Assassination Rogue DPS Vault of the Incarnates Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Assassination Rogue for each boss of the following raid: Vault of the Incarnates. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Vault of the Incarnates. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Vault of the Incarnates guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Assassination Rogues and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Assassination Rogue and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
Talent Builds
Dragonflight Raid Talent Builds for Assassination Rogue
Single Target and Cleave
The build above is your general single target talent tree with strong cooldowns and even better damage once the boss hits 35% HP.
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Sporadic Adds
This build simply switches Internal Bleeding for
Caustic Spatter.
Since Caustic Spatter spreads the damage of
Kingsbane, this gives us great
cleave on a 1-minute cooldown, whenever we have a Kingsbane window. It is
generally not advised to talent more AoE or cleave talents. This build will shine
in encounters where adds are spawning on timers that work well with our
cooldowns.
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Sustained AoE
This build is the same version as our M+ build, which sacrifices ~15% of its single-target DPS potential for the ability to deal with sustained AoE. You will rarely if ever use this, as our full AoE toolkit takes too long to ramp up and deal proper damage, while costing too much single-target DPS.
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Eranog
Talents
You will want to play with Caustic Spatter on this boss. It is only
about a 2% DPS loss on single-target, and will net you a lot of extra damage
on the adds.
Tips
You can use Cloak of Shadows to run through the fiery walls spawned by the
Primal Flame.
Evasion works to avoid getting hit by the fixating Primal Flame
adds.
For more information, please refer to our Eranog guide.
Terros
Talents
Pure single-target with Internal Bleeding.
Tips
You should use Cloak of Shadows before the tank destroys multiple
pillars, as it allows you to take no damage from the explosions and also
avoid receiving the subsequent
Seismic Assault debuff.
For more information, please refer to our Terros guide.
The Primal Council
Talents
Cleave with with Caustic Spatter.
Tips
As this fight is a permanent 4-target cleave fight, with bosses having to die
within a few seconds of each other, you should prioritize reapplying your
Garrote on the three highest health targets.
Cloak of Shadows should be used to remove the
Conductive Mark
and
Primal Blizzard debuffs.
For more information, please refer to our The Primal Council guide.
Sennarth, the Cold Breath
Talents
If the adds are being tanked close enough for Caustic Spatter to hit
them, play the cleave build.
Tips
You can use Vanish to clear the stacks of
Sticky Webbing.
You can use Shadowstep to get back onto the platform if you get knocked
or dragged off of it. With 2 charges, this allows you to not care at all about
the Sticky Webbing mechanic, and you can just full focus on DPSing the boss
in all phases.
For more information, please refer to our Sennarth guide.
Dathea, Ascended
Talents
If you are assigned to the platforms to deal with the adds, switching to
Caustic Spatter build is recommended. However, you should try to
convince your raid that your damage will be very low regardless, so it is
better to stick with the single-target build and just nuke the boss.
Tips
Cloak of Shadows can be used to avoid getting knocked back by the
dying Volatile Infuser adds or to remove the
Conductive Mark
debuff. You can also use
Shadowstep to counter-act the knockback
from the Volatile Infusers.
For more information, please refer to our Dathea guide.
Kurog Grimtotem
Talents
Caustic Spatter will allow you to get damage on both the boss
and the adds.
Tips
You may want to delay your 2-minute cooldowns until the big add has spawned, to get full value of Caustic Spatter on the add during your cooldowns.
If there are overlapping Thunder Strike soaks, you can take both
of these with
Feint or
Cloak of Shadows.
For more information, please refer to our Kurog Grimtotem guide.
Broodkeeper Diurna
Talents
This fight is about constantly controlling spawning adds and dealing with them. As such, we recommend an AoE/cleave-focused build if you are assigned to dealing with those. Otherwise, stick with the suggested single-target build and kill the boss while others deal with the adds.
Tips
Cloak of Shadows can be used to reset the
Diurna's Gaze debuff,
or remove/prevent
Frozen Shroud.
For more information, please refer to our Broodkeeper Diurna guide.
Raszageth the Storm-Eater
Talents
The best build on Raszageth depends on what you are struggling with the most. You will get some decent value out of Caustic Spatter during the intermissions, but if those are already not an issue at all, boss damage will be better with Internal Bleeding instead.
Tips
Shadowstep can be used to quickly avoid taking damage from
Tempest Wing.
While Cloak of Shadows is active, you are immune to both the damage and the knockback
of all her abilities that knock you back.
Airborne Irritant can be very useful for the Sparks.
For more information, please refer to our Raszageth guide.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Page has been reviewed and updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 changes.
- 04 Jan. 2023: Updated some boss tips and talent advice.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Page added.
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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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