Subtlety Rogue DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Subtlety Rogue, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

Many consumables, like enchants, gems, or potions, are available at multiple different ranks. If you are unable to afford the highest rank for any of them, you can safely choose a lower rank one instead, at the cost of some DPS.

You should use Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. The effect from it is not strong enough to warrant using gems without versatility or mastery for Subtlety. Therefore you should have one Masterful Sapphire and the rest of your slots filled by Versatile Onyx.

Remember that you can use Magnificent Jeweler's Setting to add up to two socket slots to your rings and amulet, as well as S.A.D. from your Great Vault for your Helmet, Wrists and Waist.

Enchant Weapon - Stonebound Artistry, Enchant Weapon - Oathsworn's Tenacity and Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile are all pretty interchangeable on your weapon, feel free to use whichever you prefer.

Whether you choose to enchant your gear with Avoidance, Leech, or Speed is up to you. Leech will allow you to gain some additional passive healing while you do damage, Avoidance reduces the damage taken by Area-of-Effect spells, similar to Feint, and Speed simply increases your movement speed. For Raid progression movement speed is often underrated and can be a minor DPS increase if it allows you to reach your target faster.

It is always recommended to sim yourself to find out what enchants provide the best benefit to you individually.

Leveling in a new expansion is all about minimizing downtime and front loading power. While endgame enchants and consumables are often disabled or heavily scaled during early leveling, there are still several items worth stockpiling ahead of time to make the process smoother, faster, and less frustrating. The recommendations below focus on items that historically remain useful at expansion launch and provide value regardless of tuning changes.

The War Within enchants will still work throughout the leveling process, and can be a cheap way to add small boosts of power. Enchants that grant haste or speed are particularly valuable early on when gear upgrades are sparse. Prioritize the following:

• Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery
• Enchant Boots - Scout's March
• Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity
• Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed

Combat potions that remain usable at lower levels can significantly speed up difficult pulls, elite quests, or story encounters. Stock a small supply for moments where burst damage or survivability matters.

Having a small stack of health potions reduces reliance on cooldowns and self-healing, especially during early levels when defensive toolkits are incomplete. These are particularly helpful for soloing elite quests or accidental overpulls.

Do not buy too many though, as once you hit level 81 you can acquire Silvermoon Health Potion, which is significantly better and cheaper to make.

Certain consumables can dramatically improve leveling flow:

• Goblin Glider Kit
• Gunshoes or Potion of the Reborn Cheetah
• Light-Step Hoofplates
• Thunderous Drums
• Draught of Silent Footfalls
• Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle

You should be drinking the Flask of Alchemical Chaos at all times.

Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust/ Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should keep a stock of Invigorating Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Invigorating Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

Since our secondary stats are stronger per-point than our primary stat, you should be eating secondary stat food at all times, either Beledar's Bounty, Outsider's Provisions, Jester's Board, Empress' Farewell personal food, or the The Sushi Special Feast. They are all identical.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

You can also buy the permanent Ethereal Augment Rune once at Renown 18 with the new Season 3 K'aresh Trust faction or use the Soulgorged Augment Runes that drop from the new raid and persist through death.