I'm Oneliner from Deathwing. Playing currenty on the horde side in <Prestige> guild.
Poisons
Mainhand(1.8 dagger):
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=43231
Offhand(1.4 dagger):
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=43232
Main dps comes from the poisons. It's a must to get hit cap first for the poisons.
There is an 17% chance for a spell attack to miss a level 83 Boss.
(Poisons are regarded as spells!)
Your hit cap is 315.
If you wanna read more about rogue caps then click
here.
Stat priority
1. Hit [315]
2. Expertise [26/26]
3. Haste [4k AP>Haste] Haste will become useful when you get to have over 4,000 AP.
4. Crit [Critical Strike Rating not Agility]
Stats Conversion
| Rating |
Conversion to 1% |
|---|
| Expertise |
32.78998947 |
| Hit |
32.78998947 |
| Spell Hit |
26.23199272 |
| Critical Strike |
45.90598679 |
| Haste |
32.78998947 |
| Armor Penetration |
13.99572719 |
| Agi to Crit |
83.33333333 |
Try to
avoid armor penetration. Your main dps comes from poisons which are spells. Get trinkets with haste bonus. Items with bonuses like this
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47272 are the best and items with bonuses like this
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50264 are the worst.
Talents
Assassination (51 points)
Tier 1
Malice (5/5) – Increases your Critical Strike chance by 5% (1 per point). This is a very powerful talent to be in a first tier, and that’s why this isn’t skipped by any Rogue, regardless of Spec.
Tier 2
Ruthlessness (3/3) – Gives your melee finishing moves a 60% chance to add a combat point to your target. Assassination rogues rely on fast generation of combo points rather than pure energy regen like Combat.
Puncturing Wounds (3/3) – Increases the critical strike chance of your backstab ability by 30% and the critical strike chance of your Mutilate ability by 15%. We’re taking this solely for the Mutilate crit.
Tier 3
Lethality (5/5) – Increases the critical strike damage bonus of all combo moves by 30%. This won’t improve our white DPS, but 30% on Mutilate is too huge to ignore.
Tier 4
Vile Poisons (3/3) – Increases the damage dealt by your poisons and Envenom ability by 20% and gives your poisons an additional 30% chance to resist dispel effects. As an Assassination Rogue, we’re always going to have poisons on both weapons (really, all rogues should), and Envenom is our main finishing move, as it will refresh Slice and Dice with a talent we’re taking later. Buffing the damage of both is a must.
Improved Poisons (5/5) – Increases the chance to apply Instant and Deadly Poison to your targets by 10%. We’re going to be using both of these poisons at all times. Poisoned targets take more damage from Mutilate, the poisons themselves, and it’s necessary to use Envenom.
Tier 5
Cold Blood (1/1) – When activated, increases the critical strike chance of your next offensive ability by 100%. A guaranteed crit. Take it and use it as often as possible. I tend to save mine for 5 combo point envenoms, which can crit for 15k+.
Fleet Footed (2/2) – Reduces the duration of all movement impairing abilities by 30% and increases movement speed by 15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. Reducing the amount of time that you spend moving from target to target will increase your overall DPS. You can also get this from the foot enchant Tuskar’s Vitality. If you go that route, take these two points and place them elsewhere in the tree.
Tier 6
Seal Fate (5/5) – Your critical strikes from abilities that add combo points have a 100% chance to add an additional combo point(20% chance per point). Between talents, buffs and abilities, Mutilate is going to crit a fair number of times, so we’re taking this for much faster combo point generation.
Murder (2/2) – Increases all damage caused against Humanoid, Giant, Beast, and Dragonkin targets by 4% (2% per point). Unfortunately this doesn’t increase damage against undead, but we still see these types of mobs a lot in Wrath, so you’ll still get that 4% increase a fair amount of the time.
Tier 7
Overkill (1/1) – While stealthed and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth, you regenerate 30% more energy. As Combat, it makes sense to run around outside of stealth to start rotations, as opening with Sinister Strike is often the most efficient way to start combat. However, with this talent, it makes sense to open from Stealth whenever possible. This basically functions as a weaker version of Combat’s Adrenaline Rush. When killing trash, it’s generally available on every pull, and on bosses, you can use Vanish offensively to activate it multiple times in a fight.
Tier 8
Focused Attacks (3/3) – Your Melee critical strikes have a 100% chance to give you 2 Energy. You crit with your white hits more often than you think. This provides a much needed infusion of extra energy.
Find Weakness (3/3) – Offensive ability damage increased by 6%. This ability is a flat 6% increase on all damage abilities you use, so you should definitely take it.
Tier 9
Mutilate (1/1) – Instantly attacks with both weapons for and additional 181 with each weapon. Damage is increased by 20% against poisoned targets. Awards 2 combo points. You can’t be a true Assassination Rogue without taking this talent, as the tree is really built around it now. True it is expensive at 60 energy (unglyphed), but it does massive damage and awards 2 combo points (3 if it crits).
Master Poisoner (3/3) – Increases the critical hit chance of all attacks made against any target you have poisoned by 3%, reduces the duration of all poison effects applied to you by 50% and increases the bonus chance to apply Deadly Poison when Envenom is used by 45%. The raid wide critical buff is nice, but a ret paladin will also provide the same buff. The poison duration reduction is also nice but we’re taking this for the increased chance to apply deadly poison. Having this talent will pretty much guarantee that you have 5 stacks up almost all the time. If you do roll with a Ret Paladin and want to take Turn the tables on the other side of this tier, that’s cool too.
Tier 10
Cut to the Chase (5/5) – Your Eviscerate and envenom abilities have a 100% chance to refresh your Slice and Dice to its 5 combo point maximum. This was one of the best improvements that Assassination got in Wrath. If you Envenom with 1 combo point, it not only does the Envenom damage, but you’ve just hit a 5 combo point Slice and Dice as well. The only caveat is that Slice and Dice must already be up first.
Tier 11
Hunger for Blood (1/1) – Enrages you, increasing all damage caused by 5%. Requires a bleed effect to be active on the target. Lasts 1 minute. We’ll be using Garrote and Rupture if needed, so there’s your bleed effect. This buff should be kept up at all times.
Combat (13)
Dual Wield Specialization (5/5) – Increases the damage done by your offhand weapon by 50%. This is a buff to offhand damage, which includes the offhand damage from Mutilate. We’re taking it mainly to get deeper into the tree; plus, it’s a prereq for Close Quarters Combat.
Precision (5/5) – Increases your chance to hit with weapon and poison attacks by 5%. The hit penalty for dual wielding is simply too high for any PvE Rogue build to skip this talent.
Close Quarters Combat (5/5) – Increases your chance to get a critical strike with Daggers and Fist Weapons by 5%. because you’re using two daggers, you’ll get 5% extra crit on all direct damage you do.
Lightning Reflexes (3/3) Increases your Dodge chance by 6% and gives you 10% melee haste. The dodge is nice, but we’re mainly taking this for the haste buff. This will cause your Deadly Poison to proc more often, which will in turn increase your Instant Poison procs. Additionally, this means more white damage, and more Energy from Focused Attacks.
Subtlety (7)
Relentless Strikes (2/5) – Your finishing moves have a 8% per combo point to restore 25 Energy. A 40% chance to get free energy every time you use a 5 point finisher and a 32% chance with a 4 point finisher.
If you're under 4,500 gs you would like to use these talents...
Glyphs
1.
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45768
2.
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45761
3.
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45767 with t10 2 set bonus
or
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45766 without t10. Both glpyhs are optional if you wish to have more aoe dmg the get Fan of Knives.
Gems
Meta
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=41398
Yellow
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40128
Red
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40159 if you're under 4k AP then gem red sockets with
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40114
Blue
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40169 only when the socket bonus is with agility.
T9 geared rogues will benefit more from full AP gemming, and as they gain gear from ICC, Haste overcomes AP in EP and becomes the best stat. Why? Haste EP's improves as your AP increases. Therefore, once you're decked out in T10, you will benefit the most from mixing AP gems with Haste. AGI vs AP? The reason why you should never gem agility is because 1 agility equals to 1 AP, 0.012% Crit, and 0.024% dodge. It gives a little crit bonus (works on yellow and white hits, does not affect poisons) but it surely is not better than AP gem because poisons benefit from AP and Critical Strike Rating only.
At high gear levels, it is possible to run into crit cap issues - sometimes quite severely. Hence, it is not uncommon to need some hit both on gear and in sockets to mitigate this problem. This also makes crit (and to a lesser extent, agi) somewhat less desirable as a stat (as it means you need to socket more hit to cover it).
Professions
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=51306
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=51311
Enchants
Head:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44149
Shoulder:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50335
Back:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44472
Chest:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44489
Wrist:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44484
Hands:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=54999
Legs:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=38374
Feet:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44490 if you're not hit caped then
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=38986
Mainhand:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44492 or if you're with +6,5k gs then
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=43987
Offhand:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44492
Race
1. Troll
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=26297
2. Night elf
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=58984 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40211 goes on cd.
3. Blood elf
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=25046
Food
1.
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44331 or
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=46377
2.
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=42942
Enough of the build up....
This class is pretty awesome to play but pretty expensive if you want to get your dps to the top. It's because you need a lot of
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40211 .
3 things you must know before reading the rotation section :P
1. You need to keep up your
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=63848 (HFB) all the time
(8% dps increase).
2. Keep up the
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=6774 (SND). This part is easy because every time you cast
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=57993 your SND gets instantly back to maximum buff time which means you only need to apply this buff once at the start and never use it again when you're in combat. This awesome thing comes from your talent tree called as
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=51669 .
3. Try to time your
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=57993 . Don't spam it. Use this only when the last one runs out. Use
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=57993 only with 4 or 5 combo points.
Rotation
Close or hide recount for the fight! Less stress, more fun. It's huge distraction (For example imagine yourself watching the recount, seeing you're first with big numbers. But one moment you're dropping down like to 6th place. From that moment you might start focusing more on recount than on your rotation. You might get discouraged and you might start to make mistakes).
Keep your eye on cooldowns, combo points and never let the energy to the maximum.
When there's no warrior or druid in your party/raid then you have to use
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=48676 and
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=48672 to apply
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=63848 (works only with bleed effect).
I'll use seconds for timing the skills you'll have to use for the best rotation there is.
-2 seconds
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40211
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=1787
0 seconds
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=63848
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=48666
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=6774
2 seconds
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=48666 use it twice if needed to get 4 or 5 combo points
Because you have all your trinkets and abilities on proc at start. You're with highest ap at start always.
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=57993
This is basicly all what you do from start to the end of the fight.
60 seconds
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=63848
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40211
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=26888
120 seconds
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=63848
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40211
Night elf can use
http://wotlk.openwow.com/spell=58984 here.
Without warrior or feral kitty
Lists are starting with BiS
Trinkets
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=54590
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50355
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45609
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48722
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=43573
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40531
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=39229
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40685
Head
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50713
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51866
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48235
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50206
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=46125
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40329
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=39399
Neck
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47060
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=54557
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50421
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50452
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45480
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=46008
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50228
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40065
Shoulder
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50646
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51254
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48049
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49785
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40305
Back
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50653
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47418
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45461
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40403
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40721
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=43566
Chest
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50656
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48233
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47000
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51923
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49841
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=46123
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40277
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=39386
Wrist
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=54580
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51783
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47313
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45108
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=39765
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45611
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47582
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40186
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=37853
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40738
Hands
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51251
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48234
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40541
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45838
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50021
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45312
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40362
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=37409
Waist
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47112
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51925
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50995
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45491
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49806
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45709
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40260
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40205
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=37714
Legs
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51253
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51889
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=46975
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50269
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45846
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40333
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=37644
Feet
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49895
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45162
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47445
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45302
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40243
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=40748
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47992
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=44297
Ring
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50604
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50402
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51843
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47443
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48954
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45303
Mainhand
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50736
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50676
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51846
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47461
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45607
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50203
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49789
Offhand
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50621
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51868
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47416
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=48010
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45484
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47676
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49807
Thrown
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50474
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=51880
http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50169
(If I missed anything from this list or something is wrong then let me know:P)
Macros
Mutilate with autoattack.
#showtooltip
/startattack
/cast Mutilate
Really simple ToTT macro, no need to worry where's the tank.
#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@targettarget] Tricks of the Trade
Poisons on the skillbar slot 16 is mh and 17 oh.
#showtooltip
/use Deadly Poison
/use 17
#showtooltip
/use Instant Poison
/use 16
Vanish & autoattack.
/cast Vanish
/startattack
Poweraura
Will update soon...
I suggest to download poweraura addon so you can track your skills. I will upload the codes when I can.
This is a guide for maximum dps. I didn't make any expetions for it.
Any kind of feedback is welcome and let me know how much did your dps increase:).
Originally Posted by trm90
I am having a debate in wether I should gem 20agility or 40AP? (yeah it's half the amount of the pure AP gems but they give us cri% and also with 'horn of winter' & 'kings' won't it be just a bit behind 40AP gems? aside a crazy load of extra cri%? , and also I never understood why 1.40 weapon is so important am doesn't it add like just a bit more poisons?
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