Assassination Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.5)

With the release 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 636 iLvl Craft can technically be optimal since you can customize the secondary stats to your liking and get 2 embellished effects. A few 639 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: Regicide (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza in Nerub-ar Palace
Offhand Weapon	Blood-Kissed Kukri (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Helm	K'areshi Phantom's Emptiness (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	K'areshi Phantom's Shoulderpads (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (639)	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	K'areshi Phantom's Nexus Wraps (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands with Crit/Mastery (636) and Dawnthread Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	K'areshi Phantom's Grips (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Belt	Behemoth's Eroded Cinch (639)	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Legs	K'areshi Phantom's Leggings (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Nexus Princess Ky'veza in Nerub-ar Palace
Boots	Rune-Branded Kickers with Crit/Master (636) and Dawnthread Lining	Crafted by Leatherworking
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Seal of the City Watch (639)	Siege of Boralus
Trinket #1	Dead-Eye Spyglass (639)	Siege of Boralus
Trinket #2	Skardyn's Grace (639)	Grim Batol

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 1 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: Splice 'n Dice (626)	City of Threads
Offhand Weapon	Parson's Ornamented Blade (626)	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	K'areshi Phantom's Emptiness (626)	Revival Catalyst
Neck	'Emergency Stop' Keychain (626)	The Stonevault
Shoulder	K'areshi Phantom's Shoulderpads (626)	Revival Catalyst
Cloak	Troggstitched Drape (626)	Grim Batol
Chest	K'areshi Phantom's Nexus Wraps (626)	Revival Catalyst
Bracers	Unbreakable Beetlebane Bindings (626)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Gloves	K'areshi Phantom's Grips (626)	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Troggbone Cinch (626)	Grim Batol
Legs	K'areshi Phantom's Leggings (626)	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Whisperer's Echoing Steps (626)	City of Threads
Ring #1	Umbriss Band (626)	Grim Batol
Ring #2	Seal of the City Watch (626)	Siege of Boralus
Trinket #1	Dead-Eye Spyglass (626)	Siege of Boralus
Trinket #2	Skardyn's Grace (626)	Grim Batol

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Raid Gear BiS List for Assassination Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Nerub-ar Palace 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: Regicide (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza
Offhand Weapon	Blood-Kissed Kukri (639)	The Bloodbound Horror
Helm	K'areshi Phantom's Emptiness (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Silken Court
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran
Shoulder	K'areshi Phantom's Shoulderpads (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Rasha'nan
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (639)	Rasha'nan
Chest	K'areshi Phantom's Nexus Wraps (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Bracers	Sanguine Experiment's Bandages (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Gloves	K'areshi Phantom's Grips (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Sikran
Belt	Behemoth's Eroded Cinch (639)	Rasha'nan
Legs	K'areshi Phantom's Leggings (639)	Revival Catalyst, or Nexus Princess Ky'veza
Boots	Fleeting Massacre Footpads (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Writhing Ringworm (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Trinket #1	Treacherous Transmitter (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza
Trinket #2	Void Reaper's Contract (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza

There are a number of good trinkets available for Assassination Rogue in Season 1, from a variety of different sources. Some relevant ones to look for are:

• Skardyn's Grace - The only usable (see Treacherous Transmitter) high-ilvl on-use trinket in this season, this is a must play for any Assassination Rogue.
• Dead-Eye Spyglass - A very strong passive trinket that procs regularly and allows for more CP generation.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood - A viable alternative to Spyglass.

There are many other options, most of them completely unusable by virtue of performing much much worse than these three.

• Mad Queen's Mandate - Provides a powerful on-use damage burst. The strongest Raid trinket, even if you do not get the cooldown reduced.
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife - The best trinket from Delve, but only worth playing when you do not have much higher item-level options from Mythic+ or Raid.
• Void Reaper's Contract - One of the better options available from Raid, but still worse than the Top 3.
• Quickwick Candlestick - An on-use trinket from Delves that can be used until you get Skardyns Grace.
• Treacherous Transmitter - An on-use trinket that forces you to play a 'minigame,' i.e., jumping 3 times or collecting an orbs. Utterly unusable in any kind of challenging content due to the forced positioning.

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 Skardyn's Grace or Dead-Eye Spyglass
• 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:

• Two Dawnthread Lining items.
• Elemental Focusing Lens can be a decent craft early on, but with how highly we value Critical Strike, Dawnthread is simply superior, especially in Mythic+. This also needs at least one socket in any gear slot to function.

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 a consumable you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. 6 of these tokens can be traded in for an item that allows you to add a socket to any piece of gear you acquired in Season 1.

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.