Assassination Rogue DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Assassination Rogue for each boss of the following raid: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Aberrus. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible guides.
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.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Assassination Rogue and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
Talent Builds
Dragonflight Raid Talent Builds for Assassination Rogue
Single Target and Cleave
The build above is your general single target talent tree with strong cooldowns and even better damage once the boss hits 35% HP.
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Sporadic Adds
This build simply switches Internal Bleeding for
Caustic Spatter.
Since Caustic Spatter spreads the damage of
Kingsbane, this gives us great
cleave on a 1-minute cooldown whenever we have a Kingsbane window. It is
generally not advised to talent more AoE or cleave talents. This build will shine
in encounters where adds are spawning on timers that work well with our
cooldowns.
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Sustained AoE
This build is the same version as our M+ build, which sacrifices ~15% of its single-target DPS potential for the ability to deal with sustained AoE. You will rarely, if ever use this, as our full AoE toolkit takes too long to ramp up and deal proper damage while costing too much single-target DPS.
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Kazzara, the Hellforged
Talents/Build
Pure single-target with Internal Bleeding.
Tips
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.
For more information, please refer to our Kazzara guide.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Talents/Build
Pure single-target with Internal Bleeding.
Tips
Use Cloak of Shadows to reset stacks of
Blazing Heat,
Corrupting Shadow 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 another melee
also uses 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.
The Forgotten Experiments
Talents/Build
Cleave with with Caustic Spatter.
Tips
If the second boss is about to hit 50% shortly after your cooldowns are already available, you can hold onto them until the boss hits 35% to get full Zoldyck and Caustic Spatter value out of them, provided you do not lose a cast of your cooldowns.
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.
For more information, please refer to our Forgotten Experiments guide.
Assault of the Zaqali
Cleave with with Caustic Spatter.
Tips
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 for which you want to save these abilities.
Make sure to have at least some burst damage for the Magma Mystic's Molten Barrier.
For more information, please refer to our Assault of the Zaqali guide.
Rashok, the Elder
Talents/Build
Pure single-target with Internal Bleeding.
Tips
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.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Talents/Build
Pure single-target with Internal Bleeding.
Tips
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.
Magmorax
Talents/Build
Pure single-target with Internal Bleeding, unless you stack up
the golems around the boss, then
Caustic Spatter is a better choice.
Tips
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.
Echo of Neltharion
Talents/Build
Cleave with with Caustic Spatter.
Tips
Be mindful with Caustic Spatter on this boss, as you can quickly kill your fellow raid members.
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.
For more information, please refer to our Neltharion guide.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Talents/Build
Cleave with with Caustic Spatter.
Tips
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.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Page has been reviewed and updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Page was reviewed for Patch 10.1.7 and no changes were necessary.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Page was reviewed for Patch 10.1.5 and no changes were necessary as Assassination received no changes for the Patch.
- 06 Jun. 2023: Updated talents and added more tips.
- 14 May 2023: Added Sarkareth tips and some Mythic tips.
- 07 May 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written and reviewed by Seliathan, who has been playing Rogue since the first day of Classic. He currently raids in Familiar with Drama, and is one of the foremost Mythic+ Rogue players. You can often find him streaming on Twitch, or follow him on his personal Discord server.
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