This is particularly true during Phase 2 when you are raiding Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Cavern.Spiritual Focus : Every 2 Chi reduces the cooldown of Storm, Earth, and Fire by 1 second. If you don't need to use Improved Expose Armor, then just take those two points to put into Murder. Whenever the raid you are doing contains a lot of Murderable enemies, you will want to switch one point from Lethality and one point from Opportunity into Murder. If you have another rogue in your raid willing to apply Expose Armor and you don't have to, you can move those two talent points and one point from Ruthlessness into Lethality instead for a slight boost in personal damage. This build is included for the readers who simply find the dagger play style more fun and want to optimize within the constraint of only using dagger weapons. Dagger builds will output significantly less damage compared to Combat swords. This build does not generate enough combo points to reliably maintain both Slice and Dice and Expose Armor, which is part of why it struggles to compete in damage output. This is the best version of Combat daggers that you can do in Burning Crusade. If you have another rogue in your raid willing to apply Expose Armor and you don't have to, you can move those two talent points into Lethality instead for a slight boost in personal damage.Ĭombat Daggers 15/41/5 Rogue DPS Talent Build Some notable maces and fist weapons that you would use this build with are Dragonmaw, Rod of the Sun King, and Hand of the Deceiver. If you want to use a fist, swap those Mace Specialization points into Fist Weapon Specialization. If you have a mace, keep the points in Mace Specialization right where they are. You can use a slow mainhand (2.6 - 2.8 speed) mace or fist in the main hand and you still want a fast off hand sword (1.5 or 1.4 speed) for this build. This is a variant of the Combat swords build that allows the use of a main hand mace or fist type weapon instead of double swords. This is particularly true during Phase 2 when you are raiding Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Cavern.Ĭombat Sword Hybrid 16/45/0 Rogue DPS Talent Build Whenever the raid you are doing contains a lot of Murderable enemies, you will want to switch the talents from Improved Eviscerate into Murder. If you have another rogue in your raid willing to apply Expose Armor and you don't have to, you can move those two talent points into Vile Poisons instead for a slight boost in personal damage. The offhand speed is incredibly important for both Combat Potency and Sword Specialization - the faster the better.
You will want to use a slow mainhand sword (2.6 - 2.8 speed) and a fast offhand sword (1.5 or 1.4 speed) for this build.
It offers the best damage output as well as plenty of combo point generation to be able to apply Expose Armor while also maintaining Slice and Dice. This is the talent specialization you want to be using in Burning Crusade for raiding as a rogue. These are not recommended if you want to be dealing the most damage you can in PvE dungeons and raids.Ĭombat Swords 20/41/0 Rogue DPS Talent Build For the dagger enthusiasts who just want to stab, we've covered the optimal Combat daggers and Assassination Mutilate builds as well. The immensely powerful Combat Potency and Sword Specialization set Combat swords a big step ahead of other talent specializations like Combat daggers or Assassination Mutilate.
In The Burning Crusade Classic, Combat sword specialization is on top and the competing specializations are not particularly close.