(TBC Classic) What weapons would I use as a Subtlety Rogue?

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New to rogue in general, which weapons would I be using as a subtlety rogue (e.g. two daggers, a dagger and a mace)?

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Hoo boy, reaching back in my knowledge bank here, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong. If I remember though, Sub needed a dagger in main hand due to certain abilities requiring it, while offhand could be any 1H able to be equipped.

Again, I could be mistaken, but this is what’s immediately jumping out from my memory of it.

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What I remember was slow sword or fist weapon in main hand and maybe a fast offhand for poisons. Sub is great in PvP, pretty terrible in PvE.

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Wasn’t slow sword for combat spec? I thought spells like Ambush needed a dagger in main hand. I could be remembering wrong, and I don’t currently have a rogue leveled in TBC.

Honestly this question might best be asked in the TBC general forum. The people over there will be a lot more familiar with spec-specific questions for that game version, and it will see a lot more traffic as well.

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I didn’t play Sub, but my best friend did. My memory isn’t great but I don’t think they bothered with ambush, it was a whole lot of Hemorrhage, garrote, rupture, etc. The spec looked kind of like https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/rogue/005320105--5002530002321213501351 but I don’t know where the last point belongs.

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Both icy-veins.com and wowhead.com will have guides for each class/spec in TBC Classic. Going off the top of my head, however, what I remember is:
Sub - two daggers.
Assassin - dagger main hand, anything off hand.
Combat - slow hitting sword, Mace, or axe main hand, fast dagger off hand.

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Rogues can’t use axes in Classic, I don’t think that came around until Cataclysm.

Assassination needs to have two daggers to use Mutilate which is the only way they generate enough combo points to be effective.

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Thank you for the info!