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Leveling a Rogue? Here are leveling builds and tips to get youir Rogue leveled fast.

Choosing your Talent Build

In this section of our Rogue leveling guide we will look at talents. Determining the best rogue talent build for you is no easy task. It takes time to determine which rogue talent build will work best for both your individual playstyle and your preferred game type (PvP, PvE, Leveling, Etc). Rarely will you find a rogue talent build that works well for all of these criteria, which is why I’ve split up my rogue talent builds into various sub categories based on game type.

Drop the Daggers

Drop those daggers and pick up those swords. Backstab is not an efficient way to level and it will slow you down considerably, using gouge then waiting for energy to get that BS in really wastes time. Sustained damage is well known to be the fastest way to level and to DPS in end game raids. Because of that rule you're much better off using 2 swords/maces and using sinister strike and eviscerate. Kidney shot (Once you get it at level 30) becomes more useful when you start to get in the late 50's and pick up some powerful weapons. It only makes sense to use kidney shot if the damage you do in that time will equal the damage you would have done with an eviscerate.

General Rogue Leveling Tips

• Use bandages when you can, eating food really slows you down. You should be able to afford them at the auction house but if you're still worried about your gold then maybe you should buy a gold making guide.
• Grind on caster mobs. You can sometimes level twice as fast depending on what mob type your grinding. Casters are easy for rogues because they have little armor and their spells can be kicked/stunned.
• Use Swords! You're probably sick of hearing it by now but don't forget the rule just because you got a new dagger from an instance or something.
• Quest! All this talk of grinding when I don't even do any. I can't tell you how much faster questing is than flat out grinding and more interesting too.
• Get a higher level friend to help you with your level 20 poison quests because they're a real pain in the a**.
• Stack agility and +Attack power gear. Forget +Strength as it's nearly useless to rogues. You only get 0.5 Attack power for ever 1 strength, that's it!

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