Rogue population

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I’ve noticed rogues are top 3 played class consistently on p server stats. I wonder if they are that highly played alliance side as well. Seems like every rogue and their back stabbing mother is undead. For instance warlocks are pretty rare and most are undead as well. Alliance warlocks are like unicorns.

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Rogues are top three because people see movies like Grim/WorldofRoguecraft and want to emulate that playstyle.

So they will be highly played on each side.

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I will role a toon just to kill every stinking, decrepit, undead rogue I can find! I got ganked by too many to count back in the day. They will pay dearly for their misdeeds! I don’t know what that toon is yet, but I WILL have it! MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

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I’m just gonna leave this here…

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We shall be reborn.

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Every poll I’ve seen puts rogue in the middle or low end of the class spectrum. It looks like Warrior, Mage, Priest, and Lock will all have more players. Hunter was about the same. Druid is always the lowest. Paladin and Shaman are also on the low end but that’s not really a fair comparison since they are 1 faction each. They will both likely outnumber Rogues on their respective factions.

Rogues will still be top tier dps but their PvP dominance from early Vanilla is long gone. If you try to kill another player with only sinister strike and eviscerate like Mute used to do you will get rolled. Rogues are the most fragile class in the game so if they don’t throw a perfect CC chain at their targets they will get blown up. Problem is people can break a Rogue’s CCs and murder them anyway.

Horde or Alliance if you wanna roll a rogue be prepared to be kited to oblivion while you learn the class. In the end it’s worth it. It’s really rewarding when you play a fight really well and beat someone you shouldn’t.

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Roflmao! I know what I am going to roll now! Rocks FTW !

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Interesting…so are you saying that later on in Classic’s lifecycle (or whatever) that other classes will catch up and be less easily preyed upon by rogues? I’ve heard warlocks have some good tricks for repelling ganks. Other classes [with gear?] can manage themselves against ganks well also later on?

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and you can be sure that ally rogues will make themselves well acquainted with my undead disc. priest in pvp :wink:

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Disc priests aren’t scary until around t2.5 when their shields absorb more damage than the priest has for health.

Also if people seriously think rogues are too strong now, we only get stronger at the start of 60 until mid t2 or full pvp gear for most classes since most classes will not be able to survive against a barman shanker rogue for more than ambush->backstab->cb-evis.

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Yes most classes except like, warriors, have an escape mechanic.

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but i’m not going to be playing a disc. priest because it’s scary.
i’m going to play a priest because that’s the class I enjoy the most in pvp.

I don’t get emotional/angry/frustrated in pvp, so being ganked holds no fear for me.

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As a Forsaken shadow priest back in the day, my escape mechanic was simply having enough damage reduction in shadow form and HP from gear to survive the initial stuns and stabs… And once I woke back up the offending attacker was introduced to a special level of of DoT-based hell for their transgression. :slight_smile:

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I will be playing nelf rogue and ganking every Horde I come across while leveling in Kalimdor on a PvP server.

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Horde warlocks counter alliance rogues so hard. Either just the fact that they don’t have to face UD rogues (like alliance) or if they roll Orc for the stun resist on top of that… Horde claiming wins over rogues/warlocks/priests is a joke. You’ll see plenty of UD/Orc for this reason.

Horde still have to deal with paladins (not Ret…) in BGs however, so it may even out. Gnome/Dwarf warriors with paladin pocket heals will hopefully be enough to even the premade playingfield. As for world pvp, UD rogues will conquer early on

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Who doesnt like to sneak around, spy on the opposite faction and one shot people with a Red Defias Mask on? best class in the game

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humans counter all races of horde rogues too if you want to get technical about it. technically the worst class in the “horde vs alliance” racials game is rogues on both sides since all humans have perception and all orcs have stun resist.

I don’t see how “horde warlocks” counter rogues at all anyway lol. Sap the warlock, kill the pet, restealth, kill the warlock. that way the warlock is out a shard AND also dead.

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Warlock pets can be sapped? I didnt know vanilla sap worked on anything other than humanoids. Can someone confirm this?

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Side track here. Anyone else simultaneously happy and uncomfortable that the OP correctly spelled “rogue” multiple times and didn’t refer to the class as the color “rouge”?

On the on end, awesome job on spelling the class – unlike a good percentage of your brethren.

On the other end, properly spelling rogue is not very classic at all. It’s breaking my immersion.

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who said sap the warlock pet? can you read? (sap only works on beast / dragonkin / humanoid anyway)