Yet another rogue thread

[NarcolepticLTD]

The only time I've had trouble getting groups on my rogue was sitting in mistmoore at prime, when everyone else is sitting waiting in a queue for a group. The biggest thing you can do is to make sure you're not /role or /anon as people looking for good DPS to fill out their groups will do a /who all rogue and seek you out from across the server. Set /lfg on as well... even though you can't filter a /who with LFG, the tag will still show up in any query you'd regularly show up on.

Most XP groups aren't going to be inspecting your gear before inviting you either, and won't even care unless they see you doing silly backstabs, then they start inspecting gear and wondering what that small dragonbone shard is in your primary (if your a stubby race).

Apparently at some point before rogue epics were restricted to being equipped before 46, people that didn't have their epic (at say, level 20?) were getting denied groups.... which is pretty ridiculous [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The best thing you can do is make a list of good tanks/heals/CC that you've grouped with at lower levels and friend them as this will help you find groups at later levels.

[Crawdad]

Up to 15 on the rogue. Spent 4 hours camping Ass/Sup and managed to snag a couple TBBs but only saw one assassin (with dirk).. logged in yesterday and got a mask the next spawn, Weow!

Grouping so far has been incredibly easy, but I guess that's the perk of doing those well traveled zoned. Orc highway group with three twinked rogues+pally+token healer was pretty amazing. Heading to Unrest or Guk today.

I guess the biggest issue for me right now is handling aggro better with Warriors/lazy Knights, especially those with big slow 2-handers. Evade doesn't seem to work very often right now, so I guess I need to just wait a little longer before hacking and slashing.

One of the rogues at Orc Highway said he went all Dex for backstab, which seems false based on all info I can find. He was probably wearing ~150k worth of gear though, so I'm conflicted on what to believe. Anyone know where this might come from and if there's any truth to it?

[Akashx]

Dex does not give you more hit rate, backstab success chance, or backstab damage.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Crawdad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

One of the rogues at Orc Highway said he went all Dex for backstab, which seems false based on all info I can find. He was probably wearing ~150k worth of gear though, so I'm conflicted on what to believe. Anyone know where this might come from and if there's any truth to it?

He's wrong. Backstab is basically determined by strength + level + weapon damage. DEX honestly is a pretty poor stat investment considering all rogue gear has DEX + buffs + diminishing returns at procs starting as low as 144 DEX. Min/max directions would be to go all STA with anything left into STR.