Rogue Solo questionsFollow

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In all seriousness, your ability to solo entirely depends on your talent spec, and your level (and therefore access to certain talents). If you level with Combat, as you should, you'll eventually have Blade Flurry, Adrenaline Rush, and Evasion. Hit all three at the same time and you can burn down just about anything.


It's certainly tough, but not impossible. Gouge as often as possible to regen energy, use cooldowns and potions, and if necessary, blind n' bind.


BF + AR + Evasion = win for soloing several enemies at once. Unfortunately, AR is on a 5min cooldown, but BF is only 3 minutes, and the Evasion cooldown can be reduced with talents.


LWing is decent for the very low levels and for the 375 Primalstrike set. Everything in between is worthless, save a few patterns like the Riding Crop and leg armors.

Herb/alch is nice while leveling, BSing is good if you want to craft some nice maces at 70, and Engineering is great for epic goggles (again at 70). It's really up to you.

With decent gear and spec, you should be able to easily solo mobs 3 levels above you.




At what level? True, Rogues are not as easy as some classes to solo elites. Really depends on the HP of the elite and how hard they hit, and what level they are.




With the right spec it is entirely possible. Go combat swords. Sap one mob cheaphot another, then hit Blade flurry and Adrenaline Rush, and evasion. Couple BF with slice and dice, and you can take three mobs your level down very easily. Then bandage up and finish off the sapped mob.



The most popular seems to be herb/alch and Skinning/LW. Go with wat interests you. If you are trying to level quickly you should probably just grab two gathering skills like herb/skinning or mining/skinning.




Edited, Sep 12th 2007 11:30am by Slyyth

While I am not great at playing a Rogue and my highest Rogue is only 51, I have found that some quests that I had trouble with on my Warrior (70) were terribly easy to do with my Rogue. Of course some of the easier quests for my Warrior have been really tough to do on my Rogue. It's a totally different style of play going from Warrior to Rogue.

I find soloing most single mobs my level or slightly above to be not a major problem.

Soloing single green elites is usually doable. Anything yellow or higher really depends on the mob's abilities (if any).

Multiple mobs are tricky. I try to avoid them when possible but I have managed groupings of three yellow mobs before with a combination of sap, evasion and blind. I've also done the 'sap one, evasion, kill one, vanish, heal up, sap one, kill one, kill sapped one' for groups of three. I do love the quests where you have to kill one named mob out of a group or in a tricky to get to place since I can pop out of stealth and hit evasion and usually kill the quest mob and vanish before losing half my life.

Hehe yeah stealth is very key. You really miss it when you level an alt after leveling a rogue. While rogues are great at grinding/farming, we are less versatile than some other classes which can make short work of elites and such. However, mobs around your level will drop very fast, and you take little damage once you get CS and KS. I have solo farmed elites before, it's not bad with crip/gouge kiting, but it's not nearly as efficient as it would be if you were a mage or hunter. Chances are, if the elite isn't stun/gouge-able you should only try it with your cooldowns... but like others have said... it totally depends on the mob and your build and spec. There are some elites that just seem to weak to be elites... it's just part of the game...

My experience has been different, having played 2 warriors to 70 and a rogue to 66. For me, rogues and warriors have similar survivability, except rogues have sprint, blind, vanish, and even gouge to escape a bad situation.

When it comes to elites - rogues can solo typical elites at their own level, or even 2 levels higher, provided they are willing to burn cooldowns. The other day, my mace-spec rogue soloed a silver-border rock elemental five levels higher. Immune to poison, and armored as all hell, it took all my cooldowns plus a healing pot; I almost died.... but the elemental died first, and the experiment proved it can be done.

If you are soloing green elites you should be able to bandage and move on with no additional downtime. Perhaps no downtime vs elite casters. In fact, vs elites, I'd rather have a rogue than a warrior. Warriors are lots of fun, but they just don't have the survival tricks. For starters, rogues can keep the mob stunned a significant part of the fight.


Actually, green quests give reduced XP. Having said that, I agree that you'll level quickest off green quests - zero risk of death is a plus.


In my experience, rogues can usually survive being ambushed by two mobs their own level, without using any major cooldown ability, but it's not pleasant. If blade flurry and slice-n-dice are invoked, the fight goes fast and the rogue doesn't drop below half. You can take on groups of 4 at your own level, but it's hectic and you'll be forced to burn some cooldowns - maybe even have to vanish.


Tailoring is worthless to rogues, and blacksmithing is marginal, given that it's sickeningly expensive and you won't be able to wear or wield 99% of what it produces. I wouldn't rule out alchemy - the only potions you get from junkboxes are health potions well below your level. But never potions that boost agility or attack power, in my experience.

If you spend most of your time solo questing, leatherworking can significantly enhance your gear. It's won't turn you into a twink, but it supplies a dependable trickle of greens.

Engineering has some fun and expensive tricks that never seem to pan out.

Enchanting is viable but quite expensive unless you have an alt feeding you greens.

i´m a noob. do green quests really really give less XP?? >_>

No, he is not right. Quests give the same xp for any color but grey. Once a quest is grey you get a very small amount of xp (1 point I think).

For the most part finishing green quests will earn you faster xp than stacking yellow quests because they are finished faster and yield the same xp as if they were yellow.

Oops you are right, according to Blizzard... green quests give full XP.

I suspect Blizzard's statement is not always correct.

My level 38 alt just handed in the first STV "Tiger Mastery" quest. The quest was green in my log. I received only 750 XP.

This seems suspiciously low. Allakhazam shows 130 XP, clearly not the full amount, while Thottbot cites 130-1250. Assuming 1250 is full XP, 750 represents a substantial reduction.

You were doing something (or many things) wrong. Please don't post false information ever again.