Subtlety Rogue DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

You should use Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in one socket. Then, the rest of the sockets can be filled in based on what your character needs the most. Generally you would use the Haste and Mastery/Critical Strike ones ( Flawless Deadly Peridot or Flawless Masterful Peridot) until you reach the Haste breakpoint. Afterwards, fill the remaining slots with Flawless Masterful Garnet or Flawless Deadly Amethyst.

However, the choice of gems is highly dependent on the specific gear you're wearing. Each of the four secondary stats can easily be your highest-performing stat depending on the stats provided by your equipped items, and as a result the choice of gems and ring enchants can vary a lot. We highly recommend simming yourself to find out the best set of gems for your specific character and setup.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Whether you choose to enchant your gear with Avoidance, Leech, or Speed is up to you. Leech will allow you to gain some additional passive healing while you do damage, Avoidance reduces the damage taken by Area-of-Effect spells, similar to Feint, and Speed simply increases your movement speed. For Raid progression movement speed is often underrated and can be a minor DPS increase if it allows you to reach your target faster.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

If you have yet to reach the Haste breakpoint you should be using Flask of the Blood Knights, otherwise use Flask of the Magisters.

The best stat potion is Light's Potential. At first glance Draught of Rampant Abandon might look like it is better but the downside from it makes it near impossible to use as a melee, especially in boss encounters or M+ scenarios.

Make sure to also carry at least a few Silvermoon Health Potions to heal yourself in dire situations.

The recommended food is Harandar Celebration or Royal Roast.

The best augment rune is Void-Touched Augment Rune.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

Eleem

Guide Author

Follow Eleem

This guide has been written by Eleem, who has been a rogue player, enjoyer and theorycrafter since Legion. He is currently raiding in a top 100 guild and has been known to dabble in Mythic+ from time to time. You can find him in the Ravenholdt Discord as Eleem.