Combat Rogue build at 70lvl It is 5/51/5 spec where Unfair Advantage is used as a filler. You can change UA for Improved Sprint or put that 2 points somewhere else.
Before patch (3.0.2) Relentless Strikes was in assassination tree in place where Vigor talent is now. Before patch Relentless Strikes was great talent and every rogue, no matter if it was combat or subtlety, took Relentless Strikes. So that's why people took Malice first, because they did that to get Relentless Strikes. :)
Another thing is that after patch if you going into combat, you want to put first 50, 51 points into combat. You also want Relentless Strikes even that it is now 5 point talent (it is still great talent dps wise). Then you have 5 points left, so you take Malice to get that 5% more crit.
Also before 3.0.2 patch rogues had choice to take assassination or subtlety after spending 41 talent points into combat. Assassination with Relentless Strikes, Ruthlessness, Murder, Malice Lethality and Vile Poisons was just superior to Subtlety tree. Oh and Vile Poisons > Improved Poisons.
Before patch if I remember correctly we had 20 points to put outside of combat tree. 5/5 Malice, 2/2 Murder, 3/3 Ruthlessness, 1/1 Relentless Strikes,
4/5s 5/5 Lethality and
5/5 4/5 Vile Poisons were best choice
(yes 5/5 Vile Poisons instead of 5/5 Lethality, Vile Poisons > Lethality).
Edit: Yeah my memory fails. 5/5 Lethality and 4/5 Vile Poisons. Still no Improved Poisons in pve build.
Edited, Nov 6th 2008 6:28pm by Drayna