Subtlety Rogue PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (Season 4)

Last updated on Apr 22, 2024 at 12:50 by Shadenox 32 comments

Choosing your gear carefully is important for your Subtlety Rogue in PvP. We give you a stat priority to help you choose items with the right stats, followed by advice on how to choose the rest of your gear and your trinkets.

This page is part of our Subtlety Rogue PvP Guide.

1.

Stat Priority for Subtlety Rogues in PvP

The stat priority for Subtlety Rogue in PvP is as follows:

  1. Agility;
  2. Versatility;
  3. Mastery;
  4. Critical Strike;
  5. Haste.

Agility is the best stat in all situations. Versatility is the strongest secondary stat because it increases your damage and reduces the damage you take. Mastery is the next strongest secondary stat. Your Mastery is important as it increases the damage of your finishing moves. This will increase your sustained and burst damage.

2.

Gear Recommendations

2.1.

General Guidelines

You want to use PvP items as much as possible since they have increased item level in PvP combat. This is what your gear should look like, excluding most crafted items:

  • Head: Life-Bound Cap Icon Life-Bound Cap with Zone of Focus Icon Zone of Focus
  • Neck: Draconic Gladiator's Amulet Icon Draconic Gladiator's Amulet
  • Shoulders: Lurking Specter's Shoulderblades Icon Lurking Specter's Shoulderblades
  • Cloak: Draconic Warmonger's Cape Icon Draconic Warmonger's Cape
  • Chest: Lurking Specter's Brigandine Icon Lurking Specter's Brigandine
  • Wrists: Draconic Warmonger's Wraps Icon Draconic Warmonger's Wraps
  • Hands: Lurking Specter's Handgrips Icon Lurking Specter's Handgrips
  • Waist: Draconic Warmonger's Belt Icon Draconic Warmonger's Belt
  • Legs: Lurking Specter's Tights Icon Lurking Specter's Tights
  • Feet: Infurious Footwraps of Indemnity Icon Infurious Footwraps of Indemnity
  • Ring 1: Draconic Gladiator's Band Icon Draconic Gladiator's Band
  • Ring 2: Draconic Gladiator's Signet Icon Draconic Gladiator's Signet
  • Weapon 1: Draconic Gladiator's Dagger Icon Draconic Gladiator's Dagger
  • Weapon 2: Draconic Gladiator's Dagger Icon Draconic Gladiator's Dagger

This set of gear only includes two crafted, as you need to have two embellishments. However your ideal gearset features a lot more Mastery than what the conquest vendor can offer, so you want to craft as many items as you can to have as much Mastery as possible. As the season goes on you will be able to craft more items, so you will gradually replace your PvP items with Mastery/Versatility crafted items as they grant more Mastery.

2.2.

Note: it is essential to wear two PvP trinkets. This will increase your Agility and Stamina by a significant amount.

Draconic Gladiator's Medallion Icon Draconic Gladiator's Medallion is a mandatory trinket to have equipped at all times. This allows you to remove any crowd control on yourself. You will use this trinket if you are stunned and will die in this stun, or on any form of CC if one of your teammates will die and you can save them.

Draconic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity Icon Draconic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity is a powerful burst trinket. It gives you Agility and has a fairly short cooldown, allowing you to use it in your burst often. It is great when used alongside Shadow Dance Icon Shadow Dance and will be your default second trinket.

Draconic Gladiator's Emblem Icon Draconic Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used. This gives you an additional defensive when you are the target. The health increase is significant and will very often save your life if you use it when the enemy team is using cooldowns on you and your healer is in crowd control.

Draconic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity Icon Draconic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity is a good sustained damage trinket. It will randomly give you a main stat buff. It is a good pick if you are mostly focused on sustained damage, which you will never do as Subtlety Rogue. As such, this is not a trinket you ever want to equip.

2.3.

Gems and Enchants

Here are the best enchants and gems for a Subtlety Rogue:

  • Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed Icon Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed
  • Chest: Enchant Chest - Accelerated Agility Icon Enchant Chest - Accelerated Agility/Enchant Chest - Waking Stats Icon Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
  • Wrists: Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Speed Icon Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Speed
  • Waist: Shadowed Belt Clasp Icon Shadowed Belt Clasp
  • Legs: Fierce Armor Kit Icon Fierce Armor Kit
  • Boots: Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze Icon Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze
  • Rings: Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery Icon Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery
  • Main Hand Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion Icon Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion
  • Off Hand Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion Icon Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion

One your gems should be Skillful Illimited Diamond Icon Skillful Illimited Diamond and all your remaining gems should be Zen Neltharite Icon Zen Neltharite.

3.

Changelog

  • 22 Apr. 2024: Updqted for Dragonflight Season 4.
  • 18 Mar. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.2.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5.
  • 30 Apr. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
  • 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7.
  • 25 Jan. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5.
  • 04 Jan. 2022: Updated Enchants.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
  • 28 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
  • 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
  • 24 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
  • 10 Nov. 2021: Already up to date with Patch 9.1.5.
  • 30 Jul. 2021: Updated the Shackle trinket due to a recent hotfix.
  • 21 Jul. 2021: Added the new PvP trinket.
  • 04 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
  • 28 Mar. 2021: Rewritten by Shadenox and updated for Patch 9.0.5.
  • 18 Mar. 2021: Updated Recommended Gear and Trinkets sections.
  • 17 Dec. 2020: Updated Stat Priority description.
  • 29 Nov. 2020: Removed outdated Traits and Essences.
    • Removed outdated gear.
    • Added gems section.
  • 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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