Assassination Rogue DPS Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.2.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Assassination Rogue for each boss of the following raid: Battle of Dazar'alor. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.2.5.
Disclaimer
This is a quick cheat-sheet for the Battle of Dazar'alor raid. Here you can find tips for your spec, and not the strategy for the bosses themselves.
Assassination in Battle for Dazar'alor
Assassination remains the go to spec for raiding in Battle of Dazar'alor. It remains a strong single target spec, has great potential for cleave, and is even able to handle spread cleave somewhat.
Talent Cheatsheet
Champion of the Light
Assassination Rogue on Champion of the Light
Kick Anointed Disciple's casts.- Save
Cloak of Shadows in case you get hit by the wave.
Grong
Note: This boss is the second boss for Horde players, and the third boss for Alliance players. For the second Alliance boss (Jadefire Masters), see further below.
Assassination Rogue on Grong
- Make sure to move right after
Reverberating Slam casts, to move out
of Reverberating Echo. - Save Cloak of Shadows for
Tantrum casts.
Jadefire Masters
For this boss, we will refer to Grimfang/Mestrah as "Monk", and Firecaller/Flamefist as "Mage".
Assassination Rogue on Jadefire Masters
- Save Cloak of Shadows for clearing out Living Bomb.
- Make sure to save
Shadowstep so you have it available early on
during Maze phase. It allows you to skip a lot of run time, especially if
combined with a Warlock's gateway.
Opulence
Assassination Rogue on Opulence
- Save Cloak of Shadows for
Ruby Beam's casts so you can stay
still. - If out of position, you can run away from Yalat's Bulwark and either completely
out-range
Flames of Punishment or only take 1 tick with 
Feint. - You can use Cloak of Shadows to clear
Thief's Bane debuff, so
you can loot gems as soon as possible. - For swaps happening in flame jets rooms, use
Sprint to get in
positions, and save Shadowstep in case you get swapped.
Conclave of the Chosen
Assassination Rogue on Conclave of the Chosen
- Save Cloak of Shadows for overlaps of
Pa'ku's Wrath and
Crawling Hex.
King Rastakhan
Assassination Rogue on King Rastakhan
- The suck in ability will instantly kill you.
- You can use Cloak of Shadows to soak frogs, giving your raid more
space.
High Tinker Mekkatorque
Assassination Rogue on High Tinker Mekkatorque
- Using Cloak of Shadows as the bomb goes off will prevent the 30s
debuff from being applied to you.
Stormwall Blockade
Assassination Rogue on Stormwall Blockade
- Use Feint if soaking orbs.
Lady Jaina Proudmoore
Assassination Rogue on Lady Jaina Proudmoore
- You can stay in Ice Ring, and Cloak of Shadows to not take any damage.
- You can also stay in Ice Ring, and step into fire patch to avoid getting
frozen by it, use Feint to mitigate the damage.
Changelog
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 23 Feb. 2019: Minor updates.
- 21 Jan. 2019: Added Assassination Rogue advice for Battle of Dazar'alor.
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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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