WoW Classic Rogue Guide

• RoleMelee DPS
• ArmorLeather
• ResourceEnergy
• FactionAlliance & Horde

Rogues do one thing and do it better than anyone: hit a target in melee until it dies. There is no healing, no tanking, no support — which means the class lives or dies by whether its damage is worth the raid slot, and in Classic it is.

Stealth changes what the class is for outside a raid. A rogue chooses its fights, walks past what it does not want, opens every lockbox and picks every locked chest in the game. In world PvP that first hit from stealth decides most duels before the other player has done anything.

Energy makes the class feel different from every other melee: it regenerates at a fixed rate whether the fight is going well or not, so a rogue is never starved and never flooded — the skill is in spending it.

Talent trees

A Rogue spends 51 talent points by level 60 across three trees. Open any of them in the calculator, build what you want, and share the link.

• AssassinationOpen in the calculator →
• CombatOpen in the calculator →
• SubtletyOpen in the calculator →

Where to train a Rogue in Classic

Every rogue trainer in Classic, by zone. Coordinates come from the 1.12 game data, not from a present-day map: Cataclysm redrew several of these zones, and a modern percentage points at ground the Classic map does not contain.

Which races can play a Rogue?

• AllianceHuman, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome
• HordeOrc, Undead, Troll

Race is not cosmetic in Classic — racials like Will of the Forsaken, Stoneform and Fear Ward change how the class plays, particularly in PvP.

Strengths and weaknesses

Professions for a Rogue

Two that pay off, and why. Each links to its own route from 1 to 300 — the steps, the material total and where every trainer stands.

• Leatherworkingyour own armour, and rogues use leather to level 60
• Engineeringbombs, sappers and a parachute — the toolkit rogues actually use