Subtlety Rogue DPS Easy Mode — 12.0.5

You can easily import the talent tree below into the game by clicking 'Export Talents'.

You can import the talent tree below into the game by clicking 'Export Talents'.

1. Try to always begin while in Stealth.
2. Cast Shadow Dance when Secret Technique is ready.
3. Cast Shadow Blades during Shadow Dance.
4. Cast Secret Technique during Shadow Dance with 6 or more combo points.
5. Cast Eviscerate to spend combo points when you have 6 or more.
6. Cast Shadowstrike whenever you can, otherwise use Backstab to build combo points.

You want to use two of Shadow Dance during your Shadow Blades so do not cast it right before Shadow Blades comes off cooldown.

The last Apex Talent Ancient Arts will sometimes give you a buff, which you can see by a shadowy glow near the middle of the screen. When that happens, your next Combo Point Spender will deal additional damage and you will get your Combo Points refunded, allowing you to cast another spender right away. The other two Apex talents do not have any noticeable impact on the rotation.

1. Try to always begin while in Stealth.
2. Cast Shadow Dance when Secret Technique is ready.
3. Cast Shadow Blades during Shadow Dance.
4. Cast Secret Technique during Shadow Dance with 6 or more combo points.
5. Cast Black Powder to spend combo points when you have 6 or more.
6. Cast Shuriken Storm to build combo points.

You want to use two of Shadow Dance during your Shadow Blades so do not cast it right before Shadow Blades comes off cooldown.

You can macro Coup de Grace together with your Black Powder button and it will automatically cast it for you whenever it is ready, the macro looks like this:

The last Apex Talent Ancient Arts will sometimes give you a buff, which you can see by a shadowy glow near the middle of the screen, and when that happens your next Combo Point Spender will deal additional damage and you will get your Combo Points refunded, allowing you to cast another spender right away. The other 2 Apex talents do not have any noticeable impact on the rotation.

During Season 1 of Midnight you will have access to these following Tier Set Bonuses.

• Rogue Subtlety 12.0 Class Set 2pc
• Rogue Subtlety 12.0 Class Set 4pc

The 2-piece of the new Midnight Season 1 tier set passively makes your combo-point finishers do more damage and the 4-piece increases the duration of Shadow Blades by 4 seconds. It does not alter the priority listed above in any way but it does make our damage go up by quite a noticeable amount.

The general stat priority for a Subtlety Rogue is as follows. For more information on what's presented on this page, check out our main Stat Priority page.

1. Haste (up to 700)
2. Mastery
3. Critical Strike
4. Haste (after 700)
5. Versatility

In AoE/Multi-Target scenarios, Critical Strike and Mastery gain some additional value, but the Haste "cap" of ~700 should still be prioritized.

The Combat Assistant and the One-Button-Rotation are currently not very good for Subtlety Rogue. Using the One-Button-Rotation is around 10% less DPS than doing the rotation above in Single-Target situations and upwards of 15% in Multi-Target AoE situations.

Using The Combat Assistant does not incur the GCD penalty associated with the One-Button-Rotation, which makes the difference much less pronounced and not that bad to use.