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Combat Rogue
Stealth, stuns and burst damage. One of the best in PvP, and it picks locks and pockets on the side.
Damage
- 21 characters on Party Tracker play Combat Rogue: 12 Alliance and 9 Horde.
- 62% of characters play a damage spec, and a dungeon group needs 20%.
- Leveling on your own
- PvP
- Farming gold
- Easy to pick up
Alliance: Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf, Skyborne (High Order)
Horde: Orc, Troll, Undead, Skyborne (Windshaper)
What's changed in Forever
- Built around “hard hitting direct damage” with Blade Flurry cleave, and it works with every weapon type.
- Poisons now have charges and stack with sharpening stones, Sap no longer breaks Stealth, and Rogues can use one-handed axes.
- Shank, a quick off-hand strike that gives Energy, is learned at 24.
From Blizzard: Class Deep Dives: Rogue and Warlock (Oct 7) · Beta Development Notes, 3 November (Nov 3)
Class traits are what each class is known for, adjusted where Blizzard's Forever posts changed it. Blizzard's aim for Forever isn't perfect balance: it's for every class to feel valuable to the groups it joins. Talents can still change in hotfixes. Player numbers update about once an hour.