On with the stabbing!

Ok, more slashy, less stabby. Zultheah, my rogue, did about 5 hours of Warsong Gulch yesterday. Needed 15 more marks to get the gear I wanted for progression into the 40+ areas. Let me tell you, WSG gets mind-numbing after so long.

It was hard to settle on a spec for this alt pvp stint. I like a lot of the rogue talents, many of them have so much potential. In the end, I went with a 0/25/5 build (down to Sword Spec), and I think I will keep this spec, continuing down to 36 in Subtlety. I like the cooldown abuse this build would make available. I might switch to maces at 70. Or 80, depending on how long this takes. :)

Playing this char as a combat build harkens back to my warrior’s early days. I had the same pair of swords (Vanquisher’s and the Sword of Omen), and the play style is actually quite similar. Large focus on white damage. However, I think Luth had more hit points, or more damage capability…

…as Zul felt very squishy. I preferred to shy away from combat with other melee-based classes and engage hunters/casters when possible. I know this is what rogues do already, but the “why” of it all only became known to me recently.

Also, I find myself quite decent at just running away. Being able to escape as a rogue is generally easy, especially if no one’s put any sort of DoT effect on you to ruin your Vanish. I applied 2 of my points into Improved Sprint, which in conjunction with WotF and my PvP trinket allow me to break a large variety of cc effects.

This made flag-carrying viable as long as I could keep moving. I feel that flag-carrying in WSG relies too heavily on the flag carrier not moving and trying to “hide.” This is the oldest and most-played battleground, hiding is an iffy proposition at best, and when you’re an only semi-well-geared rogue, doesn’t work too well, given how quickly a twinked character will destroy me if they can get to me. So I keep myself mobile. It is then up to the enemy team to catch me, as opposed to find me. And from experience, it is much more difficult for them to catch than find. Can’t wait til I get to try this as my druid. :)