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

With the launch of Season 2, we get to grind out a whole new set of gear.

The War Within 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 Subtlety Rogue

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

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Season 2 Bis List for Subtlety Rogue

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

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 will look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Pyrotechnic Needle-Dropper (678)	Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Offhand Weapon	Note: You should always use a dagger in your offhand, the best being: Pyrotechnic Needle-Dropper (678)	Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
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	Consecrated Cloak with Mastery/Vers (675) and Elemental Focusing Lens	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Spectral Gambler's Vest (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine
Bracers	Hustler's Ante-Uppers (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Gloves	Tempestwind Handlers (678)	The Rookery
Belt	Competitor's Battle Cord (678)	Cauldron of Carnage in Liberation of Undermine
Legs	Spectral Gambler's Pantaloons (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Stix Bunkjunker in Liberation of Undermine
Boots	Rune-Branded Kickers with Mastery/Vers (675) and Elemental Focusing Lens	Crafted by Leatherworking
Ring #1	Ritual Bone Band (678)	Theater of Pain
Ring #2	The Jastor Diamond (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #1	House of Cards (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #2	Eye of Kezan (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Subtlety 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	Shadowskean of the Colossus (678)	The Rookery
Offhand Weapon	Note: You should always use a dagger in your offhand, the best being: Shadowskean of the Colossus (678)	The Rookery
Helm	High Altitude Turban (678)	The MOTHERLODE!!
Neck	Flickering Glowtorc (678)	Darkflame Cleft
Shoulder	Extravagant Epaulets (678)	Operation: Mechagon
Cloak	Trashmaster's Mantle	Operation: Mechagon
Chest	Jerkin of Awakened Stone (678)	The Rookery
Bracers	Battle-Scarred Fisticuffs (678)	Cinderbrew Meadery
Gloves	Tempestwind Handlers (678)	The Rookery
Belt	Mekgineer's Championship Belt (678)	Operation: Mechagon
Legs	Fearless Challenger's Leggings (678)	Theater of Pain
Boots	Backbreaking Bootstrappers	Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring #1	Radiant Necromancer's Band	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Ring #2	Ritual Bone Band (678)	Theater of Pain
Trinket #1	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (678)	Cinderbrew Meadery
Trinket #2	Azerokk's Resonating Heart (678)	The MOTHERLODE!!

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Raid Gear BiS List for Subtlety 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	Pyrotechnic Needle-Dropper (678)	Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Offhand Weapon	Note: You should always use a dagger in your offhand, the best being: Pyrotechnic Needle-Dropper (678)	Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Helm	Spectral Gambler's Damned Visage (678)	Revival Catalyst, or One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Neck	Gobfather's Gifted Bling (678)	Mug'Zee
Shoulder	Spectral Gambler's Bladed Mantle (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Cloak	Test Pilot's Go-Pack	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine
Chest	Spectral Gambler's Vest (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine
Bracers	Hustler's Ante-Uppers (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Gloves	Enforcer's Sticky Fingers (678)	Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine
Belt	Competitor's Battle Cord (678)	Cauldron of Carnage in Liberation of Undermine
Legs	Spectral Gambler's Pantaloons (678)	Revival Catalyst, or Stix Bunkjunker in Liberation of Undermine
Boots	Rushed Beta Launchers	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Ring #1	Miniature Roulette Wheel with Mastery/Vers or Vers/Mastery	One-Armed Bandit
Ring #2	The Jastor Diamond (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #1	House of Cards (678)	One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #2	Eye of Kezan (678)	Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine

Cyrce's Circlet is a ring introduced in Patch 11.0.7 that's available by completing a multitude of activities on Siren Isle. The ring has three special sockets, which can each fit a different new kind of gem. In total there are four different gems available for each of the three sockets, for a total of 12 gems, so there's plenty of options for what bonuses to apply to the ring.

A fully upgraded Circlet is competitive with rings from other source until up until the other rings reach around 665 ilvl. This means that we will likely keep the Circlet for a long while and only replace it with a decently upgraded ring from another source. It is highly recommended that you sim yourself to find out whether

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:

• For Raid and Mythic+/AoE, you will want to play Windsinger's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine and Stormbringer'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 Subtlety Rogue in Season 2, from a variety of different sources, however there is one that stands out as being particularly powerful:

• House of Cards- This trinket is extremely powerful for Subtlety as its the only on-use trinket available that lines up with our 90 seconds cooldowns.

For your secondary trinket there are a plethora of options that are all roughly the same strength, so any of the trinkets listed below at high ilvl is going to be good.

• Eye of Kezan - Provides a massive amount of stats, but takes time to stack up and falls of outside combat. Probably the best for long fights in raid but mediocre for m+.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Provides a solid amount of crit on a 60 second cooldown, which does not always line up with our Shadow Blades but when it does it is strong.
• Zee's Thug Hotline - Occasionally summons some adds that attack for you. Note that when Bloodlust/ Heroism or any similar effect is cast it will summon multiple adds.
• Junkmaestro's Mega Magnet - Stacks up passively and does more damage per stack when it is used. Do not use it during your Flagellation as it will put your other trinket on cooldown.
• Suspicious Energy Drink - A passive trinket with solid uptime on a mastery buff. Drops from delves.
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife - A strong passive trinket. While you can use Cloak of Shadows to remove the debuff, but its usually wiser to use it to reduce damage taken. Drops from delves.
• Geargrinder's Spare Keys - An on-use effect that deals decent damage. Do not use it during your Flagellation as it will put your other trinket on cooldown.
• Azerokk's Resonating Heart - A strong agility buff with fairly low uptime so pretty high variance. If it procs during cooldowns its really strong, if it doesn't its not great.
• Algari Alchemist Stone - Similar to Azerokk listed above, big agility buff but low uptime so fairly high variance. Increases the healing done by your healing potions too.

If you do not yet have access to House of Cards its recommended to keep your Treacherous Transmitter from Season 1 if you have one. If you do not have either of these Prized Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity from PVP is a solid option but its definitely a lot worse than the other two 90 second trinkets. The best way to use the PVP trinket is to press it at the same time as Shadow Blades.

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.

The recommended slot to craft is Mainhand Weapon if you do not already have a dagger on the MYTH track. If you already have that then Bracers, Cloak, Belt or Boots are all solid options depending on what other items you have available. There are a plethora of different embellishments that are all very very close to each other (since they're all relatively unimpactful compared to how strong they were in Dragonflight) so any combination of these 3 is what's typically the best:

• Two Elemental Focusing Lens items.
• Two Duskthread Lining items.
• One weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and one Writhing Armor Banding item.

As you complete endgame content in The War Within, you will gather upgrade crests such as Gilded Harbinger Crest that can be used to upgrade your items. Once you have upgraded a slot to a particular item level, any other item in that slot can be upgraded without a Crest cost.

As Crests are a limited resource and capped early on in the season, ideally, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before committing any crests to upgrade it, as this will save you upgrades in the long run. If you are capable of completing higher Mythic+ dungeons, it is generally a good idea to wait until you have the slot maxed out with free upgrades first.

Below is a general slot priority you should upgrade your items in.

1. Your Mainhand Weapon
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloak, Bracers and Offhand Weapon

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.