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 - This trinket is so silly OP at launch of the patch that it really should be the only recommendation on this list. Every other alternative is just terrible in comparison.
• 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 Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife 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 a Darkmoon Deck: Ascension or Darkmoon Deck: Radiance 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.

Cyrce’s Circlet

For Assassination Rogues, Cyrce’s Circlet is clear BiS in all content, around a 1% upgrade from any other myth track ring.

For your three slots, in both Mythic+ as well as Raids, you should be equipping:

• Singing Thunder Citrine: Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine
• Singing Sea Citrine: Fathomdweller’s Runed Citrine
• Singing Wind Citrine: Windsinger’s Runed Citrine or Legendary Skipper’s Citrine

For your Singing Wind Citrine, you could also equip Legendary Skipper’s Citrine. The issue with this gem is that it requires that the rest of your group is also wearing Cyrce’s Circlet. Without being able to proc the gems of your party members when Legendary Skipper’s procs into Warqueen’s, Legendary Skipper’s loses a lot of value. In these case, you would want to wear Windsinger’s Runed Citrine instead.