Subtlety Rogue DPS Uldir Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Subtlety Rogue for each boss of the following raid: Uldir. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.
Disclaimer
This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in the Uldir raid. This page will focus primarily on how a Subtlety Rogue can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Uldir, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.
Subtlety Rogue in Uldir
Subtlety Rogues are looking to be a very strong pick in Uldir, due to their strong burst DPS. This is mainly due to strict DPS checks on certain mechanics. Additionally, there are no fights which Subtlety truly struggles with, since none of the fights contain Subtlety's main weakness relative to the other Rogue specs, which is constant 2-target cleave.
Talent Cheatsheet
Taloc
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Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on Taloc
Mechanics to be Aware of
Plasma Discharge causes you to drop void zones under you. Move to the assigned spot or use
Cloak of Shadows to get rid of the debuff.
Sanguine Static targets one person in the raid and shoots blood orbs towards the target. If you get targeted, make sure you move away from the raid.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready, but be aware that the boss will go immune at 35%, so if you are close to that threshold, save them for Phase Two instead.
- Focus Coalesced Bloods during intermission.
M.O.T.H.E.R.
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Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on M.O.T.H.E.R.
Mechanics to be Aware of
Wind Tunnel is a pushback mechanic that happens occasionally. Use
Sprint to run against it or
Shadowstep back to the boss if you get pushed out of melee range.
- The boss will cast
Purifying Flame, causing void zones to appear under players. Move out of them as soon as possible.
- Avoid
Uldir Defensive Beam at all costs. If you are about to get hit, use
Cloak of Shadows or
Feint.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready, but be aware that the boss
takes 100% increased damage in the last room. Make sure to have your potion and
Shadow Blades ready for this part of the fight.
- Focus Remnants of Corruption whenever possible. Use
Kick and
Kidney Shot to interrupt their casts.
Fetid Devourer
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Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on Fetid Devourer
Fetid Devourer is a fight that Subtlety Rogues should excel on. This is due
to the adds that spawn, which need to be bursted down very quickly. On Mythic
difficulty, you will almost certainly want to talent into
Dark Shadow to have more burst on the adds.
Mechanics to be Aware of
Rotting Regurgitation is a cone ability targeted at a random player, which must be dodged or you will take a large amount of damage and have
Malodorous Miasma applied to you.
- If you get the
Malodorous Miasma, use
Cloak of Shadows.
Shockwave Stomp (Heroic and up) is a raid-wide knockback. You can use
Feint to reduce the damage and
Shadowstep while mid-air to get back to the boss quickly.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready, but be aware that the boss
takes 50% increased damage after reaching 50%. Make sure to have your potion and
Shadow Blades ready for this part of the fight.
- Focus Corruption Corpuscles down as soon as they spawn. If your raid
is struggling with finishing them off, save
Symbols of Death and a
Shadow Dance charge for them.
Zek'voz, Herald of N'Zoth
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On Zek'voz you should choose your talents depending on your raid composition.
If your group has trouble clearing the Phase One Silithid Warriors,
you can opt into Secret Technique.
Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on Zek'voz, Herald of N'Zoth
Mechanics to be Aware of
Surging Darkness creates three zones of darkness centering where the boss cast the ability with one of the zones being a safe zone. If you are about to get, hit use
Cloak of Shadows or
Feint.
- Move away from the raid, if you get targeted by
Eye Beam.
- Move to the assigned spot, if you get the
Roiling Deceit debuff. Use
Sprint and
Shadowstep to get back to the boss quickly.
- If you are assigned, soak
Orb of Corruption and make sure you have DPS cooldowns ready, because you get a damage-increasing buff from it.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready, but make sure to have them
ready in Phase Three, when you soak a
Orb of Corruption.
- If talented into
Secret Technique, make sure to have it when Silithid Warriors spawn in Phase One.
- Three Nerubian Voidweavers will spawn in Phase Two. Focus these down
as soon as possible and use
Kick and
Kidney Shot to interrupt them.
Vectis
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Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on Vectis
Mechanics to be Aware of
Plague Bombs need to be soaked by players in Phase Two. If a Plague Bomb spawns near Vectis, use
Cloak of Shadows or
Feint when soaking it to reduce the incoming damage.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready but make sure not to use them when Vectis is about to submerge.
- Focus down Plague Amalgams instantly when they spawn or the healing
absorb will overwhelm your healers. You can also use
Cloak of Shadows to get rid of the debuff if necessary.
Zul, Reborn
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On Normal and Heroic difficulty, Secret Technique will give you the
most overall damage. On Mythic however, the importance of AoE damage is
vastly reduced due to the new mechanic and therefore we recommend you to talent
into
Shuriken Tornado or
Master of Shadows to boost your
single-target.
Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on Zul, Reborn
Mechanics to be Aware of
- If you get the
Dark Revelation debuff, run away from raid and wait for it to run out. Alternatively use
Cloak of Shadows to get rid of it, but keep in mind it will still spawn adds.
- In Phase Two, do not stand in front of the boss because of
Rupturing Blood.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready but make sure to have them when Phase Two is about to begin at 40%, because Phase Two is a race to finish the boss before you run out of space.
- Focus down Nazmani Bloodhexers first as they are the most dangerous.
If your group is running a strategy to CC them, you can use
Blind.
- Focus down Nazmani Crushers as your second priority. Do not stand infront of them because they have a cleave ability.
- You can mostly ignore Bloodthirsty Crawg because they will likely be cleaved down passively. Use them to fuel your single-target damage.
Mythrax the Unraveler
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Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on Mythrax the Unraveler
Mechanics to be Aware of
- Do not stand in front of the boss because of
Essence Shear.
- Damage players that are affected by
Oblivion Sphere.
- Avoid
Obliteration Blast and
Obliteration Beam.
- Run away from the raid if you get the
Imminent Ruin debuff. You can use
Cloak of Shadows to get rid of it, but make sure to not do it when you are in the middle of the raid.
- Clear your
Annihilation stacks by using
Existence Fragments.
DPS Cooldown Usage
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready but make sure to not use them just before Intermission phase begins.
G'huun
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Subtlety Rogue Playstyle on G'huun
Mechanics to be Aware of
- If you are assigned to move the
Power Matrix, make sure to cast
Shadowstep on the small mobs upstairs or a friendly target to move huge distances.
- Do not get more than one stack of
Dark Bargain.
- Run away from the raid if you get the
Explosive Corruption debuff.
- Spread to reduce stacks of
Putrid Blood contracted from the
Wave of Corruption.
- Stack up on players affected by
Blood Feast.
- In Phase Three, turn away from G'huun when he is casting
Gaze of G'huun.
- Move away from
Malignant Growths if they spawn near you.
DPS Cooldown Usage and Important Targets
- Cooldowns should be used whenever they are ready unless your group is about
to hit the boss with
Reorigination Blast. Always aim to have your cooldowns for whenever this happens.
- In Phase One, your target priority list is Blightspreader Tendril (Heroic and up), then Cyclopean Terror, and finally Dark Young.
- Make sure to use
Kick and
Kidney Shot to interrupt the casts of the tendrils.
Changelog
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 15 Apr. 2019: This page has been reviewed for Crucible of Storms and no changes are necessary.
- 10 Dec. 2018: Updated for Patch 8.1.
- 25 Sep. 2018: Added talent recommendations for Mythic.
- 10 Sep. 2018: Small updates because of changes made to the bosses.
- 04 Sep. 2018: Changed formatting on the page.
- 31 Aug. 2018: Page updated with short description of bosses and recommended Talents.
- 11 Aug. 2018: Page added (empty for now).
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This guide has been written by Ashine. He is raiding with FatSharkYes and has been competing in the MDI for multiple years, achieving 1st place in 2018 and 3rd place in BlizzCon 2019. You can watch him play on Twitch.
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