WoW Classic Rogue Leveling Guide 1-60 (2024)

Last updated on Oct 01, 2019 at 01:09by Sellin44 comments

This guide will aim to provide you with a clear skill and gear path to max levelin WoW Classic. While detailing every single quest and the optimal levelingroutes is beyond its scope, we will provide someinformation on your class-specific quests and some general leveling tips.

Rogues have three talent trees: Assassination, Combat, and Subtlety.

A Combat and Assassination hybrid is the recommended leveling build, due to the accessto two powerful cooldowns, as well as supporting choices, such as Relentless Strikes,and strong passives. The strongest build for leveling uses swords in both your Main handand Off-hand.

While Swords are better for solo play, Daggers arebetter for group play. Playing with Daggers will lead to higher DPS in groups,but when it comes to solo play it is much more difficult to play, since"Frontstabbing" does not work in Classic.

Subtlety sacrifices some damage for safety and for the ability to creep through the shadows.It has a couple of the safest talents in the entire game.

Because the travel times between quests can be long, and the experience gained bydoing quests alone is not always enough to get you to the next zone, you shouldaim to kill every enemy close to your level that you travel by.

The experience you get for each kill quickly, and drastically,drops as you level past the enemies you are killing. It is also much more difficultto kill enemies past your level, because you often miss and your attacks glance off of them, due toa mismatch of weapon and defense skills.

Also, to reduce travel times as much as possible, you should aim to save enoughgold to buy your first mount right after you hit Level 40. To help towards this goal,you want to buy only the most impactful skills from your trainer (we willprovide a list ahead).

Finally, as WoW Classic leveling can be long and arduous, we would like to recommendthat you befriend people who are also leveling in your zone as you go by, as levelingin a pair (large groups are not advised due to problems with quest item drop rates andexperience splitting) can not only make things faster and safer, but will also provideyou with someone to chat with.

Make sure you buy Dual Wield at level 10, this will significantly increase yourdamage output.

Learning professions early on is very useful, as you can naturally level themas you go, avoiding extra work at max level. This is especially true for gatheringprofessions, but crafting professions compensate by giving you extra tools to level with.

We recommend that you learn First Aid as soon as possible for easy self-healing.Herbalism and Skinning are great primary professions for a leveling Rogue, allowingyou to make extra gold, or accumulate materials that you can use to level craftingprofessions later. There is also a case to be made for leveling Engineering early on,since its crafts can allow you to immediately solo quests that would otherwise haveto wait for later levels.

While leveling, one of the most important things to look for is weapon upgrades. Asa Rogue, a large chunk of your damage comes from auto attacks and some of your importantabilities scale off of weapon damage, such as Backstab.

The best stat for Rogues is Agility/Strength for damage, since they both increase yourattack power, however Agility also increases Critical Strike Chance and Dodge as well. Spiritis also a very useful stat while leveling, especially since it increases your healthregeneration out of combat.

There is no Dungeon Finder in Classic WoW, so you will have to either finda group using people you know or look for groups in town. Dungeons can takea while to get to and a group wipe can set you back a lot of time, since you spawnat the closest graveyard outside of the dungeon and have to run back in. Theydo offer some of the best gear and dungeon quests give much more XP than normalquests, with some dungeons offering multiple quests for you to do. This is coveredmore in-depth in our Dungeon section.

Getting upgrades on any piece of gear will help the leveling process, butthe single most important upgrades to look for are weapons. Sword or Dagger upgradescan greatly improve your leveling speed. You should always be on the lookout forpotential ranged weapon upgrades which have a higher DPS than your current weapon.Read our full guide on weapons by clicking the link below.

Rogues have an extremely important quest that will greatly speed up your levelingprocess. That quest is broken down in great detail down below.

Congratulations on reaching Level 60! Now that you aremax level, we recommend looking at our Talents sectionand the rest of the guide in order to learn how to play at max level.

The best individual pages to read through are as follows.

• The DPS Rogue Talent builds guidehas the best builds for Level 60 covered. We propose builds forall specializations, with a focus on Combat for raiding.
• Our PvP Rogue guide is where youcan find the best PvP builds for Rogue.
• Goldmaking Guide for Roguesis a page with details on where / how to farm gold quickly as a Rogue when youare Level 60.
• The DPS Rogue Rotation guideis where you can read on how to optimize your PvE damage and how to prioritize your abilities.
• DPS Rogue Stats guide containsdetailed information on all Rogue stats, including a list of their priority fordamage dealing.
• Our Gear guide for DPS Rogueslists all the optimal pieces of gear that you will want to farm at Level 60, inorder to optimize your damage with a pre-BiS list for those trying to gear up forraiding.