Survivability and ability to solo content

[yellatruk]

Ive enjoyed rogue/thief classes for a long time.

In Baldurs Gate, I love to sneak around and assess a situation before enemies know I am near
In Skyrim, I love to backstab and giggle at burst damage numbers.
In Guild Wars 2, I love to roll and juke to engage/disengage combat.
In DDO, I love to disable traps and advise a group where to go.
In WoW, I love to fight other players in a "balanced" pvp setting

If an enemy does manage to successfully hit me in any of the games I play, I would prefer for it to hurt like HELL. I want to run for my life in attempts to survive the conflict. When they know I am there, I have failed my job as a sneak. I like the idea of rogues being able to solo content, but I dont want it to be a potion stock and spam, I dont want to "recuperate" to magically heal myself.

I want tactical decision making and finesse to be my reason I win fights.

Isnt that the whole point of the class?

[korbanhod]

Health is not per say the key to solo content.

I remember in NWN you could have low HP builds and still be unkillable with your insane AC and atking prowess. Especially Bard/RDD/PM was Juggernaut with wings

[neya01]

I did need some time to get the feel of the rogue, and some more skills, but i managed to develop a tactic that works for me without having to spam potions too much. I do have some trouble with the dodging though, since you need to press w and shift at the same time and i somehow seem to have trouble with that :P

[rackhamgreg74]

I did need some time to get the feel of the rogue, and some more skills, but i managed to develop a tactic that works for me without having to spam potions too much. I do have some trouble with the dodging though, since you need to press w and shift at the same time and i somehow seem to have trouble with that :P

You can double-tap any of the movement keys to dodge as well. Depends on what you're most comfortable with.

[devarion151]

Stealth is the key to the Trickster Rogue class.

[kallethen]

I enjoyed the Trickster Rogue very much, in both soloing and partying. A good portion of my time was spent partying with a friend who played a cleric. We were a great combo.

When soloing, the key is to rely on Stealth and your Bait and Switch.

[plaxy100]

Honestly Very easy to solo even with a just a tank Companion it gets increadibly easy after you pick up master inlfiltrater and can start running Perma Stealth in each encounter. But don't think this is easy no brain oh i'm invisable kill things... it still takes some cleverness to pull off and have backup moves when you botch that Glooming cut not killing or mob or it dying before Glooming lands on it and having stealth run out on you while there still mobs around.

[veltor1234]

never used a companion and only played with others once in the clock tower..played to lvl 16 and had over 50 potions (never bought one)when i finished... super fun to play and solo with

[bastyth0]

rog will useless when it came to npc that resist daze or short time, like blackdagger in skirmish... also tank companion didnt held all mobs he only held one mob..

need more customizable UI and hotkey .. now is only tab,q,e,r,1,2 ... need more like cap-lock,f,z,x,c,v,alt,f1-f4 something..

[securus]

The thing I noticed is that up til 30 the game is really easy for a rogue, after 30 if your not stealth based it gets very tricky. A stealth based rogue can honestly almost permastealth and will hardly ever die, it was stupidly easy to kill things because they hardly ever attacked me. A crit rogue you end up having to use a ton of potions but you kill quicker. The main difference is you usually need 1 potion per encounter post 30 as a crit rogue, but as a stealth rogue unless you screw up you will hardly use any potions except on bosses. The crit rogue will do a bit more damage and honestly it might get better with the paragon tree for the crit based rogue. The problem is right now you only get the paragon tree for a stealth rogue so that is the way to go for now.

The other thing is it would be better if for a crit rogue if life steal worked better, It works great until you hit around 30 but because it scales really poorly even when stacked. The problem is it heals for just about twice at level 30+ as it does at level 10 but mobs do 10 times the damage to you.