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What are the best weapon combos for a Rogue?
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kicklucky
For what?
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kicklucky
Swords.
Read the Sticky.
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Kelborn
Depends on how you want to lvl.
Sword are nice for dispatching mobs quickly, daggers have high poison procs, and maces look baddass.
Lvling with swords can get repetitive and boring - spam SS, eviscerate, repeat. If it takes more than 2 evis (i usually use a 4 point, then a 3) to down a mob, then either its one tough cookie you're fighting or you need to get new weps pronto.
Lvling with maces is pretty much the same, tho not too many with decent stats for rogues.
Lvling with daggers opens a few more ability options - Ambush, Backstab, Mutilate. If you're assassination spec using dagger, you can get some insane CP generation. Open with an Ambush crit (2 CPs from Seal Fate), Gouge, jump behind, Mutilate, (5 CPs now), Eviscerate. 3 moves to get 5 CPs. Sometimes if a mob is sapped, it doesnt turn around right away, so if your timing is right (and you have vigor) you could quickly Ambush Mutilate. Non crit this yeilds 3 CPs and crit (with Seal Fate) this yeilds 5.
As you can see, daggers and swords are vastly different. The swords rogue focuses on SS damage and their normal white is ususally high. A dagger rogue focuses on getting behind the target and dealing massive bursts with BS or opening with Ambush (i only advise Ambush if its a weak mob, caster and such. use Garrote or CS on tougher ones for sustained damage or to save yourself some), and their white damage isnt as high as a sword or mace rogue, but theres more of it. If you have good daggers and know how to use the class, lvling with daggers can be fun, and as Combat Mutilate spec (read sticky) you can easily stay at top 3 dps along with the cookie cutter Combat Swords rogues.
Just be sure to choose what fits your play style. Dont let ppl who dont know you tell you how play. This is a personal preference, and ppl have their prejudices. Some are hardcore "swordz ftw nubtards" and others are gungho daggers, while a few more like the maces for PvP (mace spec talent gives chance to stun), and other ppl perfer the fist weps.
One thing to point out: when instancing and raiding, be sure to keep up a SnD and Rupture to boost your overall DPS.
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battletank
isnt there a legitimate reason for sword MH, dag OH too?
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Ghoso
isnt there a legitimate reason for sword MH, dag OH too?
fast OH dagger used to mean more poison procs, but since the mechanics have changed, this doesn't apply.
edit: so 2 swords in combat spec is best for lvling pre 50s.
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