Assassination Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.2)

With the release of Season 3 of The War Within, the gear treadmill begins anew once more.

The War Within once again uses the Crest upgrade system that was introduced in Dragonflight. We recommend that you check out our dedicated page for more information on this gear upgrade system if you are not yet familiar with it:

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BiS Gear for Assassination Rogue

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

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BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup from all sources for Assassination Rogue. Keep in mind that there are many other setups that perform within the margin of error, so this list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed, is far behind this selection.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

In some non-Tier slots, a max ilvl Craft (720) will technically be optimal since you can customize the secondary stats to your liking. Your mileage here may vary.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl dagger. Best choice: Vengeful Netherspike (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Offhand Weapon	Everforged Stabber (723) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Ornately Engraved Amplifier (723)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Mastery or Crit (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands with Mastery/Crit and Writhing Armor Banding (720)	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Atomic Phasebelt (723)	Plexus Sentinel in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha (723)	Plexus Sentinel in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Seal of the Panoply (723)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Trinket #1	Araz's Ritual Forge with Deathstalker OR Lily of the Eternal Weave with Fatebound (723)	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega OR Eco-Dome Al'dani
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 3 Mythic+ Dungeons.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl dagger. Best choice: Parson's Ornamented Blade (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Offhand Weapon	Parson's Ornamented Blade (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Neck	Ornately Engraved Amplifier (710)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Mastery or Crit (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Bracers	Unbreakable Beetlebane Bindings (710)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Shadow Congregant's Belt (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Boots of Titanic Deconversion (710)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Ring #1	Signet of the False Accuser (710)	Halls of Atonement
Ring #2	Seal of the Panoply (710)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Trinket #1	Lily of the Eternal Weave (710)	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Trinket #2	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (710)	Operation: Floodgate

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Raid Gear BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Manaforge Omega Raid.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl dagger. Best choice: Vengeful Netherspike (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar
Offhand Weapon	Vengeful Netherspike (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz
Neck	Salhadaar's Folly (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Mastery or Crit (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst or Fractillus
Bracers	Time-Compressed Wristguards (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri
Belt	Atomic Phasebelt (701)	Plexus Sentinel
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals (723)	The Soul Hunters
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha (723)	Plexus Sentinel
Ring #2	Band of the Shattered Soul (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring
Trinket #1	Araz's Ritual Forge with Deathstalker OR Unyielding Netherprism with Fatebound (723)	Forgeweaver Araz OR Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna (723)	Loom’ithar

There are a number of good trinkets available for Assassination Rogue in Season 3, from a variety of different sources. Some relevant ones to look for are:

• Deathstalker: Araz's Ritual Forge – The only viable high-ilvl on-use trinket from raid this season, this is a must play for any Assassination Rogue. No other trinket comes remotely close to this one.
• Fatebound: Lily of the Eternal Weave – This will be your on-use item if you end up playing Fatebound, as your 90-second on-use trinket.
• Fatebound: Unyielding Netherprism – This On-Use trinket can be stronger than Lily, but you will only use it every 3 minutes alongside your Deathmark, instead of every 90 seconds. It also doesn't provide a big boost on pull, but for any pure single-target boss where you do not need the burst in P1, this trinket is very good. Whether or not this trinket outshines Lily, depends heavily on the fight duration, i.e. having a 4-minute or 7-minute fight, or if there are good damage amp phases that you can line up with its use every 3 minutes. In those cases this trinket is phenomenal.
• Astral Antenna – Astral Antenna is a great passive trinket that you can grab from the Manaforge Omega as well. You have to pick up a small orb to receive its effect, and it slowly travels towards you as well.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker – A strong option to Astral Antenna, that does not suffer any of its shortcomings, and is usable in both Raid and Mythic+.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood – A solid alternative passive bonus trinket, that can be farmed in Mythic+.

In Patch 11.2, you can acquire a new artifact cloak, the Reshii Wraps. This cloak is mostly used in the open-world, and you can find more information on how to acquire the cloak, as well as all the neat little secrets you can find with it on our Reshii Wraps section!

Tailoring can craft sockets for the cloak which will grant it a set of secondary stats of your choosing. We will want to either grab a Pure Precise Fiber for Critical Strike, or Pure Energizing Fiber for Mastery. Which gem is best for you generally depends on which stat you have less off at the moment, and Fatebound wants more Crit than Deathstalker.

You can also acquire a set of boots inside Manaforge Omega which further boosts the proc-effect of your cloak, the Interloper's Reinforced Sandals, which drop from The Soul Hunters, an entirely optional boss inside the new raid. These new boots are best in slot for us, even at lower itemlevels, but the exact threshold will heavily depend on your alternative options. Make sure to sim yourself to find out whether a Normal or Heroic version of the boots outperforms your current boots!

Dimensius The All Devouring can drop a ring, the Band of the Shattered Soul, which causes the proc of your cloak to also reduce Cosmic damage taken by 50%, up to a certain amount of damage absorbed. This effect has no DPS benefits whatsoever, and while it is a nice bonus to have, our class kit makes us so tanky already that we would rather play a ring that offers higher DPS instead, leaving the ring for some of the squishier classes.

With all the different layers of gearing currently available to players, it is impossible to cover all edge cases and individual recommendations in a guide. We therefore highly recommend simming your own character by using Raidbots. This website allows for precise and individualized recommendations that consider your exact talents, gear, trinket, and all the other layers of gearing that the game has to offer. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as it is the only reliable way to get information on which piece of gear, enchant, gem, or trinket is the best for your character.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses offer the highest DPS upgrades to you. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from each of the items it drops. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

These are some of the items you should prioritize on upgrading as high as possible early into the season:

• Your Mainhand dagger.
• Powerful trinkets like Araz's Ritual Forge or Astral Antenna
• Items with a high stat budget, like your Chest, Helmet, or Legs.
• Embellished or other items with damaging procs.

These are not the only items worth upgrading, of course. They simply offer the highest DPS gain early into the tier when your upgrade currency is limited.

Professions are a great way to gear up with your optimal secondary stats, as generating specific secondary stat combinations is now possible when adding special items to the crafting process. With the heavily reworked crafting system in The War Within, exploring the new professions will help you gear up throughout the expansion, as you will be able to craft some Mythic Raid item-level pieces further down the line.

If you want to find out more about professions, make sure to check out our The War Within Profession guide!

As your ability to craft items will be time-gated in the initial stages of The War Within, we highly recommend getting a Main Hand weapon as soon as possible, unless you can reliably get one elsewhere. Once you have a good weapon, work on Embellished Items next, and then craft whichever pieces you do not have high-item-level versions of yet.

Up to two of your crafted items can be Embellished. This is a similar concept as Unique-Equipped, as you can only wear two items that have the Embellished status. Some crafted items, many of which have powerful procs or beneficial effects by default, are considered Embellished. You can also add Embellishments from a variety of professions to any crafted item, adding the effect to this item either when creating it or at a later stage.

As there is a lot of competition for Embellishments, you will have to pick and choose the two strongest ones for your overall DPS output. Most of them provide very similar DPS benefits, even if the effects are entirely different. The two best choices for this are:

• For Raid: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on a weapon and Writhing Armor Banding
• For Mythic+: Two Dawnthread Lining items.

It is recommended to sim yourself to find out what works best, and if you also play the other 2 Rogue specs, you might want to pick Embellishments that work well for all of them.

You can add sockets to your necklace and rings by using a Magnificent Jeweler's Setting on them. This will allow you to get up to six sockets on your gear.

You can also add sockets to Helmets, Belts, Bracers, Necks and Rings with the S.A.D. consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for the S.A.D. item that allows you to add a socket to any piece of gear you acquired in Season 3.

Since Patch 11.1.7 players are able to acquire the Durable Information Securing Container belt from Delves. While this belt is not BiS for us once we acquire higher item-level gear from Season 3 Mythic+ dungeons or the new Manaforge Omega raid, it is worth using until you acquire a new belt of itemlevel ~710. Your mileage here may vary, so make sure to sim yourself to figure out if the belt you just looted can replace the DISC!

For more information on how to acquire the belt until you get a better one, make sure to check out our dedicated Delves section.

The belt has minor powers attached to it. Switching the bonuses and procs is very simple. Once unlocked, you can right-click the item to quickly swap to a different bonus. Depending on the type of content you will be doing, you will want to pick the following bonuses:

• For Raid/Single-Target: Electric Current
• For Mythic+: Electric Current
• For World Content/Delves: Electric Current

Which gems and enchants to use heavily depends on your current stat priority. As previously mentioned, this priority can shift and change whenever you acquire new gear, so simming yourself to figure out the best use of your newly acquired socket is highly recommended. The general rule is to prioritize Critical Strike and Mastery on as many pieces of gear as possible, and prioritizing those stats for any consumables as well.

If given a choice, try to prioritize the Helmet, Shoulder, Gloves, and Legs slots for this. However, getting the Chest to complete one of the bonuses is still better than any other gearing choice, and you will ultimately play all five pieces anyway.