Best alliance rogue race?

[Deleted]

i think human. 2 month ago i switched to undead and i missed my 2nd dmg trinket.

[bigjenk]

With pve trinkets not being what they once were and res being almighty king and their actually being an abundance of pvp trinkets to use gnome or go home. Ne is nice as well for combat dropping restealth but in pvp with muts lol mobility and shs having issues with roots 1.5 min snare breaker after patch is to nice to not have. Absolutely game changing if there is a root or snare on you and your dispel is in cc.

[Bane-US]

Worgen is the best race for Rogue because of the added DPS from it's racial, over any other class.

[SolSphere]

I preferr human females for alliance jsut because I cant stand so many things about the other races. I've tried NE and Worgen (as I am right now), but they just look funny to me.

[Fogkin]

Where is the option to faction change to horde at?

[Ozy]

My close friends often make fun of my wow racism, but here it goes:

Night Elf: Male night elves almost never are good players. And those of them who are remotely good, are ashamed of their race. Highest playing male night elf I ever knew was floating from 1800 to 2k, and never higher. The look of male night elf who ambushes your weak caster back from shadows, is some kind of stereotype. Also 70% of male night elf rogues have a name "Nightkiller".
Female ones are for "pro" players. Or the people pretending to be "pro". By the way shadowmelt in fact is good, and arguably the best racial for a rogue. It's the last vanish that "vanishes" things like blind coil and cheap shot. But stealth animation (and fight animation) looks retarded, no matter how pro you are. Also night elf rogues make little to no sense lorewise.
95% of night elf rogues who know about the possibility of model editing, use it, turning their character into undead.

Human: Super strong racial. It really is strong. One argument against it - generally you use double damage trinkets. Rogue damage is crappy, people choose to play with rogues not because of the damage they can output, but because of utility. So, making your damage 10% less crappy isn't as important when you play a rogue as on other classes.
Female human rogues are, like night elf females, for "pros", and for "wannabe pros". This is why intelligent person won't ever play female human rogue. Also 50% of them change model to undead, because fight animation is really retarded.
Male humans are generally good and serious at game. This is my race of choice for ally rogue. Although, there is a huge number of dumb and arrogant people playing male humans. But, as far as I can see, they tend to get into arena culture more and more, eventually changing sex to female human, as soon as they hit 2003.

Gnomes: Really strong racial. One more rootbreaker in times when shadowstep does not break roots? Oh, WTB.
Male gnomes are good and serious players, despite their look and size. Sometimes they are super antisocial and mean individuals, but generally they are peaceful and calm. Armor does not look awesome on a gnome, but these people never change models, they seem to be enjoying their gnome.
Female gnomes are often made as a mockery and are more often antisocial and mean, than male ones. But some of them are really good players (More interested in pvp than males).

Dwarves: Average racial, but may be good in no-healer (or shielder) setups. Dwarf rogues are very cool lorewise, as all dwarves are. Sadly, most dwarf rogue players are bad at the game. If I'd roll a new rogue now (it would be like 6th...) for ally, it'll definitely be a dwarf.
Dwarf rogues are 3% of total rogue population. Female dwarf rogues are 9% of dwarf rogue population. I can't think of any level 80 (85) female dwarf rogue right away. They are often made as a mockery, by the way.

Worgen: Worst racials for pvp, also the wolf theme makes them unusable for intelligent players, despite the model being kinda cool. It's just too common to imagine your character as a stalking wolf hungering for whatever bla bla bla bla. Most night elf males who had the money racechanged to worgen at the day of Cataclysm release. To get that "wolf" feeling, yeah.
Female worgen are abit better than male, in fact almost a whole lot better, as they aren't usually a choice of night stalking shadow prowlers. Also they have a cute face.

That's it, I apologize for the wall of text, but this is one of my favourite topics. Also the rogues I do have are:

80 Human male
80 Undead male
74 Orc male
70 Undead male (Twink)
61 Undead male
45 Undead male
40 Undead male
29 Dwarf male (Twink)

(tons of sub-20 rogues are not included in the list)

Very interesting haha. However, I think you may have a rogue fetish o.O

[Tokzic]

Mtr, your standards for Rogues make absolutely no sense, dude.

[Deleted]

I`ll go for gnomes bouth pve and pvp : 3 expertize to daggers and swords, and escape artist imo is one of the best racials for any melle in pvp.

[Nonuse]

Gnomes. Expertise with daggers and swords allowing it to be used with any spec, unlike humans who can really only benefit if they are combat or sub.

[Vno]

For PvP Humans for the trinket. For PvE Worgen because of the crit racial and an extra sprint.

[McFrotton]

Not even a question. Why do you think ferals have been so OP post patch 4.0? A: their mobility (unrootability) combined with insane bleed damage which they will be losing in the next patch.

In the meantime, for everyone else, not only do you get to escape anything as a gnome but its on a 1.5minute cd compared to Dwarf's Stoneform 2m cd. Thirty seconds is an absolute eternity in pvp!

So for me,

Gnome (Escape Artist) > Nelf (Shadowmeld no longer acts like Vanish but still a very useful racial for rogues and hunters due to synergy)> Dwarf (Stoneform) > Worgen (Darkflight).

Humans can go take a flying leap! At max level, pvp trinkets have strong stats on them and the same CD. The minor stat increase from equipping another (non-pvp) trinket will not make or break anything otherwise arena would have been dominated by one race completely across ALL classes. Obviously, this is subject to change, if one day Blizzard decided to create extraordinary trinkets relative to pvp trinkets that would basically mean everyone but Humans would be walking around with one trinket (unlikely).

In a sense, the Human and Undead pvp racials are a bit of a broken design. This is because, Blizzard have to minimise the impact of them by design through the pvp trinket system - i.e. they are treated as just another trinket item. Wheras every other race gets real differentiating racials which can be literally game-breaking, especially in arena, in the right situations. Even the seemingly weak belf Arcane Torrent racial can be borderline OP for melee in the right situation - name any other player aoe interrupt capability not subject to (shared) diminishing returns ...

AND off the global :P

[Harléquin]

Oh more answers please, ya'll are helping me decide what race of a rogue to make, so far gnomes are leading, althought nelf females just look so awesome

[Vno]

Oh more answers please, ya'll are helping me decide what race of a rogue to make, so far gnomes are leading, althought nelf females just look so awesome

Only reason mine is still a nelf. The female model is just great. They really need to fix Shadowmeld though..