Three tree rogue build

[Frag]

I think Cold Blood is pretty much a necessary PvP skill.  Especially with 2 rogues.  The burst damage of it is too useful to pass up, and the cooldown is not terribly long (3 minutes).

I think improved ambush is also very good for a pair of rogues.  2 rogues ambushing a caster at the same time will take off a huge chunk of life, both doing a CB/ambush = instant death to the caster.

These builds are highly opener dependent, but powerful when they are able to land an opener.  Another way to complement would be to go primarily combat so you have Vor being stun / opener and you being better at sustained damage through blade flurry to take advantage of the hemo bonus and Dual weild spec for better sustained damage output.

Vor, you might consider murder.  Murder makes an opener NEVER miss (including sap).  Missing your opener really, really hurts in a build like yours.  Soloing you are going to start using imp. CS a lot, and man it really hurts to miss a CS when you're used to getting 2 or 3 combo points straight off the bat.  I'd take points from Imp. SnD for that, since SnD can be refreshed pretty easily (and it's getting easier in 1.9, as you can SnD after someone is dead or out of range)
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Couple things I'd like to take a contrary position on here, both because I believe them, but also for good debate, Conc. :)

1. Cold Blood is NOT neccesary, however useful it may be. In some sense it reminds me of MS. Amazing, but the talents you have to take to make it there... leave a little something to be desired, not that there's anything wrong with them per se, but just not... juicy. :)

2. Improved Ambush IS very good, however blowing CB on an ambush just means you wasted 3 talent points and a huge amount of potential. Your chance to crit is so high to begin with on Amush that it's far more efficient to use CB on the finisher.

3. Keep in mind that sometimes for an optimal build (which for rogues, is like trying to find a perfect snowflake... it exists, for you, but be damned if you can find it... I spent nearly 600g respeccing mine, :D I was on 50g respecs before lvl 60 :blush: ) you may need to respec with regards to Murder. It's obviously great for leveling, but as you gain gear, some of which may have +%tohit on it, the talent becomes less and less useful, as the openers all count as yellow hits, and therefore have 95% base tohit. Also if you're taking Precision, Murder doesn't benefit you.

I think you've picked up a lot of good stuff in that build, GG. I personally find Lethality to be a large waste of talent points, but it is additional dmg some of the time, so not unuseful. Precision & Murder don't play nice, as I pointed out above. Lastly you may want to consider full or no ranks in Intiative. It's nice when it happens, but even at 75% it doesn't happen "enough", for me; just something that may annoy you.

My take on your build, GG. My biggest change was dropping the +%tohit talents, as it's fairly easy to find 2-3% off of equipment from Mara and beyond w/o much effort.

Best of luck, Rogue talent specs are great fun!
~Frag B)