Assassination Rogue DPS Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.0.7
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Assassination Rogue in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.7.
Assassination Rogue in Mythic+
The playstyle of Assassination in Mythic+ remains the same, and if you have played the spec in previous expansions you will feel right at home. It revolves around setting up your bleeds on multiple targets, ramping up your Energy regeneration until you become global cooldown-locked, and then continuing to cycle bleeds between targets. A key feature of Assassination AoE is that while it is most optimal in multi-dotting evenly across several targets, you can still channel your damage into a single target as well, at the cost of overall DPS.
Rogue Shroud Skips
While at this stage many groups do different pulls, due to different compositions or preferences, some of the shroud skips in dungeons are still more common than others. As such, the most popular skips have been compiled in a Shroud of Concealment Mythic+ guide for Rogues with diagrams showing each of the skips.
Mythic+ Talents for Assassination Rogue
Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+. These talents are recommended for all groups and keys at the current time. Be sure to use the 'Copy Export String' button to import our build below!
Assassination Rogue Mythic+ Rotation
For the most part, Assassination Rogue's rotation is the same as referred to in the Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.
The key point for high sustained AoE DPS in Mythic+ is to maintain enough
bleeding effects to sustain energy via Venomous Wounds while using
almost all of your global cooldowns on
Fan of Knives and
Crimson Tempest
to generate and spend Combo Points, and applying
Garrote and
Rupture
to any target that will live for their entire duration. Applying 3
Garrotes
in your opener and two additional
Rupture is enough to keep the correct energy
equilibrium, while on longer fights you will want to maintain as many Rupture
debuffs as possible.
There is a certain balance that needs to be kept for optimizing your damage, as there will be many situations where just doing the best for overall DPS might not save you the most time. Many packs have enemies with differing HP levels, and our kit allows us to ensure that most of our highest damaging abilities hit those targets.
Indiscriminate Carnage is a useful tool to quickly get a lot of
bleed effects out. Keep in mind that all your
Garrotes cast this way
will benefit from
Improved Garrote and
Shrouded Suffocation if
you cast Garrote from stealth.
Sample Opener for Assassination in Mythic+
This is what your regular opener on any mid to large-sized pack should look like:
- Cast
Indiscriminate Carnage in stealth.
- Use
Garrote twice. If the pack is smaller than 8 targets, all of them should have the debuff now. You should re-cast Garrote up to two more times on targets that did not get the DoT, or that are priority targets, for the Pandemic effect..
- Cast
Crimson Tempest with maximum Combo Points.
- Cast
Echoing Reprimand.
- Use
Rupture.
- Use
Exsanguinate on your priority target.
- Use
Deathmark on your priority target.
- Cast
Shiv on your priority target.
- Use
Fan of Knives to generate Combo Points.
- Use
Slice and Dice or maintain it by using
Envenom with 5+ Combo Points.
- Continue building Combo Points with
Fan of Knives.
- Maintain
Crimson Tempest with 5+ Combo Points.
- Maintain 3-4
Rupture by the time your initial
Garrotes have run their full duration.
- Use
Garrote on cooldown on targets that do not yet have the debuff active.
- Use excess Combo Points to cast
Envenom on your priority target or keep applying more
Rupture to additional targets as long as they run for the full duration.
Assassination Rogue Utility
Gouge can be used to disrupt enemies from casting otherwise uninterruptible spells. This requires you to stand in front of the enemy, but can be used in many situations to keep enemies from using some of their most lethal abilities. Many of these abilities go on cooldown once used, so disrupting them with Gouge,
Kidney Shot or
Blind will keep these mobs from re-casting these abilities for a while.
Sap and
Blind can be useful to hard-crowd control multiple mobs in a single trash pack. You can also use it right before the tank is pulling, as
Blackjack applies a damage reduction debuff to the target when Sap breaks.
Shroud of Concealment projects AoE
Stealth around you. It is important to note, however, that in the current expansion there is a much greater number of enemies who can detect through Stealth or Invisibility, whom you will need to be on the lookout for.
Distract helps set up Shroud-skips and keeps patrolling trash packs in place for 10 seconds.
Feint,
Cloak of Shadows,
Evasion,
Crimson Vial and
Cheat Death form a very powerful set of defensive cooldowns and are one of the biggest reasons for Rogue's strength in Mythic+.
Tricks of the Trade is not exceptionally great normally, however, any kind of support that helps your tank keep aggro on all enemies is encouraged.
Shiv can be used to dispel Enrage effects. Keep in mind that this means you will not be able to use Shiv for single-target damage.
Numbing Poison and
Atrophic Poison are both useful in Mythic+, but with the heavier emphasis on trash mobs,
Numbing Poison is likely to win out.
Mythic+ Stat Choice for Assassination Rogue
Currently, you will want to prioritize secondary stats as follows:
- Critical Strike up to around ~40-45%;
- Mastery;
- Haste;
- Versatility.
This is not a cap for critical strike; in many cases, you will want to stack as much critical strike as possible. The suggested number is because you will also want to gain at least some haste on your gear to not wholly neglect your single-target damage. When in doubt: Sim yourself!
Mythic+ Affixes
The way Mythic+ affixes are tiered in Dragonflight has changed quite a bit since their launch in Legion.
There are three weekly affixes and one seasonal affix. The first affix is available instantly at levels two and three, the second affix starts at level four, the third affix is enabled at level seven, and finally, the seasonal affix is at level ten.
Tier One Affixes
There is not much to say about Fortified and
Tyrannical.
The most important part is to ensure that you have all your single-target
cooldowns
ready whenever you fight any boss.
Tier Two Affixes
Bolstering is a good affix for Assassination since you do not have AoE burst and you can meticulously DoT them up, and dump excess Combo Points into high-health targets.
Sanguine can cause a lot of movement from the group and might make your
Poison Bomb miss some of the ticks.
Bursting debuff can be removed with
Cloak of Shadows which also negates new applications until it expires. This means that you generally want to delay Cloak of Shadows until the first few debuffs go out. Remember to not use
Shroud of Concealment until Bursting has expired on your group.
- Using
Fan of Knives or
Poisoned Knife can help to kite the adds that fixate you during
Spiteful weeks.
Raging can be dealt with by using
Shiv to soothe any dangerous enemies that are affected by it.
Tier Three Affixes
Quaking damage can be decreased by
Feint, helping the healer. Quaking during
Shroud of Concealment can break the Shroud if people overlap their Quaking. You can wait until Quaking occurs, then shroud safely after it happened.
Fan of Knives does not hit the Explosive Orbs from
Explosive, requiring them to be targeted directly.
Storming can be avoided by using
Cloak of Shadows.
Dragonflight Season 1 Affix: Thundering
As you venture into Mythic Keystone Levels of Level 10 and higher in
Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 1,
thunder will strike the area you are fighting in on occasion. This will leave
behind a bunch of blue swirlies you have to avoid, while 4 of the players will
receive either Mark of Wind or
Mark of Lightning. These marks
increase damage and healing by 30% while they last, but if you do not get rid
of the debuff before it expires, you will receive a large amount of damage and
get stunned. You will want to remove the debuff, while still maximizing the
uptime
of it, by running to a player with the opposite Mark. This will clear the debuff
from both players.
If you want to find out more about the Thundering affix, make sure to check out our more comprehensive guide is below:
Changelog
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 05 Mar. 2023: Updated Stat prio and Raging Affix description.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 changes.
- 04 Jan. 2023: Updated talents and sample opener.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed 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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