Wanting to start a rogue, have a few questionsFollow

I was thinking of starting a rogue because I hear they are good for both solo and pvp. I just had a few questions. Why did you pick a rogue? I hear since there are so many rogues that its hard to get into an instance group, is that true? And also, can they solo elite quests or do they need a group more? Thank you.

Mainly as a reaction to what I did before. I used to play a healing priest on a PvE server. Nothing ever worked out for him, the raiding guilds were full of big meanies and eventually I just went "well eff that altogether", decided I wanted to play a toon for ME, and rolled a Troll rogue on an RP server. I found myself enjoying the class so much that I stuck with it.


No, not really. Especially with the new LFG system, everyone gets into an instance group easily enough. But even past that - the amount of rogues seems to have shrunk a bit. They used to be the most played class in the game, but ever since TBC and WOTLK hit their numbers seem to have slowly been declining. They're still probably not the least played class in the game, but they're not as 'overpopulated' as they used to be anymore.


Ehm, that depends. One would say that rogues are extremely good at soloing because of all their CC and nifty little tricks, but the catch is that none of these work on elites. They're all immune to stuns and incapacitate effects, and Vanishing just resets the mob rather than giving you a chance at another opener.

On the other hand, stealth *does* allow you to bypass a ******** of mobs. There are a couple of "Kill X guys of race Y and also kill their leader, Clevername Beastlymob" - these quests are extremely satisfying to do as a rogue, because even though Clevername Beastlymob generally has two bodyguards, it is usually quite possible to sneak in, open up hard on his ***, kill him, loot him, and Vanish the hell out of there. Saving you a lot of time.

So yes, and no. Rogues are pretty good at soloing long quests or specific bosses, but will be simply completely unable to solo most pure elites due to the fact that half their abilities don't work on those mobs: which leads to the rogue just standing there, taking the hits, trying to outDPS the elite - something you won't ever manage to do. If you were, say, a hunter, or a mage, you could do some nifty kiting and still come out the victor. Rogues lack that capability.


To be honest, I could argue a lot about this. For one, rogues have very little downtime. Second, rogues have *no* downtime and kill in seconds once they reach 50 and get Mutilate - at that point they are probably the fastest leveling class in the game. Third, you've got so much panic buttons that rogues rarely die while soloing. You overpull as a warrior? You better kill them all, and fast, or you're scewed. You overpull as a rogue? Vanish!

I've never really felt my rogue to be that gear dependant, safe for needing to have decent weapons at the maximum level before your DPS becomes even mildly interesting. They are certainly not as horrible as warriors, for one, though.

Man, I figured leveling my rogue in 6 days was fast... and this was before heirloom items.

As for your question OP, getting into instances by using the LFG system isn't very hard anymore. The only issue is the wait time with dps, so really... it's just the way it is. As mentioned above, soloing elite quests really all depend. I was able to solo the Colossus quest in Hellfire but others I had a hard time with.

Going to guess 6 days played, since Noc isn't much of a power player (and neither am I, I can't sit still for that long).

Yeah, it was 6 days played. If I had the time and nothing to do, then I'm sure I can powerlevel a toon within a week.

And Theo knows I can't sit still on one toon for too long. With my altitis and all =P