Rogue

Pre-alpha Rogue/Ranger (Predator) preview.^[1]

Rogue is an archetype in Ashes of Creation.^[2]

The rogue is master of opportunity, using skill, positioning, and the environment to dish out frightening amounts of damage. In their downtime, they provide solid utility, helping their friends navigate dangers otherwise unseen.

Rogue classes

Class	Primary	Secondary
Assassin	Rogue	Rogue
Charlatan	Rogue	Bard
Cultist	Rogue	Cleric
Duelist	Rogue	Fighter
Nightspell	Rogue	Mage
Predator	Rogue	Ranger
Shadow Guardian	Rogue	Tank
Shadow Lord	Rogue	Summoner

Skills/abilities

All classes are capable adventurers, but rogues excel at delving the deepest dungeons and finding the most hidden of treasures.^[3]

Rogues will have utility skills that enable them to discover hidden doors, traps and additional treasures.^[4]
These will be randomly spawned throughout different times of the day to ensure that encounters are not the same each time.^[4]

If you're in a party and you have a Rogue that's available, they'll be able to use that utility skill to discover these random doors that might exist in a dungeon. Now the way we make it so that it's not essentially the same door every time and it's just a first time thing and every time thereafter you know where that door's at, is these locations are randomly spawned throughout different times of the day so they'll change essentially as you go into a dungeon at different times. So it'll be important and relevant for parties to make sure that they have a diversity of archetypes available to them. And in particular for the rogues case because they can find those hidden type doors and then have access to different types of loot tables based off of that.^[4] – Steven Sharif

This section contains information from early testing phases. It will be updated as soon as new information is made available.

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Stealth		This does not render a player completely invisible. Instead, there will be indicators that can help players "feel out" where stealthed individuals may be.^[5]	-	-

Theft

There will not be a theft (stealing/pickpocketing) mechanic in Ashes of Creation in regards to living players.^[6]^[7]

There may be quest related actions that involve some form of stealing, but not of actual items from a player's inventory, where the player is identified as the quest's target via a title or some other means.^[6]^[8]

That kind of emergent gameplay is obviously the objective behind how can we accommodate a non-static quest-line; and the way you do that is you can apply a flag to a title and whoever holds that title becomes the target of that quest segment. And this can change too because that title can change- you know different people might rise up in the ranks of different societies and organizations.^[8] – Steven Sharif