At least that’s how it worked for my boyfriend.

Welcome to the Dark Side, Cassie (that’s what I call it when I Stealth).

While my blog isn’t totally rogue-oriented, I do have two level 70 back-stabbers who are the epitome of “casual”–and I am more than happy to answer any questions that might come up.

My first suggestion is not to worry about what to spec at this point–play what’s fun! That said, though–I’d suggest daggers (or at least, main-hand dagger) for the time being, so you can take max advantage of things like Pick Pocket, Backstab, and Ambush.

Once you get to level 30, or 40, or higher, you might want to look more closely at some of the specialty builds: Combat Daggers, Combat Swords (Combat Maces is more PvP-oriented, but can still be practical for the casual player), Assassination (this can get pretty specialized pretty quickly), or Subtlety (I must admit, I do enjoy my Shadowstepper! But that’s not really a practical raiding build, believe me-although the spike damage from crits is pretty cool.).

And I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of this, but whatever you do, HAVE FUN!

Without going fully down the tree, you can pick up talents in the demonology tree in order to get nice bonuses to your damage and your pets damage.

Re: Rogues, never ever ever Sinister Strike with a dagger. Dagger off-hand is fine and dandy, but always use a sword or mace or fist weapon in main hand. The damage coefficient on mainhand daggers is bad for instants like Sinister Strike. However, if the target is just sitting there ignoring you, Backstab is happy stuff.

Cheap Shot, Slice and Dice, Sinister Strike x5, Eviscerate - recommended but not required.

It’s a great leveling companion filled with gear lists for every class and every level; and most importantly where to get them.

Plus, any blog named after ONE of my favorite daffy duck/bugs bunny episodes is awesome. My favorite episode is… “Shoot him now! Shoot him now!” “He doesn’t ahve to shoot you now.” “Oh yes he does have to shoot me now! You heard me! Shoot!” “BAM!” “Ah… I see… PRONOUN trouble.”

FG-Demo with at least 45 pts (you must have 2/3 in Mana Feed and 3/3 in Demonic Resilience to enable your FG to be effective). The FG-Demo is great if you run into tight area where you can’t really move around often and fearing is dangerous. For me the FG-Demo spec is all about CONTROL… your FG hits like a truck and the mob ain’t going anywhere beside stand there taking it hard.

Full on Destruction is just plain FUN. It is often not something most people associate with Warlock as being a direct face-melting class but with enough crit, hit, and spell dmg even POM-PYRO mages are envious. I truly reserve full destruction for BGs since I really don’t care how often I die in BGs… I can never use it like Drakedog with his mad seduce-nuke skills but when you aren’t worrying about death like in BG, OMG full destro is FUN to the MAX.

I’m really not sure what to suggest in terms of casual rogue blogs. You’re right about concentrating on AGI and STAM for her gear. I’d suggest the combat tree for leveling and using a good sword with high average damage (add min + max and divide by 2).

Also, I have a lowbie warlock (around level 21) and I also can’t get into her. I find my druid, hunter, and rogue a lot more fun, even though I know locks are pretty awesome in pvp once you get to the higher levels. I just can’t get into the mechanics of the lock for some reason.