Rogue Alliance Races

Alliance Races

First of the alliance races we’ll be covering is the human, a race composed entirely of either bulky amazingly muscular males or stupendously disproportionate females, either way they don’t quite look the part – but that’s not why we care anyway now is it?

First off is an incredibly worthless 10% spirit increase passive racial, as a rogue you will absolutely never notice the effects of this and it is for all intents and purposes nonexistent.  Next up, Diplomacy, is quite a step up from the previous ability, offering yet another 10% bonus, however this time it’s to faction/reputation gains, and what with the entirety of Outland being one massive faction grind it can’t hurt to have it.

Perception one-ups even the reputation gains should you be an avid PvPer, the increase to stealth detection allows you to become the greatest PvP scout possible and this comes into play more often than not when Arena teams are running with at least one rogue (nigh 90% of the time.)

Finally we gain an increase to swords and maces skills, five points, useful in raiding I suppose for absolute min-maxers but then again I don’t raid on a human rogue so I can’t exactly tell my tales of how great or unnoticed this improvement is.  Either way it can’t hurt now can it?

Night Elves, likely the most popular alliance race for rogues despite the fact that it possesses the absolute worst rogue racials possible, namely a free stealth of inferior quality and only makes up for it with 1% dodge increase(although this is nice.)

All in all I’d say that if you’re playing your rogue right you won’t need the increase to ghost run speed, we’re stealth assassins, made for tactical and skillful play, not constant corpse runs unlike other classes.

Dwarves have stoneform as the only notable racial, and quite notable it can be especially in crucial PvP situations, although funnily enough this is largely a defensive racial for fighting other rogues.  Fortunately this happens a lot so Stoneform does come in handy to the wary and prepared dwarf rogue, all one of them in existence.

Last but not least, well maybe height wise, we come to the gnomes.  Gnomes can easily be said to be the greatest alliance PvP race due to the usage of a single racial, escape artist, the woes of all melee classes bundled up into one root/snare breaking ability with a 1 minute 45 seconds cooldown.  How cool is that?