Well, I seen a lot of blether by a bunch of paladins, hunters, and priests all talkin’ aboot how their class was smashin’ so ah figured I’d have to dae my own wee piece.

So. What’s fun about beein’ a rogue?

Everything! Well, nearly. It’s a really fun class to be especially if you like to try finding novel ways to do things by yourself. I remember one of my first ‘great achievements’ – soloing the group quest in Searing Gorge where you have to get some plans from behind 3 elites which were, at the time, a level above me. That was one of my first “heart-in-mouth, can I really do this?, OMG hurry up and finish gathering!” moments with my rogue – where getting a sap, cheap shot and blind off in quick succession was the difference between life and ‘death’, between an easy finish to an otherwise painful quest or a long, miserable corpse run with a tricky res position. I was a nublet at the time and I don’t find that sort of stuff very hard these days but I still look back with pride at that moment when I learned, truly, what it was to be a rogue.

On that vein – there’s nothin’ better than waltzing right up to a quest objective, sapping a mob and wandering off again none the worse for it. Visiting other faction capitals? Easy. Want to grab that oh-so-shiny Adamantite spawn in the middle of a deep dark cave surrounded by ogres? No problem. Stealth is simply fun to have and a tool which allows you to do some things you’d not easily be able to do on your own – like running for a worg pup / spider from LBRS or getting a nice pint from BRD.

Being able to pick your fights in this manner is nice, too. Whether in pvp or just whilst grinding / questing this is a rogue’s strong point and leads to fewer deaths at the hand of ravening Devilsaurs. Of course if you’re stuck in the open (or, say, flying above trees where huge birds can swoop down out of the sky at any moment) then it can mean you’re toast (or a pancake)…

As a long time adherent to vanilla-spec (a.k.a Combat Swords) and dealer of big, steady damage, I don’t hit the big crits of dagger rogues (or, well, the ones they did pre-resilience – haha) but there is nothing so fun as popping Blade Flurry, Adrenaline Rush, trinket and Evasion and just seeing all of those little yellow numbers. I have to admit to having little gleeful moments when I can throw all of these into the mix at once and don’t have to ration them out for sustained dps. Sometimes it’s nice to just flip out and kill stuff like any proper rogue should.

Which leads to… DPS. I have to say it’s nice to feel, sometimes, that you’re the ‘best’ at something. Not that I’m by any means an amazing rogue, but after playing hybrid classes for quite some time, where damage is reduced in favour of utility, it feels nice to be able to say “My main task is dps and my class excels at it.”

Next up – rogues are melee dps. No matter how much I kid myself and roll mage alts, turn my baer tonk / crittycat into a d00mkin and spec my shaman resto, I am a melee dps-er at heart. There is nothin’ that makes y’feel so much like you’re doing your part as stepping up to a boss and smashing yer swords into their face! (Ok, so usually their rear end but face sounds better so we’ll stick with that…)

Big swords. What iz daggorz? As a rogue I suppose I should like daggers but I don’t think I’ve used them since I picked up my first sword and learned that subtlety wasn’t becoming a dwarf. Of course I have a few of the bloody things in my bank due to guildies deciding “rog iz for daggarz, hav instead of making purpal cristal!!!11!one11!” The fact I can, and do, dual wield two swords the same size as bigger than me makes me happy.

So, rogues – stealth, cooldowns and big pointy swords. Fun!

/hug
/vanish

p.s. Two comments on my first post already? Are you sure you two sneaky buggers aren’t rogues, too? Thanks fer dropping by – hopefully there’ll be a little more to see next time you do! *grumble* Shouldn’t have used my own blogroll for links before I was done finishing this bloody thing…

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