Assassination Rogue DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within Pre-Patch
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 — The War Within Pre-Patch.
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
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. When deciding on which
primary stat gem to use, i.e. Skillful Illimited Diamond,
Inscribed Illimited Diamond, or one of the others, we recommend you to
sim yourself. The same goes for regular gems like
Sensei's Neltharite,
Sensei's Alexstraszite or one of the many other choices.
If you do not know how to sim yourself, the general guideline likely ends up
depending on whether or not you are playing with Witherbark's Branch. If
you do, socket Versatility or Critical Strike. If you don't, socket Mastery.
Remember that you can use Tiered Medallion Setting to add up to 3
socket slots to your necklace.
Best Enchants for Assassination Rogue
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Cloak |
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Bracer |
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Belt |
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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.
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 is your general go-to Phial.
Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage
is the better choice if you can reach reasonably high uptimes of 70% or more,
which is very dependent on the boss. You will also take more damage with Corrupting Rage,
typically during parts of the encounter where the entire raid is already taking
a lot of damage, while the Versatility phial will make you take less damage.
Consequently it is typically recommended to go with Versatility for progression,
and Corrupting Rage for maximum DPS.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power (or its lesser
Elemental Potion of Power
variant) is your recommended Potion. These potions can also be obtained from
a
Potion Cauldron of Ultimate Power/
Potion Cauldron of Power.
Dreamwalker's 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.
Potion of Withering Dreams can be used in a pinch, but you take
ticking damage for 30 seconds after. Since you can use
Cloak of Shadows
to remove the DoT from the Withering Dreams Potion, we recommend carrying both
of these, and using
Potion of Withering Dreams if the entire raid is
already struggling to stay alive.
Healthstones do not share a cooldown with health potions. This means that players should always use 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
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Page has been reviewed and updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 21 Mar. 2024: Page has been reviewed for Patch 10.2.6, no changes were necessary.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Page has been reviewed and updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Page updated for the Patch 10.2 Rogue rework.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Page was reviewed for Patch 10.1.7 and no changes were necessary.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated Onyx Annulet paragraph to no longer recommend farming it after 10.1.5 Annulet nerfs.
- 06 Jun. 2023: Added Belt Clasp and Lambent Armor Kit as alternative Leg Enchant. Added Corrupting Rage Phial discussion.
- 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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