This is where I wanted to start my blog from, mainly because I will be excited to finally see some poisons on my weapons.

Note that I didn’t say daggers.

Weapons and You During Those Baby Levels

Part of the beauty that is Lich King is that you have a few more weapons added to your arsenal and with just a short trip to a nearby city you have access to most, if not all of them. Several levels back a friend offered to run me through Deadmines even if I did not have the quests to complete yet. Dungeons are wonderful to get run through because all of those in Azeroth have a painful amount of trash mobs and with an 80 blazing through everything you can have the whole zone dead in a matter of minutes.

That first run landed me with a Cookie’s Tenderizer, Smite’s Reaver and a Buzzer Blade. At the time, I was of level for the Tenderizer and the Blade but, unfortunately, I did not have the weapon proficiency to equip the lovely cooking utensil. So! With a quick trip to Ironforge you can visit Buliwyf Stonehand and he will teach you most of what you will need as a rogue – Guns, Fist Weapons, One Hand Axes, One Hand Maces, Two Hand Axes and Two Hand Maces. Though, as a rogue, you do not have access to two handed weapons.

Currently, my character is dual-wielding the Reavers. Why? It was between that and the Tenderizers, to be honest. After some encouragement from a friend rogue the thought process went as follows. While the Tenderizers have a higher high end (51 to the Reavers’ 36) the Tenderizers suffer in the way of stats. By sacrificing 2 Strength you gain Stamina and hit rating, both more important at lower levels. Plus, the Reavers are considerably faster so you can get more swings in. In trials for both weapons mobs of the same level as me were dead by the third or fourth combo point so the killing power is roughly the same. This time, extra stats wins out.

Being Talented is Important

To round out my happy I-turned-20 post, this is my current build with current glyphs. Since I am still such a low level pumping Sinister Strike is near mandatory. Making it stronger and cost less will make leveling much less painful and Blurred Speed is not only awesome but gives you another option to run away from mobs or potential gankers, assuming you have some water nearby and handy.