Best Alliance Races for DPS Rogues
On this page, you will find rankings of Alliance races for DPS Rogues (for both PvE and PvP content), as well as detailed explanations of what each Alliance race brings for DPS Rogues.
Alliance Race Rankings for PvE
If you are interested in PvE content, please refer to our dedicated Rogue guide.
Alliance Race Rankings For PvP
If you are interested in PvP content, please refer to our dedicated Rogue guide.
Human
Humans are the best race for Alliance PvE and raiding, mainly because of the racial
passive Sword Specialization with the Combat Swords build. This will
allow you to go over the 300 Weapon Skill cap at Level 60, which will further reduce
your chance to miss an attack or get blocked, dodged, or parried. You will also
gain the Racial cooldown
Perception, which is great against other Rogues
that are
Stealthed, or Druids that are stealthed with
Prowl.
You will also gain Diplomacy, which helps with reputation grinds by
increasing your reputation gain substantially.
The Human Spirit
grants you increased Spirit, which does not increase your damage directly, but
instead increases your Health regeneration rate, which will help improve the leveling
experience by decreasing the amount of time you have to wait in between pulling mobs.
Lastly, you will get the Racial passive
Mace Specialization, which does
not benefit Rogues, since you will be using either Swords or Daggers.
Dwarf
Dwarf is not as strong of a choice for Rogue as Human is for PvE content. For PvP,
Dwarf has access to Stoneform, which removes all Poison, Bleed, and
Disease effects, while also increasing your armor for the duration. This is incredibly
powerful, letting you remove
Rend from a Warrior, a poison effect from another Rogue,
such as
Crippling Poison, or removing other DoT effects in order to safely
Stealth with
Vanish without it getting broken shortly after.
You will also gain the other Racials Find Treasure,
Frost Resistance (which will be useful in Naxxramas in later phases), and
Gun Specialization.
Night Elf
Night Elves have the Racial cooldown Shadowmeld, which passively
increases your Stealth level. This does not make Night Elves better than the other
available Alliance classes.
Nature Resistance is a slight Nature Resistance buff, which is
great for the Night Elf starting areas, since there are a lot of Nature magic-based
creatures.
Wisp Spirit allows for faster leveling, since it is
very easy to die as a Rogue when you accidently pull too much, due to Rogue's lack
of self-healing.
Quickness is a slight Dodge chance increase.
Gnome
Gnome is the best choice for Alliance PvP, due to their Racial Ability
Escape Artist, which helps you get out of any movement impairing
effects, such as
Entangling Roots or Engineering Net Traps. Rogues also
will usually have access to the talent
Improved Sprint, which means, as a
Gnome, you can run something other than that talent for something that adds more
DPS. When it comes to PvE, Gnomes are not nearly as strong of a choice as Humans.
Gnomes also have access to
Arcane Resistance,
Expansive Mind, and
Engineering Specialization.
Engineering Specialization will allow you to use higher tier Engineering bombs
and other items than your level bracket will allow.
Changelog
- 25 Oct. 2019: Page added.
This guide has been written by Sellin, a former top 10 US raider and current season and several time Gladiator, long time WoW Player and passionate about all things Warcraft and Theorycrafting. You can follow him on Twitter and watch him on Twitch.
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