Assassination Rogue DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Assassination Rogue for each boss of the following raid: Crucible of Storms. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft Patch Dragonflight 10.2.5.
Disclaimer
This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in the Crucible of Storms raid. This page will focus primarily on how an Assassination Rogue can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Crucible of Storms, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.
Assassination in Crucible of Storms
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
The Restless Cabal
Assassination Rogue Playstyle on The Restless Cabal
Cheat Death can be used to save you from the effects of
Storm of Annihilation (for at least 1 tick).- Try to save
Shadowstep for emergency interrupts. 
Cloak of Shadows is useful as an emergency self-dispel.
Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void
Assassination Rogue Playstyle on Uu'nat
- Cheat Death can be used to save you from effects of
Storm of Annihilation (for at least 1 tick).
- Shadowstep allows you to avoid taking stacks from the beam,
possibly both of them, depending on positioning during the fight.
Changelog
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 08 May 2019: Added further boss tips.
- 15 Apr. 2019: Guide added.
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This guide has been written and reviewed by Seliathan, who has been playing Rogue for over two decades since the very first day of Vanilla WoW. After decades of raiding within the Top 100 and numerous Rank 1 Mythic+ runs in previous expansions, he has now set his sights on sharing his experience through guides and other content.
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