Gear
Tier Set
Blizzard has made a bit more involved tier set in the third raid of Dragonflight, enhancing our shadow clone theme.
2 Piece Tier Set
Eviscerate, Rupture and Black Powder has a chance to summon a shadow clone to echo your finishing move for 70% additional Shadow damage (note that Secret Technique also spawns clones and interacts with our 4set)
The 2 set is just passive damage.
4 Piece Tier Set
Your shadow clones deal 20% increased damage with all attacks and grants you 2 combo points per clone when summoned.
This is where the gameplay changes come in, as I mentioned above Secret Technique always spawns two clones, which then gives you 4 combo points with each cast and together with our new capstone talent Shadowcraft this can then make you do quite a lot of back to back finishers.
Subtlety Rogue Best in Slot Gear
You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Subtlety Rogue, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.
Subtlety Rogue Raid Best in Slot List
This list will provide the Best in Slot items for doing the highest damage in a raiding environment.
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Peripheral Vision Projectors | Crafted Item |
| Neck | Custodian’s Medallion of Delusion | Azure Vault |
| Shoulders | Lurking Specter's Shoulderblades | Any Shoulder tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Cloak | Voice of the Silent Star | Sarkareth (Aberrus) |
| Chest | Lurking Specter's Brigandine | Any Chest tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Wrist | Life-bound Bindings | Crafted Item |
| Gloves | Lurking Specter's Handgrips | Any Gloves tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Belt | Watcher’s Clasp of Purpose | Halls of Infusion |
| Legs | Lurking Specter's Tights | Any Legs tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Boots | Treads of the Swift | Uldaman |
| Ring | Signet of Titanic Insight | Crafted Item |
| Ring | Seal of Diurna’s Chosen | Eranog (Vault of the Incarnates) |
| Trinket | Ashes of the Embersoul | Smolderon (Amirdrassil) |
| Trinket | Spiteful Storm | Raszageth (Vault of the Incarnates) |
| Main Hand | Cruel Dreamcaver | Igira (Amirdrassil) |
| Off Hand | Fang of the Sundered Flame | Sarkareth (Aberrus) |
Subtlety Rogue M+ Best in Slot List
This list will provide the Best in Slot gear for doing Mythic+ keys, this is mostly focused on damage but if you need the extra survivability certain items can be swapped around such as the passive trinkets used.
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Peripheral Vision Projectors | Crafted Item |
| Neck | Tuskarr Bone Necklace | Brackenhide Hollow |
| Shoulders | Lurking Specter's Shoulderblades | Any Shoulder tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Cloak | Voice of the Silent Star | Sarkareth (Aberrus) |
| Chest | Lurking Specter's Brigandine | Any Chest tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Wrist | Life-bound Bindings | Crafted Item |
| Gloves | Lurking Specter's Handgrips | Any Gloves tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Belt | Vengeful Bladebeak Girdle | BoE drop (Amirdrassil) |
| Legs | Lurking Specter's Tights | Any Legs tier set drops or Catalyst |
| Boots | Ancient Rotwalkers | Brackenhide Hollow |
| Ring | Signet of Titanic Insight | Crafted Item |
| Ring | Seal of Diurna’s Chosen | Eranog (Vault of the Incarnates) |
| Trinket | Storm-Eater's Boon | Dathea (Vault of the Incarnates |
| Trinket | Neltharion's Call to Suffering | Echo of Neltharion (Aberrus) |
| Main Hand | Fang of the Sundered Flame | Sarkareth (Aberrus) |
| Off Hand | Fang of the Sundered Flame | Sarkareth (Aberrus) |
Trinkets
Irideus Fragment which is from the dungeon Halls of Infusion will be our best alternative to Ashes from Mythic+, a little gameplay thing with this is to press together with your Secret Technique due to its stats going lower for each ability used. (combat pots also counts for this)
Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge which drops from the council fight Urctos in the new raid is a very strong passive stat proc trinket which swaps between Crit, Mastery and Vers which we like a lot.
Catalysmic Signet Brand which is from Smolderon in the new raid is a strong damage proc trinket that ramps up in damage but also comes with a drawback of damaging yourself, it however falls off in power with more targets.
Ashes of the Embersoul which drops from Smolderon in the new raid is a very strong two minute on-use stat trinket which lines up perfectly with our cds, it does give you a haste debuff for 1 minute after pressing it.
Manic Grieftorch which is from Broodkeeper Diurna in Vault of the Incarnates could be our best 2nd trinket choice for parsing due to its reset mechanic, just make sure to not lock out your stat trinket for your cooldowns.
Whispering Incarnate Icon which is from The Primal Council in Vault of the Incarnates is gonna be one of our best passive trinket options for Mythic+ content going together with Storm-Eater's Boon.
Storm-Eater's Boon which is from Dathea, Ascended in Vault of the Incarnates is gonna be our strongest AoE trinket.
Spiteful Storm which is from Raszageth the Storm-Eater in Vault of the Incarnates is gonna be our strongest passive option for single target but it does have the same issue as Signet brand does where it needs ramp up time.
Ominous Chromatic Essence which is from The Forgotten Experiments from Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible, is gonna be one our go to passive trinkets going together with Storm-Eater's Boon for Mythic+ content.
Neltharion's Call to Suffering which is from Echo of Neltharion in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible, is gonna be one of our best passive options for Mythic+ content together with Whispering Incarnate Icon and Ominous Chromatic Essence paired with Storm-Eater's Boon.
Crafting
Priority should be as followed:
- Blue Silken Lining 2x
- Shadowflame-Tempered Armor patch 1x is our best Single target option if you are playing Seal of Diurna’s Chosen (Ring from first boss from Vault of the Incarnates)
- Elemental Lariat
Overall I will still recommend playing Blue Silken Lining as your main Embellishment choice due to the flexibility of it being very strong on Single target and on AoE.