Welcome to Skill Capped’s Assassination Rogue PvP Guide for The War Within 11.1

All sections for Assassination Rogue PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Assassination Rogues in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Assassination Rogues in The War Within.

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What’s New for Assassination Rogues in The War Within?

As we enter the new season, Assassination continues to prioritize sustained cleave while weaving in some massive single target burst with Deathmark and Shiv. This gives us best of best worlds as a Rogue, making our rotation feel straightforward when multi-dotting and dealing burst without fully embracing the complex setup aspect.

Additionally, we receive more damage mitigation coming out of our new talent, Preemptive Maneuver. This is provided to all Rogue specializations, and is great for our lackluster survivability.

Comparative to Dragonflight, our Rogue tree now experiences the removal of Shadow Dance, which slightly reduces our burst potential, but to compensate for this change we receive Without a Trace in substitution for this node. This grants us two Vanish charges instead. Since our Subterfuge node above has made it last 6 seconds instead of 3, we can spread out our Garrote a bit easier, as they have no cooldown while Subterfuge is active, and are empowered by Improved Garrote during this window.

Now, for our most dramatic change affecting all specs in the game, we have Hero talents that you have two to choose from; Deathstalker and Fatebound.

Overall, the true essence of Assassination Rogue is still prevalent in its current age, as its rotation still revolves around cleaving and making the most use out of our bleeds, while also having some single target burst and setups to make ourselves feel a bit in tune with our class identity.

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