WotLK Classic Combat Rogue Spell Summary
On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as a Combat Rogue in WotLK Classic.
Combo Point Generators
Combat uses Sinister Strike as its main generator. It is one of the
first spells you learn and is far cheaper than
Mutilate.
Combat also has access to Backstab and
Ambush, but rarely uses them,
unless you are playing the dagger variant of Combat.
Combo Point Spenders
The main spenders for Combat are Eviscerate,
Rupture, and
Slice and Dice.
Slice and Dice increases your attack speed and has the highest damage
increase of all spenders.
Rupture is a bleed that is maintained on your main target, dealing
damage over time.
Eviscerate is your main filler spender, dealing instant damage per Combo
Point.
Expose Armor reduces the Armor of the target by 20%, but is generally
not used by Rogues if there is a Warrior in the group, as they can apply
Sunder Armor.
Kidney Shot and
Deadly Throw are very rarely
used in PvE as Combat.
Stealth Abilities
Cheap Shot, which stuns your enemy for a short period, and
Garrote,
which places a bleed on the enemy and silences them, are rarely used in PvE as
Combat.
Sap can be useful to help control adds before a pull or deal with
particularly dangerous trash pulls by incapacitating an enemy for up to 45 seconds.
Damage Cooldowns
Adrenaline Rush increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% for a
period of time and is a massively powerful cooldown on a mere 3-minute timer.
Blade Flurry increases your attack speed by 20% while also making all of
your single-target attacks strike another target for its duration.
Killing Spree, a Combat talent, rapidly attacks targets within range repeatedly
over its duration.
Utility and Defensives
Rogues have a number of abilities available to them that not only help the raid or group in some way, but also personally grant them immunity to both mechanics and damage at times.
Tricks of the Trade is a massively important buff for Rogues, granting
an ally a damage increase, as well as more threat over its duration, which allows
other DPS to fully use their openers without worrying about pulling threat.
Cloak of Shadows removes all negative spell effects, as well as granting
you an extremely high chance to resist incoming spells for its duration. It can
be extremely powerful in completely avoiding certain mechanics on fights.
Evasion grants the Rogue a much higher chance to dodge incoming Physical
attacks, as well as reducing the chance ranged attacks will hit them.
Vanish allows the Rogue to quickly go back into
Stealth while
in combat, which would trigger
Overkill as Assassination.
Distract makes PvE enemies stand still for up to 10 seconds, allowing
you to stall patrols and let your raid or group through tight spots and skips.
Kick interrupts the current spell being cast and locks the user out of
that school for a period of time.
Sprint greatly increases your movement speed for a period of time.
Shiv and
Gouge are rarely used in PvE.
Changelog
- 18 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Phase 2 release ahead of Ulduar raid release.
- 22 Sep. 2022: Page added.
This guide was written by Valks and reviewed by Simonize.
Simonize is a long time rogue player and WoW Classic enjoyer focused on PvE content. He has developed spreadsheets and gear analysis tools for Vanilla, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King PvE rogues.
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