My little Arena guide ( mainly rogue focus )

[TforTyranth]

Hello all, am bored, and came to notice this forum doesnt even have 1 normal guide for rogues in arena so here we go.

starting with the gear you want to focus too.
get the 3 epic honor pieces, they rock for pvp and are easy to get.
get the leggings, shoulders, and chest for arena 2. 3/5
and gloves and head from arena 1. 2/5
this will give you the imba resilience buff.

which spec to choose?
Every arena has his own favorite spec. for 2v2 i would say 30/0/31 and combat maces. mutilate is not what you want here tbh. yes it does work for some. but most of the rogues cant time their energy and their stunlocks will faill 90% of the time. but in 3v3 + 5v5 i would never go for combat maces only.

reason : adrenline rush + blade flurry in a crowd = pew pew.
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2v2 ( 2102 rating )
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A rogues roll in 2v2 is decent. You can choose to play 3 roles.
1 - Outlast youre oponents healers mana, assuming youre healer has better.
2 - CC one person out, nuke the other.
3 - Run in and nuke like a madman.

The other big descision you need to make is what class you are going to pvp with. I will name every class pros and cons. I personally like to play with a holy disc priest. all will be explained.

Warrior - Bad choice to go, no healing and petite CC. much dps tough, MS + wound poisons takes a healer down in no time. problem is the rogue will most likely get nuked by the opponents DPS class and goes down fast.

Druid - By many chosen to FoTM, big CC, good damage, and good damage and ofc both have stealth. the battle pretty much starts with, Sap, enemy uses his trinket to get out, druid casts cyclone, nuke other, cyclone, nuke other, blind etc till he dies. good combination, but really requires timing and exp with eachother.

paladin - Its decent, good heals, paladin doesnt go down fast, buffs, and has bubble. No DPS is added by him but still. solid combo.

priest - My favorite, great healing, able to dps a little, shields, very nice stamina buff and able to fear and mana drain. This is just an example of outlasting or nuking down with CC. sap one opponent nuke other down after stunlock goes off priest pops a fear and finish it. problem with this is that a priest is still a cloth and goes down fast vs a warrior.

rogue - stunlocks sounds fun, good dps, decent cc, crap idea. just dont do this. its able till 1600 ratings passed that youre doomed.

shaman - same as paladin, decent combo good heals, altough a shaman does add some nice dps. i always prefer a shaman over a paladin.

warlock - good dps, good cc, healstones, but still hes a cloth and cant heal, dont need to say more.

spriest - almost same as a lock, but able to shield and heal. this combo will lose at 1750 higher unless youre really skilled together.

hunter - BM hunters and a rogue can be a pain in the ass, top dps, good CC but no healing.

mage - decent, if the dps is high enough its possible..really dont recommend this combo tough.

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Rogue + priest ( only one explained since i only tell my combo's )
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after doing buffs and stuff, rogue equiping wound poison offhand and cripling MH. GO out and scout what youre facing, tell youre priest to lay back a little. after youve seen what youre opponents are try and sap the dpser. and nuke the healer, always start with the CS, SS/hemo, gouge/kidney SS/hemo combo. as soon as the other gets nuked he will use his trinket to get out of sap. this is the moment when youre priest will fear. this means you have another free 5-10 sec to nuke youre opponents healer. while the other one will be feared since he already used his trinket. the healer should be down by now, if its a paladin, you shouldnt have a problem if the priest purges in time.

this is the basic of 2v2 with a priest. ofc you have tons of times that things come between it. stun resists, fear resists, bad timing. but hey you didnt get lvl 70 for nothing, by now you should have learned how to deal with problems.

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3v3
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Rogue's here are mostly seen as second DPS class.
I pvp in 3v3 with a warrior/rogue/shaman. were at 1979 rating.

Youre main role is to keep the healer stunned while the warrior is doing full dps on him. yes you wont outdamage a warrior in arena 90% of the time. specially not with windfury on. ofc you need to do damage but if you can choose between 1 do eviscerate with 5CB or kidney with 5cb, never take that evis over the kidney..

by many teams they wont go for youre healer but for you, they dont like rogues. they want to take them out asap because we pump healers full with wound poisons, stunlock them and do heavy dps. this is why you NEVER ever go into the battle as first. always let youre partner dps go in first to take focus, then you come and cheapshot the healer.

you and the warrior either have 2 choices. Nuke healer down, or nuke highest dps down. my tip is, if their highest dps is a warlock or a spriest. take it down. they go down within seconds, and can ruin the game entirely for you. the manadrain is just one thing we DONT want.

also this is a rare strategy which not many like to use but in some occasions, really nice. split DPS. DPS 1 goes on highest dps ( lets say a rogue ) and you go stunlock the healer. meaning the healer cant heal the nuked person and gets nuked himself. if you fight a team of clothies, this is my way to go.

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5v5
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This is something we arent really needed/wanted in. which is a shame since it gives the best arena points. so be smart and make a team youreself and invite others to it.

the team i made : Rogue/ shaman / warrior/ paladin/ spriest. 1921 rating atm.

youre roll isnt as a leader here. thats 100% sure, you cant control this crowd of players. so what to do here is basicly what youre leader says. eventough if youre the leader youreself it wouldnt be smart to make the tacts, let the warrior do it. he will be the main damage source. just follow w/e the warrior is nuking and take it down with him, when he heals big deal, just full nuke. he cant outheal 4 heavy dps classes, also being silenced by the warrior and the spriest.

if it has 2 healers, then youre prolly better of with stunlocking their other healer while the warrior + dps 3 goes on the cloth healer.



This was my arena guide, hope it could help, i knew if some of this stuff was explain to me. i wouldnt start off like i did in arena. Folks just remember one thing.

please dont do arena with a Rogue / rogue / rogue. ive seen it before, it was the laugh of the week.

Goodbye.