Re-rolled as a rogue. Any advice?

[Valdarious]

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

Barbarians are confirmed ugly and should not be allowed to be rogues due to their absurd size... how they hell do you hide when you are a friggin giant.

Think of them as back alley thugs, still a rogue.

[Adolphus]

Don't roll as a barbarian. Trust me, it's annoying being that big and having to click a mask all the time to shrink. Your job is to get behind mobs and poke them. Being a large toon makes that more difficult on raids and such.

Also, the only stat that matters to you is STR. I wouldn't worry about STA.. if you're going to get smacked by mobs at higher levels, 40 hp isn't going to save you. You either evade or die. Don't get aggro, or die.

Cap STR at 255 then focus on resist gear. My thoughts.

[Cecily]

Green stats have screwed over so many young rogues. Makes me sad. If you ever have a shot at scoring a primal weapon though... Dex is definitely not wasted points.

[Valdarious]

I know it is blasphemous on this server but I really wish I could roll a cat rogue. I went back to Live once around 2003 and did not have access to my old rogue at the time. My friends wanted me to start playing again so I took what I had learned bitd and rolled a cat rogue judging by the stats. The cat rogue was awesome as a stat rogue. Was able to solo stuff I would never have thought about when I first started out. Damage output was superior to my old wood elf. Then again, I am talking about leveling performance, not 60 performance. I never got many toons to/past 60.

[Ravager]

Well, regardless, I'd still prefer to have the extra HP.

[Valdarious]

To each their own. Play what ever you feel more comfortable with be it a halfling or a barbarian. I chose barbarian for a couple of reasons. I don't have tons of contacts or bank fulls of plat on alternate characters to get power leveled to 60.
I play this game to have fun and have fun leveling. I don't base everything I do on what it is going to be at 60 cause it is going to take a long time to get there. I would say I am going to be spending more time getting there than being there so I chose the way I did. I do miss a little bit of being a wood elf due to foraging and looks but I prefer having the stats of a barbarian for damage at my level along with some added HP early on with no special twink gear.
The way I feel about the size is I have the option of being large or small and can wear medium or large items. I do realize most people that only race to 60 will not have these issues but that is not me.
Just giving another perspective is all.

[Emsee]

If you group with a warrior, don't BS much. If you group with a knight BS a lot.

[Laberintica]

If you think it's annoying being big on a raid, I don't think you've ever played gnome or halfling. You can't even get close to a mob everyone blocks you