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Best race for rouge?
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Post by
Vinceified
The title says it all...
I am planning to make a alliance rouge. But PLEASE feel free to put the best Horde race as well!
Can you also separate it PVP and PVE wise? It would help a lot.
Thanks!
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Post by
Tykzor
I agree with all the comments before me and that there are some advantages in choosing a specific race with specific racials. So I do see that.
But on a very personal note and to whomever is reading this, please don't be offended, I don't mean it that way, but in my opinion I think you should be able to choose any race you like and think looks best.
Like whats commented earlier, racials are getting reworked in WoD.
I think you should be able to choose a race because you like it, not because you are forced to choose a specific race because of a racial.
But everybody is free in how to play the game and how to choose anything ofc.
Post by
Tykzor
The title says it all...
Anything with pale complexity - for example nordic. Rouge looks really nice on those pale cheekbones.
hehehe. I really had a blast when reading this.Thankfully you didn't spell rouge as rogue. that would be ehmm even more hilarious ^^
Post by
morginar
In my opinion?
Night elf female.
Post by
onelotus
Zakkhar....lol so glad someone noticed. Drives me nuts when people call a Rogue, rouge.
Post by
Jkpman
The worst race is Orc, The last thing you want is to use too much rouge and be mistaken for a Fel Orc
Post by
SpectrusLegend
Am I the only one who rolled goblin rogue? Are the 1% haste buff and rocket jump just not worth it (for PvP especially)?
Post by
Slibo10
I would say Night Elf as I have one myself. But Gnome is also a tempting alternative. It was jaw dropping when I saw a Gnome rogue nuked a DK in PvP. It looked really like David and Goliath.
Post by
kaoschill
ally.
PVE: NE
PVP: human..... NE/gnome/dwarf
Horde.
Pve: troll, orc, belf are pretty similar. Be i believe pulls ahead nearing BIS gear
PVP: Belf or UD are top marks.
Post by
NightmareMJ
Since combat racials are about even across the board, i will address the real racials that are best on rogue:
Goblin: their racials collectively increase your gold income generation by 10-40% on average; their racials give you vast mobility in solo content, and are the best race collectively for solo content, especially pickpocket based farming (so gaining difficult titles like the insane, and finding unique epics only available in lockboxes) and kiting for mobs that normally take 5+ people to kill (in the open world). But...
Pandaeren: the food buff is just absolutely massive, especially currently and significant while leveling up (if you like fishing and cooking!) and you really like one of the secondary stats, the stat boost (especially crit or mastery) can make or break some solo fights, it can get costly though, quaking palm is a very nice no cost CC against or for ganking or fighting multiple opponents when you are a burst spec, BOUNCY just lets you fall from ludicrious hieghts with no fear of breaking stealth, losing health or being noticed, easily making it the best battleground and ganking/escape racial for non-subtlety rogues (passive power increase is much more extreme than active in this racial's case), this gives you vastly more extreme distance mobility than other characters as you can just drop off cliffs, when they follow and lose health from falling, bam. Very solid all rounder, the taking much less damage in raids (knock up and fall mechanics) is very nice, especially in soloing old raid content (as lots of that around, losing 10% max hp instead of 90% on a class with no burst heal is very noticble!).
Worgen: mnn crit, dual form, and stacking speed boost, definitely the best flag running racials, especially on those days run wild is bugged and lets you keep holding flag ;), male worgen have the coolest fist weapon animations which is very important for some in solo content, more of the mobility and peculiar choices race. Gear especially rogue helms look very hideous on them.
Dwarf: a second cloak of shadows that cleanses bleeds and reduces damage taken, this means ABSOLUTE vanishes that won't be broken, scripting the macro correctly is a bit tricky against unstable affliction but isn't a problem for most. Prior to the loss of treasure hunter racial this was the best race for rogue since before vanilla (maximum style points for female dwarf, the most feared rogues in wow historically), post treasure hunter loss we have the archaelogy racial, given the nature of archaelogy digging rogue is already the best at this (about 2% better than druid, but dwarves can't be druid so you end up 4x better in reality even if you move 2% slower over the long haul, but you dig faster too), so for Outlaw Rogues alliance side that want to farm archaelogy this is the best race for open world content. The bonus damage on crits is nice for Meta socket wearing twinks and crit based builds, but less impressive by a lot from pandaren. Take this race if you plan to be an archaeologist or want to ALWAYS escape or if you want to tank bosses and various content.
Human: Garbage for everything except at low levels where EMFH is useful in pvp (arena skirmishes or alterac valley).
Nightelf: effective stealth level increase is HUGE especially combined with the potion and the boots and bonus, this can let you simply ignore content in raids and gives you enough effective stealth level with the above to walk past true sight at quite close range against higher level content! Also signifcant in arenas (vs the true sight crystal buffs) and vs cats eye elixir and the engineering goggles. Somewhat niche use as the sneaky race, but shadowmeld can let you dodge spells wihout reseting content so its signifcant vs oneshot mechanics in soloing, the 2% miss chance is also nice combined with all the other rogue abilities for dodging solo content or the random game ending spell or strike, it can be overcome with legacy hit rating effects and such though (vs twinks only essentially), but works rarely against 'unaboidable' attacks.
Orc: stun resistence and blood fury are interesting, makes a good pvp race and useful vs bosses that stun you for more than 10 seconds, not otherwise useful (but they look great!) or vs classes with lots of chain stuns.
Troll: nope, unless you plan to only fight beasts when farming these folk pale compared to other races.
Gnome: so tiny and so cute, you can do interesting things with shrinking your character, but its a plus minus thing, good for hiding in plane sight and other sneaky tactics in pvp, the 5% increased energy will be interesting in legion if it applies after you exceed 200 energy but otherwise its weak.
Bloodelf: all key mobs and bosses immune to stuns are also immune to silence so this race is only useful in pvp, female bloodelves however are top 3 for best stealth animations!
Tauren: cant be rogues, top 5 stealth animation though and great visuals for rogue if you gain their apperence! There are rogues that are tauren in game (booty bay, outland, etc), some that still use twohanders(see vanilla wow beta for rogues wielding twohanders) would make great multifight rogues due to warstomo and tankier stats.
Draenei: the actually best racials for rogue thoroughput, scaling, and self survival (or healing an ally!), but alas cannot be rogues (rogue draenei exist in game however), terrible rogue animations.
The Forsaken: ahh undead, cool and undeady, bony, etc. the shadow drain is interesting, and is very strong on subtlety rogues, especially in legion, great for solo content where you get the scaling damage boost vs older content, there is some items in game that increase this talents damage output but you need a party member to orovide those debuffs for you making it a great race for duoing content, the charm break would be great if it worked vs boss mind control but alas, this is a fun flavorful race, canaibalize can be very strong depending kn what you are doing, and ladting longer underwater is useful for certain farming things! Poor race choice otherwise.
Final Consensus
Best race for Rogue
Alliance: Pandaren (all rounder) or Dwarf (archaelogy or pvp)
Horde: Goblin (gold income, utility, and all rounder) or Pandaren (all rounder)
Honorable Mention: Nightelf for Subtlety rogues.
As we can see Goblin is likely the best race for every single purpose in the game for Rogues, and especially for the things mentioned which no other race can do a comparable job.
If you want to only do highly specific things or style points matter more than anything else just check the details above for which thing you want to only be amazing at or choose solely based on looks, duh!
Post by
zivlaks
Any female race unless you're a drag queen
Post by
ErisStrife
Human or NE female.......choose the lighter skin tones for a more dramatic effect. Try to stay away from the blue/ greenish NE skin tones. Since the new models came out, Gnome and Dwarf females could look decent too, again use a lighter skin tone. If you gender identify in different ways any of the male races would work too.....just go sans facial hair. Unfortunately Pandas do not work as well because of their furry faces......but you could try.
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