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The foundation for leveling a Rogue quickly and effectively is set when you decide your priority on stats so lets give a quick class specific breakdown. Agility above all else, it strengthens your attack power, your critical strike rate, while improving your armor and dodge slightly. Second priority is Stamina, while you level you will be soloing a fair amount so you need to be able to take a few hits and shrug them off. So where can you get armor and weapons with the right stats? It might mean periodic trips the local auction house. What are you looking for? Any green leather armor or (usable) weapon “of the monkey” (of the monkey offers combined agil and sta, exactly what you need) within 5 levels of your character, higher levels being better.

Every Talent specialization will work for the purpose of leveling but some shine more than others. Combat is the Rogues brute force method of leveling. While it lacks fineness and grace, and plays out a little bit more like a warrior than a classic rogue ninja character it does shine in terms of experience per minute and attacking more than one enemy at a time; great for people who prefer grinding or running dungeons. Assassination is a well rounded tree great for soloing, it’s built around enhancing the power of poisons and the efficiency of attacks and recovery time. A solid choice for most situations this spec in best typifies a WoW Rouge. Subtlety is a spec best suited to getting the edge over a foe using stealth. It shines in PvP but is rather slow in terms of leveling.

With a little simple preparation you can get past the obstacles of buying mounts, paying for training and new gear. Sounds hard? It isn’t just learn the skinning skill, and perhaps a second supporting gathering profession and level them casually as you quest. Herbalism is a good complementary skill as is mining, the former being easier to level casually. When deciding where to roll a new character check the server population, you want to have a large enough market to support your gathering, medium population or better. Make sure to sell your wares in full stacks, and to undercut the competition, but only by a tiny amount. Ensure a quick sale without starting a full on price war.

All of these are valid ways to gain XP(experience points), and for an enjoyable and quick leveling experience you shouldn’t stick to just one method. When I enter a zone on a new character the first thing I do is find a quest hub, typically the biggest town in the area that you are welcome in. Gather all the quests in the town quickly and then start sorting through them, drop the ones that want you to be a delivery boy unless you really think you would enjoy them or they lead to the next quest hub. Next determine which ones you are most likely to get done. Personally I hate quests where you need to gather a ton of items, they take quite a while and tend to be overly dangerous. I suggest simply taking “bounty hunter” type missions, kill X number of bad guys here and return for a reward, these tend to offer the best XP to time ratio.

Dungeons are good XP, queue up for them when you need a break from solo-questing just realize that as a damage dealing character you will have a rather long wait time, so keep questing while you wait. Grinding, the basic leveling tactic typically is how I finish up a zone, once you have done the quests you chose, find an out of the way spot with monsters that appear green or yellow in difficulty and kill away. Once you are content that you have out leveled (Ex: they are too easy) them move on to the next quest hub. Battlegrounds offer an interesting change of place, but the overall experience is rather low compared to other methods. Que up when you reach the higher levels in each bracket for the most fun, for example join at 18-19 in the 10-19 bracket etc. PvPing helps hone your skill with your class so it should never be entirely overlooked.

This is a pretty subjective topic, if you are on a PvP server you will want to choose the most sparsely traveled areas to avoid unnecessary combat with the other faction. On PvE realms this is less important. Learning to use your world map (M key) and your quest helper function will give you the right general idea. If you find you are stuck as to where to go then it never hurts to ask other people in the area, most people are happy to help. Still stuck? Pick a road if the enemies you find are too low or too high a level then go back to the last fork and try again. As a last resort ask around in a capital city. Try to avoid questing in areas that are too high a level for you; even if you are a good player and can handle it, the increased miss ratio and longer fights will net you a lower rate of experience gain overall.

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