Assassination Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.1.0)

With the release of Season 2 of The War Within, the gear treadmill begins anew once more.

The War Within once again uses the Crest upgrade system that was introduced in Dragonflight. We recommend that you check out our dedicated page for more information on this gear upgrade system if you are not yet familiar with it:

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BiS Gear for Assassination Rogue

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

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BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup from all sources for Assassination Rogue

In some non-Tier slots, a 675 iLvl Craft can technically be optimal since you can customize the secondary stats to your liking and get 2 embellished effects. A few 678 iLvl slots from Mythic Raid are the exception.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl dagger. Best choice: Random Number Perforator (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Offhand Weapon	Everforged Stabber (678) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Helm	Spectral Gambler's Damned Visage (678)	Revival Catalyst, or One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Neck	Flickering Glowtorc (678)	Darkflame Cleft
Shoulder	Spectral Gambler's Bladed Mantle (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Cloak	Electrician's Siphoning Filter (678)	Operation: Floodgate
Chest	Venture Co. Plenipotentiary Vest (678)	The MOTHERLODE!!
Bracers	Disturbed Kelp Wraps (678)	Operation: Floodgate
Gloves	Spectral Gambler's Gloves (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Cauldron of Carnage in Liberation of Undermine
Belt	Gleamkeeper's Buckle (678)	Darkflame Cleft
Legs	Spectral Gambler's Pantaloons (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Stix Bunkjunker in Liberation of Undermine
Boots	Rune-Branded Kickers with Crit/Mastery (675) and Writhing Armor Banding	Crafted by Leatherworking
Ring #1	The Jastor Diamond (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #2	Cyrce's Circlet (658)	Siren Isle
Trinket #1	Eye of Kezan (678)	Chrome King Gallywix
Trinket #2	House of Cards (678) or Signet of the Priory (678)	One-Armed Bandit or Priory of the Sacred Flame

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 2 Mythic+ Dungeons.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl dagger. Best choice: Apex Perforator (665)	The MOTHERLODE!!
Offhand Weapon	Apex Perforator (665)	The MOTHERLODE!!
Helm	Spectral Gambler's Damned Visage (665)	Revival Catalyst
Neck	Flickering Glowtorc (665)	Darkflame Cleft
Shoulder	Spectral Gambler's Bladed Mantle (665)	Revival Catalyst
Cloak	Electrician's Siphoning Filter (665)	Operation: Floodgate
Chest	Spectral Gambler's Vest (665)	Revival Catalyst
Bracers	Disturbed Kelp Wraps (665)	Operation: Floodgate
Gloves	Spectral Gambler's Gloves (665)	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Gleamkeeper's Buckle (665)	Darkflame Cleft
Legs	Spectral Gambler's Pantaloons (665)	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Vanquished Usurper's Footpads (665)	Theater of Pain
Ring #1	85-Year Tenure Ring (665)	Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring #2	Cyrce's Circlet (658)	Siren Isle
Trinket #1	Signet of the Priory (665)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket #2	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (665)	Operation: Floodgate

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Raid Gear BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Liberation of Undermine Raid.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl dagger. Best choice: Random Number Perforator (678)	One-Armed Bandit
Offhand Weapon	Random Number Perforator (678)	One-Armed Bandit
Helm	Spectral Gambler's Damned Visage (678)	Revival Catalyst, or One-Armed Bandit
Neck	Semi-Charmed Amulet (678)	Rik Reverb
Shoulder	Spectral Gambler's Bladed Mantle (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Rik Reverb
Cloak	Test Pilot's Go-Pack (678)	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Chest	Streamlined Cartel Uniform (678)	Chrome King Gallywix
Bracers	Hustler's Ante-Uppers (678)	One-Armed Bandit
Gloves	Spectral Gambler's Gloves (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Cauldron of Carnage
Belt	Hitman's Holster (678)	Mug'Zee
Legs	Spectral Gambler's Pantaloons (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Stix Bunkjunker
Boots	Rushed Beta Launchers (678)	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Ring #1	The Jastor Diamond (678)	Chrome King Gallywix
Ring #2	Cyrce's Circlet (658)	Siren Isle
Trinket #1	Eye of Kezan (678)	Chrome King Gallywix
Trinket #2	House of Cards (678)	One-Armed Bandit

Cyrce's Circlet is a ring that was introduced in Patch 11.0.7 that you can acquire by completing several activities on Siren Isle. The ring has 3 sockets, which can fit a different kind of gem each. There are four different gems available for each of the three sockets, for a total of 12 gems, so there is quite a bit of choice on what to socket. As it stands, this ring will continue being BiS for all of Season 2, although we expect some tuning to happen to change this sometime during Season 2.

These are generally considered to be the best gems, but it is highly recommended to sim yourself to figure out the best choices and combinations for your specific gear and the specific gems and other rings you already own:

• You will want to play this combination of gems in Raids and Mythic+: Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine, and Windsinger's Runed Citrine.

For more information on how to get the ring, as well as acquiring all of the different gems that you can possibly socket into it, check out our Cyrce's Circlet guide below!

There are a number of good trinkets available for Assassination Rogue in Season 2, from a variety of different sources. Some relevant ones to look for are:

• House of Cards – The only viable high-ilvl on-use trinket in this season, this is a must play for any Assassination Rogue.
• Eye of Kezan – A very strong passive trinket that procs regularly and allows for very high primary stat boosts.
• Signet of the Priory – A very good alternative to House of Cards that is farmable through Mythic+, and can be better than House of Cards in some scenarios when other raid members play it alongside you.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker – A much less viable option to Eye of Kezan, but better than most of the others.

With all the different layers of gearing currently available to players, it is impossible to cover all edge cases and individual recommendations in a guide. We therefore highly recommend simming your own character by using Raidbots. This website allows for precise and individualized recommendations that consider your exact talents, gear, trinket, and all the other layers of gearing that the game has to offer. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as it is the only reliable way to get information on which piece of gear, enchant, gem, or trinket is the best for your character.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses offer the highest DPS upgrades to you. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from each of the items it drops. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

These are some of the items you should prioritize on upgrading as high as possible early into the season:

• Your Mainhand dagger.
• Powerful trinkets like House of Cards or Eye of Kezan
• Items with a high stat budget, like your Chest, Helmet, or Legs.
• Embellished or other items with damaging procs.

These are not the only items worth upgrading, of course. They simply offer the highest DPS gain early into the tier when your upgrade currency is limited.

Professions are a great way to gear up with your optimal secondary stats, as generating specific secondary stat combinations is now possible when adding special items to the crafting process. With the heavily reworked crafting system in The War Within, exploring the new professions will help you gear up throughout the expansion, as you will be able to craft some Mythic Raid item-level pieces further down the line.

If you want to find out more about professions, make sure to check out our The War Within Profession guide!

As your ability to craft items will be time-gated in the initial stages of The War Within, we highly recommend getting a Main Hand weapon as soon as possible, unless you can reliably get one elsewhere. Once you have a good weapon, work on Embellished Items next, and then craft whichever pieces you do not have high-item-level versions of yet.

Up to two of your crafted items can be Embellished. This is a similar concept as Unique-Equipped, as you can only wear two items that have the Embellished status. Some crafted items, many of which have powerful procs or beneficial effects by default, are considered Embellished. You can also add Embellishments from a variety of professions to any crafted item, adding the effect to this item either when creating it or at a later stage.

As there is a lot of competition for Embellishments, you will have to pick and choose the two strongest ones for your overall DPS output. Most of them provide very similar DPS benefits, even if the effects are entirely different. The two best choices for this are:

• For Raid: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on a weapon and Writhing Armor Banding
• For Mythic+: Two Dawnthread Lining items.

It is recommended to sim yourself to find out what works best, and if you also play the other 2 Rogue specs, you might want to pick Embellishments that work well for all of them.

You can add sockets to your necklace and rings by using a Magnificent Jeweler's Setting on them. This will allow you to get up to six sockets on your gear.

You can also add sockets to Helmets, Belts, Bracers, Necks and Rings with the S.A.D. consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for the S.A.D. item that allows you to add a socket to any piece of gear you acquired in Season 2.

Which gems and enchants to use heavily depends on your current stat priority. As previously mentioned, this priority can shift and change whenever you acquire new gear, so simming yourself to figure out the best use of your newly acquired socket is highly recommended. The general rule is to prioritize Critical Strike and Mastery on as many pieces of gear as possible, and prioritizing those stats for any consumables as well.

If given a choice, try to prioritize the Helmet, Shoulder, Gloves, and Legs slots for this. However, getting the Chest to complete one of the bonuses is still better than any other gearing choice.