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For a Rogue, combat spec is best when it comes to leveling or farming it. You can find lots of combat specs easily. You are specced right does not mean that you are playing right, so we'll take this chance to explain how to play a combat Rogue effectively for leveling or farming.
There are some ground rules for your reference.
The first rule is to always keep slice and dice up. Too many Rogues ignore this. Slice and dice is worth more DPS than anything else you could be doing 99% of the time. Not using it is severely gimping you.
The second rule is your main hand weapon should be the highest average minimum/maximum damage weapon you can find, not the highest DPS. For your offhand, you want the highest DPS weapon you can get under 1.6ish speed. While leveling, this means you will be main-handing a Mace and off-handing a dagger. You'll get more options as you get into Burning Crusade content, but this is pretty much the rule until then. So you should make sure to grab your mace training as soon as possible.
The third rule is to keep your poisons up. Unlike raiding, for leveling or farming, you'll kill the enemy too soon for the effect of Deadly Poison to reach its potential. So we recommend Double Wounding for normal enemies.
The fourth rule is to keep your gear updated. Even if this is your first character, you should be able to keep geared up in greens and the occasional blue and still get your mounts as long as you sell every non-food white or better item you find. We recommend creating a level 1 alt to sit at the mailbox in a major city, and just mailing all your crap too him any time you are near a box. You can use him to post all the crap. Asking for what gear to get, we make certain that you have just enough Stamina that the best food item will mostly fill your bar, otherwise go for pure AP while leveling: Agility and Strength are worth 1 AP each as a Rogue, so "Of the Tiger" and "Of Power" items are your best bet. Use "Of the Monkey" greens if you need the extra health.
Now it is time to how to actually fight enemies. Most of your Rogues career will play the same. So take the followings seriously.
Firstly you can stealth up and open with Garrote. Only use Cheap Shot if you need the extra SnD time the two points give compared to the one point or you are taking too much damage.
Secondly you should keep slice and dice. Or spam sinister strike. Most enemies will die before the next step.
Thirdly if they are at or above 65% health, wait until you have 5 CP then use Rupture or they are below 65% health, wait until you have 3 CP and then use Eviscerate. Use Slice and Dice if the damage from Eviscerate/Rupture won't kill it and Slice and Dice is about to drop.
As you gain levels, you will gain several new abilities from talent points. You can use these abilities as often as their cool-downs allow. Don't do something stupid like use Adrenaline Rush on an enemy that's halfway dead, but otherwise use them as often as possible. When possible, you can pull an extra mob when you are about to use Blade Flurry to get optimum efficiency. And if your Killing Spree is doing more damage than one mob can survive, grab another.
By the way, this doesn't just apply to talent abilities. You can use your trinkets and defensive abilities too. Evasion will reduce the damage you take, leading to less downtime. And it will even increase your DPS once you get unfair advantage. Even Sprint can be useful, which allows you to get to the next mob quicker, maybe while AR or BF is still active.
There are some ground rules for your reference.
The first rule is to always keep slice and dice up. Too many Rogues ignore this. Slice and dice is worth more DPS than anything else you could be doing 99% of the time. Not using it is severely gimping you.
The second rule is your main hand weapon should be the highest average minimum/maximum damage weapon you can find, not the highest DPS. For your offhand, you want the highest DPS weapon you can get under 1.6ish speed. While leveling, this means you will be main-handing a Mace and off-handing a dagger. You'll get more options as you get into Burning Crusade content, but this is pretty much the rule until then. So you should make sure to grab your mace training as soon as possible.
The third rule is to keep your poisons up. Unlike raiding, for leveling or farming, you'll kill the enemy too soon for the effect of Deadly Poison to reach its potential. So we recommend Double Wounding for normal enemies.
The fourth rule is to keep your gear updated. Even if this is your first character, you should be able to keep geared up in greens and the occasional blue and still get your mounts as long as you sell every non-food white or better item you find. We recommend creating a level 1 alt to sit at the mailbox in a major city, and just mailing all your crap too him any time you are near a box. You can use him to post all the crap. Asking for what gear to get, we make certain that you have just enough Stamina that the best food item will mostly fill your bar, otherwise go for pure AP while leveling: Agility and Strength are worth 1 AP each as a Rogue, so "Of the Tiger" and "Of Power" items are your best bet. Use "Of the Monkey" greens if you need the extra health.
Now it is time to how to actually fight enemies. Most of your Rogues career will play the same. So take the followings seriously.
Firstly you can stealth up and open with Garrote. Only use Cheap Shot if you need the extra SnD time the two points give compared to the one point or you are taking too much damage.
Secondly you should keep slice and dice. Or spam sinister strike. Most enemies will die before the next step.
Thirdly if they are at or above 65% health, wait until you have 5 CP then use Rupture or they are below 65% health, wait until you have 3 CP and then use Eviscerate. Use Slice and Dice if the damage from Eviscerate/Rupture won't kill it and Slice and Dice is about to drop.
As you gain levels, you will gain several new abilities from talent points. You can use these abilities as often as their cool-downs allow. Don't do something stupid like use Adrenaline Rush on an enemy that's halfway dead, but otherwise use them as often as possible. When possible, you can pull an extra mob when you are about to use Blade Flurry to get optimum efficiency. And if your Killing Spree is doing more damage than one mob can survive, grab another.
By the way, this doesn't just apply to talent abilities. You can use your trinkets and defensive abilities too. Evasion will reduce the damage you take, leading to less downtime. And it will even increase your DPS once you get unfair advantage. Even Sprint can be useful, which allows you to get to the next mob quicker, maybe while AR or BF is still active.
