Rogue is one of the classes I’m torn on playing as a main in Classic and it will be either one of those two races. It’s a tough call.
Both: Slight advantages vs other rogues and druids. Human with Perception and Dwarf with Stoneform.
Dwarf: Find Treasure for the whole “treasure seeker” fantasy, resist buff vs the one caster that could be considered the bane of rogues (frost mage), gun racial (while guns aren’t a big thing for rogues, they are usable and thus isn’t totally useless)
Human: Mace and sword racials, spirit racial (did this make much of a difference?), Diplomacy (while nice it’s just a minor convenience and useless once exalted with reps).
This sound about accurate?
humans always had worst running animation. I had human pally once, made him draeni later ![:confused:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/confused.png?v=6" ":confused:")
and you will run a lot in classic
That is true. Point for the dwarf I suppose. Their trot skip is kind of cute. xD
well, female humans are fine, i guess.
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Dwarves have manly beards.
And we drink. A lot.
Axiom: if it can be a dwarf, choose dwarf. If it cannot be dwarf, it isn’t worth playing.
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Dwarf for pvp, human for pve.
Humans have the edge in PvE, due to Sword Spec. I don’t think they could use maces until TBC? Still, that +5 weapon skill is pretty huge. Perception is great against other Rogues in PvP as well.
Dwarves have Stoneform which is basically a win against a similarly skilled Rogue that’s not a Dwarf. Also Dwarves are in general cooler than Humans ever will be.
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Also, got to love the dwarf starting area. “Hey, you’re new. I bet your hands are cold. You need some mittens.”
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Uh… It’s gnome for pvp if u want to be pr0
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This man right here gets it 
I say yes to this question. I may be ugly but at least I ain’t got no money.
How are Night Elf rogues?
The most useless of the bunch.
They really bring nothing to the party save 1% dodge? The additional stealth is, imho, useless, as is shadowform in general because of rogue stealth.
They lack the racial bonuses that the other rogue classes have. Orc/trolls both have damage buff racials, undead have WOTF for PvP, gnomes have escape artist for PvP, Dwarves have stoneform, humans have sword specialization and perception. Night elves get shadowmeld. A completely useless talent to a rogue.
Honestly, combat swords is a boring spec, if you go human you’re staying sword spec forever. After AQ40/Naxx you can go seal fates which is alot more fun, plus you’ll be dagger anyways for pvp (burst>consistant)
Dwarf racial is ultimate for pvp. Clears blind and all poisons.
It’s a rogue killer.
Actually I’m wondering about that. Initially I thought Stoneform did dispel everything but I looked up the racials here.
https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/classic-wow-alliance-races-and-racial-abilities#dwarves
[Stoneform] While active, grants immunity to Bleed, Poison, and Disease effects. In addition, Armor increased by 10%. Lasts 8 sec.
According to that page, Stoneform makes you immune to poisons/diseases/bleeds for a time, which is nice, but it doesn’t say anything about dispelling them. I can’t remember how it actually worked back then and Wowhead might be wrong but I am genuinely curious.
It clears them too.
If you are blinded - get out of blind trinket.