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Daggers do not randomly inflict bleed. Also any class can backstab if positioned correctly. The ability you are thinking of is assassin (which let's you use non-daggers for backstabs).

Anyway, I'm not saying that the "rogue" can't do some damage if positioned properly, I'm just saying that the Ranger does the exact same thing (i.e. Has the escapy smoke cloud ability and can backstab just as hard as the rogue) plus the added utility of actual ranged attacks and having already speced into Ranger can learn the charm and silence skills as soon as you get to town. I agree, without a "way of the rogue" skill path focused on the melee aspects of the class, there is no reason to do rogue instead of Ranger. Hope they tweak this in alpha.