Rogue Assassination Leveling Talent Build Guide for 1-80 WotLK (51/13/7)
This is the rogue leveling talent build guide. It is ready, updated and made for the 3.08 patch and beyond for 1-80 wotlk. We are going to be mainly using assassination for this build as we are focusing on three spells: Mutilate Eviscerate and Rupture. This build is perfect for pve, questing and five man dungeons. Remember when you are leveling a rogue in wow, the downtime between kills must be little as possible. You can play your rogue how you want, but try to work out ways and combos that you are not taking too much time resting in between kills. At the higher levels you can change the build around a bit, it isnt too important as long as you have the base assassination build down.
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Here is the level to level talent builds for your rogue. If you want to level your rogue faster you MUST check out this guide.
To see the animated talent tree click here.
Assassination (51 points)
10-12 Improved Eviscerate
13-17 Malice
18-20 Ruthlessness
21-22 Blood Spatter
23-25 Puncturing Wounds
26 Vigor
27-31 Lethality
32-34 Vile Poisons
35 Cold Blood
36 Quick Recovery
37-41 Seal Fate
42-43 Murder
44 Overkill
45-47 Focused Attacks
48-50 Find Weakness
51 Mutilate
52-54 Turn the Tables
55-59 Cut to the Chase
60 Hunger For Blood
Combat (13 points)
61-65 Dual Wield Specialization
66-70 Precision
71-73 Close Quarters Combat
Subtlety (7 points)
74-78 Relentless Strikes
78-80 Opportunity
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Tags: assassination build, rogue 1-80 build guide, rogue leveling, rogue specs, rogue talent guide, world of warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King
April 12th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Wow man this guide is cool =] Not sure if it’s up to date with many changes but it rocks! If you can update it in anyway that would be excellent
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Will try
July 12th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I dont understand, is this better than combat and stuff??? I thought they were best untill lvl 51?
September 10th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Hey, nice build. But was wondering which glyphs is needed for this specc?
November 30th, 2009 at 12:09 am
okay this is fine and all but what glyphs for this?
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:25 am
hey m8 love spec but cant you make it soo i can see it pleaz it would be loveli to see it in the spec box pleaz total hard to spec
but still love your spec
December 28th, 2009 at 6:28 am
I added a link to the talent tree
April 25th, 2010 at 2:12 am
Ok, great, but you miss a lot of information.
What weapons should i use? and in which hand?
what glyphs?
what poisons?
what skill should i pull with?
Seriously, this guide lacks a lot, it’s not a guide, it’s just a spec.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:06 am
dan “what skill should i pull with”
to me this says you shouldnt be playing a rouge
April 28th, 2010 at 2:02 am
Lawlz – Dan
April 29th, 2010 at 5:25 am
Im currently only a lvl 66 rogue and leveled to 60 as sub spec, I changed to a similar assassin spec and for the most part it works well. I thought I could help answer a few of the questions here.
First this is not a rogue playing guide, its a talent guide, says so at top of page.
Second, rogues do not yell out “hey im over here come get me”,,, meaning you do not pull as a rogue, you use stealth and get the drop on them. however if there is a situation where you need to pull a mob away from other close by mobs, you would use whatever ranged weapon you have and its assosiated talent, throw or shoot.
As for opening moves, idealy you would be stealthed when you first attack, the attack depends on what talents you have so far, so whatever is handy before getting cheap shot. use cheap shot until you get hunger for blood. once you have hunger for blood you will want to get a bleed on the tartget asap so opening with garrote becomes a better option. but if hfb is still up when you are ready to take on the next mob cheap shot is good to use.
this is my dps opener at lvl 66, garrote > slice and dice > 2x mutilate (to get 5 combo points, sometimes 3x mutilate is needed) > envenom. most mobs will be dead somewhere in this attack if not a second after. harder mobs I start the rotation back at mutilate.
For poisons you will want deadly poison for envenom and I use instant poison for pve and crippling poison for pvp.
Glyphs: using mutilate and hunger for blood so far, obviously if you havnt gotten that far into the tree yet it would be a waste to get them.
hope this helps out a bit, and any feedback from more experienced rogues would be welcomed.
May 21st, 2010 at 5:33 am
Looking good.