Assassination Rogue PvE Guide — Midnight
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Assassination Rogue is a melee fighter who wields a pair of daggers as weapons. The class boasts excellent mobility, decent damage, as well as stealth and the ability to hide every member of the party/raid from enemies. A defining feature of the class is empowering abilities with combo points. By dealing damage with some abilities you accumulate combo points, while other abilities spend those points, gaining an additional bonus based on the number of points accumulated.
Strengths
- Stealth and the ability to hide every member of the party/raid, which lets you bypass difficult groups of monsters without fighting them.
- Excellent mobility.
- Deals large additional damage once a target drops below 35% health.
Weaknesses
- Strong reliance on burst abilities. Without them the class's damage is mediocre.
- A long setup before dealing AoE damage, as well as a difficult rotation to maintain that damage.
- Requires good knowledge of the class to correctly manage the ability priority.
Stat Priority
Agility
Critical Strike
Haste
Mastery
VersatilityTalents
Rotation (Ability Priority)
Single Target
Garrote — When possible, use it out of 
Vanish (before every Deathmark)
Rupture — at 5+ combo points
Deathmark 
Kingsbane — on cooldown. Be sure to sync it with Deathmark
Envenom — at 5+ combo points
Ambush — to build combo points at every opportunity
Mutilate — to build combo points
Thistle Tea — together with Kingsbane
AoE
- Garrote — ideally out of
Stealth, and use Rupture at 5+ combo points - Garrote — and Rupture on all targets, using
Caustic Spatter as an AoE builder - Caustic Spatter — as an AoE builder to spread bleeds. If all targets already have bleeds, use
Fan of Knives instead - Deathmark
- Kingsbane — (if talented) on cooldown. Be sure to sync it with Deathmark if it is ready
- Vanish — to refresh Garrote, empowered by Improved Garrote, if your initial DoTs are about to expire and the pack will live another ~20+ seconds
- Envenom — at 5+ combo points
- Thistle Tea — together with Kingsbane
Best in Slot (BiS)
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Leveling
Right from the very first level you will already have abilities to deal damage. Your main abilities in the early levels will be Ambush and 
Envenomous Stab. As you gain levels you will acquire new abilities, drawing closer to your core rotation. We recommend sticking to the ability priority from the rotation section.
Mythic+ Tips
The ability 
Shroud of Concealment lets you hide all of your allies from enemies. Use this ability to slip past strong groups of monsters you would rather avoid fighting.
You can use the ability 
Sap to incapacitate a single enemy if you or your group need to get past it without entering combat.
The ability 
Distract can let you divert enemies' attention and slip past them unnoticed.
Thanks to the ability 
Kidney Shot you can stun an enemy for a very long time (8 seconds). Use this ability on enemies who cast strong spells against you or your group members. The longer an enemy is stunned, the less damage it can deal.
Macros
#showtooltip Distract /cast [@cursor] Distract
#showtooltip /cast [@focus,exists][] Kick
#showtooltip Kidney Shot /cast [@mouseover][] Kidney Shot
Author
Fouren
Fouren has been playing World of Warcraft for over 15 years. He is an active player with 12 Cutting Edge achievements under his belt, and has reached the top 1% and 0.1% multiple times on various classes. His main classes are healers, particularly Holy Paladin.
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