Last night I lost a 2v2 game with my priest after I had managed to get the jump on the other teams rogue. He reversed the opener onto me through a blind and won the game shortly after. Today I made an alt on Stormscale to quickly speak to him*. We talked briefly about counter-openers and combining buttons/mousebuttons to string together non-GCD abillities.
In the past I’ve been using this macro whenever rogues/paladins opened on me;
/use PVP_TRINKET_NAME
/cast vanish
/cast cheap shot
It’s nice and simple, but not very effective (plus you have to spam it as you’ll probably be facing the wrong way at first). I rarely get the chance to land the cheapshot before I’m either AoE’d or FoK’d out of stealth. What I’ll be experimenting with over the next few days is;
/use PVP_TRINKET_NAME
/cast blind
/cast vanish
Even though it uses your blind immediately, it gives you a very good chance to turn the tables on the attacker, especially if you use it the very second you are opened on. I’ve been experimenting with other combinations of GCD/non-GCD spells but can’t find anything that works as well without the risk of unnecessarily blowing cooldowns that aren’t needed.
Would it be worth adding evasion into this macro? Theoretically if the person you just blinded went on to do the same to you, there’s a chance you’ll dodge their opener. However, if they wait until your Kidney Shot before trinketing, you’ve just lost a third of your evasion time. Personally I’ll give it a miss initially, but I’ll see how it goes in the future.
If you don’t want to use any cooldowns when you are jumped, try and get support from your partner. If their rogue can be CC’d before the end of his cheap shot you should be able to come out of stun naturally. On the other hand, if you find that you’re the one being sheeped/cycloned/hexed when opening on other rogues, try out the addon ‘Spellalerter‘, and be prepared to use Cloak of Shadow if you see any incoming casts on yourself.
* A really nice guy as well, thanks for taking the time out for a quick chat! Hopefully I’ll be trinket/blinding as fast as you one day 
I prefer to trinket –> Gouge —> Vanish.
I also use the >trinklet > gouge combination – seems to be quicker with a better outcome. Of course it has it’s downsides with most rogues having a large amount of dodge and having to gouge from the front. But if it does work – they are in a ‘barny rubble’! – If they trink they are dead for sure! – if they dont and follow into stunlock you still have your blind, the moment they use their trinklet – I often end up with a double blind situation – This is good in context because you have turned the whole fight around to equal par…Now its jsut a matter of luck and MS on first jump. Gouge is also nice if vanish is not up to CS, make em bleed/disarm/evasion and it makes the whole situation a lot easier.
You bind your blind to mouswheel up or down.
Pressing your trinket key + mouswheel is instant. And gives you a GCD to do switch to vanish or whatever.
No need for macro.
I use that tactic quite often as well, but instead of having a combined macro, I just use Every Man for Himself (bound to one of the mouse side-buttons) and spamming blind at the same time (bound to “A” in my case). And of course I’m using mouseover macro for blind, I found it to be more fast and reliable.
in case you don’t know how it works:
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mousover,exists,harm] Blind; Blind
One tactic i have found effective against rogue opener is this
/cast trinket
/cast evasion
It must be done very fast, and you need to mouse turn to face the rogue, but if done correctly you have a serious good chance of dodging the 5 point stun, i like to try and gouge then vanish (the gouge so he cant fok me out of stealth) then reopen with sap, they still have their trinket… now its up to you to blind when they trink or stun them right back
oh and i forgot… the evasion gives you over 50% chance of dodging the blind also, its not fool-proof… but when you don’t have opener, nothing is
I like evasion… I’ve managed to get rogues to burn their cd on dismantle as well as kidney shot after a quick trinket/evasion, and this totally turned the tide of the fight. Guess it doesn’t work as well for blind, but half the time they got a deadly poison on me when they opened so it’d be useless anyway