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.

A Preliminary Look at Assassination

So what makes this tree and build tick? Mutilate and Crit. As well as better poisons. If you like daggers, and you like poisons, then you will like this tree and it's abilities. The purpose of the Assassination tree is to build incredible burst damage and suppliment that with the affects of various poisons all the while generating more combo points than other trees. This allows for even better special hits and crits. Right now this tree is again in vogue again and is producing numbers that are very close to if not a little better than the numbers produces by Combat Swords during BC in boss fights.

One of the things I like about this tree, is that it really does focus on daggers and poisons. And being a rogue/assassin this is nice because it plays into that particular archtype. In a later post I will go into detail about the talents, builds and such from this tree as well as the best DPS rotation on special attacks.

Yrg