Assassination Rogue DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

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.

With the full launch of the Midnight expansion coming soon, it will once again be time for players to level up to the new maximum of 90. This means that many will want to get as far along as possible, as fast as possible. To that end, there are a number of optional consumables that can be gathered now to speed things along later. There is no need to go overboard on hoarding too many, as you will only need to level each character once, and many of the items listed here quickly become less enticing once tougher content is once again accessible.

To be as prepared as possible, look to acquire at least some of the following items and enchants:

• Charged Phial of Alacrity — This is a tradeable consumable from the Dragonflight expansion that increases your speed stat for 30 minutes, which will also persist through death. For players that already have high item level gear at Level 80, leveling is frequently about traveling quickly rather than defeating enemies any faster than they already can.
• Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle — A food item from The War Within, this tradeable dish similarly grants a massive bonus to movement speed for an hour, but is lost on death.
• Elusive Blasphemite — If your gear has plenty of sockets, make use of this algari diamond and one of each of The War Within's gem colors for a percentage-based speed increase.
• Enchant Boots - Scout's March/ Enchant Chest - Stormrider's Agility/ Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed/ Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity — These four enchants are a smaller source of movement speed than other consumables, but if you will be wearing the same pieces of armor throughout leveling their effects can add up over time.
• Gunshoes — One of the more unusual consumables, this tradeable item from Legion Engineering (thanks to Engineering) allows you to move faster than ground mount speed for a long duration and even enables movement over water, but breaks upon taking damage and cannot be activated while in combat. If in an area where you cannot mount, consider it your fastest movement tool.
• Shimmerscale Diving Suit/ Shimmerscale Diving Helmet — Though it is rare to need them, these two tradeable consumables from Battle for Azeroth can be paired together to grant you underwater breathing and greatly increased swim speed that is faster than an aquatic mount.
• Goblin Glider Kit — Although you are taking much less fall damage than most other classes, and can avoid it entirely as long as you have something to Shadowstep to before crashing to the ground, this consumable allows you to also travel through the air from great heights if you are unable to mount, and at great speeds. You can even consider pairing one with a Darkmoon Cannon or Falling Flame!

For some more tips on what you can do prior to the Midnight Launch to be as prepared as possible to level quickly, you can head over to our Pre-Midnight Guide for more suggestions on items that can boost your XP gain, and let you travel between points of interest more quickly.

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.