Originally Posted by
Blutelf
He is right in that rogue population has hugely dropped in LK and has stayed low ever since.
IMO the reason for that is that rogues lost a lot of their 1v1 stunlock power with WOTLK. Rogues are the only melee pure DPS class, which makes them more frustrating to play in PVE and PVP if you cant control your enemy (also stealth was still -%move speed back then). Hunters, Locks, and Mages have never had the problem of being too weak in PVE leveling.
I know there's still tons of rogues around but they're just not being leveled.