I played MANY moons ago and always wanted to play a Rogue. Just bought a brand new account and apparently I start at 424 ilvl. Is that high enough to do current content quest lines and such as a Rogue solo? I assume like a BM Hunter , Paladin are MUCH easier at that ilvl but I don’t want to get bored again and I want to play the Rogue… but I don’t want to get frustrated and stop playing lol.
Any opinions?
Rogue is kinda squishy from what I remember
Sorta reminds me of Monk and Mage, both were a pain to level up (constant stopping/eating to heal up after white attacks from a modest 2-3 pack 
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It’s high enough to comfortably start jumping into LFR and maybe normal raiding, as well as Mythic dungeons, and most open world content.
Yes, you can play a rogue as your main. You can do whatever you want!
This is what I am interested in the beginning… getting through and caught up before I get into raids and stuff. I just need to know if I will be constantly resing and stressing if I roll a Rogue at 424
I recommend subtlety rogue. It’s probably one of the best dps in the game for open world stuff considering it is bursty (and mobs don’t live that long), great ST stuns, (double?) vanish and stealth.
Remember if you stun your enemy and they do nothing to you before you kill them, it doesn’t matter if you’re squishy!
Back in vanilla, that’s mage to a T.
Thank you very much for posting this. I was super antsy until this post. I am going Subtlety now for sure.
Rogue is a great support class. I wouldnt play one if your main game is more solo.
If you want to run mostly group, yeah
424 is plenty. Plus there’s plenty of weekly quests such as the Fyrakk Assault and Dreamsurge on Dragon Isles which drop great gear, don’t involve groups or factions…it’s ALL in. Subtlety Rogue is a good start. Good fun once you sort out your rotations.
Yeah that’s true… I should be upgrading stuff pretty quickly if memory serves me correct. TY
Well, you picked the absolute worst class (well, mage and warlock also) if you dont want to get bored. I mained a rogue for over 15 years, because its a god-awful simplistic class to play and I like that. But all three specs are literally the same thing with 3-4 different flavor skills. Those skills ( for example … shuriken toss/ pistol shot or shadowstep / grappling hook, ect ) do the same things, they sit on the same spot on my bars between spec changes. All three rogue specs play very similarly as a result.
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Rogue has no healer, tank or ranged dps spec to switch things up. Its is an extremely one-dimensional class.
If you wanna, rogue do be fun
Man, you’re killing me… was laser focused on Subtlety but those are solid points. I wont be playing multiple classes so I need this to work.
Rogues do tend to be fun once you get going with one. Kinda comes down to what spec you wanna play as if you want to deal in knives and poison go assassination, you want to not use knives and instead use axes/maces/swords then go outlaw, and if you wanna be sneaky there’s subtlety. Never hurts to experiment to see what you find more fun about them though, just gotta remember only one spec lets you use more than knives but the two that do only use knives got plenty of tricks to make their knives hurt just as well
Druid is far and away the best “play only 1 class” in the game. You have tank, healer, melee dps, and ranged dps specs. Roles are where you notice the most change in gameplay, specs of all classes play roughly the same, but the roles change gameplay significantly.
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If druid is not your bag for some reason, Paladin, Monk, Shaman are the next tier of “i only want to play 1 class and not be bored”. They can do 3 different roles.
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I generally play 1 class only myself.
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edit> druid cat form is basically a rogue with the option to play tank, healer and ranged dps. It misses out on a few class specific rogue skills, but has other skills that are just as good or better. I always missed distract when playing a cat, for instance, but i think cat is better overall.
Absolutely you can as a rogue in 424 stuff for world fun. Start with sub for a bit to get the feel. You have decent heals, good DPS and quite a few get out of dodge cards to play.
Just moved to a Rogue after becoming bored with Evoker after hitting KSH.
Rogue is, uh… Well it’s a learning curve. It’s not ‘hard’ by any means, no class is if you put in the time and effort to learn how to get good. Unless you’re applying to the prog team at Liquid, you don’t really have to care about how impressive parses are for your desired class/spec.
Rogue class fantasy in WoW is the best Rogue class fantasy in any MMO I’ve ever played. It’s one thing Blizz did absolutely right from a class design standpoint. Wanna be a sneaky lil hooligan? Sub rogue. Watch your enemy die while you villain monologue? Sin. Be a pirate with two swords going ‘yar har’? Outlaw. It’s peak class fantasy anywhere you turn and I love it to pieces.
HOWEVER.
A lot of your DPS will be from managing small cooldowns and dancing between stealth and combo point spenders. If you’re not optimizing how many combo points you generate, your DPS suffers immensely. I’ve never played a class that’s as sink or swim as Rogue can be. You are either a dopamine factory with combo point spenders and big DPS, or you’re hissing at your screen as you wait for Shadow Dance or Vanish to get off CD to get those big numbers again.
It takes awhile to learn the best way to optimize, but once you do, you can start to learn how to not die. Once you learn that, you are literally a must have for high keys. You have great survivability, excellent utility/CC, and some of the best DPS the game can offer… You just have to git gud.
That’s rogue. ‘Git gud’ the class. You sink or you swim.
Wow thank you Ralerath for posting that. Very well said and definitely objective.
I am going to sleep on it but am deciding between Shaman and Rogue now and hopefully when I wake up it’ll be clear.
Oh Shaman is a great choice too, but I’m biased because I love enhancement. 
I wish you luck in your alt search!
Its actually my main and my only focus, so I need to get it right 
I really love Rogue MOG’s and so that is really where I am leaning. Mail MOG’s are just awful (tho the wolf head is pretty epic)