Assassination Rogue Legion: Remix Guide — The War Within (11.2.5)

Welcome to our Legion Remix Guide for Assassination Rogue! Here we will cover everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Assassination Rogue in the Patch 11.2.5 special feature, Legion: Remix.

This page is entirely dedicated to playing Assassination Rogue in the new event. If you want to know more about Legion Remix in general, for example how it works and what rewards you can earn, you can check out our dedicated Legion Remix page!

In Legion Remix you will have to pick one of five paths in your Artifact Weapon to spend your Infinite Power on. These five trees each have their own unique active ability as well as multiple passives that increase your damage, healing, or survivability. Below are a few recommendations depending on your playstyle, but keep in mind that experimentation and playing around with the different themes and passive is half the fun of this temporary game-mode. Picking your favorite choice based on theme and visuals is perfectly valid!

For Solo Players: We recommend playing with either the Arcane or Nature tree for starters, due to their kit being a mix of defenses and offenses. You can switch to Storm or Fel for raw DPS when teaming up with other players, or when you can handle the damage enemies deal to you.

For Duo-ing: When partying up with one other player, having a combination of Fel and either Storm or Arcane works best. The player talenting into the Fel tree will apply Fel Touched to enemies, while the Arcane and Storm damage deals increased damage against Fel Touched enemies, something you cannot benefit from by yourself.

For Group Play: When doing 5-man dungeons, Storm is likely your best option due to its massive AoE potential, while Fel offers great single-target damage boosts for raid encounters.

Mixing Paths

Instead of providing traditional stats, Rings and Amulets now give players ranks in one of the Artifact tree traits, even if it has not been normally unlocked. This allows players to mix and match bonuses, enabling cross-tree synergies in solo play and enhancing their other capabilities. For example, getting ranks in Touch of Malice is a huge bonus for players not invested in the Fel tree.

Here's a quick overview of each of the trees:

• Nature: This tree offers strong damage procs, while the active ability Call of the Forest shields you, as well as dealing moderate AoE damage to targets in front of you. The passives in the tree provide good damage and survivability, and are particularly powerful when teaming up with other players.
• Fel: This is a purely damage-focused tree, allowing you to summon a Dreadlord with Twisted Crusade that will summon a Rain of Fire to deal damage in an area. With the capstone you can re-use this ability for a massive amount of AoE burst around the Dreadlord's location.
• Arcane: This tree mixes survivability and DPS, but only if you can stand still in combat. It's active ability, Naran's Everdisc, deals massive AoE damage to targets in front of you, and you can benefit from this up to 3 times if you catch the orb as it returns to you.
• Storm: The likely go-to choice for any caster due to the passive ability of being able to cast while moving, this tree is still quite useful for Assassination Rogues. The active ability Tempest Wrath deals damage in a circle around you, and each target hit will increase the damage further. Perfect for huge pulls that you tank with Evasion. With more points in the tree this also grants massive amounts of haste.
• Holy: This tree is a bit more healing-oriented, and can be surprisingly useful in early Heroic World Tier progression due to our lackluster self-healing and survivability. It's active ability Vindicator's Judgment will deal massive AoE damage and healing, while its passives will provide regular procs of healing to yourself or party members if you team up with other players

Below you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Assassination Rogue in Legion Remix. Depending on how you choose to level up you will want to make some changes, i.e. if you decide to just do a variety of quests, or want to mostly level in dungeons, so we have listed builds for all activities.

Please keep in mind that this Leveling section is specific to Legion Remix. For our The War Within Leveling Guide for Assassination Rogue, you can head to the page below.

Since Legion Remix is the perfect opportunity to level classes you haven't played before, we wanted to keep things as simple as possible for those learning the spec. Simply use the slider to select your level to learn a little bit more about how and when to use the abilities you just unlocked.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is due to the differences in the recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.

If you play with War Mode on, we recommend Creeping Venom, System Shock and Veil of Midnight as your War Mode talents.

As you level up, some of your abilities will be replaced with spec-specific ones, i.e., at Level 22, Eviscerate will be replaced with Envenom. At other times, new abilities will join your rotational priority list. Some of these you will learn automatically as you level, others you will talent into.

1. Make sure you always have Instant Poison and Crippling Poison applied. Sometimes, it can be beneficial to not use Crippling Poison if you do not want to slow the enemies you are fighting. Simply right-click on the buff icon, and it will be removed.
2. Make sure you always have Deadly Poison and Crippling Poison applied. Sometimes, it can be beneficial to not use Crippling Poison if you do not want to slow the enemies you are fighting. Simply right-click on the buff icon, and it will be removed.
3. Make sure you always have Deadly Poison and Numbing Poison applied.
4. Use Deathmark on bosses or elite enemies.
5. Once talented into Indiscriminate Carnage, make sure to open from stealth when fighting multiple enemies, and apply Garrote and Rupture to all your enemies. The buff lasts 6 seconds.
6. Use Kingsbane on single or high-priority targets.
7. Use 4+ Combo Points to keep up Slice and Dice at all times. You can use this ability while stealthed.
8. Cast Garrote from stealth. If there are multiple enemies, use Garrote on 3 different targets (if possible).
9. Cast Ambush once from Stealth if there is only one target, or after unlocking the Deathstalker Hero Talent Tree, in order to apply Deathstalker's Mark.
10. Use and maintain Crimson Tempest if there are 3 or more targets.
11. Spend your Combo Points to maintain Rupture on multiple targets.
12. Cast Eviscerate to spend excess Combo Points.
13. Use Kidney Shot to spend excess Combo Points against enemies you want to stun. Watch out for enemies that are immune to stuns.
14. Use Shiv on bosses and enemies with very high Health.
15. Use Shiv on bosses and enemies with very high Health or when fighting multiple enemies.
16. Use Envenom to spend excess Combo Points on single-target.
17. Use Sinister Strike unless you have 4+ Combo Points.
18. Use Mutilate unless you have 4+ Combo Points.
19. Use Fan of Knives instead of Mutilate when fighting 4 or more targets, or when Clear the Witnesses is available.