WotLK Classic Subtlety Rogue Spec, Builds, Talents, and Glyphs
On this page, you will find out the best PvE talent choices and builds for your Subtlety Rogue in WotLK Classic, as well as advised glyphs.
Talent Builds for Subtlety Rogue
Subtlety Rogues have 2 builds available to them, depending on the weapons they have available to them.
Leveling Builds
If you were looking for a leveling-oriented build, please refer instead to our Rogue leveling guide.
Standard Subtlety Talent Build
The 20/0/51 Subtlety build is built to be used with a slow main-hand and fast off-hand weapon and aims to pick up extra Poison damage in the Assassination tree.
CQC Talent Build
The alternative build for Subtlety goes into the Combat tree, rather than the
Assassination tree, and opts for Close Quarters Combat, taking the talent
specifically for the weapon type you should use with this build. You should only
use this if you are using daggers and fist weapons for your weapons.
Important Talents for Subtlety Rogue
Standard Subtlety Build
The traditional Subtlety build features a number of talents that are integral to not only their damage output, but their role in the raid as well.
Hemorrhage acts as your main Combo Point builder and gives a unique
debuff to the raid, adding additional damage to any Physical attacks made.
Filthy Tricks allows Subtlety Rogues to maintain a nearly 50% uptime on
the damage buff from
Tricks of the Trade.
Vile Poisons and
Improved Poisons both buff your Poison damage.
With Poisons already being so powerful in Wrath Classic, these talents make for
more of a good thing.
CQC Build
The CQC build is based around the use of the Close Quarters Combat talent
and fist weapons or daggers.
This build only outperforms the Assassination variant if your best weapons are fist weapons or daggers. If you find a very strong other type of weapon, the other variant will be better.
Glyphs
Major Glyphs
For both builds, the glyph choices are fairly straightforward, but the
glyph for Tricks of the Trade is very important. Combined with
Filthy Tricks,
it allows you to maintain a nearly 50% uptime on the damage buff of the spell.
Minor Glyphs
The Minor glyph choices for both builds are fairly lackluster in their effects and are simply quality of life improvements that we would recommend.
Changelog
- 18 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Phase 2 release ahead of Ulduar raid release.
- 22 Sep. 2022: Page added.
This guide was written by Valks and reviewed by Simonize.
Simonize is a long time rogue player and WoW Classic enjoyer focused on PvE content. He has developed spreadsheets and gear analysis tools for Vanilla, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King PvE rogues.
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