Subtlety Rogue DPS Battle of Dazar'alor Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.2.5

This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in the Battle of Dazar'alor raid. This page will focus primarily on how a Subtlety Rogue can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Battle of Dazar'alor, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.

Subtlety has one of the best short-term burst DPS in the game, which seems to be quite valuable in Battle of Dazar'alor. However, the raid has few bosses that contain low target amount cleave, which is Subtlety's biggest weakness. Overall, Subtlety seems to be a competitive spec but outclassed on many fights by Assassination due to fight design.

• Interrupt Anointed Disciple's Penance and Heal.
• Face away from Darkforged Crusaders when they are casting Blinding Faith.
• Use Feint and Cloak of Shadows to reduce incoming damage from Judgment: Reckoning.

Note: This boss is the second boss for Horde players, and the third boss for Alliance players. For the second Alliance boss (Jadefire Masters), see further below.

• Pay attention to your feet whenever Grong casts Reverberating Slam. This ability leaves a Reverberating Echo on that location which deals damage and knocks you back if you do not move out of it.
• Swap to Apetagonizer 3000 whenever it spawns and interrupt Apetagonize.
• Use Feint and Cloak of Shadows to reduce incoming damage from Tantrum.

For this boss, we will refer to Grimfang/Mestrah as "Monk", and Firecaller/Flamefist as "Mage".

• Try to keep your Shadowstep to instantly interrupt the Monk's Whirling Jade Storm by getting back to its melee range quickly.
• You can cast Kidney Shot on Spirits of Xuen to stun them.
• Use Feint and Cloak of Shadows to reduce incoming damage from Living Bomb's Explosion and Beam if you are about to get hit.

• If you get targeted by Ruby Beam, you can use Cloak of Shadows to minimize lost space.
• More Rogue-specific tips will be added when the raid is released.

• Aim to save your Cloak of Shadows for dangerous overlaps such as if Pa'ku's Wrath and Crawling Hex happens at the same time and you are targeted.
• You can Kidney Shot the Ravenous Stalkers to make it easier for your raid members to avoid them.

• At the moment we have no Rogue specific tips for this boss, make sure to check back later on!

• At the moment we have no Rogue specific tips for this boss, make sure to check back later on!

• If you are assigned to Bwomsamdi's realm in Phase Three, make sure to have your Shadow Blades ready.

• At the moment we have no Rogue specific tips for this boss, make sure to check back later on!