Soul wrote on Mar 24^th, 2011 at 11:41pm:

Don't get the aggros.

Soul wrote on Mar 25^th, 2011 at 12:18am:

Yeah, you have the idea.
Just pick a meat shield buddy.  Stay on his ass.  Attack whatever he's attacking, but wait until he's already swung once or twice before you do so that he has aggro instead of you.
When he moves, you move with him.
Use the buddy system, but don't tell him that you're doing it.  Just laugh at how you have three times as many kills as the barbarian and make fun of him.

Keep level appropriate gear at all times.  Every odd level you hit, go grab new gear.
I use goggle swap for all three: Blindness Ward of the Eagle, Search, Disable.  Once you get Tharne's, just swap to Disable when needed.
I place the appropriate goggles above the appropriate skill button on hotbars.  So before I search, I make sure I'm wearing the goggles above the search button.  Before I disable.... you get the idea.  Make sure to swap back when you're done.

Make a hotbar for UMD gear and items that need UMD to use.  The first slot or three is for gear swaps to get the UMD high enough, the rest are for scrolls/wands/etc.  It's faster and much easier to get a scroll off successfully when you have to hit 2-4 buttons in succession if those buttons are right next to each other.

Any other questions, feel free to ask.
Welcome to the Dark Side.

edit:
Oh, and I forgot to mention.... get as many rogues in the group as possible and fight as one unit.  Only one of you can have aggro at a time.
People who say "There's too many Rogues" are fucking idiots.

further edit:
I prefer a +X keen of pure good in main hand and a +1 *highest seeker available* of pure good in my off hand until IC.

Soul wrote on Mar 25^th, 2011 at 3:12am:

Honestly, I think crafting a Cha skills GS is a waste of larges.
Just make a second set of DT, with +6 Cha and Cha skills.
That adds +6 with a single swap, +9 with a Cartouche and two swaps.
Just with those two items, if you started with a 6 Cha and ate a +2 tome:
23 ranks
+2 Cha mod
+4 GH
+3 Cartouche
+3 Ex Cha skills on DT
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35 bare minimum, more if you have 7 fingered gloves, spyglass, Cha on ToD rings, Skill Focus, Skill Mastery, two separate ship buffs- one for Cha, one for skills-, or started with higher Cha.
It's EASY to get UMD high on a rogue.  Crafting GS for it is a waste IMO.
Craft a Rad2, Lit2, and HP item which can also be Rad Guard.

My 13 rogue/6 pally/1 monk no-fails heal scrolls without a gear swap.
UMD is easy.
He has the following GS:
Main hand - Lit2 scimmy - standard holy, shocking burst, shocking blast
Off hand - Rad2 scimmy - holy, +4 Insight, 15% fire absorb
HP - ConOp cloak - 10hp, 15hp, 100sp - serves dual purpose of consolidating hp item and Wis item into 1 slot, while also giving his nonexistent sp bar a boost to spam DivFav and DivSac nonstop.  He still wears Minos to make up the difference.
Yeah, I know, I should have made it 150sp, 15hp, 20hp.  Hindsight and all that....
Rad Guard is on my DT instead of my hp cloak in this case.

Soul wrote on Mar 25^th, 2011 at 3:12am:

Haven't seen Nick's post, so I can't comment on that, but I don't use khopeshes personally.
I use rapier/ss or scimmy/kukri depending on whether I'm pure or multi, then rapier/rapier or scimmy/scimmy once I have the BaB and buffs to handle it.
Maces/hammers/Qstaves or wraps depending on whether he has a monk splash or not for when bludgeoning is needed.

Oh, here's the must have raid gear, in order of importance:

1. Radiance weapon
2. Madstone Boots
3. Tharne's Goggles

Yes, I really think the boots are more important than Tharne's.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Considering that I run mostly epic content, I don't see myself making radience weapons until radience becomes a lot less annoying in epics. I have a radience guard on my favored soul and honestly the most annoying thing is when a mob hits me and then gets mass held. It would just piss me off wasting 10 scales on a weapon that will make something run away from me everytime there's some cc on it. I was actually thinking more along the lines of litII khopeshes.

Re: Madstone Boots

I don't like them on my rogues for general questing, and only put them on for boss fights.
When you need a heal scroll or a raise dead scroll, you generally need it right now.  Locking out UMD for almost 2 minutes isn't worth the tiny bit of damage that they add IMO.

Oh, and Tools.
Keep 2 sets in your Inv, and hotbar them both like you do mats on your caster.  As soon as 1 set is gone, replace it.
You'll never run out.  Ever.

Cale wrote on Mar 25^th, 2011 at 2:05pm:

I am always surprised that I don't need UMD nearly as much as I thought I would, hence why I like the boots.  There are times I take them off (like a weak group or when I need to remove my curses) but generally they are an all the time thing.

Cale wrote on Mar 25^th, 2011 at 2:37pm:


I'd bet with me as a guildie there will be times you don't feel safe with them on in guild runs.

Inkblack wrote on Mar 25^th, 2011 at 2:30pm:


You do know you can use guild curse pots even when raged right?

Unless of course you just like having two different sets of pots on different timers.  For those that dont know, they are.  THIS IS HOW NOOBS GET THROUGH INFERNO, SO STOP FUCKING DYING IN IT!

Feels good to get that out every now and then.

Epoch wrote on Mar 26^th, 2011 at 4:51am:


I was not aware of that, is that the same case with the cure pots or is it just the funnel vs non-funnel pots?

Glenalth wrote on Mar 26^th, 2011 at 6:12am:


Never tried the cure pots.  I would assume so though.

Cale wrote on Mar 26^th, 2011 at 6:36am:


I was thinking you meat craft a radII weapon set first. I guess I could do what you suggest. I'm thinking I'll just equip my +5 metalline khopesh of pure good when I don't want to blind things, and my rad when I do.