fazhira's rogue blog: The long road to 70

I think getting to 70 this weekend might actually be achievable. Am 5 bars away from 68 now. Then it's really just a slow grind/instance running to 70. And then start on reputation grinds and wait for everyone to get to 70 so we can raid. I still haven't picked a faction: Scryer or Aldor? At the moment I'm leaning toward Scryer, but Aldor has more PvE stuff. Scryer has an off-hand dagger - I've decided to remain a dagger rogue - and alchemy stuff. Doesn't matter too much, I guess. What I don't get from enchants I can balance out in gear. Which is ridiculously stacking A LOT of stam/AP at the moment.. I'm hitting 7k hp unbuffed. Hit and Crit ratings are suffering as a result. The rating scaling and lack of crit gear makes it much harder to maintain it at around 28%.. at 67 my crit chance is about 22%.. and trying to balance hit and AP. I'll worry about gear when I hit 70.. pfft.

Envenom is turning out to be quite a useful skill to have. I find it indispensable on boss fights, especially when Evis isn't critting as much as it used to, and Envenom does more non-crit damage. And especially since it ignores armor.

A 3k Envenom crit on Tavarok

Had a little run through Auchenai Crypts tonight. Shirrak (first boss) was a little tricky. I think it was the lack of range DPS and HOTs that did us in but we got him down to 8% before calling it a night. We'll be back!