Welcome to this World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth Guide for Assassination Rogues looking to optimize their DPS in PvE end-game. The recommendations in this guide are a mixture of automated simulation data and hand-picked choices that account for the wide variety of character setups at level 120.
This guide is a resource to help optimize your character using up-to-date stat priorities, stat weights, talent builds, rotations and more curated by a small team who've played since 2004. This guide is intended to be a straight-to-the-point resource to quickly get you back in the game. If your intent is to achieve high performance DPS, you will want to focus on reacting fast and intelligently in encounters, executing rotations flawlessly, having good FPS, low latency, and timing cooldowns and consumables optimally as they are large factors for performing well.
Players love to emphasize and theorycraft over the value of certain stats, talents etc. While they are impactful, they will not make as much a difference as you yourself until you are performing at a very high competitive level. This guide will give you that extra 5%, but the other 95% is up to you.
This guide is a resource to help optimize your character using up-to-date stat priorities, stat weights, talent builds, rotations and more curated by a small team who've played since 2004. This guide is intended to be a straight-to-the-point resource to quickly get you back in the game. If your intent is to achieve high performance DPS, you will want to focus on reacting fast and intelligently in encounters, executing rotations flawlessly, having good FPS, low latency, and timing cooldowns and consumables optimally as they are large factors for performing well.
Players love to emphasize and theorycraft over the value of certain stats, talents etc. While they are impactful, they will not make as much a difference as you yourself until you are performing at a very high competitive level. This guide will give you that extra 5%, but the other 95% is up to you.
Sep 13, 2016 Assassination Rogue AoE. I was wondering if there is any sustainable AoE for an Assassination rogue? I use fan of knives and it spreads my poisons but my AoE damage is still quite low. I have been kicked from dungeons for low AoE trash dps.
Browsing through this guide couldn't be easier. Below are the guides available, and remember you can always use the tabs above to navigate through them.
- Stat Priority & SummariesOptimized Stat Priority and Stat Summaries.
- Gems, Enchants & ConsumablesOptimized Gems, Enchants and Consumables.
- Talents & BuildMax-performing Talent Build and information on talents.
- DPS Rotation & CooldownsDPS Rotation and Cooldown guidance.
- Azerite Powers & BiS GearBest-in-Slot (BiS) Gear and the best selected Azerite Traits.
- PvP GuideWe also provide this PvP guide for Assassination Rogues, with automated recommendations based on leaderboard statistics.
If you're interested in seeing how Assassination Rogue stacks up against other specs, be sure to check out our spec rankings:
- DPS RankingsGenerated using SimulationCraft, the most trusted theorycraft tool.
- PvP RankingsBased on statistics from Blizzard's Official PvP Leaderboard API.
Below is our guide for prioritizing your Assassination Rogue abilities optimally. This should help give you a basic understanding of what to do and what's most important to focus on. Keep in mind that simply following this (or any other) rotation guide will not guarantee you to be amazing at DPS. How aggressively you execute the rotation, how fast and intelligently you react in encounters, your FPS, latency, etc. play a large part in the end-result of your performance. We encourage you to really focus on those things and perfect this rotation if you're very performance-focused.
Poison: Use the following poisons on your weapons.
- Lethal: Deadly Poison
- Non-Lethal: Crippling Poison
DPS Priority: Execute the following priority for optimal DPS.
- Rupture maintained with >= 5 Combo Points.
- Hemorrhage Our system could not find the tooltip for this ability. Contact us and we'll fix this! to maintain the DoT (if selected).
- Garrote to maintain the DoT.
- Exsanguinate on cooldown (if selected).
- Toxic Blade on cooldown (if selected).
- Envenom to dump excess Combo Points.
- Blindside when available to build Combo Points (if selected).
- Mutilate to build Combo Points.
- See single target rotation.
- Maintain your DoTs on as many targets as possible.
- Maintain the DoT from Crimson Tempest (if selected).
- Swap Mutilate for Fan Of Knives to build Combo Points with 3+ targets.
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The Assassination Rogue AoE rotation is very similar to the single target rotation with the changes noted above. Your highest priority is to maintain your DoTs on as many targets as possible while continuing with your single target rotation and to integrate Fan Of Knives with multiple targets.
These are effective cooldowns to try and incorporate in each encounter.
- Vendetta Use on cooldown for burst damage. Use Vanish immediately after Vendetta to trigger your Stealth based talents.
- Marked For Death Use as often as possible for a burst of Combo Points (if selected).