Assassination Rogue Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Garrote's damage is increased by 30% and it also applies your weapon poisons.
• (4) Set Bonus: Garrote's Energy cost is reduced by 10. Mutilate, Ambush and Fan Of Knives deal 25% increased damage to targets affected by your weapon poisons.

Tier Set Discussion:

Assassination’s Season 1 Tier Set Bonus is all about Garrote and Generator Damage. It doesn’t provide any additional Rotational gameplay or min-maxing, but it does have a decent impact in both single-target and AoE when spreading Garrote with Crimson Tempest.

You should still prioritize 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.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The best trinkets for Assassination Rogue are as follows:

1. Gaze Of The Alnseer
2. Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
3. Radiant Plume / Umbral Plume
4. Solarflare Prism

Algeth'ar Puzzle Box is however a VERY annoying trinket to use due to its forced 2 second channel. Luckily however, the Radiant Plume and Umbral Plume trinkets, as well as Solarflare Prism, are very good alternatives and can actually take the place of the Algeth'ar Puzzle Box, letting players have a good alternative.

Assassination Rogues will want to craft two pieces of gear for their embellishments, and thereafter have no other crafting requirements. Crests and Sparks can be used as needed to fill holes in gear if necessary.

Craft Farstrider's Mercy with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt - Crafting a dagger, especially early in the season is a large boost in damage, and the Darkmoon Sigil is one of the best embellishments as well, making this an easy craft. Once you have a max myth-track dagger, put the crafted dagger into your offhand, where it will remain BIS.

Craft Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors with Arcanoweave Lining - Wrists are high-efficiency crafts due to their low stat value, and Arcanoweave Lining is one of the stronger embellishments.

Best Use of Bonus Rolls

With Patch 12.0.5, Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls) are available, giving players the option to get guaranteed pieces of loot from bosses or dungeons. Due to the cost of rerolling Raid Bosses being twice as high as those from Dungeons, we will most likely want to roll Dungeons first, then fill out important trinkets and items from raid. While a lot of bonus roll logic depends on what your character already has for pieces, we suggest the following rough priority:

1. Pit of Saron (For a Main-hand Dagger and many generic crit/haste items)
2. Algethar (Mainly for Puzzle Box)
3. Skyreach (If you don't raid, this has more decent items + dagger and an okay second trinket)
4. Mythic Chimareus for Alnseer (or Mythic Beloren for plume if you want)
5. Any missing pieces

Ascendant Voidcore Upgrades

Ascendant Voidcores are a new Upgrade System in 12.0.5 that allows players to upgrade their Weapons and Trinkets beyond the crest system. This system is timegated however, making the order in which items get upgraded very important. We recommend you upgrade items as follows:

1. Main-hand dagger - Any myth track dagger will do for this slot.
2. Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Your most important trinket
3. Second Trinket - Whichever trinket you’re using, preferably Gaze Of The Alnseer
4. Off-hand dagger - Typically will be your crafted dagger