Rogue

The Rogue is a lightly armored melee class built around stealth. Rogues usually open a fight with a surprise strike from the shadows, then chain chosen attacks to wear the target down before a killing blow. They wear leather so they can move freely and hit first.

Rogues must pick their targets with care so their combo attacks are not wasted, and know when to hide or run if a fight turns against them. They fight with a weapon in each hand: daggers, fist weapons, and one-handed axes, maces and swords. Agility is their most important stat.

All three Rogue Specializations deal melee damage; they differ in how they do it.

• Stealth: Rogues move unseen across the battlefield and open with surprise attacks on careless enemies.
• Poisons: they coat their weapons in poison to finish off weakened foes quickly.
• Combo points: chained melee attacks build combo points, which are spent on strong finishing moves.
• Dual wielding: a weapon in each hand lets Rogues deal very heavy damage.

In Dungeons and Instances and Raids, the wiki notes that Rogues may be asked to disable enemies with Sap or Blind before a pull and to interrupt spells with Kick. They have little self-healing, so they rely on movement and tools such as Sprint, Cloak of Shadows, Feint, Crimson Vial and Vanish to survive, and Tricks of the Trade passes threat to a tank.

At high level every Rogue specialization chooses between two hero talent trees. Each tree is shared by two of the class's specializations:

The official class page lists every playable race of both factions for the Rogue, including the Pandaren, Dracthyr, Earthen and Haranir, which appear on the Alliance and Horde lists alike. See Playable Races and Allied Races for each race's traits.