Classes

LEVELING GUIDE

WoW Forever Subtlety Rogue Leveling Guide

Subtlety is weak at level 20: you have neither your main builder nor the talents that power up , and . Level with a dagger in your main hand, fighting with big and hits. Keep your main-hand weapon up to date, and craft your own leather armor with Skinning and Leatherworking.

Recommended talents

Level 20 · Subtlety0/9/2

Recommended professions

  • Skinning
    Gathers the leather for Leatherworking. It also gives the camping buff.
  • Leatherworking
    Makes useful leather armor from the start, and at 20 lets you craft six pieces of gear such as .

ROUTELevel-by-level route

  1. 5

    Levels 1–5

    Basics and professions

    • Build combo points with and finish with . Early on, auto attacks do a big share of your damage.
    • Once you learn at level 4, put a dagger in your main hand and use it from behind the target. It is this spec's main builder.
    • Pick up Skinning and Leatherworking right away. Turn the leather you skin into early armor for empty slots.
    • Level First Aid too. Bandages and healing potions cut downtime between pulls and give an instant heal in a pinch.

    Gear to pick up

    New abilities

  2. 9

    Levels 6–9

    Keep your main-hand dagger fresh

    • Your main-hand dagger decides how fast you kill. Upgrade it whenever you can from quest rewards or dungeon drops.
    • As your Leatherworking skill rises, swap into the next tier of leather armor.
    • Move up to the next bandage as well.

    Gear to pick up

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (6) · (8)

  3. 12

    Levels 10–12

    First talents

    • Your first three talent points go into , raising damage.
    • From level 10, keeping up is the core. Refresh it just before it runs out.
    • Get the Leatherworking pattern and craft your belt: .

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 10–123/3

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (12)

  4. 16

    Levels 13–16

    First dungeons

    • is there for the s you use when you pull aggro and can't get behind the target. After it, start on .
    • Ragefire Chasm and The Hall of Thanes (level 13), Ruins of Lordaeron (15) and The Deadmines (16) open up.
    • In dungeons your job is largely preventing damage to the party. no longer breaks Stealth, making it reliable crowd control.
    • Alternate and to stop casts. If the group is mostly physical, raises everyone's damage.
    • opens certain locked doors in dungeons, such as the one before the last area of The Deadmines.
    • The Ruins of Lordaeron quest reward is a solid main-hand dagger.
    • At 15, craft chest and hand armor with Leatherworking.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 13–142/2
    • Lv 15–162/3

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (14) · (16)

    Dungeons for this range

  5. 19

    Levels 17–19

    Gearing up in dungeons

    • Three points in bring 's effective cost down to 41 Energy, on par with .
    • You learn at 18. Open from Stealth with a big . raises the damage of both and .
    • Wailing Caverns (level 17) drops the most rogue leather gear. Aim for legs, feet, hands, cloak and shoulders.
    • For weapons, aim for the dagger from Shadowfang Keep (level 18) in your main hand and from The Deadmines in your off hand.
    • At 17, craft your boots with Leatherworking.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 173/3
    • Lv 181/3
    • Lv 191/2

    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (18)

    Dungeons for this range

  6. 20

    Level 20

    Level 20 goals

    • Run Wailing Caverns, The Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep for the target gear below, and pick up the dungeon quest rewards too.
    • Craft the head and legs with Leatherworking to complete all six crafted pieces.
    • At 20 you learn a new rank of , which makes the dagger setup much stronger.
    • Also grab from the class quest and and from quests.

    Gear to pick up

    Talents

    • Lv 202/2
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    New abilities

    Rank upgrades

    (20) · (20)

ROTATIONHow to fight

  1. 1Open from Stealth with .
  2. 2Build combo points with .
  3. 3Keep up and refresh it as close to expiring as you can.
  4. 4If the group is mostly physical and the target will live long enough, apply .
  5. 5Otherwise keep spamming while maintaining . Finish targets that are about to die with .

GEARLevel-20 target gear

Dungeon drops, quest rewards and crafted items worth chasing at level 20 for this spec, by slot, best stats for the spec first.

Head

Neck

  • BestQuest
    Quest: Friend of the Library

Shoulder

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Finger

  • BestQuest
    Quest: Greater Friend of the Library
  • BestClass quest
    Class quest: The Horn of Xelthos

One-Hand

Ranged

CLASS QUESTSClass quests

  • The Horn of Xelthos

    A Stealth-focused rogue class quest. Reward: .
    • Class quest

CAMPINGCamping

  • The top three damage camping buffs to aim for are from Mining, from Skinning and from Fishing.