Rogue Leveling Guide

This rogue leveling guide is designed for one reason, to help you cruise your way to 70. For those of you just starting World of Warcraft or finally deciding to level a rogue alt let me congradulate you. Leveling a rogue is one of the most fulfilling and exciting elements of the game, take it from me…I’ve leveled a total of 7 rogues to 60 and 2 to 70, clocking more days on the game than I’d game to remember.

The rogue class is a dynamic and engaging experience, simply put…it’s a blast to level. But enough talk, let’s get right down to what tools you’re going to need to level the most effectively, and more importantly, the fastest.

Now, I don’t recommend other player’s guides often…because quite frankly 99% of “expert guides” are 100% bull shit. But when it comes to leveling guides I haven’t found a more effective resource than Team I-Demise’s leveling guide package. The guide details the step by step process of leveling 1-70, and walks you through the whole process with an in-game map mod. Awesome guide that has my 100% recommendation.

Rogue Leveling Specs
First things first, let’s talk rogue leveling talent specs. This is probably the most important factor of any in determining the speed at which you can power grind quests and mobs. The best talent spec for leveling is almost always going to be a deep combat build, rogue leveling build - 19/42/0. The link to the left is my prefered build for leveling.

It offers the greatest long duration damage output, while not leaving you completely screwed if you get into a PvP situation. You will want to fill out the combat tree first and foremost, getting adrenaline rush, combat potency, and surprise attacks will help you greatly. Most of the assassination talents help, but aren’t as clutch. So 42 into combat first, 19 into assassination second.

Now, if you’ve ever visited my site before then you know I’m a huge fan of combat for all realms of this game. That said, a solid subtly build can work just as effectively for leveling purposes. Subtly rogue leveling spec - 19/0/42. Make sure you get your 42 into the subtly tree before putting any into assassination.

Keep in mind, the build above takes advantage of only those talents that will provide the greatest benefit to you in a leveling environment. It’s not designed for PvP, but due to the strong openers and energy management will offer you better protection against ganking (and the ability to gank) than the combat build.

Either of the above two builds will work great for you, as will any slight point variations. The only builds you should stay 100% away from are those which use position attacks, in essence, mutilate, backstab, and ambush. Since you’ll be solo grinding large portions of your experience and quest you can’t afford to deal with positional attacks.

Best Rogue Race
Now this is a very difficult question, especially for someone who plays a troll rogue. I’ve built two lists below to hopefully give you some guidance. These lists are based off of the overall effectiveness / usefulness of the racials, considering both PvE and PvP elements.

Horde

1. Undead
2. Blood Elf
3. Orc
4. Troll

Alliance

1. Human
2. Gnome, Dwarf
3. Night Elf

Rogue Leveling Weapons
For weapons we are going to be using a hierarchy of big hitting swords. If you have another character with a bit of gold (and you should since you’ve already read my Gold Secrets Guide!) you can certainly assist your rogue’s leveling ability by purchasing swords off the auction house. However, for the purpose of this guide let’s go over all the swords easily at our disposal.

1. Wingblade - complete quest “Leaders of the Fang” in Wailing Caverns, min. level 10 (horde only)
2. Outlaw Sabre - complete quest “Baron Aquanis” in Ashenvale, min. level 21 (horde only)
3. Sword of Serenity - complete quest “In the name of the Light” in Scarlet Monastery, min. level 34 (alliance only)
4. Sword of Omen - complete quest “Into the Scarlet Monastery” in Scarlet Monastery, min. level 34 (horde only)
5. Vanquisher’s Sword - complete quest “Bring the End” (horde only) or “Bring the Light” (alliance only) both in Razer Fend Down, min. level 37
6. Thrash Blade - complete quest “Corruption of Earth and Seed“, in Maraudon min. level 45 (alliance & horde)
7. Foe Reaver - complete quest “Felspark Ravine” (horde only) or “The Path of Anguish” (alliance only) in Hellfire Peninsula, min. level 58
8. Blade of the Unyielding - complete quest “Honor the Fallen” in Hellfire Peninsula, min. level 58 (horde only)
9. Keen Marshfang Slicer - complete quest “The Sharpest Blades” (horde only) or “Lines of Communication” (alliance only) in Zangarmarsh, min. level 62

Now, obviously I haven’t listed out every single sword from every quest out there. But, this is the list I’ve used to level all of my rogues and found it works quite well. When you have gaps in the list simply get the best green sword available.

For swords you think should be on this list, but I left out, check this custom wowhead chart I’ve created. It details every uncommon, rare, or epic sword from levels 1-70 so you can always find what you need.

Blacksmithing 1-375 Leveling Guide

Blacksmithing is a great profession for some classes in World of Warcraft. Typically it’s reserved for warriors, rogues, and paladins. The profession is great because it offers some of the best plate armor and strongest weapons in the game.

You should note that even though Blacksmithing is a great profession it is something of a money drain. Due to the insane amount of materials required at certain points in the leveling process you’ll have to drop some serious gold. Though if you are a miner you can farm most of your materials on your own, certainly making the costs a bit more manageable.

That said, if you think you’re ready checkout the leveling guide below. So far it’s the fastest way I’ve found to level from 1 to 375. In addition to the items you’ll want to create I’ve included all the materials necessary for the entire leveling process.

Also, if you’re looking for additional guides on leveling your profession you need to check out Penn’s Profession Mastery. The guy is just a titan of profession, his guide details the fastest way to level up all 13 professions as well as details maps on locations of recipes, farming materials, and more.

Materials:	Amount:
Rough Stone	105
Coarse Stone	80
Silver Bar	5
Rough Grinding Stone	10
Bronze Bar	120
Heavy Stone	75
Gold Bar	5
Coarse Grinding Stone	10
Iron Bar	240
Heavy Grinding Stone	70
Green Dye	30
Steel Bar	350
Solid Stone	40
Solid Grinding Stone	110
Mithril Bar	120
Dense Stone	10
Thorium Bar	330
Fel Iron Bar	110
Adamantite Bar	105
Netherweave Cloth	25

Apprenticeship Blacksmithing Level 1-75

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
1-25	Rough Sharpening Stone	Rough Stone x1	25
25-65	Rough Grinding Stone	Rough Stone x2	40
65-75	Coarse Sharpening Stone	Coarse Stone x1	10

Journeyman Blacksmithing Level 75-150

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
75-100	Coarse Grinding Stone	Coarse Stone x2	25
100-105	Silver Rod	Silver Bar x1 Rough Grinding Stone x2	5
105-125	Rough Bronze Leggings	Bronze Bar x6	20
125-150	Heavy Grinding Stone	Heavy Stone x3	25

Expert Blacksmithing Level 150-225

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
150-155	Golden Rod	Gold Bar x1 Coarse Grinding Stone x2	5
155-185	Green Iron Leggings	Iron Bar x8 Heavy Grinding Stone x1 Green Dye x1	30
185-200	Golden Scale Bracers	Steel Bar x5 Heavy Grinding Stone x2	15
200-210	Solid Grinding Stone	Solid Stone x4	10
210-215	Golden Scale Bracers	Steel Bar x5 Heavy Grinding Stone x2	5
215-235	Steel Plate Helm	Steel Bar x14 Solid Grinding Stone x1	20

Artisan Blacksmithing Level 225-300

Note: you can make Mithril Coifs instead if you don’t want to buy the Mithril Spurs pattern.

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
235-250	Mithril Spurs	Mithril Bar x4 Solid Grinding Stone x3	15
250-260	Dense Sharpening Stones	Dense Stone x1	10
260-275	Mithril Spurs	Mithril Bar x4 Solid Grinding Stone x3	15
275-295	Imperial Plate Bracers	Thorium Bar x12	20
295-300	Imperial Plate Boots	Thorium Bar x18	5

Master Blacksmithing Level 300-375

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
300-305	Fel Weighstone	Fel Iron Bar Netherweave Cloth x1 x1	5
305-320	Fel Iron Plate Belt	Fel Iron Bar x4	15
320-325	Fel Iron Chain Tunic	Fel Iron Bar x9	5
325-330	Lesser Rune of Warding	Adamantite Bar x1	5
330-340	Adamantite Cleaver	Adamantite Bar x8	10
340-350	Lesser Rune of Shielding	Adamantite Bar x1	10
350-360	Adamantite Weightstone	Adamantite Bar x1 Netherweave Cloth x2	10

As with any profession the last few points are going to be the most expensive, and therefore incredibly painful! Haha, but anyways, the easiest way to knock out these last few points is to take advantage of the reputation patterns from aldor or scryers. Below you’ll find a listing of materials you’ll need for each reputation, as well as the recommended items you should craft.

Adlor Extra Materials:	Amount:
Fel Iron Bar	160
Primal Water	70
Primal Fire	60

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
360-370	Flamebane Gloves (Aldor Only)	Fel Iron Bar x8 Primal Water x4 Primal Fire x4	10
370-375	Flamebane Breastplate (Aldor Only)	Fel Iron Bar x16 Primal Water x6 Primal Fire x4	5

Scryer Extra Materials:	Amount:
Hardened Adamatite Bar	50
Arcane Dust	220
Large Prismatic Shard	40

Skill:	Item:	Materials:	Amount:
360-370	Enchanted Adamantite Boots (Scryer Only)	Hardened Adamantite Bar x3 Arcane Dust x12 Large Prismatic Shard x2	10
370-375	Enchanted Adamantite Breastplate (Scryer Only)	Hardened Adamatite Bar x4 Arcane Dust x20 Large Prismatic Shard x4	5

Enchanting 1-375 Leveling Guide

Enchanting is another one of those just perfect professions that can literally be used by every class. There are loads of great benefits to having the profession. You can disenchant your own items for profit or enchanting materials, you get the ability to enchant your rings (only enchanters get this!), and you can sell your services to an eagerly awaiting server population.

One of the biggest misconceptions about enchanting is that it costs so much gold to level. The great thing about enchanting is you can easily level it without dramatically impacting your income while you level your characters.

If you are already at 70 then you probably are better off just trying to buy your materials and level it. I mean, let’s face it, you don’t want to be running around the Barrens farming green items.

Below is a list of all the materials you’ll need to level the profession from 1 to 375. Keep in mind that this list is somewhat of an estimation. Depending on if you get all the possible skill ups where you could will determine if you need a few more enchanting materials.

Materials:	Amount:
Strange Dust	150
Soul Dust	90
Vision Dust	170
Dream Dust	300
Illusion Dust	146
Arcane Dust	425
Simple Wood	15
Lesser Magic Essence	15
Greater Magic Essence	25
Lesser Astral Essence	15
Greater Astral Essence	2
Lesser Mystic Essence	25
Greater Mystic Essence	2
Lesser Nether Essence	15
Greater Nether Essence	10
Greater Eternal Essence	8
Greater Planar Essence	96
Large Brilliant Shard	8
Large Prismatic Shard	48
Purple Lotus	40
Crystal Vial	20
Shadowgem	1
Iridescent Pearl	1
Black Pearl	1
Golden Pearl	1
Copper Rod	1
Silver Rod	1
Golden Rod	1
Truesilver Rod	1
Arcanite Rod	1
Fel Iron Rod	1
Runed Arcanite Rod	1
Nightmare Vine	10
Imbued Vial	10
Adamantite Rod	1
Primal Might	1

Now you can either go out and buy all your materials or simply get them as you level up. If you are leveling enchanting as you level your character you’ll be able to get lots of easy skill ups early.

Though I didn’t list them in the guide below you can dramatically reduce of the amount of enchant bracer - minor health enchants you have to do by simply disenchanting low level items for skill ups.

Unfortunately after about 75 skill level you cannot gain any more skill ups from disenchanting items. In addition, if you are already at level 70 you might just want to buy some cheap green items and disenchant them for skill ups early, especially since you’ll need the dusts anyway.

Skill:	Enchant:	Materials:	Amount:
1-2	Runed Copper Rod	Copper Rod x1 Strange Dust x1 Lesser Magic Essence x1	1
2-75	Enchant Bracer - Minor Health	Strange Dust x1	74
75-85	Enchant Bracer - Minor Deflection	Lesser Magic Essence x1 Strange Dust x1	10
85-100	Enchant Bracer - Minor Stamina	Strange Dust x3	15
100-101	Runed Silver Rod	Silver Rod x1 Strange Dust x6 Greater Magic Essence 3 Shadowgem x1	1
101-105	Enchant Bracer - Minor Stamina	Strange Dust x3	5
105-120	Greater Magic Wand	Simple Wood x1 Greater Magic Essence x1	15
120-130	Enchant Shield - Minor Stamina	Lesser Astral Essence x1 Strange Dust x2	10
130-150	Enchant Bracer - Lesser Stamina	Soul Dust x2	25
150-151	Runed Golden Rod	Golden Rod x1 Iridescent Pearl x1 Greater Astral Essence x2 Soul Dust x2	1
151-160	Enchant Bracer - Lesser Stamina	Soul Dust x2	9
160-165	Enchant Shield - Lesser Stamina	Lesser Mystic Essence x1 Soul Dust x1	5
165-180	Enchant Bracer - Spirit	Lesser Mystic Essence x1	15
180-200	Enchant Bracer - Strength	Vision Dust x1	20
200-201	Runed Truesilver Rod	Truesilver Rod x1 Black Pearl x1 Greater Mystic Essence x2 Vision Dust x1	1
201-205	Enchant Bracer - Strength	Vision Dust x1	5
205-225	Enchant Cloak - Greater Defense	Vision Dust x3	20
225-235	Enchant Gloves - Agility	Lesser Nether Essence x1	10
235-245	Enchant Chest - Superior Health	Vision Dust x6	10
245-250	Enchant Bracer - Greater Strength	Dream Dust x2 Greater Nether Essence x1	5
250-270	Lesser Mana Oil	Dream Dust x3 Purple Lotus x2 Crystal Vial x1	20
270-290	Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina	Dream Dust x10	20
290-291	Runed Arcanite Rod	Arcanite Rod x1 Golden Pearl x1 Illusion Dust x10 Greater Eternal Essence x4 Runed Truesilver Rod x1 Large Brilliant Shard x1	1
291-300	Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense	Illusion Dust x8	9
300-301	Runed Fel Iron Rod	Fel Iron Rod x1 Greater Eternal Essence x4 Large Brilliant Shard x6 Runed Arcanite Rod x1	1
301-305	Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense	Illusion Dust x8	7
305-325	Enchant Bracers - Assualt	Arcane Dust x6	20
325-335	Enchant Chest - Major Spirit	Greater Planar Essence x2	10
335-340	Enchant Shield - Major Stamina	Arcane Dust x15	5
340-345	Superior Wizard Oil	Arcane Dust x3 Nightmare Vine x1 Imbued Vial x10	10
345-350	Enchant Gloves - Major Strength	Arcane Dust x12 Greater Planar Essence x1	5
350-351	Runed Adamatite Rod	Adamantite Rod x1 Greater Planar Essence x8 Large Prismatic Shard x8 Primal Might x1 Runed Fel Iron Rod x1	1
351-360	Enchant Gloves - Major Strength	Arcane Dust x12 Greater Planar Essence x1	15
360-370	Enchant Gloves - Spell Strike	Large Prismatic Shard x2 Arcane Dust x2 Greater Planar Essence x8	10
370-375	Enchant Ring - Healing Power	Large Prismatic Shard x8 Greater Planar Essence x10 Arcane Dust x20	5

Almost forgot to mention, it’s a great idea to try and sell your enchants as you are leveling up. Granted the lower skill level enchants are going to be difficult to sell, but as you start gaining some skill players are more than happy to buy enchants.

You won’t make a ton of gold until you break 300, but you can still help to lessen some of your expenses. One final note, as with any profession the last few points are going to be insanely expensive. It’s a VERY good idea to simply advertise your enchants.

There are always people needing enchants in trade chat, so if you can just have them bring your materials and do their enchants it’ll save you a ton of gold. They get enchants, you get a skill up, and you probably also get a sizable tip. It’s a win win situation for everyone.