Starting a new rogue (need help!)

[Ritley]

Set up an evade macro along the lines of:
/attack off
/doability #
/attack on

It is possible to do the evade faster manually than with a macro, but it's negligible and this is tons easier.

For stats, like was said focus on str first and then hp second. Obviously mainhand a piercer (higher damage is better for backstab), offhand whatever you have that has the best ratio.