Rogue

Rogue is a dexterity-led physical class with the best affinity for dagger play and useful secondary support for swords and distance.

Progression profile

Strongest progression lanes

• Basic attributes: dexterity
• Combat skills: dagger

Good affinities

• Combat skills: sword, distance

Average affinities

• Basic attributes: strength, magic resistance
• Combat skills: fist

Weak or slower affinities

• Weak: resistance, club, axe, shielding
• Terrible: magic

Crafting and gathering

Every class can learn the main crafting and gathering skills: fishing, mining, lumberjacking, cooking, alchemy, and blacksmithing. Pick the ones that support your gear, food, potions, or economy goals.

How to build around Rogue

• Center your build on dexterity and dagger if you want maximum affinity efficiency.
• Sword and distance are both reasonable secondary directions.
• Avoid treating shielding as a core progression strength for this class.
• Magic is a poor fit for efficient Rogue progression.

Good early goals

• Pick either dagger-fist or a flexible dagger/distance plan.
• Keep gear light enough to preserve mobility.
• Consider pairing Rogue with races that reinforce dexterity or physical combat, depending on faction.

Combat mechanics

Rogue excels at burst melee, finishers, and slipping out of sight. For general combat rules, see the Combat Overview. For stealth interactions with status effects, see Status Effects and Damage Over Time — Stealth.

Stealth (talas nelluon)

Stealth turns you semi-invisible for about 15–40 seconds (scales with Magic level), req 10 / 8 / 8.

• While hidden, your sprite fades so other players see you at reduced opacity.
• Most enemies cannot target or attack you while stealthed unless they can detect you — boss NPCs can reveal hidden characters.
• Casting an offensive spell on another player breaks stealth immediately.
• Attacking another player in PvP also reveals you; attacking NPCs does not automatically break stealth the same way.
• Other players cannot cast most hostile spells on you while you are invisible to them.
• Long stealth durations warn you 15 seconds before the effect ends.

Cooldown 180 seconds, mana 58. Use Stealth to reposition, escape a bad trade, or set up an Execution attempt — not as a permanent uptime buff.

Bloodthirst (sanguis sitis)

Rogue shares Bloodthirst with Berserker (req 4 / 3 / 3). Cast it on yourself to enter a short window where your hits return health based on damage dealt.

• Rogue’s version scales with Dexterity instead of Strength.
• It only heals while you are injured and below max HP.
• Cooldown 60 seconds — activate before sustained dagger or distance pressure.

See the Berserker guide — Bloodthirst for the same spell from the Berserker perspective.

Execution (supplicium furtim)

Execution finishes targets at 25% health or below (req 6 / 6 / 6). Rogue’s version uses short spell range and costs less mana (39) with a 90-second cooldown compared with Berserker’s longer-range finisher.

• Fails cleanly if the target is still too healthy — watch the health bar before casting.
• Awards full NPC XP on monster kills; blocked on training mobs.
• Combines well with Stealth approaches and fast dagger damage to bring targets into execute range.

Practice Execution timing in Arena and Training Grounds before relying on it in open-world PvP.

Helpful next steps

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