Question about Rogue DPS

[Tecmos Deception]

25 stam is the general consensus, yeah, ESPECIALLY if you're a barb or dwarf.

There's that 13/25 drop off yael too, Swish.

And I think webrunner is wrong. Even at 55+ with a ragebringer (and sebilite croaking dirk offhand), my rogue got ~2/3 of her damage from autoattacks. And that number will only be higher at lower levels or with weaker mainhands probably. In Velious too, most rogues will be seeing offhand upgrades but no upgrade for ragebringer; and even rogues who upgrade from ragebringer are STILL only at a 15-damage mainhand (at the highest), but with lower delay so more damage from autoattacks.

[Erati]

I have heard many rogues talking about DEX helping with their double backstab 'procs'

anyone confirm or deny they notice a double backstab occurring more when you have higher dex?

[Tecmos Deception]

Well, with ~100 dex on my barb rogue I always had right around 40% double backstabs.

[Swish]

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

Would you all agree with this or should more points be given to str? I'm just nitpicking [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unless you're rolling a dorf or barb I'd take at least 20 in STR, you can always switch out stuff later if you hit the cap when fully buffed.

[shams]

I'm thinking a barb would be a good choice for a rogue, good starting str and sta, plus bash for a little bit of added utility in groups vs casters.

[Rhambuk]

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

And I think webrunner is wrong. Even at 55+ with a ragebringer (and sebilite croaking dirk offhand), my rogue got ~2/3 of her damage from autoattacks.

on live backstab was supposed to be 40% of a rogues total dps. this seems pretty accurate.

[Shiftin]

the two rites of passage for a rogue are sneaking down into LGUK to loot a rotting guise of the deceiver when you're <20, and doing the burning rapier quest. These were my 2 favorite non-raid experiences on the server as a rogue.

Get any 10 damage piercer for your mainhand until you can afford the rapier of oriin. burning rapier is a solid offhand until you can pick up something like a sebilite croaking dirk.

[Byrjun]

Don't buy an SCD before your epic. A Crystalline Short Sword will last you in the offhand until 60 and that's about 10% of the cost of an SCD.

[Shiftin]

but it's ugly.

[Nirgon]

roll barb

max str

then max sta

thats it