DPS Rotation & Cooldowns
A general priority guide for Assassination Rogue abilities and cooldowns. Helpful for understanding the spec's fundamentals and getting comfortable with core synergies. Updated for the latest patch in World of Warcraft: Midnight (12.0.1).
Single Target
Ensure Deadly Poison and Amplifying Poison are applied before combat.
Maintain Garrote and Rupture, build combo points with Mutilate, and spend them on Envenom or Rupture. Use Deathmark and Kingsbane on cooldown, aligning them for max burst.
AoE
Ensure Deadly Poison and Amplifying Poison are applied before combat.
Spread bleeds with Crimson Tempest and maintain Garrote and Rupture. Use Fan Of Knives to generate combo points and Envenom to spend them. Align Deathmark and Kingsbane for burst.
Cooldowns
Use Deathmark and Kingsbane on cooldown, aligning them for maximum burst. Utilize Vanish for Improved Garrote or strategic AoE setups.
New to Class? Try Assisted Rotation
Patch 11.1.7 introduced new features that make it eaiser to pick and play new characters. These new settings can be enabled from settings » gameplay enhancements:
- Single-Button Assistant
- Assisted Highlight
- Cooldown Manager
If you are new to World of Warcraft or a certain class, enabling Assisted Highlight and Cooldown Manager can help you learn which abilities to prioritize and use.
While the Single-Button Assistant can be a much easier and more accessible way to play the game, it does come with a slight performance hit due to a small GCD penalty, as you will have to wait 25% longer in between spells and abilities.
To see which specs are best with the Single-Button Assistant feature, you can check out our DPS Rankings which uses SimC to sim every class using this feature.