Falling somewhere between an assassin and a thief,
 the Rogue belongs to the secretive class of Norrath.
 She's quite skilled in weaponry, but prefers to make sudden attacks from behind. 
Shadier skills include Pick Lock and Pick Pockets.
- EverQuest manual

Description

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Rogues are the stealthy thieves and vicious assassins that stalk the shadows of Norrath. Rogues are primarily a melee class, able to wear chain armor and use piercing, slashing and some blunt weapons.

Rogues are sneaky fighters who always seek to take advantage of enemies by attacking from behind. Rogues can backstab enemies for extra damage, using poisoned weapons for added effect. Rogues can detect traps, pick locks and pockets, and fall safely from great heights.

Rogues are known for their ability to sneak and hide. This allows them to move undetected by the living and undead, almost anywhere, exploring the dangers that lie ahead. Combined with rogue items that use illusions, rogues make excellent scouts.

Rogues are a specialist class that works best with a group of friends. Rogues can add greatly to the killing power of a group. The rogue is a good choice for players who like to do heavy damage while walking the dangerous edge of dungeon exploration. Just keep in mind being the best damage dealer comes at the cost of being extremely group dependent.

Class Titles

Level 1-50	Level 51-54	Level 55-59	Level 60
Rogue	Rake	Blackguard	Assassin

Creation Guide

Picking the Right Race

The first thing you have to pick is your Race, which determines the foundation of your character for the rest of your life in Norrath. You'll be spending a lot of time with your new character, so it is important to pick one you like. Every Rogue race is viable, but there are some differences to note.

Stats

Because of gear and buffs, stat differences (except for resistances) only practically matter at lower levels.

Wood Elves, Dark Elves, and Gnomes all have low base Strength, a hindrance to their overall damage output (and carrying capacity). Barbarians and Dwarves, on the other hand, have high Strength, which aids them in their early adventures. Dwarves also have higher Magic Resistance, which is more useful at high levels.

Small Size

Dwarves, Gnomes, and Halflings are small races. This is convenient when raiding, as they don't require Shrink.

Each small race also has a small minor benefit: Dwarves have a unique "barrel roll" animation, Gnomes can learn Tinkering, and Halflings level slightly faster.

Large Size

Barbarians count as both a medium and a large race, and so have the smallest XP penalty of the large races (only -5%). Being large gives them a Slam ability, which does minimal damage and stuns (so it can sometimes interrupt casters). Also, they can wear both large and medium armor, and wield large race throwing weapons.

Vision

Barbarians and Humans have no night vision, which is annoying at early levels. Dark Elves have the best vision (Ultravision). All races can acquire light sources or items that give improved vision.

Faction

Dark Elves are hated by most other races, but because Rogues can use illusion masks to change their race, this becomes a non-issue later on.

Cultural Gear

Different races and/or religions have cultural items obtained via quests or crafting. Generally speaking, none of these items are incredible, but some aren't bad either.

Advice

You can pick your race two ways: based on what seems "coolest" to you, or based on stats and minor abilities.

At the early levels, you'll notice racial vision differences most. If you're starting a fresh character, Strength differences will also matter a lot (so you can carry loot).

At high levels, the Barbarian slam will occasionally interrupt a caster, the Dwarf's higher MR might occasionally save them from a raid mob's spell, and all small races will appreciate not having to bother with Shrink on raids.

It's unlikely that any of those differences, at any level, will really make you wish you'd picked a different race. However, picking a race that you don't think is "cool", because of a minor benefit, is far more likely to make you regret your choice.

Starting Statistics

Race	Str	Sta	Agi	Dex	Wis	Int	Cha	Physical	Mental	Total	Bonus
Barbarian	103	95	92	80	70	60	55	370	185	555	30
Dark Elf	60	65	100	85	83	99	60	310	242	552	30
Dwarf	90	90	80	100	83	60	45	360	188	548	30
Gnome	60	70	95	95	67	98	60	320	225	545	30
Half Elf	70	70	100	95	60	75	75	335	210	545	30
Halfling	70	75	105	100	80	67	50	350	197	547	30
Human	75	75	85	85	75	75	75	320	225	545	30
Wood Elf	65	65	105	90	80	75	75	325	230	555	30

Spending Your Bonus Points

Rogues have a bunch of skills and tools in their box and benefit from several stats. End game buffs from Shaman allow a Rogue to receive roughly +120 STR/DEX without Avatar (+100 STR/DEX/AGI) and +50 STA if you want to plan your starting stats based on this.

Strength - Adds to Maximum and Average melee damage, both for normal attack rounds and for Rogues signature skill Backstab. Also affects the rate at which you learn the offense skill. Effects your ability to carry gear and coins.
Stamina - Affects your maximum Hit Points. Gives a small HP boost(roughly 1-2% of base hp for 25 point investment).
Agility - Helps you avoid physical damage and helps your defensive skills raise a little quicker.
Dexterity - This stat is involved in how quickly you learn offensive melee skills and how often the magical effects of your weapons will activate.
Wisdom - Affects the rate at which your general and craft skills raise if higher than your intelligence.
Intelligence - Affects the rate at which your general and craft skills raise if higher than your wisdom.
Charisma - Affects the amount you pay to npc merchants for their wares, and how much they pay you for yours. There is a relationship between faction and charisma in prices and there is a cap.

Allocation Recommendations
Grouping: 25 Strength, 5 Stamina
Raid Min/Max: 25 Stamina, 5 Strength

Experience Statistics

As a purely melee class, Rogues get a base +9% experience bonus (with Halflings and Barbarians having a +5%/-5% variation)

Barbarian Rogue: +4.55%
Dark Elf Rogue: +9%
Dwarf Rogue: +9%
Gnome Rogue: +9%
Half-Elf Rogue: +9%
Halfling Rogue: +14.55%
Human Rogue: +9%
Wood Elf Rogue: +9%

What does it mean?

Certain races and classes require differing amounts of experience points to attain the same level. For example, a Halfling Rogue requires 85.45% of the experience that a Human Cleric would require to be the same level.

Religion

Generally speaking being agnostic is a fairly safe bet in Everquest. Religion serves only to get you into trouble in many situations. Following a religion will at worst get you killed in some areas, but generally you can avoid these. Following Innoruuk is probably the most dangerous religion as they have the most places in the game where they are Kill on Sight.

The disadvantage of agnosticism is that some items and quests can only be done by followers of certain religions. As you can see from the Bristlebane Equipment page, Bristlebane has only a few tradeskilled items, while the Brell Serilis Equipment page similarly shows only tradeskill items plus one Rogue-usable weapon,

Stormguard Battle Hammer of Brell

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MAGIC ITEM
Slot: RANGE PRIMARY SECONDARY
Skill: 1H Blunt Atk Delay: 36
DMG: 9
WIS: +2 HP: +5
SV FIRE: +2
WT: 8.5 Range: 40 Size: MEDIUM
Class: WAR CLR PAL BRD ROG
Race: HUM DWF HFL GNM
Deity: Brell Serilis

. You can find other deities items from Category:Deity Worshiper Equipment.

If you plan to use illusion masks, you should go Agnostic for the same reason Enchanters do: NPCs can "see" your religion, negating the faction bonuses from illusions.

Skills

Combat Skills

Evade was added February 17, 2000 with the [[:Category:{{#ifeq: Paineel|Epics|Epic Quests|{{#ifeq: Paineel|Chardok|Chardok Revamp| Paineel}}}} Era| Paineel {{#ifeq: Paineel|Chardok|2.0|}}]] Era [1] [2]

Evade is a special rogue-only ability that allows a rogue to reduce their agro by lowering their position on the hate lists of mobs that are agro to them. To perform an evasion, the rogue must turn off auto-attack, then use the hide skill. The easiest way to incorporate this into combat is to make a hotkey that does the following (assuming Hide is set to Ability 1):

/attack off
/doability 1
/attack on

When attempting to evade, you will receive one of the following two messages to indicate success or failure:

"You have momentarily ducked away from the main combat." (Success, generally ~65% of the time)
"Your attempts at ducking clear of combat fail." (Fail)

Skill Name	Level Obtained	Must Train	Max until 50	Max after 50
1H Blunt	1	N	200	250
1H Slash	1	N	200	250
Piercing ***	1	N	210	250
Throwing **	1	N	220	250
Defense	1	N	200	252
Hand to Hand	1	N	100	100
Offense	1	N	210	252
Archery	1	N	200	240
Dodge	4	Y	150	210
Backstab	10	Y	200	225
Parry	12	Y	200	230
Dual Wield *	13	Y	210	245
Double Attack	16	Y	200	240
Intimidation (Instill Doubt)	22	Y	200	200
Disarm	27	Y	200	200
Riposte	30	Y	200	225

* Dual Wield does not cap at (5 x level) + 5 like other combat skills and instead caps at (6 x level) + 5 - Thus, a level 20 rogue can hit 125 in the skill (as opposed to 105 in other combat skills) and will hit the cap of 210 pre 50, and begin to raise again starting at 51.

** Rogues can score a critical hit with throwing weapons starting at level 12. Aug 26, 1999 [[:Category:{{#ifeq: Fear|Epics|Epic Quests|{{#ifeq: Fear|Chardok|Chardok Revamp| Fear}}}} Era| Fear {{#ifeq: Fear|Chardok|2.0|}}]]

** Rogues can score a deadly strike (if thrown from behind the target) with throwing weapons Feb 17, 2000[[:Category:{{#ifeq: Paineel|Epics|Epic Quests|{{#ifeq: Paineel|Chardok|Chardok Revamp| Paineel}}}} Era| Paineel {{#ifeq: Paineel|Chardok|2.0|}}]]

*** Rogues have a higher skill cap on Piercing while leveling.

Miscellaneous Skills

Skill Name	Level Obtained	Must Train	Max until 50	Max after 50
Sneak	1	Y	200	200
Hide	3	Y	200	200
Pick Lock	6	Y	200	210 (+1/level after 50)
Pick Pocket	7	Y	200	200
Sense Traps	10	Y	200	200
Safe Fall	12	Y	94	94
Apply Poison	18	Y	200	200
Make Poison	20	Y	200	250 (+5/level after 50)
Disarm Traps	21 (Listed as 15)	Y	200	200
Alcohol Tolerance	1	N	235	252
Begging	1	N	200	200
Bind Wound	1	N	175	210
Fishing	1	N	200	200
Sense Heading	1	Y	200	200
Swimming	1	N	200	200

Various Tradeskills
Picklocks goes up 1 point per level after 50
If you try to train Disarm Trap before 21 it will waste a training point. The same occurs with Pick Lock when trained at 5, but the point is returned upon leveling to 6..

Level 50+ Rogue Traits

Level 51 - Minimum Backstab Damage (76 and increases each level | 1.5 x level, rounded down)
Level 55 - Double Backstab Chance, Sneak Speed starts to increase
Level 57 - Bind Wound Cap Increased to 70% health once 201+ skill attained.
Level 60 - Chance to Assassinate level 46 and below Humanoids when using Backstab or Thrown, Sneak Speed maxed out

Disciplines

(Alt-C to access)

Discipline Name	Level Obtained	Description	Duration	Reuse Time	Jan 09, 2001
Resistant Discipline	30	Grants +3 to all resistances increasing to +10 at 50th level	1 Min	60 Min	Duration increased to 5 minutes.
Fearless Discipline	40	Immunity to "Fear" and all spells that cause "fear"	11 Sec	60 Min
Counterattack Discipline	53	Allows you to perfectly time your counter attacks, riposting every incoming blow.	9 Sec	60 Min
Deadeye Discipline	54	Focuses your vision on you opponent, vastly increasing your hit rate.	18 Sec	30 Min
Nimble Discipline	55	Increases your combat reflexes, allowing you to avoid most attacks.	12 Sec	30 Min
Kinesthetics Discipline	57	Increases your combat sense, allowing you to dual wield and double attack every round.	18 Sec	30 Min
Blinding Speed Discipline	58	Focuses energy into your arms, increasing your attack speed.	18 Sec	30 Min
Duelist Discipline	59	Increase the damage done by all of your melee attacks. [100% increase]	12 Sec	30 Min

Rogue-Specific Quests

Classic:

Scouts Leggings**

Rogue Epic Quest

Velious:

Gearing

Class specific gear suggestions are cross listed on the Gear Reference page.

Check Rogue Equipment for the full list of gear usable by rogues.

Pre-Planar

Planar

Kunark

Velious Pre-Raid/Group

Velious Raiding

FAQ

Q: Which weapon-skills should I practice / train?

A: Piercing... Rogues can use a range of one-handed weapons and even a few two-handed ones, but piercing is the rogue's trademark weapon-skill because that's what you need to have in your primary hand if you want to back-stab. What a rogue holds in their off hand is a matter of personal preference, but every rogue should keep their piercing skill in practice.

Q: What is the evade skill I've heard about and why can't I train it?

A: Evasion is not a skill in the normal sense of the word, it's a trick that rogues can manage by using hide to lower their aggro in combat. A rogue simply exits combat and presses their hot-key for the Hide skill. Most rogues set up a hot-key macro to do this.

Evade does not completely remove aggro, and it does not work when soloing (see this thread).

Evade was added February 17, 2000 with the [[:Category:{{#ifeq: Paineel|Epics|Epic Quests|{{#ifeq: Paineel|Chardok|Chardok Revamp| Paineel}}}} Era| Paineel {{#ifeq: Paineel|Chardok|2.0|}}]] Era [3] [4]

Q: How does stealth work?

A: The simple version? Stand very still, press hide to hide yourself from view and then press sneak. Unlike other classes, rogues are told if they succeeded or not. If both skills worked, you are now invisible to 99% of mobs on the server as though someone had cast Invisibility and Invisibility versus Undead on you. You'll also walk slowly, but that's a small price to pay for the most reliable and effective form of invisibility in the game (your strafe speed will not be affected).
Some creatures can see through the Hide skill, most of them rogues, so you should still be careful, but many a low-level rogue has wandered into Lower Guk or Chardok unseen.

Q: What are these masks people keep talking about?

A: There are four masks in the game which allow a rogue or bard to disguise themselves as a member of another race; these masks give minor stat boosts and can be clicked from the inventory:

Guise of the Coercer
Guise of the Coercer

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: FACE
AC: 4
CHA: +13
SV MAGIC: +7
Effect: Illusion: High Elf (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 6.0) at Level 15
WT: 0.4 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL except ERU HIE TRL OGR IKS

(High Elf)
Mask of Deception
Mask of Deception

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: FACE
AC: 4
CHA: +13
SV MAGIC: +7
Effect: Illusion: Dark Elf (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 6.0) at Level 15
WT: 0.4 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL except ERU HIE TRL OGR IKS

(Dark Elf)
Iksar Hide Mask
Iksar Hide Mask

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Slot: FACE
AC: 4
CHA: +13
SV MAGIC: +7
Effect: Illusion: Iksar (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 6.0) at Level 38
WT: 0.4 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL

(Iksar)
Mask of Obtenebration
Mask of Obtenebration

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Slot: FACE
AC: 6
CHA: +8 AGI: +6
Effect: Illusion: Erudite (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 6.0) at Level 15
WT: 0.4 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL

(Erudite)

There are also three masks which were added later in the Velious era or were available for only a brief period:

Flayed Barbarian Hide Mask
Flayed Barbarian Hide Mask

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Slot: FACE
AC: 35
Effect: Illusion: Barbarian (Must Equip, Casting Time: Unknown)
STR: +15 DEX: +15 STA: +10 HP: +100
SV FIRE: +7 SV DISEASE: +7 SV COLD: +7 SV MAGIC: +7 SV POISON: +7
WT: 0.0 Size: TINY
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL

(Barbarian)
Desiccated Halfling Mask
Desiccated Halfling Mask

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: FACE
AC: 4
CHA: +7 AGI: +7
Effect: Illusion: Halfling (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 8.0) at Level 49
WT: 1.1 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG ENC
Race: ALL

(Halfling)
Mask of Tinkering
Mask of Tinkering

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MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Slot: FACE
AC: 4
CHA: +13
SV MAGIC: +7
Effect: Illusion: Gnome (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 4.0)
WT: 0.4 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL except ERU HIE TRL OGR IKS

(Gnome)

Q: Where do I buy poisons?

A: You can't. Some poisons are given as rewards for quests, others can be looted from a very small number of NPCs, but the normal way to acquire poisons (once you are level 18 and able to use them) is to make them yourself from a variety of rare and dangerous compounds. You'll want to take a look at the Make Poison page for more information on that.

Q: Where do I buy poison-making supplies?

A: Unfortunately, unlike most normal tradeskills, the poison-making vendors do not frequent any of the starting cities. In fact, with the exception of a vendor named Toxdil in the tunnels under Freeport, there is no old-world city with a poison vendor. Here is the current list of every known vendor selling poison-making supplies.

Zone	Merchant Name	Loc
Dagnor's Cauldron	Conium Darkblade	(-236, -826)
Firiona Vie	Brak Daggermist	(-3608, 2359)
West Freeport	Toxdil	(623, 200)
Lake of Ill Omen	Nubs Blackgranite	(-2517, -2920)
Western Plains of Karana	Gindlin Toxfodder	(-2986, -13398)

Q: Are Poison Vials and Suspensions meant to be that expensive?

A: Yes, you really will be spending over 2pp just on vials and suspensions. That's why so many rogues learn how to make their own.

Q: Does Dexterity increase my hit rate?

A: Dexterity has been shown to increase hit rate in PVP, but there is no evidence it increases hit rate in PVE.

Classes

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