Assassination Rogue DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.1
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Assassination Rogue, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Assassination Rogue gems and enchants.
Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Assassination Rogue
This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and phials 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.
Best Gems for Assassination Rogue
You should use Skillful Illimited Diamond or
Inscribed Illimited Diamond
in one of your sockets and either
Sensei's Neltharite or
Sensei's Alexstraszite in your
other sockets.
You can use Tiered Medallion Setting to add up to 3 socket slots to
your necklace.
Best Enchants for Assassination Rogue
Slot | Enchantment |
---|---|
Main Hand | |
Off Hand | |
Boots | |
Chest | |
Cloak | |
Bracer | |
Legs | |
Rings |
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.
Best Primordial Stone Gems for Assassination Rogue
While the Onyx Annulet was introduced prior to Patch 10.1, the annulet
is going to remain the best ring choice you have until you acquire the highest
item-level Mythic rings from the new raid. It is therefore recommended to
acquire it, even if you are just returning for Patch 10.1.
The following gems are generally considered to be best ones for each content type, but it is highly recommended to sim yourself to figure out the best choices and combinations for your specific gear and the specific gems you already own. The aforementioned guideline is strictly for the highest item level of these gems:
- For raid and single-target, you will want to play
Freezing Ice Stone,
Prophetic Twilight Stone and
Desirous Blood Stone
- For Mythic+/AoE, you will want to play
Prophetic Twilight Stone,
Desirous Blood Stone and
Storm Infused Stone
For more information regarding the Onyx Annulet, the Primordial Gemstones, and how to obtain them, check out our dedicated guide below.
Consumables for Assassination Rogues
With Dragonflight You can now change talents anywhere and no longer need a consumable to do so, so there are no tomes to worry about!
Best Phials and Potions for Assassination
Phial of Tepid Versatility should be used in all fights that do not allow
you to remain stationary for long periods.
Phial of Static Empowerment
is the better choice if you can stand still for large parts of the encounter.
Since there are no cauldrons providing phials, you will always have to supply
your own.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power (or its lesser
Elemental Potion of Power
variant) is your recommended potion both before combat as
a "pre-pot" and during most fights. These potions can also be obtained from
a
Potion Cauldron of Ultimate Power/
Potion Cauldron of Power, so
long as you have five
Primal Chaos to convert into potions.
Refreshing Healing Potion acts as your healing potion. Each use will
incur a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended boss
fight.
Healthstones do not share a cooldown with health potions. This means that
players should always use Refreshing Healing Potions and Healthstones
whenever available. The Potion provides much better Healing than a Healthstone.
Alchemy offers several utility potions as well, and
some of them can still help you deal with a boss while dead.
Residual Neural Channeling Agent
shares a cooldown with regular potions, but if you do not expect to receive
a combat resurrection anytime soon, you should go ahead and use one to help
the rest of the raid/group.
Best Food for Assassination
If available,
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak/
Hoard of Draconic Delicacies or
Fated Fortune Cookie
is your food of choice for some additional Agility. Otherwise,
Thousandbone Tongueslicer is the best food for more Critical Strike and
Mastery.
Additional, Optional Consumables
While they are not as necessary for success in areas of content as phials, potions and food, there are some additional consumables available for a small amount of extra temporary power for your character.
Weapon Runes function similarly to Weapon Oils of previous expansions,
applying a temporary buff to your weapon that is not removed on death. In
Dragonflight, you will want to use Buzzing Rune for
Critical Strike.
Changelog
- 01 May 2023: Page reviewed for Patch 10.1. Updated Onyx Annulet recommendations.
- 26 Mar. 2023: Updated Primordial Gem recommendations for latest hotfixes.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 04 Jan. 2023: Updated Armor Kits, added Fortune Cookie food.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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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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