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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4602386" data-attributes="member: 71571">Correct, but keep in mind, the list of things that give you combat advantage is huge.  Not only do your skills do it, but you should find your party's encounter and dailys have ways as well.  Coordinate with them and you should find your Combat Advantage turns going up to 100%.  There's no reason a rogue has to flank if he doesn't want to.But if you -do- find yourself in a flanking position, and you're a dagger thrower, there's absolutely no reason -not- to use a melee attack.  You use the same attribute (All rogue attacks are Dex based) and deal decent damage as well.  Once you get a magic dagger, you don't even need to worry about being without a weapon.Also, even if you've got no avenue for Combat Advantage, you can still use Bluff to create a distraction, thus giving you Combat Advantage as a standard action, or to cover you while you find concealment, allowing you to Stealth.  Then from Stealth, you can use Deft Strike to come out, attack unseen (which gives you CA, you don't lose stealth until the action is ended), then use your movement to get back behind cover.Then you start looking at the Rogue utilities...</blockquote>