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What to do once you are 80, Lockpicking 350-400

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Ok so I’m level 80, now what…

Now that you’re 80 you can begin theory crafting away at what builds and gear you’d like to get. Personally when I got to 80 the first on my mind was to start leveling my professions. This will with very little bit of effort, generate you a nice source of income quickly. That is of course if you have the extra gold to do so without farming/dailies. Almost every profession has something to offer other players and the rarer the service you’re selling them, the more gold you will be able to make. So just keep that in mind. All the new profession masters can be found in Dalaran

The next thing I’d like to suggest for you to do is level certain reputations. The best way to do this now is wear the appropriate actions Tabard (Ex. Tabard of the Ebon Blade) when you do Heroics, generally as a rogue you are going to want to start off with wearing the Knights of the Ebon Blade tabard for your helm enchant. Interestingly, the Sons of Hodir faction do not have a tabard and therefore the only way to level up your faction with them is to do the dailies at Dun Niffelem in The Storm Peaks. I mention this because this faction sells the best Shoulder enchants and even if you don’t have a new pair of shoulders yet, it’s a good idea to start now since there is no “fast” way to level this faction.

I will not be going into rotations as I think the Rogue community should be trying many different variations to truly find the best ones.

***Please Note- Items listed as (PvP only) are going to be used almost exclusively for PvP while everything else can be used for BOTH PvE and PvP depending on situation. Please don’t mistake this as a recommendation to use for PvP over any other item listed, it’s entirely up to you.

LOCKPICKING

Another thing you might want to do is level up your Lockpicking so you can feel like a real Rogue again. Assuming you are BC capped at 350 you will still want to head back to the Southeast corner of Nagrand and pickpocket the humanoids there for Dented Footlocker’s. Do this until 375 then head to Northrend. Pickpocket any Humanoid mob there to get  Reinforced Junkbox’s until you reach 400.

GEAR

***(Don’t need to achieve these just don’t exceed.)

Expertise Rating***

To cap: 214

To cap with 2/2 Weapon Expertise: 132

To cap with Human Rogue wielding a mace/sword:107

Hit Rating***

This is something that has a less exact number. With tons of things such as Misery and Imp FF affecting the number. However assuming that you have 5/5 Precision in your raid spec,  you will need 132 for specials and 755 for white damage to cap. Your poison hit will cap at 315 unbuffed.

Agi and Expertise are your most Valuable stats with Armor pen being the least valuable.

POISON

Mutilate observations IN PVE:

With two weapons of nearly the same DPS go with the faster ones. This applies to your MH as well. Right now I am using [item]Webbed Death[/item] (MH, 1.4 speed) with Instant Poison and [item]Twilight Mist[/item] (OH, 1.8 speed) Deadly Poison and am netting the highest DPS so far over every other combination of the 2 weapons and poisons. You will find that you are still able to 5 stack deadly poison very easily as long as you have the poison talents.

I would like other rogues to try this please and post your feedback in the comments section.

You can expect a full post on Viable specs in WoTLK withing the next couple of days including raiding Mutilate builds.

GEMS This list will only include Rare quality gems.

Meta:

Relentless Earthsiege Diamond- Highest DPS Meta available.

Persistent Earthsiege Diamond- The meta Gem I will be starting out with once the arena season starts. (PvP only)

Swift Skyflare Diamond (PvP only)

Powerful Earthsiege Diamond (PvP only)

Red

Bright Scarlet Ruby/Delicate Scarlet Ruby

Pristine Monarch Topaz/Glinting Monarch Topaz

Empowered Monarch Topaz (PvP only)

Yellow

Rigid Autumn’s Glow – Use Deadly/Wicked/Pristine/Glinting Monarch Topaz unless you are really low on hit for PvE.

Steady Forest Emerald – (PvP only)

Deadly Monarch Topaz / Wicked Monarch Topaz

Empowered Monarch Topaz

Pristine Monarch Topaz/Glinting Monarch Topaz

Blue

Enchanted Tear Best choice for a Blue gem but limited to being able to wear only 1 at a time.

Balanced Twilight Opal / Shifting Twilight Opal

Solid Sky Sapphire (PvP only)

Steady Forest Emerald (PvP only)

ENCHANTS:

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Where to level in Wotlk, Leveling on Cho’gall

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Where to begin in WoTLK

First I would like to recommend an add-on called Carbonite. It’s a quest helper that will make your life 20 times easier if you’re someone like me who hates leveling. I prefer this over Quest Helper. The first thing about leveling if you haven’t started off yet is to really complete every quest in the first couple zones. I suggest going to Borean Tundra first as the quests give more Xp. Either way, the choice is yours and there are plenty of quests to push you through a couple of levels. From there you can head to Dragon’s Blight. For you lore lovers, If there is any quest chain to do on your way to 80 (that also ends up being quite a bit of xp at the end of the chain) make sure to do The Kor’kron Vanguard (read the comments to find out how to do the full quest line). Not only do you get an achievement but a very nice cutscene. That last link is a spoiler but shouldn’t be missed in case you never do or plan on doing the quest. At a minimum of 73 you can head from DB to Grizzly Hills and go from there.

Leveling on Cho’gall

Thanks to Nagayoshi for this other pic

"If it’s red it’s dead" is the guild motto and we’re having a lot of fun with that. Thanks to all the people I’ve killed and those who have 2 shotted me with your Thori’dal, the Stars’ Fury. If the 60 total Alliance on Cho’gall see any members of Incursus feel free to kill them. The first night here was pretty bad with over an hour que at one point to log on, but it has seemed to go down a bit. I’m sure it hasn’t hurt that they have also opened Free Realm Transfers off of Cho’gall,  which will be running up until Thursday, November 20 at 4:00PM PST.
 
Waiting in Line

I’m sure some, well probably a lot of you, went and stood in line at midnight to get your copy. Other than the fact that almost every Gamestop in America had to call in each and every credit card it was ok. There were about 75-100 people waiting when I got there but nothing too interesting. On the other hand, when you look like an elite assasin like Akrios people notice you!Post if you had anything funny/interesting happen while you were waiting in line.

FIIIRRREEE 

Duels against Neilyo, New Guild now recruiting, WOTLK This Week

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Duels vs. Neilyo

 

In spite of the fact that I wasn’t sure if I would post this, I decided to because I thought it was pretty entertaining and that there hasn’t been much to discuss/post since the end of season 4. This is a selection from some duels I had against neilyo a few weeks ago, patch 3.0, no dismantle used. Although I’m not sure of the record (too many duels) I will say that he had the upper hand in terms of the ratio of duels won while being opened on and I give him the edge in terms of rogue v rogue.

http://files.filefront.com/duelswmv/;12313641;/fileinfo.html

Music:

Juno Reactor – Mona Lisa Overdrive

Ramallah – Days of Revenge

Skillet – Falling Inside the Black

I really haven’t taken rogue vs. rogue seriously until recently. I used to feel that it was almost completely based on the opener and maybe some luck, but I’ve changed my mind. While the opener gives a big advantage, if the person being opened on has prep, the fight goes a lot deeper.

Vanishing blinds is a huge reality; it equates to a guessing game coupled with reaction time scenario (guessing the person will trinket –> blind or trinket–> vanish, which isn’t much of a guess because if they don’t they’ll be reopened on without a trinket. Reaction comes in response to the other player’s trinket). There’s also the threat of being blinded out of vanish, wherein one rogue tries to vanish a blind but instead is blinded out because the rogue blinding hesitates very slightly on purpose. Another thing you’ll see here is blinding a blind, which is used in reaction to a rogue trinket –> blinding, and the rogue being blinded reacting with blind. (I realize this paragraph may be confusing). 

I was opening as mutilate and being opened on as prep because if you’re being opened on without prep you have a very slim chance of winning, even if you were to vanish the blind. I’m more experienced with mutilate but I’ve got a pretty good handle on how to try to respond with prep.

Anyway, hopefully you enjoy the video, and don’t over-think it.

 

New Guild, <INCURSUS> now Recruiting

 

http://incursusguild.com/

 

Although I’m well aware that the vast majority of the people who read this site are rogues and that is the class the we need least by far, I thought I’d post this here anyway.

We’re starting a new guild for WOTLK on cho’gall. This guild will raid 3 days a week and look to progress through endgame quickly without an overly intensive raid schedule. These will be 25 man raids.

The guild is starting with a core of about 20 players that have known each other for several years and have or will be transferring to Cho’gall. The server itself has a very strong horde population.

We keep things pretty light and love to pvp. We’re looking for members who can relax most of the time but know when to get serious during raids. If you’re a competant player that wants to be rewarded fairly for effort and commitment, check us out.

As far as class need goes, we are in most need of healers, tanks, and warlocks, althought we still are looking to fill out many of the other positions. Even if you’re class wasn’t just mentioned, feel free to apply at

http://incursusguild.com/recruitment/

where you can find rules and more information.

WOTLK this Week

Just a reminder in case you’re hiding under a rock somewhere, WOTLK is coming out this week. Roguerogue.com will keep you up to date on the latest developments for our class in the new expansion.