Rogue Leveling Guide - Speed Leveling Tips & Strategies

If you're interested in learning how you can level faster than you ever thought possible as a rogue in World of Warcraft, then this guide is going to show you how. Specifically, we're going to give you a general overview of the strengths and weaknesses that the rogue class offers, which each talent tree is best suited for, and finally, tips for leveling faster. By the time you've finished reading this guide, you'll know some clever strategies for leveling fast.

Rogues are the only class in the game (apart from a druid in cat form) which can stealth. This means you can become completely invisible to most mobs and enemy players. As you can imagine, this can be a great advantage in many situations as you may imagine. Also, rogues to a huge amount of damage, often in a very short time. They also offer reliable crowd control with the “sap” ability, as well as poweful and long duration stuns which completely immobilize enemy players and mobs, preventing all action for a limited time.

In fact, they are often hated in PVP for these stuns – as well as their general sneakiness and “unfair” ways of fighting.

The main weaknesses for a rogue are their weak leather armor, seeing as they have to be in melee range to do damage. Therefore, they rely on high dodge rating, agility to negate damage. They can also keep enemies within melee range with powerful crippling poison which reduces movement speed drastically.

So what are the best talent builds for leveling a rogue? Let's answer this question by looking at each trees strengths and weaknesses.

First, we have the combat tree. This one specialises in high, consistent damage – but sacrifices some of the rogue's sneakiness. This is a good tree for leveling, solo grinding or farming, and doing damage in instances.

Next we have the assassination tree. This tree is based around creating high “spike” damage which is hard to heal through or counter in PVP. It can also be formidable in instances, and have you topping damage charts.

Finally, we have the subtlety tree. This tree enhances the rogue's sneaky abilities of stealth and movement, as well as increasing their survival skills. This is also a great PVP tree, but offers less damage for instances.

Now let's move on to some tips for leveling faster. Firstly, you will want to spec into combat for high damage. Although each tree can be fun to level, so you may like to experiment with what you enjoy playing the most.

One thing to remember when leveling a rogue, is that you don't need to stealth each time you attack a mob. Staying in stealth too much will so your leveling speed considerably, because you move much slower in stealth. You can still pull mobs from range and fighting them like any other melee class without having to use stuns and stealth attacks.

Also, the rogue can use a variety of weapons which include: swords, daggers, maces and fist weapons. If you're combat spec you will want to use swords. If you're assassination or subtlety you will be better off using daggers, because these unlock several “dagger only” skills and abilities which are essential to each talent tree.

In conclusion, we have shown you several facts, tips and techniques which should help you level your rogue quicker. These tips included understanding the basics of how the class works, which talent builds to use and why, and several tips for leveling faster. Now that you've read this guide, you should find it easier to get levels each time you play WoW.