{"id":682,"date":"2009-07-13T14:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/?page_id=682"},"modified":"2010-07-16T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T14:55:07","slug":"i-wanna-be-a-rogue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/?page_id=682","title":{"rendered":"I Wanna Be: A Rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ll steal all the change from your pockets, and your hearts. It’s the rogues!<\/p>\n

About a year ago, I and 2 other guild-mates got into a discussion over the “personality” of rogues, and what they should actually “be” like. One guildie (who’s main character was a rogue) argued that they should be powerhouses – the major, “in your grill”, class that duel wields massive swords and maces that smash people’s faces in. The other guildie’s take on rogues were that they were more of the “swashbuckler” class (he compared them to one of the adventure guys from Princess Bride…lol, I guess…maybe?); they swindled people out of money, were the first to join in a bar fight, and wielded a long rapier or dagger. As for my opinion, rogues are very sneaky, and very deadly. And while most would like to be a “powerhouse”, particularly during PvE fights, my argument was not to throw away one of the main characteristics of rogues: the ability to sneak up, kill, and disappear, leaving the victim, and everyone else to wonder “WTF just happened?” These rogues use very sharp, poisonous daggers, and, if time allows, they might steal your possessions ^_^. <\/p>\n

LoL, so, with this all stated, I tried to make each of the outfits below match in one, or a hybrid of, these categories. Please note that this is not<\/strong> an article over rogue gear<\/em><\/strong>. That’s something for Elitist Jerks<\/a> to figure out…LoL, just didn’t want any comments on this article to be “L2P n00b…that chest is for feral druids”… ^_^ or whatever.<\/p>\n

In any case, here are a handful of outfits Kirina Closet put together for anyone who wants to look like a rogue. I’ll start with the “powerhouses.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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For these types of rogue outfits, one will need to use larger leather shoulder armor and helmets. However, this raises the level requirement of the outfit, as most of this armor will be found at higher levels. The Heroes’ Bonescythe Pauldrons<\/a> are Kirina’s current PvE shoulders (I told you her gear sucked ^_^), and the Horns of Electrified Terror<\/a> is a reward from a Northrend quest. It will be tempting to use plate\/mail armor to complete this look, but, to stay true for rogues, it will be better to stay in the cloth\/leather armor realm. The Blackened Blade<\/a> is a drop out of Northrend dungeons, but any other large, one-handed sword will work just fine (again, two-handed swords are not being “authentic” ^.^). <\/p>\n

The rest of the pieces in this outfit are from “old” Azeroth. The Defias pieces are all zone drops out of The Deadmines (the chest is a “boss” drop). It might take one a while to farm for all the pieces, and to get the chest-piece to drop (took me like 7 runs before it did). The Defias Leather set<\/a> on its own also makes a nice RP rogue set as well. The Master’s Leggings<\/a> is a low world drop, and not easily farmed for.<\/p>\n\n\n
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