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

With the launch of Season 3, we get to grind out a whole new set of gear.

The War Within 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 Subtlety Rogue

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

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Season 3 Bis List for Subtlety Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup from all sources for Subtlety Rogue

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 will look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Prodigious Gene Splicer (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Offhand Weapon	Note: You should always use a dagger in your offhand, the best being: Prodigious Gene Splicer (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Amulet of Earthen Craftsmanship with Mastery/Vers (720) and Elemental Focusing Lens	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Shoulder	Deathbound Shoulderpads (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Mastery (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands with Mastery/Vers (720) and Elemental Focusing Lens	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Reaper's Dreadbelt	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha (723)	Plexus Sentinel in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	High Nerubian Signet (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Unyielding Netherprism (723)	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (723)	Operation: Floodgate

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Subtlety 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	Parson's Ornamented Blade (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Offhand Weapon	Note: You should always use a dagger in your offhand, the best being: Parson's Ornamented Blade (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	Whispering Mask (723)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Neck	Momma's Mega Medallion (723)	Operation: Floodgate
Shoulder	Breakbeat Shoulderguards (723)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Mastery (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Reinforced Stalkerhide Vest (723)	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Bracers	Unbreakable Beetlebane Bindings (723)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Gloves	Knuckle-Dusting Handwraps (723)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Belt	Waistcord of Dark Devotion	Halls of Atonement
Legs	Gauzewoven Legguards (723)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Boots	Geezle's Zapstep Boots	Operation: Floodgate
Ring #1	Radiant Necromancer's Band	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Ring #2	High Nerubian Signet (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (723)	Cinderbrew Meadery
Trinket #2	Lily of the Eternal Weave (723)	Eco-Dome Al'dani

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Raid Gear BiS List for Subtlety 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	Prodigious Gene Splicer (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Offhand Weapon	Note: You should always use a dagger in your offhand, the best being: Prodigious Gene Splicer (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Salhadaar's Folly (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar
Shoulder	Deathbound Shoulderpads (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Mastery (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Time-Compressed Wristguards (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Reaper's Dreadbelt	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha (723)	Plexus Sentinel in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Logic Gate: Omega (723)	Forgeweaver Araz
Trinket #1	Unyielding Netherprism (723)	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega

11.2 brings with it a new Legendary cloak: Reshii Wraps. This is a cloak which not only has a damage proc attached to it, you also get to choose the secondary stats on the cloak through specific cloak-gems and will be upgradeable as the season progresses. There are some effect on other items which interact with or amplify the cloak effect, such as: Interloper's Reinforced Sandals and Band of the Shattered Soul. The boots have the perfect stats for Subtlety so they’re definitely the best boots available but the ring is not something we desire as it carries with it an insane amount of haste. So even though the ring brings extra defensive value its not worth the damage loss you'd get by equipping it.

Since Patch 11.1.7, you are able to acquire a belt from Delves, the Durable Information Securing Container. By venturing into Delves you will be able to acquire this item after a short questline.

For more information on how to acquire or upgrade the belt, make sure to check out our dedicated Delves guide!

This belt starts at ilevel 684 but is upgradable, all the way up to ilevel 701! Once you've unlocked the bonuses you can easily switch between them by right-clicking the belt and selecting another bonus effect. Depending on what content you are doing you would want to select the following bonus effects:

• For Raid/Single-Target: Critical Chain
• For Mythic+: Critical Chain
• For World Content/Delves: Critical Chain

Regular belts eventually become better than this belt, this happens when the alternative belt is around ~710 ilevel. As you are unlikely to get one of those particularly quickly this belt may be useful for quite a while.

There are a number of good trinkets available for Subtlety Rogue in Season 3. As we are a very heavy burst class lets start with looking at the available On-use options:

• Unyielding Netherprism - This trinket is extremely powerful for Subtlety as it gives a very large damage boost when you use the trinket. If you for some reason need to hold your cooldowns for a bit you will gain even more from the active effect from this. However, it is not worth delaying Flagellation specifically to gain more stacks of this trinket, just play like you would and use this together with your Shadow Blades. It does come with the downside of losing your built up stacks if you happen to die and not having an active trinket at the start of the fight, both which is unfortunate but the payoff later on in the fight makes it worthwhile.
• Araz's Ritual Forge - This trinket has a 2 minute cooldown, which is unfortunate as Shadow Blades has 90 seconds. Despite this its still a very strong trinket as it provides a large amount of agility when used. We do not want to delay Shadow Blades for 30 seconds to have it alongside the trinket, instead we just hold onto t he trinket for a minute and use it with every other Shadow Blades, giving the trinket effectively a 3 minute cooldown. Overall this trinket is better than Unyielding Netherprism on short (less than 5 minutes) fights and worse on everything else.

There are a couple of other alternatives you can go for if you do not yet have access to any of the two trinkets above, such as Lily of the Eternal Weave or Cursed Stone Idol. These two trinket might seem strong at first glance but unfortunately the number tuning on them is quite a bit lower than the raid options listed above so they’re not quite as powerful.

For your secondary passive trinket these trinkets listed below are always solid choices, but most passive trinkets are pretty solid so if you have something else at a higher ilvl it might be stronger than the ones listed here.

• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Provides a solid amount of crit on a 60 second cooldown, which does not always line up with our Shadow Blades but when it does it is strong.
• Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt - Does good damage that increases as the boss health gets lower.
• Astral Antenna - Spawns small orbs that float towards you and give you a decent chunk of crit whenever you run into them.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj - Just a passive stat trinket, high uptime with solid numbers.
• Void-Touched Fragment - An insanely strong mastery proc that is very random, insanely good if it procs during Shadow Blades and not very good if it procs outside of it.

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.

The recommended slot to craft is Mainhand Weapon if you do not already have a dagger on the MYTH track. If you already have that then Bracers, Cloak, Belt or Boots are all solid options depending on what other items you have available. There are a plethora of different embellishments that are all very very close to each other (since they're all relatively unimpactful compared to how strong they were in Dragonflight) so any combination of these 3 is what's typically the best:

• Two Elemental Focusing Lens items.
• Two Duskthread Lining items.
• One weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and one Writhing Armor Banding item.

As you complete endgame content in The War Within, you will gather upgrade crests such as Gilded Harbinger Crest that can be used to upgrade your items. Once you have upgraded a slot to a particular item level, any other item in that slot can be upgraded without a Crest cost.

As Crests are a limited resource and capped early on in the season, ideally, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before committing any crests to upgrade it, as this will save you upgrades in the long run. If you are capable of completing higher Mythic+ dungeons, it is generally a good idea to wait until you have the slot maxed out with free upgrades first.

Below is a general slot priority you should upgrade your items in.

1. Your Mainhand Weapon
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloak, Bracers and Offhand Weapon

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.