Subtlety Rogue DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.5)

This is the Trickster build for Subtlety, that offers immense burst, both on AoE and on Single-Target.

There isn't a whole lot of flexibility in your talent choices, but these are the choices you can make:

• You can opt out of any of the talents that are not required to path through in order to pick up Stillshroud for any keys where Shroud is used. Wiping and not being able to return to the boss or trash pack you wiped on is usually a depleted key, but with a reduced cooldown Shroud might be back up again to keep going.
• You can swap Airborne Irritant for Gouge if there is a desperate need for additional stops on a low cooldown, but it's usually not worth it because an AoE stop will almost always be better outside of niche situations.

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

This is the Deathstalker build for Subtlety, that offers less burst but stronger sustained damage, as well as very high priority damage.

Make sure to keep track of your Darkest Night buff so you do not have to cast Shadow Strike on every pack to benefit from your Deathstalker's Mark.

There isn't a whole lot of flexibility in your talent choices, but these are the choices you can make:

• You can opt out of any of the talents that are not required to path through in order to pick up Stillshroud for any keys where Shroud is used. Wiping and not being able to return to the boss or trash pack you wiped on is usually a depleted key, but with a reduced cooldown Shroud might be back up again to keep going.
• You can swap Airborne Irritant for Gouge if there is a desperate need for additional stops on a low cooldown, but it's usually not worth it because an AoE stop will almost always be better outside of niche situations.

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.

• /stopcasting
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead] [] Kick

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.

• /focus [@mouseover]

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.

With Airborne Irritant talented, Blind turns into a powerful AoE disrupt that also drastically reduces tank damage taken if Blackjack is selected.

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 be also used to Cheap Shot an enemy that can only be stopped, not interrupted.

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. Subtlety also has the talent

Subtlety Rogues also have the talent Shrouded in Darkness, this allows you to use shroud as a massive speed boost to your team even when you are not trying to sneak past mobs. This is especially powerful in indoor dungeons with long sections of running where you cannot mount.

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.

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.

• Keep Feint up as much as possible during Happy Hour.
• Keep Sprint so you'll have it ready for Happy Hour to serve the beers as fast as possible.
• Cast Cloak of Shadows when you get Hot Honey to remove it.
• Hot Honey does not get reduced by Feint unless you've talented into Elusiveness.

• Crippling Poison is really good on this boss if you do not have other slows in your group.
• Ideally you just hit the boss and let Nimble Flurry cleave onto the Brew Drop adds, but if they're too far away you might need to run to them to kill them.

• Fluttering Wing does not get reduced by Feint unless you've talented into Elusiveness.

• Feint does not get reduced by Let It Hail! unless you've talented into Elusiveness.
• Cast Cloak of Shadows when you get 2 stacks of Burning Ricochet to remove it.

• Make sure to save your non Flagellation dances to burst down the mine cart spawned by Underhanded Track-tics.
• When you get fixated by the Menial Laborer you can use Evasion to dodge their attacks.
• You can use Evasion to dodge the Reckless Charge if he targets you. Try to aim it into a wall so it doesn't charge too far away from the group.

• Cast Feint before Dousing Breath, especially if you are at low health.
• Cast Cloak of Shadows if you get a couple of stacks of Enkindling Inferno from not lighting enough candles.
• Enkindling Inferno gets reduced by Feint without needing to select Elusiveness.

• Try to have your group stacked so you don't need to run too far away to clear the Eerie Molds.
• Do not use one of your non Flagellation dances right before Darkflame Pickaxe as you might be targeted and need to run out.

• Whenever you get targeted by Shadowblast run out of the candlelight and use Sprint to run and pickup a candle far away.
• If you get targeted by Shadowblast in the middle of your Flagellation burst you can use Vanish to cancel the cast.

• The Throw Rocks from Lowly Moleherd can be dodged by Evasion, but they also wont even throw the rocks if you are in melee range of them.
• If you get targeted by Torchsnarls One-Hand Headlock you can run out a bit and Shadowstep somebody else once he starts charging to dodge the entire combo.
• Torchsnarl also does a lot of damage with his Massive Stomp cast, so its worth casting Feint before it.

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• Sacrificial Flame gets reduced by Feint without needing to select Elusiveness.
• Sacrificial Flame does not get removed by Cloak of Shadows but you will take no damage while cloak lasts.

• You can use Evasion to dodge the attacks from Arathi Neophytes during the last phase.

• You can use Evasion to dodge the jumps from Sergeant Shaynemail and the War Lynxs.
• The Lightspawn mobs do a channel called Purification, when this is cast on you you can use either Cloak of Shadows or Vanish to cancel it.
• Reflective Shield from High Priest Aemya can be dangerous if you have your Flagellation up so be prepared to use a Algari Healing Potion or Cloak of Shadows if the damage to yourself gets dangerous.

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• This boss takes more damage after his shield breaks through Storm's Vengeance, so its usually wise to save your Flagellation burst for that.

• You can use Vanish on the Stormrook Energized Barrage cast.

• On this boss most groups should have enough add damage so that you can simply cleave off the boss. If the boss gets Kill-o-Block Barrier be sure to swap to the adds to phase the boss.
• Once the adds die the boss will cast Jumpstart and take double damage. This is where you want to use your Flagellation burst.

• Be sure to position yourself so that if you get targeted with Barreling Charge you are in line with a bomb. You can dodge this once he locks onto your location.

• Cast Cloak of Shadows or Feint whenever the boss casts Awaken the Swamp.
• The passive damage on the fight from Razorchoke Vines does not get reduced by Feint without Elusiveness talented.

• Cast Cloak of Shadows when you get Gigazap.
• Gigazap gets reduced by Feint without needing to select Elusiveness.

• You can use Evasion to dodge the Nailgun from the Venture Co. Architects.
• Cast Cloak of Shadows whenever Darkfuse Bloodwarper casts his Warp Blood to immune the debuff.
• The Backwash debuffs from Bubbles does not get reduced by Feint without Elusiveness talented. They can however be made immune with Cloak of Shadows.

• Cast Cloak of Shadows whenever you get the circles from Searing Death.

• You can use Evasion to dodge the Leaping Thrash from the adds.
• Leaping Thrash gets reduced by Feint without needing to select Elusiveness.

• Using your Shadow Dance down in the PVP arena is usually a waste of time and its better to just let the other person kill you as fast as possible.
• Save your Shadow Dances to kill the Oppressive Banners as fast as possible.

• Save your Shadow Dances for when the adds spawn from Draw Soul.

• Save your Shadow Dances for when the adds spawn from Manifest Death.
• Cast Feint before Manifest Death.

• All the mini-bosses before Xav the Unfallen that have a cast called Whirlwind can be dodged with Evasion. Beware that it does not work on the boss himself.
• Shrouded in Darkness has pretty decent value in-between packs in this dungeon to help reduce downtime.
• Having Shiv specced for the Raging Bloodhorns Raging Tantrum is good.

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• You can Vanish while targeted by Mega-Zap and it will be cancelled.
• Cloak of Shadows will immune the Mega-Zap.
• Mega-Zap gets reduced by Feint without needing to select Elusiveness.

• The Bomb Tonk are immune to your AoE Blind.
• Arcing Zap does not get reduced by Feint without Elusiveness talented.
• During the gauntlet before the 3rd boss you can use Distract to make the robots stand still for 10 seconds.

• Hold your Flagellation burst for when the footballs have been kicked into him as he takes increased damage.
• Cast Feint before Static Pulse.

• You should save your small Shadow Dances for the empowered add.

• If you get targeted by Azerite Catalyst you can use Vanish or Cloak of Shadows to make it not spawn any extra swirlies.

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• You can use Vanish on the Venture Co. Mastermind Mind Lash cast.
• You can use Shiv on Taskmaster Askari to remove his Overtime! buff.
• It can be really helpful to use a Kidney Shot on the Crawler Mines so they don't run into people.
• Charged Shot does not get reduced by Feint without Elusiveness talented.
• Charged Shot can be removed by using Vanish as well as Cloak of Shadows.