Assassination Rogue DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.1

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.