Rift Rogue Compilation Guide

Source: Offical Forum

I put together a compilation of all the information I've been researching and testing so far for top dps melee and ranger. bare with me though because my grammar/spelling might not be 100% and this is my first time putting together a guide but I wish to help the struggling rogue community

little about me is I'm a rogue raiding green scale, currently on green scale him self lowest I've gotten him is 11% so far so I know a little about raiding and rogue dps compared to warriors/mages and clerics

inb4 "you don't do over 1k let me see you're parse because rogues only do 400dps" go read the tldr at bottom

I'm only making this guide to help out the rogue community who seem to think rogues are so deep in the sewers we can't compare to other classes. There is a reason why dev's are nerfing some of our abilities, its not because they hate us, its because above average rogues are able to pump out serious dps with easy specs and rotation

1.0 Gear

Weapons – Daggers with hit and critical rating

Greenscale Artifact BIS

BIS Pre-Artifact

3rd

4th

Ranged

from Greenscale Raid

AP Trash Drop

Stat Priority

http://forums.riftgame.com/showthrea...ers-AP-VS-CRIT

I Believe this to be true

1 AP > 2 STR > 1 dex> 2 crit

1 AP > 1dex > 1 STR > 1 crit

Basically AP will be more worthwhile after you get x amount of crit because if you do 1damage and crit 100% of the time it’s pointless to have.

Also for ranger pets here’s a quote which may or may not be true

Juff;

“For pets, Pets get half your AP/Crit. But their base dps is low (60-120 ish, depending on points in ranger etc). The things I am not sure about are A) Do ap calculations happen before or after King of the Jungle and b) how to model POTW up time. But regardless, ap should be better for the pet.”

Key Elements of Rogues

Rogues greatly need buffs to do competitive dps vs other classes aka bard/cholro 10% reduced ability cost is a huge buff in dps then you have their fanfare of power, you have archon haste, and all that good stuff.

I myself can hit about 700dps self buffed but when you add a bard I can hit 900-1k easily then you just think of raid buffs/flasks (vials) and bam you at a easy 1100-1200 if you do the following rotation and have the gear. My hugest problem is threat, if there’s not a warrior tank giving me intercept I will undoubtedly pull agro when I hit 1k dps (not trolling) especially on Greenscale where rogue tanks are needed for the magic resist I have to go ranger or hold back hard as nb.