The Rogue's Gallery

[Occhidiangela]

That is basically the build I have argued in this thread.

Changes I made were:
Also I only put 1 point in Improved instant poison (to get a full 20 points so I could choose cold blood) and opted for 2 points in Murder. Poison is kind of nice, but your bread and butter is the opener.  It SUCKS to miss a cheap shot.  Not only do you lose the stun, but two cheap combo points. I only had 21 points in assassination.
In Subtlety, I opted for Improved Rupture and 2 points in Improved cheap shot. 
Rupture is good for the very high level elites that have insane defense and are reducing damage significantly.  Rupture supposedly ignores defense and does full damage (I have not tested).

Once I get cheap shot I rarely open with anything else, and 10 more energy is huge when chaining combos.  Which is why I opted for the extra point there.  You can make due with only one though.

I take the extra points from Elusiveness in his template.

I think that type of build (Hemorrhage and prep in subtlety and Cold Blood in Assassination) is the most flexible of all builds giving great options for PvP, PvE or instance groups.  As I said in one of my comments, I originally saw this from Osiris at worldofwar.net.  His comments during the closed beta were that that kind of build was the only one where he could solo lvl 58 elites.
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What appealed to me most in his write up, and yours, was the underlying theme that a Rogue is not a warrior, but rather a damage dealer of a different sort, and that the build is suited for PvP, PvE, solo and group, though not necessarily optimal for group PvP fights. I am a complete novice at aggro management, so may be missing the boat completely on that.

What also appeals to me, taste wise, is the Elusiveness points to enable a considerable "trying not to be seen" approach. Purely taste driven, due to baggage in my past over how I tended to play AD & D thieves and assassins.

"Where was we? We was sneaking, Precious!"

Thanks again. :)

Occhi