Rogues in classic

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I am a rogue and having a great time. Doing PvE this time in Classic. I was a rogue in Vanilla too for quite a while, there I did the PvP thing, and was awesome too.

The biggest problem is, you cant excel in both without respeccing constantly and building two gear sets. When you set for PvE, you will be average in PvP, and the other way around.

In PvE spec and well geared, you are quite the powerhouse and among the top DPS. Some encounters are more suited than others, but the same is for every class really.

Those saying you only get to hit two buttons is a bit short sighted. Yes you spam the combo building attack the most, but what class does not have a main attack they press most? And if you do not care to be best you can, then yeah, two or three buttons is enough and its boring and you will probably get kicked out the raid guild for being a slacker.

Its a fun game of deciding what cooldown to pop when, when to go for a finisher like Eviscerate, or when its more efficient to spend those points to refresh your Slice & Dice. Pop your Blade Flurry now, or wait for next encounter, cause there will be a second in attack range = extra DPS. And so on. Also sometimes your utility in CC is needed. Specially in dungeons this is the case. And being PvE you can farm mobs quite easy for income.

PvP in the right spec and gear is great fun. Not too efficient in large battles, because AoE rocks there and you are pulled out of stealth constantly, and hardly have 1 on 1 encounters. But in wPvP, WSG and AB you can perform really well. In AV also if you focus on objectives too.

Being deep specced in PvP might make it hard to farm mobs for gold, but thereā€™s always BRD pickpocket runs, where the extra stealth talents are a big plus, and can net you as easy gold as other classes do farming mobs or dungeons. It is boring, but what gold farm is not.

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Rogue is one of the best moneymakers on pvp servers with stealth mining and instance farming.

For pvp lock>rogue=mage=spriest(they are insane in 1v1 but less so in group fights)

For pve rogue is the second best dps class after geared warriors atm, I think mages also scale better in naxx but donā€™t quote me on that.

Rogue you talked to is clueless.

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not rly, not cus someone made a 2min video claim that rogues can get 60g/hour by pickpocket means itā€™s true! unless Blizz nerfed that, because phase2 lunch made pickpoket give lower things than it used to give, plus the ā€œresist on pick pocketā€ is insane! you will be forced to enter combat and die alot in the 1hour BRD pickpocket farm.

regarding stealth mining? in pvp server? you surly arenā€™t playing a rogue xD because once you do, youā€™ll realize that there will be another +10Rogues doing this stealth mining 24/7, and Rich mining get instant pickup on spawn!

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Itā€™ll depends of your server, on my server i have no problem to farm nodes in silithus, i see few rogues often (mostly goldsellers imo) but its still profitable, iā€™ve made 2K golds here so far

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You are just bad, my friend on shazzrah ally (its a 75% horde server mind you) is making more money than my mage farming zf (50g~hour). Ofc if you are bad you canā€™t kill the competition. And there are coffer runs and lbrs farm whis is not impressive but more than most other classes can do.

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kill the competition you say? you surly are playing another game or what? you either sap one and loot the vein or get sapped and lose the vein.

Anyway iā€™m not here to argue with you but people should only talk from their point of view! without talking from ā€œfriendā€™s point of viewā€ you know? he could be trolling you just to show off that he earn alot.

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He is not trolling me he is my irl friend and Iā€™ve seen him doing that. You are just bad.

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@Feminist-amnennar
ofc it depend on your server, and it depend on the time youā€™re farming within, and the price of crystals, i used to get 800g a day but now! No way to get that anymore.

@Fasul-stormreaver
calling a random you have no idea about ā€œbadā€ clearly show that either youā€™re a 12years old kid or youā€™re a brain dead!

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Well, Rogues does have a lot of different playstyles i give that.
In PvP the Hemo + Cold Blood spec seems to be the go to, however itā€™s so reliant on CDā€™s that youā€™re an easy kill once those cooldowns are off.

PvE wise, theyā€™re pretty decent dps, the only downside is that there is SO MANY rogues that getting a spot in a raid as a rogue is slim, since thereā€™s a lot of competition.

Gold farming, iā€™d say the silithus mine farm is the best one, and unique to the rogue.

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Not at all. You can pickpocket run brd, kill the elements there and 3 bosses. There is a guide on youtube.

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Play a feral druid. Accept the real challenge.

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oke thanks guys. i stay on my rogue and level it up. i have spend weeks on this rogue im leveling. i really dont wanna start over again.

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My rogue is my main money earner. And I have an epic mage too.

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You came to a wrong place. Forum is riddle with self entitled people, salty people, people who hate the class you are talking about, narcistic egoist who proclaim how they kill your class easy and ofcrouse slaty rogues who, no matter how class really is powerful, will QQ about needing a buff and being weak.

It leaves you confused, maybe even annoyed. Sad thing is that the handful of people who are actually helpful will get outscreamed by the REEEE crowd.

You know your class. You played it. You know what it does and whether or not you like the class idea. If you like it, play it, do not ask others for aproval. You dont need it.

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thatā€™s good point! OFC playing what you like is what you should do, and it depend on what you wanna do! BUT in an online game? specially classic! if you seek to reach a certain point? then you donā€™t want to level something that no one take in raids or suck in pvp cus weaker than other classesā€¦iā€™m not talking about Rogues iā€™m just talking in general!

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Idk if someone wrote it or not, stick to your rouge.
The rouges in my guild making around 60g/h whit only BRD-pickpocket runs. atleast thats what they told me.
if that doesnt work out, go watch frostadamus on youtube, he shows some good grinding spots whit rouges too.

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Rogues are great, just make sure to go BRD pick pocket runs for unlimited amount of blinding power, with blind you can beat anyone.

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As a warrior iā€™d say the hardest class to beat is shadow priests. Mages can be solved with free action pots.

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I play rogue. I raid, PvP and farm monsters in PvP spec most of the time, I donā€™t go into BRD to pickpocket because why the F I should pickpocket when with MC gear I can kill monsters in open world and make same gold as pickpocketing. Bonus in open world is open world PvP.
The guy you talked to is stupid. In MC i use Sappers, adrenaline rush, SnD, backstab, SS, evis, blade fury while at the same time I have to decide when to use those abilities. I see not 2/3 buttons but 7. Oh yeah sprint too, sometimes vanish. So now itā€™s 9 buttons.
I find pickpocketing extremely boring, I have gear and so if you will get some MC gear you will have no problems farming in Open World, even with pre-bis gear you will be making similar money in PvE spec, but you will find a hard time defending farming spot.
Have no idea about other classes, have played only rogue and Iā€™m enjoying it so far.

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Pretty much every class in classic is 2-3 key rotations.
Heck, mages are pretty much a one key rotation in MC.

In a way, I wish I leveled a mage as well for the easier AoE farming gold farm in instances.

My friend earned 500g+ from level 1-60 from AoE farming.
I earned a lot less, because I could not AoE farm.