Subtlety Rogue DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.1.0)

1. Start off in Stealth and have Instant Poison applied.
2. Cast Flagellation when all conditions are met.
   Click to expand conditions.

   • You have more than 5 combo points.
   • Shadow Blades is ready.
   • You have 1 charge and less than 10 seconds left on your second charge of Symbols of Death.
   • You have 1 charge and less than 40 seconds left on your second charge of Shadow Dance.
   • Secret Technique is ready.
3. Cast Symbols of Death and Shadow Dance.
4. Cast Shadow Blades during Flagellation and Shadow Dance.
   Do not cast them if Flagellation has less than 25 seconds left of its cooldown.
5. Cast a Combo Point spender at 6 or more combo points with the following priority:
   Click to expand priority.

   During Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Eviscerate when Darkest Night is up.
   • Cast Cold Blood before Secret Technique if Shadow Blades is active.
   • Cast Secret Technique.
   • Cast Coup de Grace if Fazed is up on the target.
   • Cast Eviscerate.

   Outside of Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Eviscerate when Darkest Night is up.
   • Cast Rupture if it is not up or has less than 9 seconds left.
   • Cast Coup de Grace if Fazed is up on the target.
   • Cast Eviscerate.
6. Build Combo Points with the following priority:
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   During Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Shadowstrike

   Outside of Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Vanish and use one Shadowstrike.
   • Cast Shuriken Storm when Clear the Witnesses is up.
   • Cast Backstab.

After you've cast Flagellation you want to press Shadow Dance and utilize Premeditation before casting Shadow Blades. During Shadow Blades, cast your second Shadow Dance immediately when the first one fades but dont refresh your Symbols of Death until Secret Technique has less than 10 seconds left of its cooldown so it benefits from Supercharger. This is the reason a macro with both Shadow Dance and Symbols of Death is not recommended unless you also have the keybound seperately.

Cold Blood is best used on the second Secret Technique during your Shadow Blades as you will have more stacks of the Flagellation buff. If you were to macro Cold Blood and Secret Technique together you would often end up with Cold Blood on cooldown in Shadow Blades windows and thus lose out on damage, therefore it is not recommended to macro them unless you also have them keybound seperately.

Cold Blood is best used on the second Secret Technique during your Shadow Blades as you will have more stacks of Flawless Form as well as more stacks of the Flagellation buff. If you were to macro Cold Blood and Secret Technique together you would often end up with Cold Blood on cooldown in Shadow Blades windows and thus lose out on damage, therefore it is not recommended to macro them unless you also have them keybound seperately.

If you are a returning player note that the supercharged combo points from Supercharger do not work in the same way as old echoing reprimand, it buffs any finisher you do with +3 combo points so keep following the 6 or more rule listed above, even when you have supercharged combo points.

For Trickster the rotation remains the same on 2-6 targets as it is on a Single-Target, This is due to Nimble Flurry. The only difference is that instead of building combo points with Backstab outside of Shadow Dance you build with Shuriken Storm.

1. Start off in Stealth and have Instant Poison applied.
2. Always target and autoattack the mob with Deathstalker's Mark for Hunt Them Down.
3. Cast Flagellation when all conditions are met.
   Click to expand conditions.

   • You have more than 6 combo points.
   • Shadow Blades is ready.
   • You have 1 charge and less than 10 seconds left on your second charge of Symbols of Death.
   • You have 1 charge and less than 40 seconds left on your second charge of Shadow Dance.
   • Secret Technique is ready.
4. Cast Symbols of Death and Shadow Dance.
   Do not cast them if Flagellation has less than 25 seconds left of its cooldown.
5. Cast Shadow Blades during Flagellation and Shadow Dance.
6. Cast a Combo Point spender at 6 or more combo points with the following priority:
   Click to expand priority.

   During Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Cold Blood before Secret Technique if Shadow Blades is active.
   • Cast Secret Technique.
   • Cast Coup de Grace if Fazed is up on the target.
   • Cast Black Powder.

   Outside of Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Eviscerate when Darkest Night is up.
   • Cast Rupture if it is not up or has less than 9 seconds left.
   • Cast Coup de Grace if Fazed is up on the target.
   • Cast Black Powder.
7. Build Combo Points with the following priority:
   Click to expand priority.

   During Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Shadowstrike when Premeditation is up.
   • Cast Shuriken Storm as your second combo point builder every Shadow Dance.
   • Cast Shadowstrike
   • Cast Shuriken Storm

   Outside of Shadow Dance:

   • Cast Shuriken Tornado (if talented)
   • Cast Vanish and cast Shadowstrike.
   • Cast Shuriken Storm.

After you've cast Flagellation you want to press Shadow Dance and utilize Premeditation before casting Shadow Blades. During Shadow Blades, cast your second Shadow Dance immediately when the first one fades but dont refresh your Symbols of Death until Secret Technique has less than 10 seconds left of its cooldown so it benefits from Supercharger. This is the reason a macro with both Shadow Dance and Symbols of Death is not recommended unless you also have them keybound seperately.

Cold Blood is best used on the second Secret Technique during your Shadow Blades as you will have more stacks of the Flagellation buff. If you were to macro Cold Blood and Secret Technique together you would often end up with Cold Blood on cooldown in Shadow Blades windows and thus lose out on damage, therefore it is not recommended to macro them unless you also have them keybound seperately.

Cold Blood is best used on the second Secret Technique during your Shadow Blades as you will have more stacks of Flawless Form as well as more stacks of the Flagellation buff. If you were to macro Cold Blood and Secret Technique together you would often end up with Cold Blood on cooldown in Shadow Blades windows and thus lose out on damage, therefore it is not recommended to macro them unless you also have them keybound seperately.

If you are a returning player note that the supercharged combo points from Supercharger do not work in the same way as old echoing reprimand, it buffs any finisher you do with +3 combo points so keep following the 6 or more rule listed above, even when you have supercharged combo points.

Besides Hero talents and Single-Target/AoE the Subtlety Burst Sequence is also affected by if the sequence is in the opener of the fight or if its when the cooldowns come up mid fight. Use the switches below to get appropriate recommendations for the situation at hand.

Trickster requires 7 or more targets to begin using the aoe burst sequence, if there are 1-6 mobs the Single-Target burst sequence should be utilized instead.

1. Begin while in Stealth.
2. Cast Shadowstrike.
3. Cast Flagellation.
4. Cast Eviscerate.
5. Cast Flagellation.
6. Cast Vanish.
7. Cast Shadowstrike.
8. Cast Rupture.
9. Cast Shuriken Storm.
10. Cast Rupture.
• If the mobs are not all gathered up yet, do another Shuriken Storm and Rupture.
11. Use your Potion, Racial, on-use trinket and cast Shadow Dance & Symbols of Death.
12. Cast Shadowstrike.
13. Cast Shadow Blades.
14. Cast Secret Technique.
15. Cast Shuriken Storm.
16. Cast Black Powder.
17. Cast Shadowstrike.
18. Cast Eviscerate.
19. Repeat Shadowstrike into Eviscerate (or Coup de Grace if its ready) until Shadow Dance ends and then immediately cast another Shadow Dance.
20. Repeat Shadowstrike into Black Powder (or Coup de Grace if its ready) until Shadow Dance ends and then immediately cast another Shadow Dance.
21. Repeat Shadowstrike into Eviscerate until Shadow Dance ends and then immediately cast another Shadow Dance.
22. Repeat Shuriken Storm into Black Powder until Shadow Dance ends and then immediately cast another Shadow Dance.
23. Cast Symbols of Death to refresh the buff when Secret Technique has less than 10 seconds remaining on its cooldown.
24. Cast Secret Technique with Cold Blood.
25. Continue on with your rotation.

Random procs from Shadow Techniques combined with refunds from Shadowcraft can make it so that there is more or less finishers than listed above.

Whenever Coup de Grace is ready use it instead of Eviscerate.

Whenever Coup de Grace is ready use it instead of Black Powder.

Whenever Darkest Night is active use it instead of Black Powder.