Assassination Rogue 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 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.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

When discussing Trinkets, it’s important to note the difference between Slot 1 and Slot 2 trinkets. Typically, Assassination will want one on-use trinket to buff its cooldowns, and then one passive that gives stats. All the below trinkets fit those archetypes, with the slot 1 trinkets being macro’d to Deathmark.

Slot 1 on-use:

1. Araz’s Ritual Forge
2. Unyielding Netherprism
3. Lily of the Eternal Weave

Slot 2 passive:

1. Astral Antenna
2. Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
3. Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj

There are only really two items that should be considered for Crafting. The first is an off-hand weapon, the Everforged Stabber. Off-hand daggers are the weakest slots available, making it a no-brainer to craft into and lose the 3 ilvl. Craft it with a Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension for some bonus stats.

The second craft should be the Rune-Branded Armbands, with a Writhing Armor Banding to double the effects of the Darkmoon Sigil we crafted onto the dagger. The secondaries on both of these crafts are of little to no impact, just take whatever you get.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Puzzling Cartel Chips (Dinar)

With Dinar returning, many previously hard-to-get items are now easily accessible through a vendor. Players should aim to purchase the most sought-after and contested pieces from the Raid. In rough order of importance/rarity, this would include:

1. Astral Antenna
2. Interloper’s Reinforced Sandals
3. Unyielding Netherprism
4. Araz’s Ritual Forge

Other pieces might seem important, such as a Myth upgrade-track Dagger. Still, Agility Daggers are rarely contested, and Loom’ithar is an early boss in Mythic Manaforge Omega that can drop a dagger. Because of this, it is not recommended to buy off-pieces or Daggers, and should only be considered once the base list of recommendations has been obtained. Make sure to always sim yourself and use tools such as Raidbots’ Droptimizer to double-check the most significant upgrades for your specific character!