Assassination Rogue DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (11.2)

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Assassination Rogue, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

Many consumables, like enchants, gems, or potions, are available at multiple different ranks. If you are unable to afford the highest rank for any of them, you can safely choose a lower rank one instead, at the cost of some DPS.

The choice of gems is highly dependent on your gear. Each of the four secondary stats can easily be your highest simming stat depending on the current gear you are wearing, and as a result, the choice of gems and ring enchants can vary a lot. We highly recommend simming yourself to find out the best set of gems for your character specifically via Raidbots.

You should use Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Alternatively you can play Elusive Blasphemite for a very tiny DPS loss (less than 1%), and gain a sizable amount of movement speed instead. This is recommended.. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit or Movement Speed effect, ideally Masterful Ruby/ Deadly Onyx/ Masterful Sapphire/ Deadly Emerald. Fill in remaining sockets with Masterful Ruby, or whichever combination of stats sims highest for you.

Remember that you can use Magnificent Jeweler's Setting to add up to 2 socket slots to your rings and amulet.

Fatebound wants more Critical Strike than Deathstalker. You will want to run Critical Strike enchants on your rings, and high Critical Strike gems in your items, including the Reshii Wraps. Make sure to sim yourself as there is still a point where Crit might no longer be your best stat. You will also want to check if Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile is worth enchanting onto your weapon!

Whether you choose to enchant your gear with Avoidance, Leech, or Speed is up to you. Leech will allow you to gain some additional passive healing while you do damage, Avoidance reduces the damage taken by Area-of-Effect spells, similar to Feint, and Speed simply increases your movement speed. For Raid progression movement speed is often underrated and can be a minor DPS increase if it allows you to reach your target faster.

It is always recommended to sim yourself to find out what enchants provide the best benefit to you individually.

You should be drinking the Flask of Alchemical Chaos at all times.

Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust/ Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should keep a stock of Invigorating Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Invigorating Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should be eating from a primary stat Feast at all times, either Feast of the Divine Day, Feast of the Midnight Masquerade, or Hearty Feast of the Midnight Masquerade.

If Feasts are not available, eat Outsider's Provisions, Beledar's Bounty, Jester's Board, or Empress' Farewell instead.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

You can also buy the permanent Ethereal Augment Rune once at Renown 18 with the new Season 3 K'aresh Trust faction or use the Soulgorged Augment Runes that drop from the new raid and persist through death.