My rogue v rogue opener without the explanation why below.
Assuming your fighting a skilled dude, why else read.
#Sap-garrote-rupture-vanish.
#Wait for nearly all energy and sprint, prep, cheap shot.
#HE will now trinket and blind YOU,
#YOU trinket HIS blind and vanish
#Dont let him get away and sap him when bleed ends
#Re-open with cheap shot, hemo hemo and kidney. Rupture before kidney ends
#Now HES gonna prep vanish and try to cheap shot you between rupture ticks
#Pay attention and use tidal charm when you hear the sound of his preperation (then you tidal charm his vanish)
#Look for your "Every Man for Himself" and know when hes gonna blind/bandage you. Trinket when you see he starts to bandage (dont let it tick) and gouge him (even if he has evasion he cant dodge while bandaging) If hes human, he wil have Every Man for Himself ready. If you move litle away and bandage he will most likely trinket his gouge and try to stop your bandaging.
#Then you vanish and reopen on him.
-Please read below why I chose to, for example, trinket a blind then vanish, instead of just vanishing it etc, before you comment
[quote name='Ishh'] Duelling Strategies
Rogue
If you get the opener (sap)
- Hopefully you started with sap.
- If you didn't, start with sap next time, christ!
- Garrote > Rupture without breaking sap
- Vanish. Wait for your energy to refill and cheapshot.
- One hemo, then kidney shot. Beat on him for a bit, but vanish again and garrote before kidney shot runs out.
- If he vanishes, you vanish. A good rogue can time his vanish between your dots and get a cheapshot on you, avoid that.
- Finish him.
How can I vanish that last time? Already vanished to use cheap shot, then I vanished to apply another garrote before my kidney runs out.
Wouldn't it be better to NOT vanish and apply that extra garrote and just vanish before kidney shot ends / trinket the incoming blind/vanish that? Vanishing the incoming blind is one of the easier vanishblinds, cus he will most likely spam it in kidney shot. However, if you vanish the blind, then you cant vanish and re-open on him. IMO if u have to chose between vanishing a blind here or trinketing it I whould say its better to trinket then vanish it, so u have vanish ready since its so rare that you get to keep the stealth (maby Im just bad at it, but why do it here and risk everything) Still, IMO best to vanish before it ends.
BUT, the best rogues will already use their trinket on your cheap shot or kidney. When he uses on cheap shot, vanish the incoming blind if your fucking awsome at it and KNOW that your gonna stay stealthed afterwords if not, then trinket it and THEN vanish (If your afraid( like I am) he wil auto hit or bugg your vanish so you don't vanish use sprint before I prep, it lasts so that you still got the sprint when hes trowing a blind on you(after he trinketed your cheap shot) so you trinket-jumpaway-vanish, no way hell hit u then (BUT BE QUICK ABOUT IT, he might have tidal charm).
Use sprint and sap him when the dots stop. You have vanish and sprint glyphs so no way hes gonna get away. Here, if you KNOW hes gonna prep and vanish your sap then sap him before the last tick and right after, this is to ruin his chance to prep vanish cus he dosnt have enugh GCD to do it. Then he dosnt have trinket ready and will have to eat everything. Sap him til he stun DR runs out and cheap+kidney him to hell. If hes still alive you have blind and can restelth and open again! When hes out of the stun hes got trinket + blind on CD but not vanish (prep). Many rogues will prep, vanish and cheap shot on your ass (even with your recent rupture on him). So... YOU KNOW what is coming, but not when. Well you can actually hear if he uses preperation, and then u know when the vanish is coming, so whats keeping you from tidal charming his vanish
NOTHING
(maby litle practise but this is pretty basic one). If hes still standing evasion tanking your ass, (maby hes got superior gear or w/e) His blind CD is sneaking up on you. BUT if your human, you have the exact timer on your Every Man for Himself
Let him start his bandage so he gets the CD and cant dodge/parry your gouge. If hes human he has his trinket ready also, so you start bandaging to fool him to trinket the gouge, then you vanish and reopen on him.
You could also disarm him when u hear the preperation sound so he wil failcheap shot you and save the tidal charm for later.
Instead of bandaging to fool his trinket you could make a bandage or apply a poison to your weap, sometimes makes them trinket
without you getn a CD on your bandage. Then you could just use a gouge after your vanish-cheap-kidney and get a bandage off there
Wall of text, even I had problems reading it
So Ill do a list of what to do
-Gonna link a frap of it soon
Please give me feedback's, maybe I forgot something