Ok guys, I was wondering which Combat will be on top, close quarters, or swords? And which rotations will be used?

My understanding is CQC, top mainhand is CG, and WD is offhand.

Ok cool. As of right now I have never seen CG drop in about 10 runs of H naxx. I have WD, and I also have Kel'Thuzad's 10 man fist weapon. Should I just use those for right now?

Untill something better drops i don't think you have a choice tbh

Is it only me who sees the Prayer of the Week to be loss of 5 points. It's only needed to grab KS.
It's not very common situation that your raid boss is under your health o.O
Is the KS really so good talent?

Either you are reading the talent tooltip wrong or your healers are slacking.

I keep seeing people flip flop on the topic of Hyperspeed Accelerators vs Crusher enchant for gloves, so here is the math.
Crusher is +44 AP.
Hyperspeed Accelerators are an average of 56.6 haste (340 haste for 10 secs once per minute)

If the EP weights for AP and Haste are still accurate for 3.1, then haste EP for Mutilate is 1.6 and Combat is 1.4. AP is worth 1 point by definition. At those values, Crusher is worth 44 points for both Mutilate and Combat. Hyperspeed Accelerators are worth 90.56 for Mutilate and 79.24 for Combat.

In other words, Hyperspeed Accelerators > Crusher Enchant for gloves.

Though, the advantage from Engineering is still MUCH less than the advantage from any other non-gathering profession.

Conclusion: If you're an Engineer, pick up Hyperspeed Accelerators instead of Crusher. If you aren't an Engineer, it is NOT worth switching to get this enchant, as its effects are marginal.

Grenades don't seem to reset swingtimer. I don't know if rockets still resets the swingtimer after 3.1.

So Engineering does have it's perks on a static dps dps fight.

This assumes you're using the Accelerators on cooldown, which on some fights isn't practical; but yeah, it is mathematically better.

I've had a lot of success binding use trinkets or items to activate when I use SnD.

i.e.
/use <slot#>
/cast SnD

...or some variation.

It's difficult to find a situation where you would want to start a SnD and wouldn't be attacking a mob to get the use out of the item. This is especially helpful with the Accelerators being a haste item, and you would ideally want to stack all your haste buffs anyways.

This obviously won't be better than activating them RIGHT as they get off cooldown, but for people who forget to use them at all it's a good fix.

The pocket guide is now updated for 3.1. Most of the information is derived from various posts on the rogue forums concerning 3.1 and also from Aldriana's and Mavanas' spreadsheets. Thanks to all who contributed, most especially Aldriana and Mavanas. Please let me know if there are any errors or discrepancies in this guide and I will update it as soon as possible.

The glyphs included in your links are:

TofT, Envenom, Expose Armor for Combat
Garrote, Evasion, Expose Armor for Mutilate

With possibly the exception of TofT for Combat, it seems that the links you posted are not correct.

Interesting...



I'm assuming that you have similar glyphs when you click the link from the guide, while I get TotT, Sap, and Backstab from the guide link...

I noticed under weapons section, (mutilate #2 rank) [Golem-Shard Sticker] is listed as better for mainhand than [Perilous Bite], is this correct? Golem-Shard is 1.5 weapon speed and just 6dps more than Perlious Bite where Perlious is 1.8 speed. Wouldn't Perlious 1.8 PPM's be more dps?

Recent In-Game Fixes - 4/16/09

Durning BC Raiding rather than keeping up a 5 CP Rupture I was using an Imp. Expose Armor . We are currently raiding with either a DK or Paladin MT , would using Expose Armor still be enough of a raid DPS boost ( we run with an even amount of melee and hunters as we do caster classes ) to make it viable to drop a 5CP rupture ?

If you have any warrior in the raid, they should be sundering. It is much better for a DPS warrior to sunder than for a rogue to use EA.

dont forget to add [Blood of the Old God]

link is here for the item http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/..._17_9767_2.jpg

It is not on wowhead yet but will be better then [Pyrite Infuser]

Looks like a bug on Wowhead's side. Removed sample glyphs from talent links as they are covered elsewhere in the guide.

is there any advantage by popping KS along with BF or AR or both at the same time?

thanks for your comments.

Only time you should be using KS is when you have no energy, and you gain nothing from using BF or AR with KS. I suppose you can KS+BF on trash(more than 1 mob) for fun :s.

Technically stacking Blade Flurry with Killing Spree may make sense, as the 20% damage boost during Killing Spree applies to your autoattacks as well, so far as I know (not to mention the extra hits from Killing Spree will be carried to a second target if one exists). But using Killing Spree during AR is a very bad idea - your energy is almost guaranteed to cap out, which costs you significant damage.