This is the Cataclysm 85 Combat Rogue Leveling Build Guide updated for patch 4.0.6. This guide will take you from level 1 through 85 in wow Cataclysm. Assassination might be the most popular leveling tree but Combat also gets the job done.
This leveling build guide will provide you with the best talent spec to level Combat to 85, the spell rotation to use and glyphs.
These are the best leveling points to use along with the best leveling route guide: Zygor’s Leveling Guide
Rotation:
Garotte >Slice and Dice
After that: 4+ Mutilate > Envenom > 4+ Mutilate > Rupture. Maintain Rupture
Cataclysm 85 Combat Rogue Leveling Build Guide
Level 85 Rogue (7/31/3) (Link)
Assassination (7 Points)
Coup de Grace – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate and Envenom abilities by 20%.Lethality – Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, Mutilate and Hemorrhage abilities by 30%.Ruthlessness – Rank 1/3
Gives your melee finishing moves a 20% chance to add a combo point to your target.
Combat (31 Points)
Improved Recuperate – Rank 2/2
Causes your Recuperate ability to restore an additional 2% of your maximum health and reduces all damage taken by 6% while your Recuperate ability is active.Precision – Rank 3/3
Increases your chance to hit with weapon and poison attacks by 6%.Improved Slice and Dice – Rank 2/2
Increases the duration of your Slice and Dice ability by 50%.Improved Sprint – Rank 2/2
Gives a 100% chance to remove all movement-impairing effects when you activate your Sprint ability.Aggression – Rank 2/3
Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, and Eviscerate abilities by 14%.Lightning Reflexes – Rank 3/3
Increases your chance to dodge enemy attacks by 9% and your attack speed by 6%.Revealing Strike – Rank 1/1
An instant strike that causes 125% of your normal weapon damage and increases the effectiveness of your next offensive finishing move on that target by 20% for 15 sec. Awards 1 combo point.Reinforced Leather – Rank 2/2
Increases your armor contribution from cloth and leather items by 50%.Combat Potency – Rank 3/3
Gives your successful off-hand melee attacks a 20% chance to generate 15 Energy.Blade Twisting – Rank 2/2
Gives your damaging melee attacks a 40% chance to daze the target, reducing movement speed by 70% for 8 sec.Adrenaline Rush – Rank 1/1
Increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% and your melee attack speed by 20% for 15 sec.Savage Combat – Rank 2/2
Increases your total attack power by 4% and all physical damage caused to enemies you have poisoned is increased by 4%.Bandit’s Guile – Rank 3/3
Your Sinister Strike and Revealing Strike abilities have a 100% chance to grant you an evolving insight into an opponent’s defenses, increasing damage to that target by up to 30%. Opponents can adapt over time, negating this benefit, and Striking a different opponent will begin the cycle anew.Restless Blades – Rank 2/2
Your damaging finishing moves reduce the cooldown of your Adrenaline Rush, Killing Spree, and Sprint abilities by 2 sec per combo point.Killing Spree – Rank 1/1
Step through the shadows from enemy to enemy within 10 yards, attacking an enemy every .5 secs with both weapons until 5 assaults are made, and increasing all damage done by 20% for the duration. Can hit the same target multiple times. Cannot hit invisible or stealthed targets.
Subtlety (3 Points)
Relentless Strikes – Rank 3/3
Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.
Glyphs
Glyph of Sinister Strike (Prime Glyph)
Your Sinister Strikes have a 20% chance to add an additional combo point.Glyph of Killing Spree (Prime Glyph)
Increases the bonus to your damage while Killing Spree is active by an additional 10%.Glyph of Adrenaline Rush (Prime Glyph)
Increases the duration of Adrenaline Rush by 5 sec.Glyph of Blade Flurry (Major Glyph)
Reduces the penalty to energy generation while Blade Flurry is active by 50%.Glyph of Fan of Knives (Major Glyph)
Increases the radius of your Fan of Knives ability by 50%.Glyph of Sprint (Major Glyph)
Increases the movement speed of your Sprint ability by an additional 30%.Glyph of Blurred Speed (Minor Glyph)
Enables you to walk on water while your Sprint ability is active.Glyph of Poisons (Minor Glyph)
You apply poisons to your weapons 50% faster.Glyph of Safe Fall (Minor Glyph)
Increases the distance your Safe Fall ability allows you to fall without taking damage.
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Wanted to tell you…. that rotation. Nu uh. Combat rogues do not get mutilate.
Combat 101: A skillful swashbuckler
Combat’s focus is dealing massive weapon damage, and it’s the only rogue spec that requires non-dagger weapons. Swords, axes, maces, and fist weapons make up the core weapons of this build, although a quick dagger can be used for an off-hand weapon. It is the most weapon-dependent build in the rogue talent tree spectrum, and so it’s recommended for rogues who already have awesome weapons at their current level. It has the most powerful cooldowns and the strongest survivability talents of any rogue tree. The key weakness of the build is that it deals mostly physical damage, which makes it weak against armored targets.
Blade Flurry also has the unique ability to kill two targets at once, via Blade Flurry’s ability to replicate our attacks onto a second target. Blade Flurry should always (and only) be used if there are two or more targets nearby. BF used to give us extra haste and would be used as a DPS cooldown against even a single target, but that’s no longer the case — it actually hurts our energy regeneration while active. Save it for multi-mob situations.
Build The combat tree also has several free points available, and the utility talents can be customized based on your preferences. I like Blade Twisting, personally, as slowing your target is nearly always a good thing. Improved Recuperate is crazy-powerful and gives the combat rogue a major survivability boost. The wording on the talent is a bit unclear; it actually doubles the potency of Recuperate.
Glyphs Sinister Strike, Slice and Dice, Adrenaline Rush
Combo point generators Sinister Strike, Revealing Strike
Finisher priority Slice and Dice, Rupture, Eviscerate
Cooldowns Adrenaline Rush, Killing Spree, Blade Flurry (if two or more targets are active)
Rotation While keeping Slice and Dice active, generate 4 combo points via Sinister Strike. Once you have 4 points, use Revealing Strike to generate the 5th point, which also buffs your next finisher. Use Rupture if it’s not active, or use Eviscerate if Rupture is already active. Don’t bother using Revealing Strike before you refresh your Slice and Dice, as RS only affects damaging finishers.
Alternate rotation Simply keep Slice and Dice active, and use Sinister Strike to generate 5 combo points, and then use Eviscerate. By leaving Revealing Strike and Rupture out of the rotation, you get to greatly simplify your rotation at the cost of only 2 to 3 percent of your DPS. On fights where you’re still learning the mechanics or you have a lot of various external factors to keep track of, I would recommend using the simpler rotation. Worry about maximizing your rotation and damage once you are familiar with a fight.
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@Deathsouls at least attribute where you got all that info -_-;
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/08/encrypted-text-a-cataclysm-101-guide-for-rogues/
In case y’all wanted to know.
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