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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robgmsft" data-source="post: 4276586" data-attributes="member: 8729">A little analysis...OK, just spent the morning playing with spreadsheets (yes, I'm a giant dork, thank you) and looking at expected per round damage for a rogue who fights 10 rounds with 5 flanking.I ignored per encounter abilities (although as you get more of them they become more relevant) and focused on Piercing Strike and Sly Flourish builds.  Piercing strike tends to work better until the AC is only 1 greater than the reflex.  Many monsters have +3 to +5 AC over reflex, so PS seems to be the clear winner here.20 dex vs 18 dex was no contest - by far the biggest win of any decision.If you assume Eladrin teleport will add one extra flanking round then you get an extra .68 average damage per round.Elf reroll, on the other hand, only added .20 dpr and nimble layered on top of that gives you merely .22.  Reroll is much better used for daily's, but for this exercise it's clearly the loser to teleport.The dagger's extra to-hit doesn't make up for the loss in damage over the shotsword.OK, so we've got an Eladrin Rogue using a shortsword with 20 Dex, here are the calculated deltas for each relevent damaging feat or choice:Backstabber: +1.02Use a Rapier: +.86Two weapon fighting: +.81Weapon Focus: +.81Nimble: +.46Press Advantage: +.34 (1 extra sneak attack 50% of the time)Charging on your first round with power charge: +.18Use a Katar: +.17Power Attack: +.15Improved initiative: +.14 (1 extra Sneak Attack 20% of the time)Charging on your first combat round: +.13Quickdraw: +.07 (1 extra Sneak Attack 10% of the time)Use a Dagger: -.28(note: I also posted this as a new thread, just for fun.)I guess the most interesting take-away for me from this is that things the rogue and his team-mates do to allow for flanking are generally as or more important than these build decisions.  I think I'll take Rapier/Backstabber/TWF/Focus and then get jack of all trades to make up for my gimped skills.</blockquote>

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