Celtic Heroes

PvP Based Rogue:

250 Strength
350 Dexterity
Rest Vit.

Maxed Riposte (must use at right time, and only works vs people that auto you, obviously).
Maxed Shadow
Maxed Quickstrike
Maxed Rend
Play Dead as high as you need it.

Routine: Shadow, Quick, Rend, Play Dead.

You will be playing dead within 2 seconds after dealing good DPS already, and will still have the rend ticking away. Stay on the floor until quick shadow and rend are ready for recast, come out of playing dead by using shadow, followed by Quick and Rend again, then Riposte whenever they are autoing and not skilling.

Rings for Rogue PvP.. You should look for Shadowstrike, Sneaky Attack or straight damage rings (Aggy/Hrungnir). Reason being, Shadowstrike is poison damage so unresistable in PvP, and the damage is also not cut in half like some other skills (Quickstrike for example). Damage Rings because Auto is not nerfed in PvP, again like Quickstrike etc.

Damage-Skill Based Rogue:

It is hard to set a good Skill-based Rogues stats, as you have to work around the equipment you have got, but I advise:

400 Strength
200 Dexterity
Rest Vit.

Maxed Shadow
Maxed Quickstrike
Maxed Rend
Enough in Double Attack to hit mobs your level (Best used with 160 Bone Dagger or Spear, not great with Frozen or DL Dagger)
Rest Sneaky Attack

Great burst damage with constant Damage from a decent auto and enough Attack to land a few blows. Any rings in the mentioned Skills are great.

Dex/Auto Based Rogue:

150 Strength
450 Dexterity
Rest Vit

Maxed Shadowstrike
Maxed Poison Weapon
Maxed Smoke Bomb
Maxed Life Steal
Rest In Fast Reflexes.

This build is great for landing as many auto-attacks as possible. It deals a fair amount of DPS, albeit not as much as the damage-skills build, but the survivability with this build is much greater.

Solo-levelling Based Rogue:

300 Strength
300 Dexterity
Rest Vit

Maxed Shadowstrike
Maxed Quickstrike
Maxed Riposte
Maxed Life Steal
Rest In Fast Reflexes.

If you have decent armour as well as decent gear and skill boosting items, you should be able to solo with this build, without pots. I personally can solo 189 4*'s using this layout.. Try it for yourself.

Support Based Rogue:
(Recommended for Lower-level Rogues in Higher-level Boss fights).

5 Strength
500 Dexterity
Rest Vit

Maxed Poison Weapon (Poison Weapon the higher levels)
Maxed Expose Weakness
Maxed Smoke Bomb
Maxed Life Steal
Rest In whatever you want.. I'd put enough in Hide if I didn't have a camo.

All-Round Bossing Rogue:

350 Strength
350 Dexterity
Rest Vit

Maxed Shadowstrike
Maxed Quickstrike
Maxed Sneaky Attack
Maxed Expose/Smoke
Rest In a Skill of your choice

It is always great to bring something to the team and contribute to a smooth kill, so having at least 1 support skill is always a good idea. 3 Damage skills are more than enough and will supply you with the DPS you need, but if you want a 4th, you could put the extra skill points in Rend, or alternatively, you could take a 2nd support skill, and put the rest in Expose/Smoke (whichever you didn't choose to max), or Poison Weapon.

Hope these builds help!

- Rapid

Awesome post!

Posted a couple to you so thought I'd go 1 step further and just make a mini-guide

Sticky!

Very nice guides. Looking into it more later.

Nice post, your last build is basically what i use right now, except i got 400 dex and str.

Nice post, your last build is basically what i use right now, except i got 400 dex and str.

Same but the extra 100 vit helps for Hrungnir!

Isn't riposte also good for a skill based DPS rogue? If you get aggro then if its maxed or at a high level its useful?

r the stats with adds with gear u have???????

BLRD what is the gear u use in the solo leveling build? Also do u use combos or separate lixes to lvl? Thank you in advance!!!