Introduction
This guide was written by Whispyr and updated for the newest patch in The War Within.
Whispyr is a Shadow in the Rogue class Discord, Ravenholdt, where he spends a lot of his time helping other rogues push to their limits. He also is a contributor to Simulationcraft, and is the leading theorycrafter for Assassination Rogues. In addition, he also writes the Wowhead guide for Assassination Rogue. If you have any questions, feel free to tag Whispyr in Ravenholdt or send him a message directly on Discord. You can find him playing on his rogue on his stream every now and again, so make sure to tune in!
- Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/whispyrttv
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdpGDTwuSqRBdXYnMBF1ayg
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- Ravenholdt: https://discord.gg/Ravenholdt
What has changed
The core changes for Assassination going into 11.0 are fairly extensive. The most significant and gameplay impacting changes can be summed up by the following:
- Serrated bone spike is now passive and triggers from any rupture cast (including indiscriminate carnage)
- Indiscriminate Carnage, improved garrote, iron wire, and shrouded suffocation have been changed to have a 6 second duration
- Kingsbane has received nerfs directly as well as indirectly, which has caused a shift for our cooldowns
- Rapid injection is a new talent that aims to mimic the playstyle of the Amirdrassil Tier set bonus, envenomous explosion
- Sanguine Stratagem is a new talent, identical to the classic Deeper stratagem, allowing assassination to have a maximum of 7 combo points- Other talents have been deleted and replaced, but these are lower in impact and don’t change our rotation meaningfully