Planning 29 Rogue Twink: Thoughts/Opinions

[Durgara]

Hi all! After a successful foray into twinking with my warrior, I'm planning on making an Alliance 29 rogue twink. I've read up on the threads here already and for the most part I have gear and spec planned out already.



However, I was hoping some alliance rogues could lend me their thoughts on race choice? I like gnomes for their small stature/escape artist/engi racial.



Maybe some hordies could drop a comment on a particularly deadly ally rogue they've faced recent?



Thanks in advance!

 

[Luka]

Human = good against rogue, 2 min cd

Night elf = extranl vanish and better stealth

Gnome = 1 min 45 sec snare remove

Dwarf = lol

 

[Naturaltalnt]

Pretty much, with an alliance rogue..you cant go wrong.



Dwarfs = immune to bleed/poisons, better frost protection, better guns

Human = better stealth detection, 2min cooldown, better sword/maces

Gnome = better arcane protection, escape artist, better engineering

Night Elfs = 2% less chance to be hit by melee/ranged, better stealth, better nature protection

 

[LULIMALION]

gnome I think can get a special eng helm forget which one exactly

dwarf is good because you can pop stoneform and vanish against warriors and other rogues

human has stealth detection which helps against kitties and other rogues

and night elfs have an extra vanish (excellent against casters)



like the above poster said you really cant go wrong

 

[Durgara]

Thanks for the comments all. I went with gnome and love it. One other question..



Haven't seen much on what poisons people use.



Cripping and Instant would seem to be the poisons available in 29s. How do you guys set it up?

 

[Kazin]

Gnome for sure. Escape artist is teh secks, but what really sets them apart is having the extra eng for the helm of pure win.

 

[Mangone]

I plan to personally use Instant on my Main Hand and Crippling on offhand.

 

[Naturaltalnt]

It really depends on all who your fighting, back when I had my rogue at 29 if there were alot of casters I would use mind numbing off hand, and 95% of the time crip main hand, instant generally in the off hand, only time I used double crip was if there were alot of hunters/rogues/FCs, need to slow em up ya know?

 

[Kazin]

the correct answer is solid sharpening stone mh, crip offhand.

 

[Deva]

the correct answer is solid sharpening stone mh, crip offhand.

- that. It will maximize your performance with backstab/ambush build.

 

[shanker]

i have a horde troll, BE, and two UD rogue. from my experience?



dwarfs - even fight



gnome - pretty even too, other than they have the 2nd highest dodge of any race



humans and NE are the toughest



one has +1 stealth detect other has +1 stealth plus more when SM



- i have spec'd sub to deal with them and NE. i have a set of catseye goggles and another cloak enchanted with stealth for change out to deal with them. if i run into a sub-spec'd HU/NE rogue, their stealth racials put them over the top.



NE have the most dodge of any class, plus they take 2% less damage.

HU have +expertise in mace/swords so they miss you slightly less



HU with EMFH can equip 2 worthwhile trinkets

NE with SM is the bomb! they can vanish in combat transfer to stealth and reopen on you. like a second vanish, and it doesn't fail from what i have seen.

also SM removes many effects that would cause a vanish to fail, like faire fire



NE have +2% nature resistance, of all classes, i see "IMMUNE" and "RESIST" in combat to my attacks meaning the poisons aren't hitting at times.



if i played alliance my choice would be NE 1st and HU 2nd. they only fear i would have is if blizzard nerfs SM, many horde are complaining about it, especially level 80's. more than any other racial. blizzard tends to respond more to them than when a twink complains.