Assassination Rogue Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Assassination Rogue Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Envenom damage increased by 10% and it increases your damage dealt by 3%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Deadly Poison increases your bleed damage on the target by 10%. Auto-attacks to targets with your Amplifying Poison deal 3% increased damage per stack. Wound Poison hits a second time.

Tier Set Discussion:

Assassination’s tier set bonus in Season 2 increases essentially all sources of damage, and provides no impact in gameplay.

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.

With the gear available in Season 2, Assassination Rogues will be at a big disadvantage without raiding. Raid gear has many special effects and powerful trinkets, which cannot be matched by Mythic+ gear. If you are looking to gear from Mythic+, keep an eye out for any pieces with Critical Strike and either Haste or Mastery.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The best trinkets for Assassination Rogue are as follows:

1. Voracious Heart of Ula'tek
2. Gebbo's Bottomless Bag
3. Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique
4. Font Of Venomous Rage

You will always use the Voracious Heart as your on-use, using the other trinkets in the list as your second slot.

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 Hunter's Ritual Stone - Crafting a dagger, especially early in the season is a large boost in damage, and the Hunter’s Ritual Stone 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.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

It should be noted that while the Folio Tree is worth roughly ~4% DPS, the majority of that power comes from the stat proc obtained in Row 4. The actual damage from the rune is not very impressive, and the power of the system looks deceptively low through traditional damage meter comparisons.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Assassination Rogue:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Self-Mending
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Masterful Cunning
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.