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I love the idea of the rogue bait…

Now along similar lines (but from the PoV of a Rogue), here is some creative baiting as presented by Captain The First:

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Been actually pvping on my rogue lately. Have a lot of alts and pvping on my rogue and warlock have reinvigorated the fun in playing those toons. I enjoy PvE, but since I have 5 80s…running heroics has gotten a bit old so now I do slightly different things with each toon.

1. Tank on pally
2. Heal on Shammy
3. DPS or Extreme Solo on Hunter
4. Raid Boomkin, or Tank on Druid with some heroics
5. BGs on Rogue with the occasional heroic.

I love BGs cause they are definitely challenging. With everyone gearing so fast, heroics have become almost a joke (still the occasional bad pug) and raiding takes a lot of committment that I dont’ always have so started BGs (pretty much did very little of it at 70, then expansion hit and lvled and have only done it as an 80 on rogue (though picked it up as lvl 77 on warlock)).

As a rogue in PvP, the hardest classes to fight are Tree Druids, Elemental Shammys, Mages and other Rogues. Very rarely will I ever get caught off guard by a hunter.

My only hope is that the Alliance will actually get better at BGs. Recently, I’ve been pretty vocal about strategies.

The games are very fast and if you’re geared for it, they’re fun. Great way to spend a quick 20 minutes (though some BGs (Eye of the Storm) may take running them multiple times to get the win).

At this point, I’m not interested in ganking or arenas. I like the coordination of working together against an equal opponent that is very unpredictable.

I’m Bodine on Echo Isles (Whirlwind Battlegroup) if you want to look me up and do some BGs. They’re really quite fun.

This is the most awesome thing I’ve read all day. Ruu, you rock. At some point most people who PvP or played on a PvP server have developed an inherent hatred of rogues. It even got to the point where I started playing one purely so I could learn their weaknesses.

I remember back in Vanilla Hunters were the rogue killers. Lately though we seem even weaker than normal against rogues. I take them down a lot easier on my warrior than with my hunter. Then again I’ve also shelved my hunter until Blizzard can figure out where exactly they want to take the class. The buff/nerf/change rollercoaster just got too much.

Also awesome to see a player who actually pursues fair PvP. Playing on a PvP server actually gave me a really bad view of PvPers. They all seemed to be out to grief and cause the most misery to anyone who they could kill as easily as possible. Challenge was to be avoided, the only time they’d go for someone was if they were grey to them.

He’ll stun you, twice in a row. You need to live through the first stun, don’t trinket it (large amounts of resilience is great for this), this first stun is called ‘Cheap Shot’ never, ever trinket the Cheap Shot or you lose. As soon as Cheap Shot fades, he will stun you again with ‘Kidney Shot’, you need to trinket this and immediately Scatter Shot (that talent is why every PvP Hunter goes 11 points into SV). From there you can trap, burst etc. do what you need to do. You should be in Track Hidden vs. a Rogue and get a Hunters Mark on him before you do too much damage to him.

At some point, he will Cloak of Shadows and Vanish (Cloak of Shadows removes your Hunters Mark, it is important to have it up so he has to Cloak to use his Vanish). At the moment, you can (almost) rely on a dot tick or a pet to pull him out of Vanish, but not always, and in Patch 3.3 Vanish is being ‘fixed’ (unfortunately, not the same fix I gave my pet cat… sadfase). When he’s vanished, if your health is good he will try to run away, if it’s not, he will try to re-open on you. Pot/Bandage/whatever and wait for the open. Hope you can see him before he does and you should win.

70% snare poison sucks :(

Disengage is incredible! Beastial Wrath is the Rogue/Clothie/Lock destroyer. I’m not a great PvP’er, I may not have the best tactics, but these mostly do well for me.