as soon as you open it’s very easy to get 5 Combat points on the target very quickly. Also your poisions not only will be doing more damage, but they also will have a higher chance of being applied. The only thing I don’t like about a Rogue build like this is your really don’t get your really good talents until later levels. Most of the time Combat is going to be better for damage, and Subtlety is better for mobility, so a Assassination build really is a in between spec.

Subtlety Leveling Spec

Now we get to my favorite Rogue Leveling Spec. Not only because Subtlety is more flexible then any other Rogue talent build, but it is by far the funnest. The Nightstalker talent which you get right off the bat can be very useful. Nightstalker makes it so you not only are faster while stleathed, but you also will reduce your cooldown. Which can make Rogue Leveling really fast. Also another things the two other Rogue specs really lack is the great talent Shadowstep. Being able to teleport behid someone every 20 seconds really makes leveling faster.

Well that is just a overview of each Rogue Leveling Spec, of course I will go over each one in more detail in the next few post.

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Hey Darrick here,

Welcome to my very first post on Best Rogue Leveling Spec. I have always loved figuring out the best leveling spec for Rogue characters, but I never thought of making a website tell some of my guild mates suggested it to me.

Anyways I decided so I don’t flood people with to much information I would start out with what I think of of each Rogue Leveling Build . Then go into more detailed Rogue leveling talents that work great for the most recent patch 4.3. If you would like more information on me check out my About Me section or Contact me.