Assassination Rogue DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Season 1

This is the Deathstalker build for Assassination. This build excels at high sustained damage in AoE, as trash packs tend to live quite a bit longer in higher level keys than your weekly key runs. This build sports incredible priority-target damage, both from Singular Focus as well as your ability to generate loads of Combo Points in AoE that you can channel into many Envenom casts.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This is the Fatebound build for Assassination. This build excels a bit more in lower level keys, but it is still more than capable of doing great damage in high-keys as well. It simply offers less priority-target damage, and does not have to manage Deathstalker's Mark, which makes it a lot more comfortable and easy to play in an environment where enemies might be dying a bit more quickly.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Kick is your, well, "kick". You will interrupt your targeted enemy, or, when using a Focus-Macro, the target you set up as your focus.

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one and your target if you have no focus target. We recommend keeping both the macro and a regular kick cast on your bars, as you may have multiple targets to interrupt, and the macro always prioritizes the focus target.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro or setting the "Focus Target" hotkey in the game's keybinding settings.

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

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.

Vanish can be used to Garrote enemies, silencing them thanks to Iron Wire. This is also a DPS increase due to Improved Garrote, so clever planning of your CDs will be rewarded with higher DPS. If you are unsure about your usage of Vanish, err on the side of caution and use it for the silence first and foremost, not for DPS.

With Airborne Irritant and Blackjack talented, Blind turns into a low-cooldown single-target disrupt that also drastically reduces tank damage taken for a short period.

Gouge (if talented) 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.

Vanish can also be used to Cheap Shot an enemy that can only be stopped, not interrupted, but this is an absolute last resort play.

Blind is not part of our DPS kit, but still has some interesting use-cases in Mythic+ that may not be immediately apparent. While Sap allows a player to safely pass a CC-ed creature without getting into combat, a blinded enemy will walk around confused and still get into combat with the first player that gets close to it. Once the Blind debuff ends, it will engage said player. It will not, however, get into combat with any other player that gets close to it.

You can still make great use of Blind to pass enemies by abusing the fact that only one player gets into combat with it. The best and easiest way to do this, is to ensure that after blinding the target, you get close enough to enter combat with it, and then you and your entire group can pass the enemy. Once you are far enough away from it, you can safely Vanish, drop combat, and skip the enemy.

This is particularly useful in situations where an entire pack of enemy is in your way that you would like to skip, but one or two enemies are too close to pass by without body-pulling them. As a Rogue, you can Sap one, and then use the above trick for the other, allowing you to skip past enemies that would either detect you if you were to use Shroud of Concealment, or if Shroud is on cooldown.

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. Make sure to force enemies to look away from you to allow you to stealth past them.

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. Sadly it is a choice-node with Blackjack.

Shiv can be used to dispel Enrage effects. Keep in mind that this means you will not be able to use Shiv for DPS.

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 on Fortified, with Atrophic gaining more value on Tyrannical weeks. Communicate with your tank and healer which ones are preferable.