Main Hand Weapons for Rogue DPS in Pre-Patch
Gressil, Aube de la ruine is absolutely the best, and it is much better than the next best option,
Epée longue de connétable /
Lame de grand seigneur de guerre . Lucky for rogues without
Gressil, Aube de la ruine, the Grand Marshal and High Warlord weapons will be available during the prepatch in exchange for a simple honor currency. Gone is the ranking system from classic, and now you simply accumulate honor points from doing PvP to spend on items. This makes these very powerful weapons relatively easy to attain for all players. Each weapon on this list is a good deal worse than the item above it - each of these are substantial differences in power.
With the best weapons possible, swords are very far ahead of daggers in the Burning Crusade Pre-Patch. The best setup for a Combat dagger talent specialization would be
Détrôneuse and
Le Froid dévorant, with
Griffe du wyrm de givre as a close second for best off hand. If you can get your hands on one sword from
Naxxramas and one of the epic PvP reward swords, it will be a damage upgrade to swap from the best possible dagger setup to swords.
Recommended BiS Main Hand Weapon Enchant:
Ench. d'arme (Croisé)Off Hand Weapons for Rogue DPS in Pre-Patch
Le Froid dévorant becomes substantially better with the change from weapon skill to expertise. Unsurprisingly, the weapon from the last boss of the game is the best. For off hand weapons downgrading to one of the alternative options is not as significant as for the main hand weapons. The Grand Marshal and High Warlord weapons are not very desirable as off hand weapons because the relatively slow weapon speed of 1.8 interacts very poorly with
Toute-puissance de combat.
Recommended BiS Off Hand Weapon Enchant:
Ench. d'arme (Croisé)