A Preliminary Look at Combat

Combat 'was' the tree for raiding. During BC there was no way of getting around it. This tree simply out Dps'ed the other trees by such a large margin that it became the epitome of "cookie cutter builds". The purpose of this tree is to build upon a players base damage (white damage) and thereby increasing the damage overall that the player could do. Then you would add haste and crit to this to generate a tremendous number of attacks and they would all be hitting at near the top of what the weapons could do. This really favored swords in PVE due to the higher max damage that swords could output over daggers. Although fists were nice too towards the end of BC.

From discussions with other rogues this tree was fun for a while, then it became boring as it was always the same. In due time many of the rogues that I have talked with now changed to Subtlety so that could play in the Arena's or BG's, or they would vary this Combat Tree for Maces and build a 'Stun Lock build'. Either way, combat is about damage, doing the most you can as fast as you can. There is not a lot of variation regarding this tree outside of the type of weapons you chose, but this is also a solid tree to utilize while leveling up.

Yrg.