Three tree rogue build

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Looks pretty good overall, since you mentioned adding Preparation.

I have issues when I get an add which make me have to run more frequently than I have with any other class, I need to use engineering tricks more often.

Blade Flurry and Preparation are the only two Rogue abilities that really combat adds. There's Blind, but it's expensive to use every time you get an add. Evasion can help for adds sometimes, but it might not be enough and it might not be ready, so Preparation really helps that. Blade Flurry (especially once 1.9 comes out) will be the best overall, doing double damage while its up (split between the two mobs) and it has a smaller cooldown than most skills.

So I figure improved gouge will not only help me get around for more backstabs on single targets if I need but will buy me more time if I get an add as well and while dodge will help keep me alive too I just thought I would get more utility out of cheaper SS and a longer lasting gouge.

Improved Gouge has saved my life many times. Improved Sinister Strike is one of those talents that is, for all intents and purposes, required. Blizzard may say no talent is truly required, but even as one who rarely uses SS in raiding, I still say I want it.

Rogues have just never been the class for me, though I do love going cat form on the druid so I'm not sure why I've never really taken to the rogue who does more damage and has more tricks than the cat.
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With druids, you're more open to different tactics. You can go into catform, but if it's simply not enough, you can switch out to caster, heal up, and either stay in caster or go bear. When your rogue isn't enough, it isn't enough.