Cataclysm Rogue Leveling Guide – Rogue Leveling Tips

If you’re like the hundreds of people I’ve talked to who need advice on leveling up Rogues, you’ve probably noticed a major problem with the class: In World of Warcraft, Rogues seem to die a lot. This Cataclysm rogues guide aims to give you the rogue strategies you need to survive.

The first and most important rogue tip is that your spec is incredibly important to your survival. Right now, Assassination is the rogue DPS version of endgame. However, assassination is not a good solo leveling build. This Cataclysm rogues guide would strongly suggest combat or subtlety when leveling up to 85.

Subtlety is quick. The subtlety rogue relies on teleporting into a monster and killing the monster in one to five hits depending on the team. It also provides stealth bonuses so you can avoid unnecessary combat. Subtlety is so much fun. However, he can also have a lot of downtime, and when caught stealthed, a subtle rogue is very vulnerable. So subtlety is not very good for fast leveling.

Instead, for solo PvE leveling, the fastest leveling build is combat. A combat rogue doesn’t rely as much on stealth as a subtlety rogue, and as the spec summary says, a combat rogue can easily go toe-to-toe with mobs. There’s very little downtime, partly due to the spec’s faster energy regen and partly due to talents that help you stamina and recover from combat.

Good Cataclysm rogue leveling tips would be given by ignoring recovery. The recovery ability allows a rogue to regenerate health at varying levels of efficiency for every combo point applied to a monster, and can even be used on mobs that are dead, which means you should use recover after every fight, especially because both Combat and Subtlety offer significant bonuses to the recovery ability.