Rogue - Assassination Guide 3.3.5

by **Elune** Tue 24 Jan 2012 - 20:05

Equipment Stats:

For your main stat you are gonna need attack power since it boost all abilities you are gonna use as mutilate rogue, next one is crit rating, everyone loves high crits but as mutilate rogue you gonna love it even more since they are some talents that work in synergy with it, third stat you gonna need is haste. But before all of those you gonna need to be hit capped that is 99 hit rating with 5/5 points for yellow attacks , but we are gonna aim for poison hit cap which is 315 with 5/5 precision.

In short:
hit (until 315)-->AP-->Crit-->Haste

Gemming:

For meta gem we are gonna use http://www.wowhead.com/item=41398
Now we need meta requirements: 1 blue, 1 yellow, 1 red.

blue-----> http://www.wowhead.com/?item=49110
yellow--> 20ap 10haste / 10agi 10haste
rest------> 40ap or above

These will change once you get end game gear (which has a lot of haste) then you will want to mix haste with attack power gems. To find out what mix suits you best try one of spreadsheets. Here is one of spreadsheet http://elitistjerks.com/f78/t39136-combat_mutilate_spreadsheets_updated_3_3_a/#post1014135

Enchants:

Head: http://www.wowhead.com/item=44149
Shoulder: http://www.wowhead.com/item=44133
Cloak: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47898
Chest: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=60692
Hands: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=60668
Wrist: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=44575
Waist: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41611
Legs: http://www.wowhead.com/item=38374
Boots: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=60763
Weapons: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=59621

Profession only enchants:

Shoulders: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61117 Inscription only
Cloak: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=55777 Tailoring only
Wrist: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=57683 Leatherwork only
Hands: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=55641 Blacksmith only
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=54999 Engineering Only
Rings: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=44645 Enchanting only

Talents:

You can find a few different Mutilate build talents but i found this one best suitable for our server:
http://wotlk.openwow.com/?talent#f0ec0exoibofuqo0xV0xZhb

Glyphs:

Major glyphs:
Glyph of Hunger for Blood
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45768
http://www.wowhead.com/item=42963

Now you are probably asking yourself why would i take faint glyph and not Trick of the trade. Well you will encounter a lot of bosses that do area of effect (aoe) damage and when you do i want you to spam "feint" whenever it is off cooldown to facilitate our healers jobs, not to mention that alive rogue will do more damage then dead one. (And the fact that Trick of the trade is not working)

Minor glyphs:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=43380
http://www.wowhead.com/item=43378
http://www.wowhead.com/item=43379 <---- You can replace this one with one of your chose.

DPS Rotation:

Like every rogue in every spec you wana start your rotation stealthed becouze of the obvious reasons and those are your openers (usable only in stelth). As mutilate speced you want that for one more reason and that is "overkill" talent. This will be your rotation:

1: Stelth
2: garrote
3: Hunger for blood
4: Slice and dice (eaven with 1 cp)
5: Mutilate untill you get 4 or more cp
6: (cold blood if it is off cooldown) Envenom
7: Vanish
8: garrote
7: Repeat 5 to 6, repeat 5 to 8 whenever vanish is off cooldown

From now on your only worry is to keep HfB and SnD on, SnD will be easy to keep on becouze you will be refreshing it with every envenom and you wana refresh HfB as latest as posible, but never let it reach 0.

Note: You can refrash HfB with anyone's bleed so you wont need to garrote or rupture your target to do it. In case there is no bleed efect on target use your rupture insted of envenom-->HfB and continue your normal rotation.

On encounters where there is a loot of target changing (boss spawning adds and such) there are 2 things you need to know/do:

When switching targets never leave cp-s on your previous target good way to get rid of them is rupture or SnD if it is nearly expired because adds probably wont live long enough for you to prolong SnD standard way (with envenom).

Second thing you need to do is auto attack target if low on energy, i have seen to many rogues switch targets and just stay there next to new one waiting for energy to mutilate it.
there is perfect macro to solve that, just replace your mutilate button with this macro.

#showtooltip Mutilate
/startattack
/cast Mutilate

It will start auto attack whenever you hit mutilate whether you have energy or no.

(It's not mine PVE guide, but its the one you should follow)