In this article, we present you with various talent trees for Combat Rogues (WoW 4.3) that you can use in specific situations. We also give you pointers for customising your talent tree and adapting it to a particular boss. The other articles of our Combat Rogue guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the left.

1. Standard Talent Build↑top

As a Combat Rogue, the following build will provide you with all the relevant DPS talents, as well as most of the utilities that you will need.

2. Customising Your Build↑top

The talent build that we listed above will yield the best results. There is little room for customisation, as we explain in the following sections.

2.1. Talents

The only talent variation we recommend is to skip Reinforced Leather and invest the points in Improved Sprint instead. In current content, this is only useful against Hagara, to remove movement speed debuffs.

2.2. Glyphs

Choosing your glyphs as a Combat Rogue is extremely easy.

2.2.1. Prime Glyphs

Your Prime Glyphs should be:

• Glyph of Adrenaline Rush, which increases the duration of your main DPS cooldown;
• Glyph of Sinister Strike, which gives Sinister Strike a chance to add a second Combo Point on your target;
• Glyph of Slice and Dice, which increases the duration of Slice and Dice.

2.3. Major Glyphs

Your Major Glyphs should be:

• Glyph of Feint, which reduces the Energy cost of Feint;
• Glyph of Tricks of the Trade, which removes the Energy cost of Tricks of the Trade and reduces the damage bonus that the recipient receives;
• Glyph of Blade Flurry, which reduces the penalty to your Energy regeneration while using Blade Flurry.

In fights where you have no use for Blade Flurry, you can replace Glyph of Blade Flurry with Glyph of Sprint, in order to increase your movement speed while using Sprint.

2.3.1. Minor Glyphs

Your Minor Glyphs should be:

• Glyph of Blurred Speed, which enables you to run on water, when using Sprint;
• Glyph of Poisons, which decreases the time it takes you to apply your poisons;
• Glyph of Safe Fall, which reduces the damage you take from falls.