02-27-2005, 04:23 AM
The build you have decided on happens to be the one my rogue used to attain level 60. I found it overall to be very useful both for soloing (which a rogue must do more than you may like because there are so many of us and because most groups are not interested in having more than one in the party) and for party play. Improved sap is very useful in instances such as BRD and lower BRS where there are a lot of humanoids and, hopefully, the party you play with will slow down enough to allow you to use it. It is no panacea, since sap misses altogether 5 percent of the time and stealth is broken 10 percent of the time, assuming improved sap is maxed. I have not done Scholomance but in Stratholme and UBRS, most groups won't want you trying to sap at all. Even in that case, the build you have described is helpful in adding dps against the main assist's target. Even in instances with lots of humanoids, if you are in a raid or in a party with more than one mage, I think you will find that most group leaders will prefer to initiate an encounter against a group of 4-5 mobs with the mages each sheeping rather than the rogue sapping first. A few patches before retail a rogue could sap a trailing mob and that was very useful for adds. Unfortunately, such a mob is now considered in combat. Most rogues I have seen on the PVE server I play on have combat based builds as opposed to the build you have described. Those seem to work fine as well so long as she plays with some restraint and is not so in love with her dps that she insists on targeting different monsters than those selected by the main assist or doing other stupid things designed to draw aggro.