Rogue openers

[Speer16]

what exactly are the rotations and for which classes

 

[Esotra]

Rogues are more of a play-by-ear class, specifically subtlety.

 

[tupac]

eso just got his first kill on me gg

 

[Esotra]

eso just got his first kill on me gg

Pfff, killed you back when you were a fem human, several times, just didn't think much of it, thought you were kriptz.

 

[tupac]

haha probs i just ran in to train vuxi saw u went to /wave and got 6k chim and somfin else hit me for 5k dead haha

who is vuxi btw best player iv seen from retro / a really good sham

 

[Friyn]

Openers



Duels



Against Non Mages:



Subtlety:

Sap -> Garrote (with Premeditation and without breaking Sap) -> Shiv (for Crippling Poison Proc) -> Backstab/Hemorrhage -> Kidney Shot ~0,2 seconds before the Garrote Silence fades.



Mutilate:

Sap -> Garrote -> Envenom (to stack Deadly Poison up) -> 2x Mutilate -> Kidney Shot



Against Mages:



Subtlety:

Sap -> Garrote (with Premeditation) without breaking Sap -> instantly Kidney Shot him -> spam Backstab/Eviscerate until the Silence fades (you can use Shadow Dance at this point and spam Ambush instead of backstab).



Mutilate:

Don't even try to duel a Mage.



Against Melees:





Non Warriors:



Subtlety:

Sap -> Garrote (with Premeditation) -> 2x Backstab/Hemorrhage -> Kidney Shot (from behind)



Arena



Mutilate and Subtlety:

Most of the time you have to open with Cheap Shot instead of Garrote followed by a Kidney Shot, because the enemy can easily run away





Mutilate:

Sap -> Garrote -> 2x Mutilate -> Kidney Shot



Warriors:



Subtlety:

Sprint/Dark Flight -> Garrote (with Premeditation) -> Hemorrhage (for the bleed debuff) -> Backstab -> Kidney Shot (from behind)



Mutilate:

Sprint/Dark Flight -> Sap -> Garrote -> 2x Mutilate -> Kidney Shot

Taken from Riosan's rogue guide.

 

[Gihipoxu]

cheap shot synapse ambush ambush ambush next target

 

[Papewiao]

Hmm my well my openers are some what to the same listen above... But i just do

Non caster

Premedation->Shadowstep->Ambush->Hemo->Kindey->Hemo->Hemo->Hemo-> Evis..(Normally they are dead by the second hemo...)

Most caster classes i will do

Premedation->Shadowstep->Garrot->Hemo->Kindey->Hemo->Hemo->Normally a kick to stop casting or a hemo-> Evis

Some of the caster that i feel i can kill..or i want to try something different i will do

Premedation->Shadowstep->Ambush->Hemo->Kindey->Hemo->Hemo->Kick->Hemo->Evis

 

[Nesyla]

To be honest, with most mages what i find more effective ( since most of them are actually bad ) is not to garrote at the beginning but to cheap shot, most of them will just blink out of it, shadowstep, force block, vanish, and once block is over you should have preparation, cloak of shadows ready as well as shadow dance / synapse to grant you a kill in those 30 seconds where the mage can not re-block.

 

[Justhealme]

force block, vanish

Why in the world would you vanish while he's in iceblock?

 

[Nesyla]

Why in the world would you vanish while he's in iceblock?

To get away before i get a frost nova from his pet right into a deep freeze.

 

[Nesyla]

Sadly i manage to get a Gouge his way out of block about 1/2 times, if the guy is quick he can just cancel aura blink in the matter of less than a second as it does not affect the gcd.

hence why i feel more confident playing this way, which brings me to the same result.

But than again, i'm not a great rogue, just playing it out of fun, so my "tactics" might not be the best and or most professional ones !

 

[Eljero]

gouge after block and garotte?!?!?! for blink