Subtlety Rogue Gearing Guide

Our tierset this time around is just a simple damage increase to some of our spells, it is a lot more simple compared to the last tier, which I think is a good thing.

• (2) Set Bonus: Symbols of Death increases the damage done by your next Secret Technique by 20%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Secret Technique increases the damage done by your other finishers by 16% for 7 seconds.

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

• Raiding
• Mythic+

Treacherous Transmitter: A very strong stat on-use trinket with an annoying mini game and a 1 min 30 cooldown note that the orb / platform always spawns at your 1 o-clock (perfect for our cooldowns).

Void Reaper’s Contract: A very straight forward damage proc trinket that gains bonus effectiveness when the target drops below 35% health.

Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj: A pretty straight forward stat proc trinket that increases a random secondary stat for 20 seconds.

Ara-Kara Sacbrood: Just a very simple main stat proc trinket with a delayed damage proc tied to it, a very solid passive option and quite good for Mythic+.

Mad Queen’s Mandate: A 2 minute on-use trinket with a big damage nuke.

All three of these embellishment perform very similar to each other one drawback from the lining ones are that you need to stay above 80% health as much as possible whereas the Focusing Lens is just a stable damage proc, personally I recommend going with the Focusing Lens for a more consistent option.

• Elemental Focusing Lens
• Duskthread Lining
• Dawnthread Lining