Character Profile: Aeyla - The Combat Specialist

Aeyla is my night elf rogue & Devarien's little sister. He is very proud of her =) I created Aeyla when my friend Jim decided to play WoW and make a Druid. I had already been playing Devarien for a few weeks at the time, so I decided that I would make a new character to play with Jim's Druid instead of waiting for him to catch up to Devarien's level. Jim's Druid is named Saif. Saif & Aeyla played together all the way up to level 60!

Let me tell you, Druid & Rogue make an incredibly powerful duo! Between the two classes you have a tank, dps, healing, crowd control & stealth. During my time playing with Saif, I really learned to respect the versatility and power of the Druid class. Saif could tank for me in bear form. If we needed an emergency heal....no problem. If we wanted to sneak into & out of an area for a stealth kill, he could just switch to cat. It was great fun playing with Saif! Aeyla has missed Saif lately as Jim decided he wanted to group his warrior, Kizzy, with Aeyla in the Burning Crusade on our way up to level 70. I found the Warrior & Rogue duo to be good, however, I still think the Druid & Rogue duo is more versatile and powerful!

During most of Aeyla's career (up until about level 60), she was a dagger rogue. She ran a Cold Blood/Preparation Build. I decided to go with daggers, because it is the way I envisioned a rogue (Sneaky....coming up from behind with a huge ambush!). It was also always nice to have that cold blood eviscerate! A guaranteed crit on a 5 point eviscerate....yummy!!!! However, once Saif & Aeyla reached 60, we had a brief foray into guild life and raiding. As I have mentioned before, I am not really a guild oriented player. I have nothing against them, but I just don't have the 4 or more hour stretch to commit to a high level instance or raid. I also find the 20 or more person raids to be confusing and stressful....lol. However, the one good thing that did come out of my brief guild experience was my switch to a combat swords build.

I found that using a dagger build in raids was much too difficult. I just had too much trouble trying to position myself behind the mob that the tank had targeted when there were multiple mobs surrounding him. Also, many times when I did eventually position myself correctly, the mob would already be dead....lol. So, after doing some research, I decided a sword combat build would be best. Not only did it work well in raids, but it was great for normal PVE as well! I found the damage to be more consistent and my off-hand dps went up considerably. It is also a very easy build to play....spam sinister strike until you can pull off a 5 point eviscerate. Of course there is more to it than that, but the sinister strike/eviscerate combo is the bulk of your damage dealing. My favorite thing about the combat build is blade flurry and adrenaline rush! Combine those abilities with evasion and you pretty much have an "I win" button! I've lost count of the times when Kizzy & Aeyla pulled more mobs than we could handle & I used that combo and watched our worries go away =)

Overall, I have really enjoyed rogue. A good analogy for rogue is that it is like the Jedi of World of Warcraft. You can sneak wherever you want, do insane amounts of damage & if it gets a bit out of hand, just vanish and try again later! Here are a few screens of Aeyla at various stages of her career: