Talents for rogue

Date:29/3/2010　Source:http://www.wowgold-leveling.com

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If you want to use daggers instead of sword/axe, swap out the Hack and Slash talent and take Close Quarters Combat instead.
Assassination talents are in Red
Subtlety talents are in blue
15/51/5 Combat Leveling Build

Check out Zygor's Guide for a full 1-80 leveling guide.

Sword/Axe Build

2 pts in Improved Sinister Strike
5 pts in Dual-wield Specialization
2 pts in Improved Slice and Dice
5 pts in Precision
1 pt in Endurance
3 pts in Lightning Reflexes
5 pts in Aggression
Blade Flurry
5 pts in Hack and Slash
2 pts in Weapon Expertise
2 pts in Blade twisting
3 pts in Vitality
Adrenaline Rush
5 pts in Combat Potency
Surprise Attacks
2 pts in Savage Combat
5 pts in Prey on the Weak
Killing Spree
5 pts in Malice
3 pts in Ruthlessness
2 in Blood Splatter
5 pts in Lethality
5 pts in Relentless Strikes
Major Glyphs:

Sinister Strike
Slice and Dice
Blade Flurry or Killing Spree
Minor Glyphs:

Vanish (better escapes)
Pick Pocket
Safe fall (fun)
  8/51/12 Combat Leveling Build

This build is a little more PvP oriented for those of us on PvP servers.

Sword Build

2 pts in Improved Sinister Strike
5 pts in Dual Wield Specialization
2 pts in Improved Slice and Dice
3 pts in Master of Deception
5 pts in Precision
2 pts in Endurance
2 pts in Improved Sprint
5 pts in Aggression
Blade Flurry
5 pts in Hack and Slash
2 pts in Weapon Expertise
2 pts in Blade Twisting
Adrenaline Rush
3 pts in Vitality
5 pts in Combat Potency
Surprise Attacks
2 pts in Savage Combat
5 pts in Prey on the Weak
Killing Spree
5 pts in Malice
3 pts in Ruthlessness
5 pts in Relentless Strikes
2 pts in Dirty Tricks
1 pt in Elusiveness
Ghostly Strike
Major Glyphs:

Sinister Strike
Slice and Dice
Blade Flurry
Minor Glyphs:

Vanish (better escapes)
Pick Pocket
Safe fall (fun)
 

Note: You'll get better effect sticking with dagger/dagger or sword/sword builds. Don't mix dagger/sword(axe) since you'll lose out on useful talent points.

Build #1:

Open with Cheap Shot or Ambush, Sinister Strike until 5 combo points (CP) are reached, then Eviscerate.
Build #2:

Open with Garrote, then Sinister Strike until 5 CP, then Rupture or Eviscerate.
In Build #1 we pick up an Assassination talent, Malice, early on. Given how useful this talent in particular happens to be (more critical hits,) any reasonable build of Rogue picks it up at some point or another.

Also early on comes dual-wield specialization. Not only does this allow more damage, but more chances to apply poisons. DW does take a penalty to the "to hit" chance, but the overall damage increase is moe than worth it.

Precision is a passive increase that dramatically aids the combat rogues style of play in general.  You'll land a few more hits overall which is useful in leveling and very important in raiding. Precision is an increase of 5% white damage, meaning simple attacks, as well as negating the chances of any special attacks, yellow damage, from missing on pretty much any occasion (dodges, parries, etc. all still apply.)

Hack and Slash provides an overall 5% increase to your white damage through extra sword swings. .

Blade Flurry is another surprisingly useful talent.  For a single point to pick it up initially, I was quite surprised at how often I ended up using this ability to either save myself from unintended multi-mob fights or simply to boost XP per hour by pulling a group of monsters every two minutes. It stacks with Slice and Dice to give an even faster attack speed. Blade Flurry + Slice and Dice + Adrenaline Rush makes for some serious hacking and slicing.

Weapon Expertise reduces the enemy's chances of parrying, dodging, etc.

Adrenaline rush is, much like Blade Flurry, a surprisingly good talent to pick up, offering yet another survivability cooldown for boss/group fights or simply boosting your XP per hour by popping the ability every 5 minutes for a few quicker kills.

Vitality & Combat Potency: well, vitality is a rather un-noticed yet definitely helpful increase to energy regeneration, not much else to say about that one, however with combat potency we get a massive increase in energy depending on your luck with procs. In general, Rogues are starved for energy and Vitality is a solid help.

Surprise attacks rounds out the tree with a flat 10% increase to Sinister strike as well as a few other abilities.

Killing Spree is a fun little talent that adds a nice amount to your damage.

Relentless Strikes really helps with energy regeneration and Ruthlessness is a nice little combo point builder

PVP - If you're on a PvP server then the Master of Deception talent, from the Subtlety tree can be a lifesaver. They can't gank you if they don't see you. Lifewise, it will make it easier for you to gank them. Stealth is your lifeblood, especially in PvP. Drop 3 points from something and get into M of D.