Subtlety Rogue DPS Easy Mode — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Note

Disorienting Strikes and Devious Distractions in the Trickster tree will appear red due to a visual bug. The talents still function.

You can easily import the talent tree below into the game by clicking 'Export Talents'.

Note

Disorienting Strikes and Devious Distractions in the Trickster tree will appear red due to a visual bug. The talents still function.

You can import the talent tree below into the game by clicking 'Export Talents'.

1. Try to always begin while in Stealth.
2. Cast Shadow Dance when Secret Technique is ready.
3. Cast Shadow Blades during Shadow Dance.
4. Cast Secret Technique during Shadow Dance with 6 or more combo points.
5. Cast Eviscerate to spend combo points when you have 6 or more.
6. Cast Shadowstrike whenever you can, otherwise use Backstab to build combo points.

You want to use two of Shadow Dance during your Shadow Blades so do not cast it right before Shadow Blades comes off cooldown.

1. Try to always begin while in Stealth.
2. Cast Shadow Dance when Secret Technique is ready.
3. Cast Shadow Blades during Shadow Dance.
4. Cast Secret Technique during Shadow Dance with 6 or more combo points.
5. Cast Black Powder to spend combo points when you have 6 or more.
6. Cast Shuriken Storm to build combo points.

You want to use two of Shadow Dance during your Shadow Blades so do not cast it right before Shadow Blades comes off cooldown.

You can macro Coup de Grace together with your Black Powder button and it will automatically cast it for you whenever it is ready, the macro looks like this:

• #showtooltip Black Powder
• /cast Coup de Grace
• /cast Black Powder

The Combat Assistant and the One-Button-Rotation are currently not very good for Subtlety Rogue. Using the One-Button-Rotation is around 10% less DPS than doing the rotation above in Single-Target situations and upwards of 15% in Multi-Target AoE situations. Using The Combat Assistant does not incur the GCD penalty associated with the One-Button-Rotation, which makes the difference much less pronounced and not that bad to use.