Subtlety Rogue PvP Talents and Builds — 12.1

The Omnium Folio is a new system introduced in Midnight's Patch 12.0.7, and offers some minor performance-enhancing customization options after a multi-week quest series. Some of these bonuses affect your damage output, while others are more defensive in nature.

We recommend you pick the following bonuses in the first couple of weeks, but as you can freely switch between them at any time, feel free to experiment with other options yourself if you feel you do not get enough mileage out of the recommended options:

• Week 1: Rune of Unleashed Fire
• Week 2: Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes
• Week 3: Rune of Lingering
• Week 4: Rune of Masterful Cunning
• Week 5: Rune of Overload

You can choose three of the following PvP talents; each has uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents depending on your team's goal.

Smoke Bomb creates a smoke cloud around you. Enemy players who are outside the cloud will not be able to target anyone inside it. This talent is mandatory for multiple reasons. The reason why this talent is incredible, is because of how many different uses it has:

• Aggressively: it can help you land a kill by stunning a target when they have no trinket. By using Smoke Bomb right after the stun, you will prevent the healer from saving their teammate.
• Defensively: You can use it defensively to save yourself or an ally from a lethal cast about to go off, such as Chaos Bolt
• Avoidance: you can use it to prevent incoming crowd control on you or your team if such crowd control would result in you losing a game, such as a Polymorph or Fear on your healer when they have no trinket, and you are low on health.

Preemptive Maneuver is a solid defensive option as it makes Feint reduce the damage you take even more when stunned, and reduces its energy cost.

Dismantle is a strong PvP talent that allows you to disarm an enemy for 6s every 45s. It is a great pick against Warriors, Hunters, and Rogues. Disarming an enemy can delay their next kill attempt or stop it entirely if they have pulled the trigger.

Thick as Thieves allows you to use Tricks of the Trade on a teammate to increase their damage by 15% for 6 seconds. This is a great option if you do not have to play Dismantle and want to be extremely aggressive in the matchup.

Death from Above is an interesting talent. This is a finishing move that will leap you into the air and Eviscerate your target on the way back down. What most people do not know about this spell is that it will follow mobility spells. If a Warlock uses their Demonic Gateway, this spell will follow the Warlock. Use this if you feel you need the extra mobility against high mobility targets.