I am writing this guide from the perspective that you don't have any level70 characters/friends who can send you money, bags or enchant your items.
As a rogue you cant help yourself much until at least level18. Casters can farm some 60 lilen cloths learn tailoring and enchanting and create themselves a wand which is over 80% of their damage until lvl20+. The most important thing for you are your weapons. In the beginning you can only use daggers. Daggers are fast, with low damage range which is not good for your primary damage skill: Sinister Strike(SS). SS is an instant attack which makes you swing for your normal damage + some bonus for every level of SS you have. Thus, the slower the weapon (better damage range), the better for you. Your Worn Dagger has 1.60 speed, so every SS you do is like adding your normal damage from your mainhand weapon for the next 1.60 seconds. Imagine wearing a 2.70 speed sword, you start the fight and do two Sinister Strikes, this will do your normal damage for the next 5.40 seconds plus the normal swing you will do. So the general rule is: good rogue main hand weapons are slow weapons with good damage range.
The only way to level fast is to go with the Combat talent tree. Subtlety is cool but after you break stealth you cant hurt your opponents much. Assassination has many talents that add to your damage, but with limited points you can spend early in the game Combat is the best tree.
The build i will suggest you is a mix of Combat/Assassination talents until about level35, then switch to full combat until 50 and the rest into Assassination. I will tell you why. If you want to kill stuff fast you must never go without the Precision talent. It is a huge damage boost, wielding two weapons you have 24% chance to miss on your normal (white) attacks and 5% on your special (yellow damage) attacks. The 5% Precision adds are invaluable.
How to kill mobs: Don't use stealth at all. Pull with thrown weapon or ust charge the mobs, Sinister Strike several times, Eviscerate and finish them. Without talents Backstab's damage is terrible. Thank god improved sinister strike is tier1 talent.
Back to the topic. You are level1 and as I already said there is not anything special you can do to level fast, just do quests and kill mobs. The more quests you do the better. Try to do several quests at once, you must train your eye to read only the important stuff from the quest text, usually you only need to know the area where you must go, what you must kill to complete the quest. While Undead rogue is superior to Orc and Troll, quests in Durotar are better stacked. I suggest you to do only the first 2-3 quests in Shadow grave, get to level3 or 4 and head to Durotar. Once you are ready leave the town, take the road to Brill (read the signs), you may die a couple of times until you get to Brill but thats ok. Once there go a little southeast of the town and you will see the Zeppelin tower. You are looking for the Zeppelin to Orgrimmar, the one whose ramp is pointing west, ask the goblins inside the tower if you are uncertain if you are waiting at the right spot. Fly to Durotar, get down the tower and follow the road west, until you see the road south. Take south between the mountains and you will arrive at Razor Hill. Go further south and read the signs. They will tell you where Valley of Trials is (right turn, go west). Once there talk to NPCs get quests and start doing them. Once you do them all you should be between levels 6 and 7. You will get a quest to go east to SenJin Village. Get all quests there and go to Razor Hill. Make it your new home, again get all quests and start doing them. Get new skills from the rogue trainer there, and if you have the money buy some 6slot bags (5silver each). If you didn't find any bags yet it is important to buy bags for all your empty slots. Browse though the quests description and start doing them 2-3 at a time. Do not forget to equip better daggers you get from quest rewards. When you are done with the easy quests you should be level 9 or 10 (do not try the Dark Storms quest until lvl11). If not level10 yet follow the road to Orgrimmar north and do the harpy quest from the goblin, kill mobs until 10. At level10 you can learn the skill to use Swords, and you have your fist talent point. Pick Improved Sinister Strike at levels 10 and 11. Take the Zeppelin to Trisfal Glades, go south to Undercity, ask guards for the weapon master and find him. The Swords skill costs 10 silver. Also get DualWield from rogue trainer. Then heartstone(HS) back to Razor Hill (or fly the zeppelin if HS is on cooldown. The second harpy quest from the goblin will reward you your first sword. Put it in your main hand, and whatever dagger you carry in the offhand. Your offhand weapon really does not matter, just look for the highest dps. You can get some quests from Orgrimmar (Thrall). Finish all Razor Hill quests. If not yet level12 grind mobs inside the cave near the seaside east of Orgrimmar. At 12 get new skills and take the road west from Razor Hill to The Barrens. This is where you will spend most of your time until level 20. Turn in the quest at the border tower and take the road west. You will arrive at the Crossroads.
As a rogue you cant help yourself much until at least level18. Casters can farm some 60 lilen cloths learn tailoring and enchanting and create themselves a wand which is over 80% of their damage until lvl20+. The most important thing for you are your weapons. In the beginning you can only use daggers. Daggers are fast, with low damage range which is not good for your primary damage skill: Sinister Strike(SS). SS is an instant attack which makes you swing for your normal damage + some bonus for every level of SS you have. Thus, the slower the weapon (better damage range), the better for you. Your Worn Dagger has 1.60 speed, so every SS you do is like adding your normal damage from your mainhand weapon for the next 1.60 seconds. Imagine wearing a 2.70 speed sword, you start the fight and do two Sinister Strikes, this will do your normal damage for the next 5.40 seconds plus the normal swing you will do. So the general rule is: good rogue main hand weapons are slow weapons with good damage range.
The only way to level fast is to go with the Combat talent tree. Subtlety is cool but after you break stealth you cant hurt your opponents much. Assassination has many talents that add to your damage, but with limited points you can spend early in the game Combat is the best tree.
The build i will suggest you is a mix of Combat/Assassination talents until about level35, then switch to full combat until 50 and the rest into Assassination. I will tell you why. If you want to kill stuff fast you must never go without the Precision talent. It is a huge damage boost, wielding two weapons you have 24% chance to miss on your normal (white) attacks and 5% on your special (yellow damage) attacks. The 5% Precision adds are invaluable.
How to kill mobs: Don't use stealth at all. Pull with thrown weapon or ust charge the mobs, Sinister Strike several times, Eviscerate and finish them. Without talents Backstab's damage is terrible. Thank god improved sinister strike is tier1 talent.
Back to the topic. You are level1 and as I already said there is not anything special you can do to level fast, just do quests and kill mobs. The more quests you do the better. Try to do several quests at once, you must train your eye to read only the important stuff from the quest text, usually you only need to know the area where you must go, what you must kill to complete the quest. While Undead rogue is superior to Orc and Troll, quests in Durotar are better stacked. I suggest you to do only the first 2-3 quests in Shadow grave, get to level3 or 4 and head to Durotar. Once you are ready leave the town, take the road to Brill (read the signs), you may die a couple of times until you get to Brill but thats ok. Once there go a little southeast of the town and you will see the Zeppelin tower. You are looking for the Zeppelin to Orgrimmar, the one whose ramp is pointing west, ask the goblins inside the tower if you are uncertain if you are waiting at the right spot. Fly to Durotar, get down the tower and follow the road west, until you see the road south. Take south between the mountains and you will arrive at Razor Hill. Go further south and read the signs. They will tell you where Valley of Trials is (right turn, go west). Once there talk to NPCs get quests and start doing them. Once you do them all you should be between levels 6 and 7. You will get a quest to go east to SenJin Village. Get all quests there and go to Razor Hill. Make it your new home, again get all quests and start doing them. Get new skills from the rogue trainer there, and if you have the money buy some 6slot bags (5silver each). If you didn't find any bags yet it is important to buy bags for all your empty slots. Browse though the quests description and start doing them 2-3 at a time. Do not forget to equip better daggers you get from quest rewards. When you are done with the easy quests you should be level 9 or 10 (do not try the Dark Storms quest until lvl11). If not level10 yet follow the road to Orgrimmar north and do the harpy quest from the goblin, kill mobs until 10. At level10 you can learn the skill to use Swords, and you have your fist talent point. Pick Improved Sinister Strike at levels 10 and 11. Take the Zeppelin to Trisfal Glades, go south to Undercity, ask guards for the weapon master and find him. The Swords skill costs 10 silver. Also get DualWield from rogue trainer. Then heartstone(HS) back to Razor Hill (or fly the zeppelin if HS is on cooldown. The second harpy quest from the goblin will reward you your first sword. Put it in your main hand, and whatever dagger you carry in the offhand. Your offhand weapon really does not matter, just look for the highest dps. You can get some quests from Orgrimmar (Thrall). Finish all Razor Hill quests. If not yet level12 grind mobs inside the cave near the seaside east of Orgrimmar. At 12 get new skills and take the road west from Razor Hill to The Barrens. This is where you will spend most of your time until level 20. Turn in the quest at the border tower and take the road west. You will arrive at the Crossroads.
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