Combat Rogue PvE Guide - TBC Classic

TBC Classic Combat Rogue Rotation

Your goal as a Combat Rogue is to maintain 100% uptime on
Slice and Dice
and either 5pt
Expose Armor
or high uptime on
Rupture
depending on your assignment. The Combo Point cycles mentioned below are rough guidelines. You will often need to adjust on the fly based on procs, cooldowns, and consumables.

Single Target

1. Maintain
   Slice and Dice
   (Details in next section).
2. Maintain
   Rupture
   (Details in next section).
3. Use
   Garrote
   while stealthed.
4. Use
   Blade Flurry
   and
   Adrenaline Rush
   when available.
5. Use
   Sinister Strike
   to generate combo points.
6. Use
   Eviscerate
   when you have excess combo points and
   Slice and Dice
   or
   Rupture
   don't need to be refreshed. This usually happens during
   Adrenaline Rush
   .
7. Use
   Envenom
   instead of
   Eviscerate
   if the target is seconds away from dying, it does more damage but consumes your
   Deadly Poison
   .
8. Use
   Shiv
   if your
   Deadly Poison
   stacks are about to fall off.

AoE

1. Use
   Blade Flurry
   .
2. Perform single target rotation.

Combo Point Cycle

1. Combat Rogues without T4 2pc should use a 3, 4, or 5 combo point
   Slice and Dice
   and a 5 combo point
   Rupture
   cycle.
2. Combat Rogues with T4 2pc should use a 1 or 2 combo point
   Slice and Dice
   and a 5 combo point
   Rupture
   cycle.
3. Combat Rogues who are tasked with keeping
   Improved Expose Armor
   up, should follow a 4 or 5 combo point
   Slice and Dice
   and 5 combo point
   Expose Armor
   cycle, while using 2 or 3 combo point
   Rupture
   when possible.

TBC Classic Combat Rogue Talents

Sword/Sword Build

Fist/Sword Build

TBC Classic Combat Rogue Best Consumables

Flasks and Elixirs

Best:
• Flask of Relentless Assault

Alternatives:
• Elixir of Major Agility

Food

Best:
• Spicy Hot Talbuk

Alternatives:
• Grilled Mudfish
  ,
• Warp Burger

Potions

Best:
• Haste Potion

Alternatives:
• Insane Strength Potion

Weapon Buffs

Best:
• Windfury Weapon
  ,
• Deadly Poison

Alternatives:
• Instant Poison
  ,
• Deadly Poison

Miscellaneous

Best:
• Thistle Tea
  ,
• Scroll of Strength V
  ,
• Scroll of Agility V

TBC Classic Combat Rogue Best Races

Alliance

1. Human:
   Sword Specialization
   and
   Mace Specialization
2. Night Elf: Higher base Agility.

Horde

1. Troll:
   Berserking
2. Orc:
   Blood Fury
3. Blood Elf:
   Arcane Torrent

TBC Classic Combat Rogue Best Professions

1. Leatherworking: Provides 80 haste for 30 seconds with
   Drums of Battle
   and 60 attack power for 30 seconds with
   Drums of War
   . The Primalstrike set is only slightly behind our recommended Pre-Raid bis gear.
2. Blacksmithing:
   Dragonmaw
   is your bis main-hand weapon until Tier 5. It is worth noting that is almost identical DPS to
   Spiteblade
   .
3. Enchanting: Provides 4 phyisical damage with two
   Ring - Striking
   .
4. Jewelcrafting: Provides two unique gems for 24 Attack Power and 12 Crit.

TBC Classic Combat Rogue Aldor or Scryer

We recommend going Aldor as a Combat Rogue in TBC Classic. The Aldor shoulder enchant,
Greater Inscription of Vengeance
, is slightly better than the Scryer
Greater Inscription of the Blade
. Aldor also provides an excellent early game weapon, the
Vindicator's Brand
.