Domunique
Legend
Hey everybody 
. I don't really ask for advice too much I just sort of search the posts and read what I can but I figured If I give a post of my actual character I might get some more direct feedback. plus I just got ring of precision (after 100 freaken runs) so now im more happy about my gear .
Well basically My rogue toon is in this link "Domisunique @ Khaz'goroth - Game Guide - World of Warcraft"
Feedback on gear, talents, achievements, or specializations is appreciated.
Gear:
Well I tried to stack as much Crit/hit rating as possible, Stacking hit rating has always been my style Because Before I used to miss alot as a rogue but now with my 9 expertise and 42 hit rating im pretty accurate, and my 25.32% crit rating isn't so bad either. I use bronze throwing darts over using my BoA "charmed ancient bone bow" Because its a more useful/strategic thing to have darts in PvP, I Obviously use the darts to slow down a distant opponent (put crippling poison on the dart). I only have 1028 health, Im more of an offensive rogue then a balanced rogue with higher stam, My rogue used to have 1400ish hp unbuffed but i rly wasn't so accurate or offensive, after my burst damage i struggled to kill people in pvp, so I dropped the gear. I also have a haste set (2 haste trinkets, 2 boa hammers and haste belt) which gives me 21 haste its also decent but high haste doesn't do so much for me, its only an extra 1 energy per second and makes my weps 9.10% faster. (my haste set gives 21 haste, 40 hit rating, 23.56% crit)
Professions:
I use alchemy and herbalism for my professions of course. "Herbalism" gives me lifeblood which boosts my haste by 15 and gives a mini sort of heal in mid combat, semi-useful, also lets me pick herbs that I use as ingredients for my next profession. And I use "Alchemy" for Buffs within PvP, like agility boost, giant growth elixir ect, the only recipe I don't have and intend to farm Shadowfang Keep for, is the "swiftness potion" recipe, I need this.
Specialization:
obviously im a subtlety rogue, shadowstep is just something you need in pvp, especially against hunters. And for my first 5 talents I obviously chose "nightstalker" to improve my stealth speed and cooldown, and "improved ambush" to boost my burst damage.
I choose my last talent point on "waylay" and I know alot of people will tell me to get "opportunity" as my 6th talent point because it increases my ambushes and backstabs by 10% further increasing my burst damage but I used to use it and as good as it is, waylay is a strategical ability to have, basically im a dagger rogue so I tend to use backstab alot (backstab beats sinister strike in damage per energy so I try use backstab as much as I can) and every time I use backstab theres a chance of my "waylay" effect to slow down the enemy on top of my poisons which is good. alot of people will try to increase their dps by using instant poison an "oppotunity" talent but if your opponent isn't slowed down, even for one sec you can get raped as a rogue, we deal no good damage from a distance.
Achievements:
At the moment I really cant be effed achieve hunting, I have 2555 achieve points and it took me ages, seeing as this is my only toon I cant multi box and assist with a higher lvl account and I don't have too much higher level freinds to help me out all the time, so for now Im just going for the 100k honorable kills achievement, ive got 47kish Honorable Kills at the moment but I really want that 100k honorable kills name title, would be cool. Right now I got 3 name titles: "hallowed", "the noble", and "ambassador".
Transmorg set:
Ive always liked the bristle bark gear, for its fluffyness and its tribalness too, so I Transmorged my stuff into bristle bark gear, some of the bristle bark gear is above my level to use so I cant transmorg, So I used lower level substitute gear that was transmorgable and the exact same model. I tried to be color coordinated with the Gold,yellow,Brown,Red,White colors buy using stuff like white tuxedo shirt, stormpike battle tabard and feral harness (torso transmorg). My daggers are transmorged into "meteor shard" daggers which are thick daggers with a gold color on em, and they are enchanted so they have that red glow that look cool and match the theme too.
BiS gear:
I know I have gear like "feet of lynx" which isn't BiS compared to standard prisoner shoes but its only 4 armor diff which I don't care about and the prestige of a trial acc having those boots is superior to me, plus they're my favourite boots, Also my gloves arnt commonly known as the BiS for F2p rogues but my gloves are 5 agility and 5 expertise, the 5 expertise boosts itself up to 9 expertise when i equip it, giving me more accuracy and making me overall more offensive/accurate which is my goal on this toon (foremans gloves <3). Also my twin "balanced heartseeker" daggers might not be considered BiS but hey they give me agility, hit rating, and crit, offensive qualities so I use em. Also I consider my "ring of precision" and "ellos band" both BiS for my set because they give 3 hit rating each, with some agility and stamina in there too.
Personally I Don't believe in BiS gear, I just believe in good gear........ Well I do believe in BiS gear when It comes to being lvl 85 or something but for f2p accounts I think you should just max out your gear according to your fighting style, I don't bother with a flag carrying set or a stamina set because im a rogue, and I used to have a balanced set but my dps/accuracy wasnt as good as it is now. Rogues in my opinion are just meant to do damage, if your playing some tanking, flag carrying role then its pointless (I did all the wsg PvP achievements so I don't care about flag carrying now). So yeh basically Im an offensive rogue that stacks agility (obviously), hit rating (42) and crit strike (25.32%) with low stamina (1028 health) because I dont see a need for a rogue to give up his Offensiveness just to live a little longer, if your unstealthed for too long to the point your being teamed on your going to get raped anyway.
Battle style:
I try utilize stuff like "shadowmeld" Because im a night elf I have this, gives me the opportunity to run away or to re-stealth to ambush again with good burst damage. "thistle tea" (recovers your energy back to 100), "thick bronze darts" good for slowing down dieing/distant enemies (especially when your shadowstep is on cooldown), "gouge" (if any rogues dont use it, use it!, so helpful + lets your energy recover whilst their dazed, gives you a chance to go behind em and backstab to apply waylay on em), "Backstab" (as I said before its better damage per energy then sinister strike, and weather you pick oppotunity or waylay as your talent it makes it even more better in comparison). Also I Recently do stuff like "trinket switches" basically when my Grand arena master or Insignia trinkets have been used they each have a 15 min and 5 min cooldown, so in the meantime whilst my trinkets are cooling down I switch em with a haste trinket. Ive made 3 sets, one substitutes my GMA for a haste trinket when its on cooldown, the second switches the Inisgnia of alliance for a haste trinket when its on cooldown, and the other switches both my trinkets for haste trinkets for if their both on cooldown, little stuff like this increases your dps and makes a difference. Also buffs like Elixir of giant growth, elixir of agility and swiftness potion I use, Although I get my swiftness potions from dailies I need to get the recipe. Only use "recuperate" if your low health and your STEALTHED, I see dumb rogues using it mid battle like its gonna make a difference, wasting their combo points, DPS over healing as a rogue isn't right, for us rogues the best defense is a good offence seeing as its all we got, so only use recuperate if youve killed someone and got points left on em or if you are safe and stealthed so you have time for recuperates full effect. Obvisouly use "kick" as much as you can on a caster, same as gouge seeing as it interrupts them, alot of rogues fail to interrupt. Unlike most rogues I see, I use "throwing darts" over bows of course, strategy trumps stats, poisoning darts with crippling poison is good for slowing down running away/distant attacking enemies, especially if your poison didn't apply through melee so they've got the distance on you, keep them close, as a rogue can only do good damage closely. Stacking your toon with instant poisons and stat bows might give you a small DPS bonus but if your opponent isn't near you, you cant do any damage at all. Also I know this is a specific thing but I use my "sea turtle mount" that I fished up for faster travel in the waters in Arathi basin, sure it uncloaks me for a couple seconds, but if your racing to save the blacksmith or something, its worth it!. Also last of all Get your cooking up to make food, like "thistle tea" or stamina buffs through food, at the moment I got 135 goblin devilled clams (from farming ring of precision in BFD), and they give me a 6 stamina buff, theres better food that gives you 8 stamina buff so keep that in mind.
End:
So yeh umm... thats about it, I know its long but I figured not only can people critique me but alot of new rogues out their can learn some tips from me and how I do things, I know alot of people think rogues are all shadowstep, ambush, sinister strike and eviscerate but its the things you dont think you need that diverse your PvP style and make your toon stronger. Also using potions and diversifying your PvP experience makes it more fun, like now I do so much stuff with my rogue I enjoy other than before. Up in my battle style section I just put alot of pointers there for rogues who don't use the things I use to consider em. Doing all the little things makes it that much more fun, also makes you better. I know this is long as fuck So I dont expect too much people to read it but yea.... thanks for anyone who read it, even if they only read 1 paragraph or just looked at my characters armoury to give me advice, thankyou.
peace
. I don't really ask for advice too much I just sort of search the posts and read what I can but I figured If I give a post of my actual character I might get some more direct feedback. plus I just got ring of precision (after 100 freaken runs) so now im more happy about my gear .Well basically My rogue toon is in this link "Domisunique @ Khaz'goroth - Game Guide - World of Warcraft"
Feedback on gear, talents, achievements, or specializations is appreciated
.Gear:
Well I tried to stack as much Crit/hit rating as possible, Stacking hit rating has always been my style Because Before I used to miss alot as a rogue but now with my 9 expertise and 42 hit rating im pretty accurate, and my 25.32% crit rating isn't so bad either. I use bronze throwing darts over using my BoA "charmed ancient bone bow" Because its a more useful/strategic thing to have darts in PvP, I Obviously use the darts to slow down a distant opponent (put crippling poison on the dart). I only have 1028 health, Im more of an offensive rogue then a balanced rogue with higher stam, My rogue used to have 1400ish hp unbuffed but i rly wasn't so accurate or offensive, after my burst damage i struggled to kill people in pvp, so I dropped the gear. I also have a haste set (2 haste trinkets, 2 boa hammers and haste belt) which gives me 21 haste its also decent but high haste doesn't do so much for me, its only an extra 1 energy per second and makes my weps 9.10% faster. (my haste set gives 21 haste, 40 hit rating, 23.56% crit)
Professions:
I use alchemy and herbalism for my professions of course. "Herbalism" gives me lifeblood which boosts my haste by 15 and gives a mini sort of heal in mid combat, semi-useful, also lets me pick herbs that I use as ingredients for my next profession. And I use "Alchemy" for Buffs within PvP, like agility boost, giant growth elixir ect, the only recipe I don't have and intend to farm Shadowfang Keep for, is the "swiftness potion" recipe, I need this
.Specialization:
obviously im a subtlety rogue, shadowstep is just something you need in pvp, especially against hunters. And for my first 5 talents I obviously chose "nightstalker" to improve my stealth speed and cooldown, and "improved ambush" to boost my burst damage.
I choose my last talent point on "waylay" and I know alot of people will tell me to get "opportunity" as my 6th talent point because it increases my ambushes and backstabs by 10% further increasing my burst damage but I used to use it and as good as it is, waylay is a strategical ability to have, basically im a dagger rogue so I tend to use backstab alot (backstab beats sinister strike in damage per energy so I try use backstab as much as I can) and every time I use backstab theres a chance of my "waylay" effect to slow down the enemy on top of my poisons which is good. alot of people will try to increase their dps by using instant poison an "oppotunity" talent but if your opponent isn't slowed down, even for one sec you can get raped as a rogue, we deal no good damage from a distance.
Achievements:
At the moment I really cant be effed achieve hunting, I have 2555 achieve points and it took me ages, seeing as this is my only toon I cant multi box and assist with a higher lvl account and I don't have too much higher level freinds to help me out all the time, so for now Im just going for the 100k honorable kills achievement, ive got 47kish Honorable Kills at the moment but I really want that 100k honorable kills name title, would be cool
. Right now I got 3 name titles: "hallowed", "the noble", and "ambassador".Transmorg set:
Ive always liked the bristle bark gear, for its fluffyness
and its tribalness too, so I Transmorged my stuff into bristle bark gear, some of the bristle bark gear is above my level to use so I cant transmorg, So I used lower level substitute gear that was transmorgable and the exact same model. I tried to be color coordinated with the Gold,yellow,Brown,Red,White colors buy using stuff like white tuxedo shirt, stormpike battle tabard and feral harness (torso transmorg). My daggers are transmorged into "meteor shard" daggers which are thick daggers with a gold color on em, and they are enchanted so they have that red glow that look cool and match the theme too.BiS gear:
I know I have gear like "feet of lynx" which isn't BiS compared to standard prisoner shoes but its only 4 armor diff which I don't care about and the prestige of a trial acc having those boots is superior to me, plus they're my favourite boots
, Also my gloves arnt commonly known as the BiS for F2p rogues but my gloves are 5 agility and 5 expertise, the 5 expertise boosts itself up to 9 expertise when i equip it, giving me more accuracy and making me overall more offensive/accurate which is my goal on this toon (foremans gloves <3). Also my twin "balanced heartseeker" daggers might not be considered BiS but hey they give me agility, hit rating, and crit, offensive qualities so I use em. Also I consider my "ring of precision" and "ellos band" both BiS for my set because they give 3 hit rating each, with some agility and stamina in there too.Personally I Don't believe in BiS gear, I just believe in good gear........ Well I do believe in BiS gear when It comes to being lvl 85 or something but for f2p accounts I think you should just max out your gear according to your fighting style, I don't bother with a flag carrying set or a stamina set because im a rogue, and I used to have a balanced set but my dps/accuracy wasnt as good as it is now. Rogues in my opinion are just meant to do damage, if your playing some tanking, flag carrying role then its pointless (I did all the wsg PvP achievements so I don't care about flag carrying now). So yeh basically Im an offensive rogue that stacks agility (obviously), hit rating (42) and crit strike (25.32%) with low stamina (1028 health) because I dont see a need for a rogue to give up his Offensiveness just to live a little longer, if your unstealthed for too long to the point your being teamed on your going to get raped anyway.
Battle style:
I try utilize stuff like "shadowmeld" Because im a night elf I have this, gives me the opportunity to run away or to re-stealth to ambush again with good burst damage. "thistle tea" (recovers your energy back to 100), "thick bronze darts" good for slowing down dieing/distant enemies (especially when your shadowstep is on cooldown), "gouge" (if any rogues dont use it, use it!, so helpful + lets your energy recover whilst their dazed, gives you a chance to go behind em and backstab to apply waylay on em), "Backstab" (as I said before its better damage per energy then sinister strike, and weather you pick oppotunity or waylay as your talent it makes it even more better in comparison). Also I Recently do stuff like "trinket switches" basically when my Grand arena master or Insignia trinkets have been used they each have a 15 min and 5 min cooldown, so in the meantime whilst my trinkets are cooling down I switch em with a haste trinket. Ive made 3 sets, one substitutes my GMA for a haste trinket when its on cooldown, the second switches the Inisgnia of alliance for a haste trinket when its on cooldown, and the other switches both my trinkets for haste trinkets for if their both on cooldown, little stuff like this increases your dps and makes a difference. Also buffs like Elixir of giant growth, elixir of agility and swiftness potion I use, Although I get my swiftness potions from dailies I need to get the recipe. Only use "recuperate" if your low health and your STEALTHED, I see dumb rogues using it mid battle like its gonna make a difference, wasting their combo points, DPS over healing as a rogue isn't right, for us rogues the best defense is a good offence seeing as its all we got, so only use recuperate if youve killed someone and got points left on em or if you are safe and stealthed so you have time for recuperates full effect. Obvisouly use "kick" as much as you can on a caster, same as gouge seeing as it interrupts them, alot of rogues fail to interrupt. Unlike most rogues I see, I use "throwing darts" over bows of course, strategy trumps stats, poisoning darts with crippling poison is good for slowing down running away/distant attacking enemies, especially if your poison didn't apply through melee so they've got the distance on you, keep them close, as a rogue can only do good damage closely. Stacking your toon with instant poisons and stat bows might give you a small DPS bonus but if your opponent isn't near you, you cant do any damage at all. Also I know this is a specific thing but I use my "sea turtle mount" that I fished up for faster travel in the waters in Arathi basin, sure it uncloaks me for a couple seconds, but if your racing to save the blacksmith or something, its worth it!. Also last of all Get your cooking up to make food, like "thistle tea" or stamina buffs through food, at the moment I got 135 goblin devilled clams (from farming ring of precision in BFD), and they give me a 6 stamina buff, theres better food that gives you 8 stamina buff so keep that in mind.
End:
So yeh umm... thats about it, I know its long but I figured not only can people critique me but alot of new rogues out their can learn some tips from me and how I do things, I know alot of people think rogues are all shadowstep, ambush, sinister strike and eviscerate but its the things you dont think you need that diverse your PvP style and make your toon stronger. Also using potions and diversifying your PvP experience makes it more fun, like now I do so much stuff with my rogue I enjoy other than before. Up in my battle style section I just put alot of pointers there for rogues who don't use the things I use to consider em. Doing all the little things makes it that much more fun, also makes you better. I know this is long as fuck So I dont expect too much people to read it but yea.... thanks for anyone who read it, even if they only read 1 paragraph or just looked at my characters armoury to give me advice
, thankyou.peace
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