Assassination Rogue DPS Simulations — Shadowlands 9.2.5
On this page, you will find a number of useful simulation results for your Assassination Rogues in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.5.
Disclaimer
With the advent of certain tools, such as Raidbots, simulating your character has now become simple enough that we can recommend even the average player to sim their own character. It is through advanced simulations that many of the recommendations in this guide are found, and by doing your own you can easily figure out what talents you should be using with your particular gearing combination, what gear to equip, what Legendaries to equip and more. Below there is a video guiding you on how to sim your character. Underneath that, you will find some generic simulations that apply to most people.
Simple Upgrade Finder
One of the most useful additions to simulations software is the new Droptimizer" feature on Raidbots.
The UI will let you pick the raid and difficulty.

This is very useful because you can use it for the duration of the entire tier. Currently, this does not account for a chance of Warforged, but that might change eventually.
After you finish running the simulation, you will be presented with the following graphic, which shows the value of upgrades from each boss, the average value of a drop, and the best case scenario.

Patch 9.2 Simulations for Assassination Rogue
With the most recent update to the game, we felt it necessary to compile a variety of different simulations to help you in case you are struggling to make a decision for your Legendary or Covenant choice. Whispyr (Whispyr#0001 on Discord) of the Rogue Theorycrafting Community has compiled a list of simulations to compare these options under different circumstances, and you can find the most recent and best simulations regarding the individual and combined benefits of Legendary Powers, Covenants, and Soulbinds on this page.
Legendary Power Simulations for Each Covenant with 4-set bonus
Early Progression Simulatios without Double Legendary/Set bonus
Changelog
- 31 May 2022: Page reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 22 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- 02 Nov. 2021: Updated the simulation overview.
- 15 Jul. 2021: Updated the Covenant and Soulbind simulation overview.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Updated the simulations for Legendaries and Covenants.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Updated with newest simulations.
- 23 Nov. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands release.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands 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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