Rogue: Weapon-based questing
Combine Blade Flurry and Adrenaline Rush with weapon support. Riposte gives the route a reason to value parrying while fighting directly.
Editorial planning guide, grounded in the supplied beta talent descriptions. The allocation and point order have been checked for legal ranks and prerequisites. Combat performance has not been simulated or game-tested.
When to use this plan
Read Hack and Slash against your chosen weapons. Riposte is conditional on a parry and should not be treated as an always-available attack.
What you give up
Deep Combat spends points that could otherwise unlock Mutilate or the deep stealth toolkit. A leveling route is a point order, not a guarantee of questing speed.
Why these core choices?
Riposte
A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 150% weapon damage and disarms the target for 6 sec.
Selected rank 1 of 1. Requires Deflection.Blade Flurry
Increases your melee attack speed by 20% and your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent. Lasts 15 sec.
Selected rank 1 of 1.Weapon Expertise
Reduces the chance for your attacks to be Dodged or Parried by 2%.
Selected rank 2 of 2. Requires Blade Flurry.Adrenaline Rush
Increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% for 15 sec.
Selected rank 1 of 1.Complete allocation
All 20 selected talents are listed below. Expand any talent to see the exact supplied description at the rank used by this plan.
Assassination · 20 points
Improved Gouge 1 / 3
Increases the duration of your Gouge ability by 0.5 sec.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Remorseless Attacks 2 / 2
After killing a non-trivial enemy, gives you a 40% increased critical strike chance on your next Sinister Strike, Backstab, Ambush, Mutilate, or Ghostly Strike. Lasts 20 sec.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Malice 5 / 5
Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 5%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Ruthlessness 3 / 3
Gives your finishing moves a 60% chance to add a Combo Point to your target.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Improved Slice and Dice 3 / 3
Increases the duration of your Slice and Dice ability by 45%.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Relentless Strikes 1 / 1
Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per Combo Point to restore 25 Energy.
Row 3. Read every rank →
Lethality 5 / 5
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 20%.
Row 3 · Requires maximum Malice. Read every rank →
Combat · 31 points
Improved Eviscerate 3 / 3
Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 20%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Improved Sinister Strike 2 / 2
Reduces the Energy cost of your Sinister Strike ability by 5.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Endurance 2 / 2
Reduces the cooldown of your Sprint and Evasion abilities by 60%.
Row 3. Read every rank →
Riposte 1 / 1 Core choice
A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 150% weapon damage and disarms the target for 6 sec.
10 Energy | Melee Range | Instant | 6 sec cooldown
Row 3 · Requires maximum Deflection. Read every rank →
Dual Wield Specialization 5 / 5
Increases the damage done by your off-hand weapon by 25%.
Row 4 · Requires maximum Precision. Read every rank →
Blade Flurry 1 / 1 Core choice
Increases your melee attack speed by 20% and your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent. Lasts 15 sec.
25 Energy | Instant | 2 min cooldown
Row 5. Read every rank →
Hack and Slash 5 / 5
Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. Axe/Sword: Your successful melee attacks have a 5% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target. Dagger/Fist: Increases your critical strike chance by 5%. Mace: Your attacks ignore 15% of your target's armor.
Row 5. Read every rank →
Weapon Expertise 2 / 2 Core choice
Reduces the chance for your attacks to be Dodged or Parried by 2%.
Row 6 · Requires maximum Blade Flurry. Read every rank →
Aggression 2 / 3
Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, and Eviscerate abilities by 4%.
Row 6. Read every rank →
Adrenaline Rush 1 / 1 Core choice
Increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% for 15 sec.
Instant | 5 min cooldown
Row 7. Read every rank →
Three valid adjustments
Each option below is a separate one-point change to the original plan. It preserves the point budget, row gates and prerequisites. Choose an effect you need; the options are not a damage ranking and should not be applied together without rechecking.
Lethality → Improved Gouge
Move one point: Lethality 5 → 4; Improved Gouge 1 → 2.
Effect after this change
Lethality: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 16%.
Improved Gouge: Increases the duration of your Gouge ability by 1 sec.
Lethality → Murder
Move one point: Lethality 5 → 4; Murder 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Lethality: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 16%.
Murder: Increases all damage dealt by 2% against Humanoid and Giant targets.
Lethality → Improved Expose Armor
Move one point: Lethality 5 → 4; Improved Expose Armor 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Lethality: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 16%.
Improved Expose Armor: Reduces the Energy cost of your Expose Armor ability by 5, and refunds 1 Combo Point when cast with 5 Combo Points.
Level-by-level point order
This route reaches the complete allocation without a respec. It follows this guide’s core choices and prerequisites, rather than claiming an optimal speed-leveling route. Talented changes the level when each point becomes available, not the 51-point limit.
First point at level 10; all 51 points at level 60.
Use a Talented rank your character has actually unlocked in the Legacy system. This control models its point timing, not the rest of your Legacy allocation.
Show all 51 steps
| Level | Add one point | New rank | Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Improved Sinister Strike | 1 / 2 | Combat |
| 11 | Improved Sinister Strike | 2 / 2 | Combat |
| 12 | Improved Eviscerate | 1 / 3 | Combat |
| 13 | Improved Eviscerate | 2 / 3 | Combat |
| 14 | Improved Eviscerate | 3 / 3 | Combat |
| 15 | Deflection | 1 / 3 | Combat |
| 16 | Deflection | 2 / 3 | Combat |
| 17 | Deflection | 3 / 3 | Combat |
| 18 | Precision | 1 / 3 | Combat |
| 19 | Precision | 2 / 3 | Combat |
| 20 | Riposte | 1 / 1 | Combat |
| 21 | Precision | 3 / 3 | Combat |
| 22 | Endurance | 1 / 2 | Combat |
| 23 | Endurance | 2 / 2 | Combat |
| 24 | Lightning Reflexes | 1 / 5 | Combat |
| 25 | Dual Wield Specialization | 1 / 5 | Combat |
| 26 | Dual Wield Specialization | 2 / 5 | Combat |
| 27 | Dual Wield Specialization | 3 / 5 | Combat |
| 28 | Dual Wield Specialization | 4 / 5 | Combat |
| 29 | Dual Wield Specialization | 5 / 5 | Combat |
| 30 | Blade Flurry | 1 / 1 | Combat |
| 31 | Hack and Slash | 1 / 5 | Combat |
| 32 | Hack and Slash | 2 / 5 | Combat |
| 33 | Hack and Slash | 3 / 5 | Combat |
| 34 | Hack and Slash | 4 / 5 | Combat |
| 35 | Weapon Expertise | 1 / 2 | Combat |
| 36 | Weapon Expertise | 2 / 2 | Combat |
| 37 | Hack and Slash | 5 / 5 | Combat |
| 38 | Aggression | 1 / 3 | Combat |
| 39 | Aggression | 2 / 3 | Combat |
| 40 | Adrenaline Rush | 1 / 1 | Combat |
| 41 | Malice | 1 / 5 | Assassination |
| 42 | Malice | 2 / 5 | Assassination |
| 43 | Malice | 3 / 5 | Assassination |
| 44 | Malice | 4 / 5 | Assassination |
| 45 | Malice | 5 / 5 | Assassination |
| 46 | Remorseless Attacks | 1 / 2 | Assassination |
| 47 | Remorseless Attacks | 2 / 2 | Assassination |
| 48 | Improved Slice and Dice | 1 / 3 | Assassination |
| 49 | Improved Slice and Dice | 2 / 3 | Assassination |
| 50 | Improved Slice and Dice | 3 / 3 | Assassination |
| 51 | Ruthlessness | 1 / 3 | Assassination |
| 52 | Ruthlessness | 2 / 3 | Assassination |
| 53 | Ruthlessness | 3 / 3 | Assassination |
| 54 | Relentless Strikes | 1 / 1 | Assassination |
| 55 | Lethality | 1 / 5 | Assassination |
| 56 | Lethality | 2 / 5 | Assassination |
| 57 | Lethality | 3 / 5 | Assassination |
| 58 | Lethality | 4 / 5 | Assassination |
| 59 | Lethality | 5 / 5 | Assassination |
| 60 | Improved Gouge | 1 / 3 | Assassination |
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