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MH needs to be upgraded badly. Try running normal Mech for the Edge of the Cosmos to hold you over until you get that S1 blade (the same boss also drops a nice trinket and a nice chest piece).

You also really need to upgrade your hands and head. Handgrips of Assassination are fairly easy to obtain, and another nice trinket drops in the same instance. For the head piece, I'd recommend grabbing the Helm of the Claw.

Once you get those slots upgraded, you should be okay to enter some of the easier heroics. I'd focus on normal level 70 instances for now until you boost your stats a little.

Just some friendly advice, don't ever think that you are lagging behind, because the truth of the matter is that you are always behind. Unless the guild specifically needs something from you, there's no reason for you to rush rush rush because you are always behind and always have something to do. So pace yourself, because if you are like me, you will not sniff Assassination until you are Exalted with factions.

Too bad you are not Engineering, the omgwtfbbq Goggles got an upgraded version in the next release.

But looking at your armory, you need to start on instances if thats accurate, theres a lot missing.

I love the fact your offhand has a higher top end damage than your Main hand :D

Thats so bizzare...

I know what its like feeling the need to *gear-up* in a rush. You want to explain to people "Actually, I know how to play. I just haven't got the gear to play well yet".

Stick with it though, you will get there in the end. Don't worry too much about the Meta Gem slots, the 24ap/minor run increase gem you get from spirit shards is fine since you aren't in any serious content yet. A small upgrade for your legs are from Consortium rep. If you can be bothered to spend the gold on them until you get the Assassination Leggings. Avoid the Assassination shoulders, helm & chestpiece though. They seriously suck *** for some reason. Helm of the claw is better, the shoulders you have now are good too. Its just the hands that need replacing.

If you want to start opening up Deadly Throw as a move, Fitz's Throwing Axe and Felsteel Whisper Knifes are easily obtainable options you can use in PvP but have more PvE based stats (Keep in mind Deadly Throw is instant so weapon speed isn't an issue). As of 2.4 these will apparently come live. They look very nice, especially as us human rogues get racial boost to our expertise skill with swords.

Improve sprint is a really good talent filler in the combat tree. Removing riposte and 3/3 in imp. Eviscerate and switching them to 20/41/0 is your standard *cookie cutter* raiding sword spec. Vile poisons is taken over improved poisons under the assumption that if you are raiding with Windfury totem in your mainhand, deadly poison will be in your offhand and once you have 5 stacks of deadly poison up improved poisons starts to lose ground to the increased dps from deadly.

You probably don't have to worry about that though for a while, but 5/5 lethality is a big dps boost if you drop parry/riposte & you can still keep Imp.eviscerate for grinding & bleed immune bosses.

Edit:Doh... forgot to add talent link.

Edited, Feb 15th 2008 5:49pm by Flubgaurd

People can't stand to hear the truth man.

I believe I just put this in another thread, but I'll say it again....if you haven't been to www.shadowpanther.net, check it out. The gear list is very helpful in finding upgrades. I'm aiming for the highest dps pieces I can get (without sacrificing balanced stats) without running Kara or Heroics, then I figure I'll be ready for both.

It has been said that these stats are what you want to aim for as a minimum for starting Kara, and since these are easily obtainable without running heroics, I'd assume the same stats (maybe slightly less?) are good for starting heroics.
7000 health
1400 AP
150 hit
20% crit
pair of (at least) 71 dps weapons

The Fel Leather stuff is great for a dps boost, but unless you have other pieces with a whole lot of STA, you're probably going to be lacking in health if you wear all 3. I got Cobrascale Gloves crafted instead of the Fel Leather ones.

You may also want to check out the Sandbox at www.warcrafter.net. It'll let you swap different pieces and see how your stats all add up. I've found it really helpful in figuring out what would be a better upgrade when faced with more than one choice. Plus you can swap gems and enchants too.

I'd also recommend enchanting the pieces you have that you'll be keeping for a while, and also enchanting new pieces as you get them. And if you're not already Revered with Cenerian Exp, you should get there. You'll want to get the Glyph of Ferocity for that Helm of the Claw when you get it.

That is actually subpar for Kara based on my experiences most Rogues that I raided with were around 180 hit, 1500 AP and 22-23 crit.

Anyways, back to the OP, just do heroics for badges (no good swords though) in your down time so you can maybe hop over some of the gear in Kara.

Your gear is fine for Heroics to be honest, Rogues aren't limited by gear after the weapons in Heroics, namely because the mobs will probably 1-2 shot us anyways, and any increase to sustained damage isn't going to matter that much due to the duration of the fights. Just replace that MH with something better, hell you can even go Combat Daggers/Mutilate and it'll be better than that CK sword.

That said, find a good tank and healer, competent CC and you'll be fine.