Rogue Class Guide — Class Guides · WoW Forever
A leather-wearing melee fighter who builds combo points with Energy and spends them on finishing moves. Rogues open from stealth, stun and blind enemies, and poison their weapons.
- Roles
- Damage
- Specializations
- 3
- Popular builds
- 4
- Version
- WoW Forever
How the rogue plays
Rogues in WoW Forever keep Energy, combo points and stealth, with Mutilate and Venom new in Assassination, Hack and Slash in Combat, and Thousand Cuts and Cutthroat in Subtlety. Cold Blood and Premeditation are talents, open from level 25.
Combat's Hack and Slash replaces the weapon specializations with one talent whose bonus depends on your weapon: extra attacks for axes and swords, crit for daggers and fist weapons, armour penetration for maces.
Stealth openers, stuns, Sap, Blind, Vanish and poisons still define the class.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- Strong single-target damage.
- Stuns, Sap, Blind and Gouge for control.
- Stealth lets you choose every fight.
- Venom and Mutilate give Assassination a real poison playstyle.
Weaknesses
- Leather armour and few heals.
- Little area damage beyond Blade Flurry.
- Energy caps how fast you act.
Specializations
The specs compared
Each spec rated from 1 to 5 at what it does in WoW Forever. Single and several targets mean damage for damage specs, healing for healers and threat for tanks; a spec's own guide names its ratings for its role.
| Rating |  Assassination |  Combat |  Subtlety |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single target | |||
| Several targets | |||
| Survivability | |||
| Utility | |||
| Solo and leveling | |||
| Ease of play |
- Assassination
Damage · 1 build
Crits, poisons and stronger finishing moves.
Top talent:
Assassination guide
Venom - Combat
Damage · 2 builds
Sustained weapon damage: weapon specializations, Blade Flurry and Adrenaline Rush. The usual leveling tree.
Top talent:
Combat guide
Adrenaline Rush - Subtlety
Damage · 1 build
Stealth and openers, with control and burst for player-versus-player fights.
Top talent:
Subtlety guide
Thousand Cuts
Gear
- Leather with Agility, hit and crit.
- Pick your weapons with Hack and Slash in mind if you play Combat.
- Poisons on both weapons: Instant or Deadly for damage, Crippling to slow.
Each spec guide ranks its stats and says what to look for on its gear.
What WoW Forever changed
Against Classic Era, the rogue in WoW Forever has these changes. New spells: 6. Changed spells: 12. Spells no longer trained: 0. Talents that Classic Era doesn't have: 10. Each spec guide lists its own. The spell list shows every change.
Rogue class quests
The quests that unlock class abilities, by the level each route starts at.
- 20Poisons