Help me with stats for my Rogue. Been to long
 

Hey guys,

My Rogue Havick an I were having a discussion. We concluded I can't remember shit about stats lol. Yes, if your wondering why I was talking to my char in game it would be because I'm stuck :P Any way, stat weights.. I'm currently a pierce Rogue. I haven't played in like 6 yrs so help remind me of what stats to concentrate on. If slash is better then pierce, is crush better then both?

If I remember right. It goes like this..

Dex > Str > Qui > Sta rest

Pierce > Slash > Crush

Thanks for the help looking forward to hearing back from everyone on this today.

Take care,

Havick

I assume you mean AGI rather than QUI. Reality is with those stats, they're all important for a rogue. Hard to choose one over the other, aim for balance among them. Sta and Agi are for defense (Hitpoints and chance to "avoid", respectively) where DEX and STR are for offense. Rogues may have some additional intricacy here, but that's the basics.

Calling yourself a "pierce" rogue is sort of unnecessary. All rogues equip piercing weapons in their main hand, as piercing is required for Backstab (which is a very large portion of your dps.) Whether your offhand is pierce, slash, or blunt I don't think matters. I think at some point rogues got higher piercing skill than the other two, but I don't think that was until Luclin (and you really don't need to worry about it now.)

Str > all

Excellent info thank you sir. I'll worry about that order :P I couldn't remember if i needed a dagger in the main hand for BS or not. Good reminder :D

Hasbinbad made a really good post about benefits of STA actually.. With gear and buffs, maxing STR isn't nearly as hard as getting your HP up from STA. While a new rogue will see benefits from that early bump in STR, the long-term effects are less rewarding than maxing out STA at creation.

But if I read properly I would've seen that I didn't answer the question. Sorry! :X

Stamina all the way, the hardest stat to boost in anything pre-luclin is stamina. At least from what I remember. I used to make every character with max stamina. I could be wrong though.. its been years and years.

a rogue that knows his class doesnt need defensive skills. besides that dex > str

No offense Havick, but your original conception of EQ rogues falls more in line with WoW rogues, which are the only rogues in any RPG let alone MMO (that I have played at least) where having 1hb as a primary skill seems to be important :\

As a couple have mentioned already, STA.

Or split STA/STR.