World of Warcraft: Forever Assassination Rogue Guide

Mutilate is an incredibly powerful skill that enables Assassination's Poison-focused playstyle. While Assassination does a considerable amount of single-target damage, Venom is a bit weak in its current state and losing out on the cleave that Blade Flurry provides for Combat-specialized Rogues can make it a bit more challenging to fit into groups.

Rogue as a whole needs some form of reliable AoE damage. If a fight or encounter is focused heavily on small adds then Assassination struggles to compete. Adding a new ability that allows for some form of spammable AoE.

Some form of self-healing would also make the class considerably stronger. Warrior is a great example with the addition of Victory Rush This fixed a large problem for Warriors, especially while leveling. Defensive abilities like Evasion and stuns like Kidney Shot are nice, but the lack of any in-combat self-healing other than using a bandage makes things quite difficult at times.

One of the most key aspects of your leveling experience as a Rogue is Stealth. Stealth allows you to sink into the shadows, greatly reducing your aggro radius. In some situations, you can entirely hide from both enemy NPCs and players. While Stealth will reduce your movement speed, it also allows you to completely avoid certain encounters and enables the ability of some of the classes' most powerful abilities like Ambush.

How close you can get to another mob or player depends almost entirely on the level difference. The lower level you are compared to an enemy, the greater their ability to see through your stealth. The higher level you are, the more room you have to navigate around undetected.

Energy is your primary resource as a Rogue to use abilities. You have a set amount of energy that is constantly regenerating. In World of Warcraft Forever, your energy bar is constantly refilling, so your goal is to never allow yourself to remain at a full energy bar, thus wasting the opportunity to gain more energy.

Combo Points are a unique system that allows you to use powerful abilities like Venom to deal damage to your enemies. Combo Points are generated by using abilities like Mutilate on a target. You can have a maximum of 5 Combo Points active on a target; any Combo Points generated while 5 are already active on the target will be wasted. The potency of the finishing move you choose to spend your Combo Points on is based on how many Combo Points you have active on the target when you use the ability; for example, Eviscerate deals more damage with 5 Combo Points compared to if used when 3 Combo Points are on the target. You can only have Combo Points active on one target at a time; starting to generate Combo Points on a new target will remove any Combo Points you had on the previous target.

Poisons are a unique mechanic for Rogue that allows you to coat your weapons with a wide range of different poisons that have varying effects on your target, from applying status-effecting debuffs like a slow with Crippling Poison to dealing additional damage with each hit with Instant Poison. What poison you end up deciding to use will depend largely on the type of content you are doing and if you are able to focus entirely on dealing damage or if some extra type of utility is required. Keep in mind you will need to apply your Poisons to both of your weapons. Poisons have both a duration and a set amount of charges that will be displayed on your buff bar. Keep an eye on them and do not hesitate to refresh if you are running low on either duration or charges available.

Rogue also has the ability to pick locks found all throughout Azeroth. This ability can be used to open chests or lockboxes or even open doors, allowing you to skip the process of having to acquire a key and, in some situations, saving considerable amounts of time. This is a skill similar to professions, so it must be leveled up by picking progressively higher-level locks.