Finally over the level 10 hump and the rogue is doing much better.  Of course, it helps that I actually bought some weapons that do any kind of damage, lol.  
Against better advisement, I went with the combat specialty. Just seemed to fit my style better?  Now I'm able to take on multiple targets and not get repeatedly butt pumped if I get jumped out of nowhere.  The ability for hitting multiple enemies at once is pretty nice.   
Ambush does some good initial damage as well.  That's good.  I dunno if I'm going to get up into the 20's by tomorrow though, that may be tough!