Assassination Rogue Frequently Asked Questions — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5

1. How Much Haste Should Assassination Rogues Have? / Is There a Haste Cap?

There is currently no breakpoint which is required for Assassination, nor is there a realistic value which causes Haste to become useless on single target.

2. Why Does Haste Have Such High Value in SimulationCraft?

In Battle for Azeroth, your DoTs now scale with Haste, making it affect much larger portion of your damage.

3. Does Our Stat Priority Change on Multi-Target?

On multiple targets, you might not have Haste as your best stat, due to gaining too much Energy and it leaving you global cooldown capped and unable to fully benefit from all the extra Haste.

4. Which Race or Racial Ability is the Best for Assassination Rogue?

The DPS differences between the races are fairly minimal. The best races for DPS on Horde are Pandaren, Blood Elf, and Goblin. For Alliance, Dark Iron Dwarfs, Pandaren, and Human are the best.

5. What Piece is Better, X or Y?

Generally that depends on the rest of your gear, due to how secondary stats interact with one another. When it comes to comparing Azerite pieces, it becomes even more convoluted, as some of the traits have non stacking effects, such as percentage-based proc chances or duration increases, thus making it even harder for you to estimate; as such you are generally better off using sims to compare pieces (and in Azerite's case compare multiple trait combinations for each piece), in order to find the best option for you.

We have a guide on how to sim yourself here:

6. What Azerite Traits Should I Aim To Get?

Currently the go to Azerite traits are Treacherous Covenant and Shrouded Suffocation; other traits such as Double Dose / Echoing Blades are decent, but far more situational.

7. How Much of X Stat Should I Have?

Currently there are no established breakpoints to follow, and since as you gain one stat it slowly loses value while other gains it (relatively), you do not want to sacrifice all of your other stats in order to hit a magical number in one of them.

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