Similar to Hunter, a Rogue has many perks that allow him to level up faster than most of other classes. Players who aren’t familiar with Rogue maybe will think the high DPS is the cause for that, but actually it’s not only that. The other benefits of being a Rogue is the cooldown, which cover almost every abilities: cloak of shadows, blind, vanish, and so on. However, there are several rogue leveling guide tips that you need to know in order to utilize your rogue potential to the fullest:

1. Selecting Your Race

Apart from Draenei and Tauren, you may pick any race you want. Nonetheless, I would like to recommend several races that can give your rogue some additional advantages. These are some races I highly recommend:

Alliance

• Human: improved rep gains, mace and sword expertise, escape, and improved stealth detection.

• Gnome: escape.

• Dwarf: stone form, great at using maces.

Horde

• Orc: enrage, resistant against stuns, great at using axes.

• Troll: berserk, improved regeneration, beast slaying, improved critical chance with throwing weapons, lessened duration of movement impaired effects.

2. Talent to Focus On

Like any other classes, there are three talent trees that you can choose here. While most of the rogue leveling guides out there will suggest you to take Combat or Assassination tree, the Subtlety tree does have its own advantages. If you’re keen on sneaky things, Subtlety can fulfill that, however, remember that Subtlety build isn't that good for long fights.

Combat

The basic and traditional Rogue talent build. Focusing on Combat tree enables you to dish huge DPS with dual-wield specialization regardless of the quality of your weapons. Here are some important talents and abilities in this build:

• Blade Flurry: strike 1 additional enemy

• Ambidexterity: boost damage by your off hand

• Vitality: improve your attack power

• Main Gauche: improved chance for extra off hand attack

Assassination

This build mainly concentrate on the usage of poison to eliminate your adversaries. Here are some crucial talents and abilities in this build:

• Mutilate: strike with both weapons

• Assassin’s Resolve: your damage increase while you’re using daggers.

• Improved Poisons: improve the chance to put on Deadly and Instant Poison.

• Potent Poison: increase the damage done by your poison.

Subtlety

As i said above, this build is the "sneaky" build. It’s somewhat like ninja; you'll be sneaky and attack from stealth. Here are some crucial abilities and talents in this build:

• Shadowstep: appear behind your enemy and make your Ambush and Garrote damage increased.

• Master of Subtlety: strike from stealth does more damage.

• Sinister Calling: improve your agility and add more damage of Backstab and Hemorrhage.

• Executioner: improve the damage of all your finishing moves.

3. Leveling Methods

You may want to do it by yourself, with your pals, or using a fast Rogue leveling guide. It is entirely up to you. Currently at WoW, there are only a few ways to level up that provide truly huge XP:

• Leveling via quests

• Utilizing Dungeons

• Utilizing Battleground weekends, but only when you are on the winning side.

For me, questing is the most steady, decent, and quick way of leveling. Obviously, that only when you understand the most efficient way to finish each quest in the quickest possible way.

From the three Rogue leveling guide tips above, 2 things have really great impact on your leveling speed: talent build and leveling methods. For fastest leveling, I suggest you take either Combat or Assassination build. Questing, as I said above, is the fastest leveling method and the most recommended. Of course, occasionally you can leave the quests and conquer some of the dungeons for some extra XP, items, and new gears.