Assassination Rogue PvE Guide - TBC Classic

TBC Classic Assassination Rogue Rotation

Your goal as an Assassination Rogue is to maintain 100% uptime on
Slice and Dice
and either 5pt
Expose Armor
or high uptime on
Rupture
depending on your assignment. The Combo Point cycles mentioned below are rough guidelines. You will often need to adjust on the fly based on procs, cooldowns, and consumables.

Single Target

1. Maintain
   Slice and Dice
   (Details in next section).
2. Maintain
   Rupture
   (Details in next section).
3. Use
   Garrote
   while stealthed.
4. Use
   Cold Blood
   with
   Mutilate
   when available.
5. Use
   Mutilate
   to generate combo points.
6. Use
   Eviscerate
   when you have excess combo points and
   Slice and Dice
   or
   Rupture
   don't need to be refreshed.
7. Use
   Envenom
   instead of
   Eviscerate
   if the target is seconds away from dying, it does more damage but consumes your
   Deadly Poison
   .
8. Use
   Shiv
   if your
   Deadly Poison
   stacks are about to fall off.

AoE

1. Maintain
   Rupture
   on 2 targets.
2. Perform single target rotation.

Combo Point Cycle

1. Assassination Rogues should use a 3, 4, or 5 combo point
   Slice and Dice
   and a 5 combo point
   Rupture
   cycle. You will sometimes waste combo points since
   Mutilate
   generates 2 combo points, that is okay. Always
   Rupture
   at 5 combo points.

TBC Classic Assassination Rogue Talents

Standard Build

TBC Classic Assassination Rogue Best Consumables

Flasks and Elixirs

Best:
• Flask of Relentless Assault

Alternatives:
• Elixir of Major Agility

Food

Best:
• Spicy Hot Talbuk

Alternatives:
• Grilled Mudfish
  ,
• Warp Burger

Potions

Best:
• Haste Potion

Alternatives:
• Insane Strength Potion

Weapon Buffs

Best:
• Windfury Weapon
  ,
• Deadly Poison

Alternatives:
• Instant Poison
  ,
• Deadly Poison

Miscellaneous

Best:
• Thistle Tea
  ,
• Scroll of Strength V
  ,
• Scroll of Agility V

TBC Classic Assassination Rogue Best Races

Alliance

1. Human:
   Sword Specialization
   and
   Mace Specialization
2. Night Elf: Higher base Agility.

Horde

1. Troll:
   Berserking
2. Orc:
   Blood Fury
3. Blood Elf:
   Arcane Torrent

TBC Classic Assassination Rogue Best Professions

1. Leatherworking: Provides 80 haste for 30 seconds with
   Drums of Battle
   and 60 attack power for 30 seconds with
   Drums of War
   . The Primalstrike set is only slightly behind our recommended Pre-Raid bis gear.
2. Enchanting: Provides 4 phyisical damage with two
   Ring - Striking
   .
3. Jewelcrafting: Provides two unique gems for 24 Attack Power and 12 Crit.

TBC Classic Assassination Rogue Aldor or Scryer

We recommend going Aldor as an Assassination Rogue in TBC Classic. The Aldor shoulder enchant,
Greater Inscription of Vengeance
, is slightly better than the Scryer
Greater Inscription of the Blade
. Unfortunately, the dagger provided by Scryers, the
Retainer's Blade
, is too fast.