Rogues

Class Growth

Class	HP	STR	MAG	DEF	FOR	DEX	MAS	SPD	LCK	MOV
Rogue	25	20	0	15	30	35	30	25	35	5
Tier 2
Stalker	30	25	0	15	15	30	30	30	35	6
Thief	10	25	0	15	25	40	15	40	25	6
Duelist	45	25	0	35	10	35	45	20	30	6
Raider	40	45	0	25	25	15	10	30	15	7
Tier 3
Assassin	35	25	0	15	15	30	30	30	40	6
Trickster	15	15	0	10	35	45	45	30	15	6
Gladiator	50	30	0	35	10	35	45	10	35	6
Slayer	45	40	0	30	30	10	5	30	15	8

Character Growth

Character	HP	STR	DEF	FOR	DEX	MAS	SPD	LCK
Cia	20	35	15	25	40	25	40	20
Brooke	30	30	10	5	45	45	30	45
Corvan	40	35	20	40	25	20	40	15
Ford	35	45	40	20	20	25	25	25
Wren	20	20	15	15	50	50	50	10

Skills

Class	Skill Name	Explanation
Rogue	Disarm	Removes adjacent enemy’s weapon stats for 1 round
Tier 2
Stalker	Cruel Efficiency	Guaranteed hit when enemy below 40% HP
Stalker	Fatal	5% chance to instantly kill
Thief	Measured Strike	Speed increases armor penetration
Thief	Nimble Fingers	Disarm range +2
Duelist	The Thrill	+15% power, dodge, acc, crit when not adjacent to allies
Duelist	Dexterous Style	Defense increased by 20% of dexterity
Raider	Ambush	Power +35% against full health enemies
Raider	Pillage	3% chance to gain stat bonus item on kill
Tier 3
Assassin	Relish in Death	+50% critical rate for 1 turn every second kill (broken)
Assassin	Creed	+20% critical damage for each friendly rogue
Trickster	Dazzling Display	Crits have a Speed% chance to deal +50% damage
Trickster	Sleight of Hand	Disarm range +2
Gladiator	Thumbs Down	Power +30% for 1 turn after a kill, stacks (works?)
Gladiator	Flourish	Crits heal 20% of max HP
Slayer	Rampage	Power +4% for each kill
Slayer	Annihilation	Power +35% against full health enemies

Character	Skill Name	Explanation
Cia	Barmaid	+50% effect from healing items
Brooke	Killer Instinct	Crit +30% damage against full health foes
Corvan	Midnight Intel	Allies within 2 squares gain 8% mastery
Ford	Sailor’s Swerve	8% separate dodge chance
Wren	Lethal Expertise	Mastery increases armor penetration

Standard Paths

Class: Stalker to Assassin

Best Characters: None

Aspect: Manos’s Fury

Weapon: Power

Stalker is theoretically useful for finishing off foes under 40% with cruel efficiency, but the 5% chance for instant death from fatal is too unreliable. Manos’s Fury is a good choice for a stalker as the 50% hit rate will be overridden by the automatic hit from cruel efficiency. Unfortunately cruel efficiency can only result in a hit, not a crit.

Assassin isn’t worth it unless you run many rogues at once (5 would be +100% crit damage) & even then it’s not that great because the relish in death skill for bonus crit chance is broken. At least I was never able to get it to trigger by doing kills on two consecutive turns or getting two enemy phase kills, etc.

Class: Thief to Trickster

Best Characters: Wren, Cia, Any

Aspect: Njallum’s Heritage, Ancara’s Glow, Shamac’s Tide

Weapon: Balanced

Thief to trickster can work for most rogues & having one for ranged disarm support is a great idea. Wren’s passive stacks with thief’s speed to armor penetration and with his excellent speed and mastery he is the best to take this route. He also arrives fairly late, so you can minimize how much time is spent in tier 2. Njallum’s Heritage (+20% mastery), fits really well with Wren to max his armor penetration.

This path has really high dodge & relies more on armor penetration for damage than strength, so balanced weapon to maximize dodge makes sense. Ancara’s Glow will improve dodge even more and Shamac’s Tide is useful for sustain if enemies start to be able to hit your trickster sometimes.

Class: Duelist to Gladiator

Best Characters: Corvan, Brooke

Aspect: Theron’s Passion

Weapon: Balanced or Critical

Duelist to gladiator requires care with positioning, but it’s a solid choice for rogue that can stand its ground with crit based sustain. Corvan excels at this path due to his bulk and speed. Brooke is a little slower and less bulky, but her dex growth helps boost her survival (defense bonus from duelist) and her luck helps her sustain with more critical hits & gladiator’s sustain on crit skill.

Theron’s Passion works well if you commit to using this character as one of your main enemy phase characters, since that will significantly increase the number of chances to critical.

Class: Raider to Slayer

Best Characters: Ford, Brooke

Aspect: Malice’s Suffering or Manos’s Fury and Orion’s Pursuit

Weapon: Critical or Power

Raider to slayer offers another one hit kill concept, but I found other builds to be superior at this role. Brooke’s full health critical damage skill makes her one candidate here & she could use critical weapons to try for 1 crit kills with Malice’s Suffering. One could also try putting Ford on this path with his best in class strength growth & give him a power scaling aspect to reach 1 hit kill status without relying on crits. If he can hit them! Manos’s Fury could put him over the damage threshold, but has the downside of 50% hit rate. Giving him an accuracy aspect like Orion’s to swap between the two could be an interesting approach though.

Other Builds

Class: Duelist to Trickster

Best Characters: Wren

Aspect: Ancara’s Glow, Shamac’s Tide, Varden’s Ardor

Weapon: Balanced

Duelist provides better dodge than thief due to the thrill. The 15% bonus also applies to the full dodge stat, not just speed growth from 10 to 30. The tradeoff is losing disarm at range until trickster & losing armor penetration based on speed. But if you want to go all in on being a dodge tank then this will be better than thief to trickster.

Ancara’s Glow helps boost dodge even further & will give a little power too. Shamac’s Tide could be useful to recover health and something like Varden’s Ardor could boost damage a bit. Balanced weapon is a must for going all in on dodge.