WoW Forever Rogue Leveling Guide & Talents

Introduction

Welcome to our Rogue Leveling Guide for World of Warcraft Forever. This guide will cover everything you need to know to level a Rogue in WoW Forever, including an overview of Rogue Strengths and Weaknesses, a Leveling Talents Build for Rogue, and the best Professions for a Rogue.

Guide Contents:

• Strengths & Weaknesses
• Best / Suggested Racials
• Recommended Leveling Talents
• Playstyle and Core Abilities
• Best Leveling Gear for Rogue
• Key Spells & Levelling Milestones
• Best / Suggested Professions
• Maximising Rested XP

Rogue Class Overview: WoW Forever

Rogue is one of the most approachable classes, it has a lot of answers to problems while leveling and has good flexibility across the board with many viable hybrid builds which allow you to follow your heart after picking up fundamental talents.

Rogue follows a traditional rotation where you spend time building resources called Combo Points and executing various Finishing Moves to spend them.

Strengths & Weaknesses of Rogue in WoW Forever

Best / Suggested Racials for Rogue

Displayed below are the recommendations between both Horde and Alliance, but I encourage you to pick whichever race you prefer, as all races are viable options.

For Alliance players, I recommend picking Gnome.

Gnome is the best choice for an Alliance Race in WoW: Forever, this is due to the new Racial effect Eureka! which offers an on-demand damage boost and reduces the Energy cost of our abilities for 8 seconds.

Alongside Eureka!, Escape Artist can be used to remove movement impairing effects and grants immunity to them for 3 seconds. Expansive Mind is another racial effect, increasing our maximum energy by 5%.

For Horde players, I recommend picking Orc.

Orc is likely the best choice for a Horde Race in WoW: Forever, this is due to Blood Fury providing on-demand Attack Power, buffing all of our attacks.

In addition to Blood Fury, Savage also offers a slight passive crit bonus and Shatter Curse will provide a brief immunity to Curses and Banes, while reducing any incoming Magic Damage.

Recommended Leveling Talents for Rogue in WoW Forever

All three of the builds below are viable while levelling.

That being said, I recommend Combat for solo players, and Subtlety if grouped.

If you have looted a strong Dagger by level 30, I recommend swapping over to Subtlety anyway, provided you have the currency to do so.

Rogue Playstyle and Core Abilities

Rogue has a very generic rotation, in that we always want to build combo points and eventually spend these on Finishing Moves.

Backstab and Sinister Strike are our builders, which are interchangeable depending on your build. If you’ve opted for Puncturing Wounds then you should be looking to Backstab.

Eviscerate and Slice And Dice are our main Finishers, Slice and Dice should be maintained as the better of the two options while levelling when we unlock it.

General Rogue Rotation Notes:

Apply Deadly Poison and Instant Poison to your weapons before combat.

Out of Stealth, you should look to Garrote if the target will survive the entire duration, and Ambush otherwise.

As Subtlety you should always Ambush where possible.

1. Enter Stealth Pre-Pull
2. Use your Out of Stealth option.
3. Use Shank off-cooldown
4. Sinister Strike / Backstab / Mutilate to Generate Combo Points
5. Spend Combo Points on Slice And Dice
6. If Slice And Dice is already active, cast Eviscerate

Being able to Backstab consistently becomes a lot easier in group content, use Sinister Strike as a fallback if you cannot Backstab.

Expose Armor should be used when your target will live for the entire duration, providing Slice And Dice is already active.

As Subtlety, when you acquire Hemorrhage, you should aim to have 100% uptime of it and applying Rupture + Garrote become more valuable.

Best Levelling Gear for Rogue

This section details what upgrades to look for while levelling as a rogue!

Generally as a rogue you are always going to look for gear which has either Agility or +Attack Power, Strength is okay as well but not as strong as the alternatives.

Our biggest direct damage increases will come from upgrading our weapons, and the tables below should help you get started.

Daggers

Swords/Other

After breaching this level, you are simply looking for Agility and more DPS on your weapons. Your highest DPS weapon should always go in your Main Hand unless you are fulfilling a requirement like when Ambush requires you to use Daggers.

Key Spells & Leveling Milestones for Rogue

Rogues in WoW forever are always unlocking new utility and upgrading existing spells through the Class Trainer, the table below shows some of the more important pickups and where the utility spells may come in handy!

All Rogue Spells: Check out all of the Rogue Class spells by level to track what new spells or upgrades you have coming up and how much it will cost you.

Weapon Poisons for Rogues

At Level 20, we gain access to Poisons, which can now be used alongside Windfury Totem and Sharpening Stones!

The recommendation here is to use Deadly Poison and Instant Poison when they both become available at Level 30-

While there are other poisons, they will see very little use outside of PvP but you are encouraged to make that decision yourself.

Best / Suggested Professions for Rogue

Listed below are the profession recommendations for Levelling as a Rogue.

This section will be expanded upon as more information and recipes are found.

Primary Professions

I recommend choosing Skinning and Mining until you reach a major city, and then swapping Mining out for Blacksmithing, while you craft strong weapons and sharpening stones, and then swapping Blacksmithing out for Leatherworking which you will then keep until max level.

Keeping Mining and Blacksmithing could lead to stronger weapons as you level up, but makes dungeon upgrades feel less impactful.

Mining and Blacksmithing

Mining pairs well with Blacksmithing and allows you to initially farm Copper Ore, which is used by to craft items like Copper Shortsword or Rough Sharpening Stone.

Skinning and Leatherworking

Skinning pairs well with Leatherworking and initially allows you to farm Ruined Leather Scraps or Light Leather which are used to craft valuable upgrades on more contested item slots. Some of these items are listed below!

Secondary Professions

Secondary professions are all worth picking up. Even if you don't invest much time into them, you can still reap benefits from them while leveling.

I highly recommend training First Aid whenever you can, doing so allows you to make bandages which are great for quicker healing between combats.

Cooking will grant personal access to Camping and the additional perks from your other professions whilst also enabling you to start crafting food which can give additional stats and experience!

Fishing will give you early access to the Fish Bowl and serves as another way to help train your Cooking skill.

Maximising Rested XP: Camping & Cozy Sleeping Bag

Camping is a system that pairs with your professions, allowing you to gain helpful buffs at either your own, or other’s camp sites.

The three camping buffs you should look to utilise while levelling are:

• Camp Chair, from Skinning
• Fish Bowl, from Fishing
• Lodestone, from Mining

Since we want to learn Skinning + Leatherworking, we don’t have direct access to the Mining buffs, but these buffs are shared with everyone at the camp site so encourage a friendly Miner to craft a Lodestone.

Camp Tent from Leatherworking will give you 5% Rested Experience, but you can only place 3 buffs at a single campsite.

Cozy Sleeping Bag

There is also a Cozy Sleeping Bag questline, which allows you to create a rested zone anywhere in the world and grants a 3% increased experience buff to mob XP!

For more information on the Cozy Sleeping Bag, check out the Method Cozy Sleeping Bag Guide!

Other Rogue-Specific Leveling Info

Pickpocket Opener

You can replace "Ambush" with any opener variant, namely Cheap Shot or Garrote.

This macro will allow you to pickpocket your target on opener, allowing for some easy currency earning.

#showtooltip Ambush
/cast Pick Pocket
/cast Ambush

Get rid of the Starting Weapon as soon as possible. Sinister Strike becomes stronger when you have higher Weapon DPS.

Upon reaching Level 10, you should:

1. Complete your Class Quest for a strong early-game weapon.
2. Train Dual Wield and Slice And Dice as soon as possible.

When you reach a Major City for the first time; Go to a weapon master and train the associated weapon skill if you have a stronger alternative weapon in-bags.

Rogues can Equip:

• Swords
• Maces
• Axes
• Fist Weapons

We hope our Rogue Leveling guide for WoW Forever was useful to help you know where to spend your talent points and how to get the most out of the class whilst leveling.