For you rogues out there, the REAL rogues not the picked rogue for pvp reasons type:
What is it about rogue that you like, and speaks to you in a personal level?
To me, Rogue isn’t a ‘class’. Its more than that.
I would define Rogue, as being a state of mind.
The ‘Class’ is just a vehicle to move the mindset. It speaks to me in a very personal and even primal level as to who i am as a person, as well as my hunter’s instincts as a human.
I tend to be anti-social and have few friends, i hate being seen. I don’t like showing off as it is impractical, im only tactical in my decision making.
I kill in WoW because it’s fun, it thrills me. I also happen to love cats A LOT, they’re my favorite species and own a pet cat. You know what i like about cats aside from being cute? They’re ‘Rogues’ too in a way, they’re prowlers, they kill small birds and lizards for fun, something i relate too.
WoW as a game allows me to scratch that itch it’s why i keep coming back to it, and Rogue makes me feel good, releases that dopamine from each kill especially in uhh WoD zones.
Most people are terrified of such things, but its just so fun, and i will never apologize for what i really am and cant hide from.
I played rogue because I like sneaking around and attacking from stealth. Open world and raids. Open world the sneaking around was awesome. Now I just play SV hunter and obliterate anything in my path and have no reason for sneak attacks.
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My Rogue does dirty work for good causes. He may get looked down on, but his precision killing means he’s ended far fewer lives than many of his more civilized colleagues.
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Neak neak neak
stabity stabity stab
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I only enjoyed rogue twice in its life time. Outlaw in legion because who didn’t like wildly slashing their swords frantically as well as going pew pew with their pistol. (they killed outlaw in bfa and burned its corpse in shadowlands for me). And sublety in shadowlands… which may die for me in dragonflight if i play it. Just because who doesn’t like using shadow trance and doing big damage.
don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious
Pick Pocketing Steamy Romance Novels and mailing them to random players for reasons.
Apparently in the WoW universe Rogues are defined by their use of magic.
I picked rogue initially cause it was a pure dps melee class that had cool abilities and DH was a hero class. I liked it so much i never really picked up anything besides DH.
Gameplay is satisfying all around (cept outlaw but that might change in DF)
Love the sin poisons and being able to just rot multiple targets.
Love how sub is just stabbing.
Mage tower really brought out the best of it
tbf “rogues do shadow/illusion magic” isn’t exactly a unique-to-wow thing, it’s pretty common across high fantasy worlds.
love-hate depending on the situation.
sub → aoe king, bad cleave, meh ST
outlaw → bad aoe, cleave king, ok ST
havnt messed with assassination recently tho, no idea.
i really wish they’d uncap outlaw with some diminishing returns i guess. so it can feel good all around 
Stealthing passed trash NPC’s to get the goods while everyone else fights the trash just to see me get their first.
I like watching people attacking the elites guarding the big chests and failing and just wait for them to get back so they can see me stealth in, sap one, blind the other and then loot the chest and walk off and then watching them try to run in before blind wears off and hit vanish so they take the aggro when it does. Fun.
Including various DnD games too.
In a world of magic and swords.
Bullets.
lmao.
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I always wanted to play the bandit/highwayman kind of character.
Where I would ambush unsuspecting travelers crossing a bridge or something and rob them of all their money and jewels.
PvP reasons is a core part of what it means to be a REAL rogue. Stealth is just such a massive psychological and practical advantage. You can be invisible and stand 5 feet from someone and they won’t know you are there. You can stalk people and choose favourable engagements and your enemies can do little to stop you. You can mess with people with sap/distract/etc. You can resealth almost endlessly. If you are alive, you are a threat. You can walk away from people and have fun knowing that they will be on high alert for like the next 5 minutes. It’s just fun as hell having a playstyle and toolkit that’s so annoying to fight. Kinda interesting that you talked about rogues tickling your hunting instincts but you excluded pvp rogues who “hunt” other players
Rogues Do It From Behind 
