Yeah. A Blinking Rook is a lot of fun, and very dangerous. If he could just start the game with CoE, this build would be quite viable.

I wish I could start with an 11k artifact... 

warpstone?

To me Boulder roll is the best spell in the game  I always max it whenever I can.  That tower of light isnt going to save you or a crazy teammate in a pinch.

I've seen another speed rook variant they took an early point in structural transfer. Very annoying.

With the speed, you get around the main weakness of this skill, the ease of being interrupted. You attack, disengage, heal and then come back to battle a few seconds later.

Considering how little armor Rook has, and how much less life speed rook has, I am wondering if its worth it to take archer tower/ tower of light early since you can't really stick around in a prolonged battle?

eg: Speed, In, boulder, slam, withdraw, heal. Repeat until later when you've bought your life higher with items.

Possible early build to experiment with to see if this hammer and run Rook actually works out...

Tower I
Hammer I
Structural I
Hammer II
Boulder I

Now to be clear, this is not to say you won't eventually take arrows and tower of light, just that you will take them a bit later then normal when your life is higher and you can stick around to make their damage output worthwhile.

And hey, since you can choose to melee, gauntlets of brutality?

^Oh god, can you not write a silly guide.

I'm worried that more and more people will follow that guide and fail miserably.

I still need to find out where some of these erebus and ub builds are coming from... why they get duelist cuirass is beyond me.