Assassination Rogue DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Assassination Rogues and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.

The build above is your generic single target talent tree with strong cooldowns and even better damage once the boss hits 35% HP. Each boss below will note if it uses this build or a different one, and if you should tweak anything.

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Use Cloak of Shadows to avoid damage from Hellsteel Carnage, which happens at 80%, 60% and 40%, or if you get stuck in between Rays of Anguishes.

Use Shadowstep to counter-act the knockback from Wings of Extinction.

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Use Cloak of Shadows to reset stacks of Blazing Heat, Corrupting Shadows and Shadowflame Contamination.

Mythic Difficulty: You will want to use Cloak of Shadows right after a tank switch, in order to only have the new debuff. If other melee also use their immunities, you can stack with one another, and make life easier for those melee who do not get to remove their previous stacking debuff.

You can easily soak Gloom Conflagration with Feint.

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Use Cloak of Shadows for more DPS while Bellowing Roar is active instead of having to run away from the boss. You can also use it to mitigate the damage during Violent Eruption or simply use Feint.

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Almost all the magical damage on this encounter can be mitigated by both Feint and Cloak of Shadows, so use them freely. There is no major mechanic you want to save these abilities for.

Make sure to have at least some burst damage for the Magma Mystic's Molten Barrier.

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Use Feint when soaking Charged Smash.

Use Cloak of Shadows to cleanse the Overcharged DoT debuff.

Timing Cloak of Shadows can prevent the application of the Overcharged debuff entirely. You will need to use it less than a second before the debuff is applied, which also allows you to mitigate all damage from Charged Smash.

For more information, please refer to our Rashok, the Elder guide.

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If your guild plans on simply crowd-controlling the Animate Golems, you can use Blind to do so. Remember that it has a higher cooldown than duration.

Cloak of Shadows is a very good defensive tool on this fight, and you can use it for either more uptime on mechanics such as Blast Wave or defensively if you get caught by Tactical Destruction or Dragonfire Traps.

Shadowstep is useful to counteract the knockback from Blast Wave.

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Use Shadowstep to counteract the knockback from Overpowering Stomp.

Cloak of Shadows removes multiple debuffs on this fight such as Lava Ejection and Searing Heat.

For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.

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Feint is incredibly powerful on this encounter, as there are regular high-damage AoE hits like Echoing Fissure or Umbral Annihilation.

Save your Cloak of Shadows for Phase 2 or Phase 3. You do not have to be inside a portal in Phase 3 during Ebon Destruction with Cloak of Shadows active, and it also removes all stacks of Ebon Destruction. You will be getting more adds, however.

Evasion can be used to avoid the debuff from Shatter (the debuff when a wall is broken). This can be very helpful in Phase 2 of the encounter. Make sure to face the boss when using Evasion, as he is the source of the DoT.

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Phase 1: Use Feint and Cloak of Shadows freely to mitigate damage, especially when many players are cleansing their Oppressing Howl.

Phase 2: There is no mechanic you need to save your defensive cooldowns for in this phase.

Phase 3: Use Cloak of Shadows to not have to hide behind Astral Formations during Scouring Eternity.

For more information, please refer to our Scalecommander Sarkareth guide.