Rogue specs, stealth and race picks

Last checked: 2026-11-12

Energy, leather, and three trees that Classic players already know by name: Assassination, Combat and Subtlety. Mobalytics is the spec source. Forever did not add a fourth rogue tree in that list. The class is still the stealth melee option, which matters more on a PvP ruleset than on Normal, because the ruleset page says PvP characters are almost always attackable. I am not writing a stealth-opener rotation. That would be a build guide I did not open.

IGN’s race call is Night Elf for Alliance, citing Elune’s Light as a short critical-strike window, and Troll for Horde, citing Berserking’s attack speed plus in-combat healing. The same article says nearly every race except Tauren can be a rogue. I stop there. I do not expand Elune’s Light into a percentage I did not re-read on a spell page. The research file shows about 520 searches for the rogue name itself, which is enough for a page and not enough for a poison encyclopedia.

Poisons and lockpicking recipes were not in the packet I used. I will not list vendor prices or dagger speeds. If you are picking a race, Night Elf or Troll is the IGN pair. If you are picking a ruleset for a stealth class, read the PvP ruleset note before you lock the character, because you cannot move that character to another ruleset later.