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skreechr
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Is there any particular race that favours the rogue class by any chance. Any one know if the Drow would be any good for this roll?
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In 4E, the choice matters more because abilities use a particular attribute for the rider effects. So a trickster rogue is more distinct from a brawny rogue in that way. But in this game, Strength gives you damage bonus, stamina regen, and dot resist. Charisma gives you deflection chance, companion bonus, and combat advantage damage bonus. Each of these is basically 1% for each point after 10.
So you really do have the freedom to pick whatever you want. You could make a rogue with a race without a dex bonus at all if you want. It'll be a small difference overall, and almost entirely negligible at max level with gear stats diluting ability score impact.
There are a few exceptions though Wizards and offensive spellcasters generally want as High primary stat to incease DCs as there are few and limeted ways of increasing those beyond Hieghten and spell focus.
in 4.0 yes there are Rider benifits in skills you may want to consider but usually the differance is between having a +3 and +4 is typically 1 damage.
Btw Rogues in 4.0 hardly need a a max dex to be effective i've tested 16 or 18 will do you well if you play them right and take every advantage you can and learn to charge to make that CA attack count.
and after all that I'm finding it seems your starting stats seem to hardly matter once your geared up. you don't ever miss unless you wiff air so to hit doesn't exist so its just a slight numbers/damage game for rogues at that point.
Plus you do an extra 5% damage from crits and once every 20 seconds, when you engage an enemy, you gain 10% extra movement speed for 3 seconds. Nothing special but it helps.
Right, I think we're getting at the same point. I was mainly responding to this sort of thing: "Half-Orcs would be perfect if the Brawny Rogue was in game since they get a +2 to Dexterity, and Strength. Trickster Rogues get the most benefit from Dexterity, and Charisma. "
The main point I was getting at was that you can really pick whatever race you want. If you're taking race with a Dex bonus, whether your second stat is Str or Cha or something else is pretty irrelevant, and you're even pretty open to take any race at all due to the way stats work.
If you want to optimize, it depends on what you want to optimize for. If you're optimizing for damage, Half-Orc with Dex/Str is your best bet. But you could just as easily take a Con/Cha race for more survival, might be a good idea for PvP.
If the 2 weapon ranger is what is coming out next, I don't think they'll have to worry about long bow. I wonder if they'll be using long swords even, or if they'll have their own one handed weapon such as scimitars. Man I hope not.
Also, if they'll be out soonish then I think I'll make my rogue a drow, and my human (and probably main) the ranger.
Two races stand out in this regard: half-orc and tiefling.
Half-orcs possess a racial that grants 5% increased critical severity, which means that your critical hits will be 5% stronger than they would be otherwise. Given the trickster rogue's propensity toward Dex and Crit stats, this further elevates the value of this racial ability.
Tieflings possess a racial that grants 5% increase damage on targets below half health--a mini passive execute, if you will. While the tiefling's ability score bonuses are somewhat lackluster (yes, they do have +2 Cha for extra CA damage), this mini execute will likely translate to a sizable DPS advantage.
Of course, these advantages are quite small at the end of the day, and for those who don't care to min max, it won't matter, and most players won't notice the differences.
Go with whatever race you truly want to play/have fun with! If maximizing your numbers is all you care about, then go with Tiefling or Half-Orc.