WotLK Classic Combat Rogue Spell Summary

Combat uses Sinister Strike as its main generator. It is one of the first spells you learn and is far cheaper than Mutilate.

Combat also has access to Backstab and Ambush, but rarely uses them, unless you are playing the dagger variant of Combat which is considerably weaker than the Sinister Strike variant of the spec.

The main spenders for Combat are Eviscerate, Rupture, and Slice and Dice.

Slice and Dice increases your attack speed and has the highest damage increase of all spenders.

Rupture is a bleed that is maintained on your main target, dealing damage over time.

Eviscerate is used when the rest of your combo point spending abilities are already active, it deals instant damage per Combo Point spent.

Expose Armor reduces the Armor of the target by 20%, but is generally not used by Rogues if there is a Warrior in the group, as they can apply Sunder Armor.

Kidney Shot and Deadly Throw are very rarely used in PvE as Combat.

Cheap Shot, which stuns your enemy for a short period, and Garrote, which places a bleed on the enemy and silences them, are rarely used in PvE as Combat.

Sap can be useful to help control adds before a pull or deal with particularly dangerous trash pulls by incapacitating an enemy for up to 45 seconds.

Adrenaline Rush increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% for a period of time and is a massively powerful cooldown on a mere 3-minute timer.

Blade Flurry increases your attack speed by 20% while also making all of your single-target attacks strike another target for its duration.

Killing Spree, a Combat talent, rapidly attacks targets within range repeatedly over its duration.

Rogues have a number of abilities available to them that not only help the raid or group in some way, but also personally grant them immunity to both mechanics and damage at times.

Tricks of the Trade is a massively important buff for Rogues, it can be used to grant a damage buff to a friendly damage dealer, or used on a tank to help them generate threat and keep other damage dealers safe.

Cloak of Shadows removes all negative spell effects, as well as granting you an extremely high chance to resist incoming spells for its duration. It can be extremely powerful in completely avoiding certain mechanics on fights.

Evasion grants the Rogue a much higher chance to dodge incoming Physical attacks, as well as reducing the chance ranged attacks will hit them.

Vanish allows the Rogue to quickly go back into Stealth while in combat, which would trigger Overkill as Assassination.

Distract makes PvE enemies stand still for up to 10 seconds, allowing you to stall patrols and let your raid or group through tight spots and skips.

Kick interrupts the current spell being cast and locks the user out of that school for a period of time.

Sprint greatly increases your movement speed for a period of time.

Shiv and Gouge are rarely used in PvE.