Assassination Rogue Gearing Guide

Season 2 Assassination Rogue Tier Set:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak! increasing the damage of your Envenom, Rupture, and Crimson Tempest by 3% stacking up to 10 times. Envenom, Rupture, and Crimson Tempest have a 15% chance to remove Winning Streak!
• (4) Set Bonus: When you would lose Winning Streak!, you have a chance to instead gain maximum stacks of Winning Streak! for 10s. These cannot be removed and have 50% additional effect while immune to removal.

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 Assassination Rogue, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

For all of these lists it’s important to note that secondary stats are very close for Assassination Rogues and non-special gear pieces can very easily swap to other items when you are simulating. Dropping any of the tier pieces is also possible and there is not a specific slot we are trying to avoid. These BiS lists are created to show unique gear slots and trinket choices, not be used to copy or chase very specific items.

Cyrce’s Circlet is a special item from patch 11.0.7 and the Siren Isle subzone. Through this content you can obtain the special ring, which is considered Best in Slot for all areas of the game and provides a large boost in damage. See the special section below for more info on the ring.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

For Assassination we use a very standard setup of one slot stat on-use for our cooldowns, second slot passive/alternate trinket that doesn’t impede. Because of this, standard lists of ranking trinkets don’t make much sense. Having ANY stat on-use to line up with your cooldowns will be a large gain, regardless of the perceived quality of the trinket.

For our on-use slot, we have two options right now:

• House of Cards - Just a very strong mastery on-use. It has a bit of RNG involved but it isn’t too important overall and stands as the premiere on-use trinket for us in Season 2
• Signet of the Priory - This on-use is equivalent to House of Cards, but it lasts a couple seconds longer and the burst is lower to compensate. It also will get a bit stronger as others in your group wear the Signet as well.

For our second slot, there’s a lot of trinkets to use in this slot you could use, the vast majority of which are entirely passive. As of right now however, there is only one good trinket in this slot and one mediocre trinket:

• Eye of Kezan - Only really useful on the longer fights in Mythic now. Should not be used in Mythic+ at all, as the stacks are difficult to manage.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Without an Eye of Kezan, this would be your second choice. It’s not great, but it’ll get the job done for the most part without being too hard of a loss.

Other Trinkets: In the next tier down from Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker, nearly everything is much worse, but you have to equip something in the slot. Fill the slot with Suspicious Energy Drink or Mechano-Core Amplifier from Delves, Reverb Radio or Geargrinder’s Spare Keys from Raid, Ravenous Honey Buzzer or Grim Codex from Mythic+, or if you are in absolute dire need, craft an Algari Alchemist Stone with leftover crests.

For all content, you will want to craft two pieces with Dawnthread Lining.

The most common slots for this will be Offhand (Everforged Stabber) and Boots (Rune-Branded Kickers), or Wrists (Rune-Branded Armbands), and Belt (Rune-Branded Waistband).

At the time of writing, many embellishments are incredibly weak. Dawnthread Lining is a safe option that will most likely be generically good even if better combos are found. If you craft a dagger, put Ascendance on it and Writhing Armor Band on your boots/wrist/belt. For Mythic+, you can also use Blessed Weapon Grip. Remember that Embellishments only provide minor increases around 1% dps.

The difference between any two Embellishments is statistically insignificant to your performance and I would not worry too much about crafting the exact perfect slot or embellishment.

Puzzling Cartel Chips (Dinar)

How you spend your Puzzling Cartel Chips depends entirely on your gear and progression. Due to the limitation of needing to kill the Raid Boss that drops an item or having to time all dungeons on +12, players must decide which items they deem worth picking up with their Dinar.In general, you should consider this as your list of desired items:

• The Jastor Diamond
• House of Cards or Signet of the Priory (equivalent trinkets)
• Eye of Kezan (only for the last 3 of Mythic Raid)
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (if you don’t have a second trinket)

Corruptions

Starting with 11.1.7, there is a new Helm enchant players can choose from. These must be obtained from farming the returning Horrific Visions, with greater corruptions being available after a couple of weeks. These corruption enchants are fairly closely balanced in the grand scheme of things, with all enchants being between 2-3% gains. You will want to pick up the following:

• Greater Rune of Echoing Void (best in raids, and equal in mythic+)
• Greater Rune of Twilight Devastation (can be slightly better in AoE)
• Greater Rune of the Void Ritual (can be slightly better in AoE)

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

For Assassination Rogues, the new Durable Information Securing Container is a best-in-slot equipped item that provides around a +2% DPS gain over a regular 684 Myth track belt.

For your power, in both Mythic+ and Raids, you should be equipping the Electric Current power. Critical Chain can also be competitive for some, depending on secondary stats from the rest of the gear set, so make sure you simulate yourself for the most accurate answer.

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.