Subtlety Rogue PvE Guide - TBC Classic

TBC Classic Subtlety Rogue Rotation

Your goal as a Subtlety Rogue is to maintain 100% uptime on
Slice and Dice
and high uptime on
Rupture
. 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
   Hemorrhage
   to generate combo points.
5. Use
   Eviscerate
   when you have excess combo points and
   Slice and Dice
   or
   Rupture
   don't need to be refreshed.
6. Use
   Envenom
   instead of
   Eviscerate
   if the target is seconds away from dying, it does more damage but consumes your
   Deadly Poison
   .
7. Use
   Shiv
   if your
   Deadly Poison
   stacks are about to fall off.

AoE

1. Use
   Blade Flurry
   .
2. Perform single target rotation.

Combo Point Cycle

1. Subtlety Rogues without T4 2pc should use a 5 combo point
   Slice and Dice
   and a 5 combo point
   Rupture
   cycle.
2. Subtlety Rogues with T4 2pc should use a 2 or 3 combo point
   Slice and Dice
   and a 5 combo point
   Rupture
   cycle.

TBC Classic Subtlety Rogue Talents

Standard Build

TBC Classic Subtlety 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 Subtlety 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 Subtlety 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. Blacksmithing:
   Dragonmaw
   is your bis main-hand weapon until Tier 5. It is worth noting that is almost identical DPS to
   Spiteblade
   .
3. Enchanting: Provides 4 phyisical damage with two
   Ring - Striking
   .
4. Jewelcrafting: Provides two unique gems for 24 Attack Power and 12 Crit.

TBC Classic Subtlety Rogue Aldor or Scryer

We recommend going Aldor as a Subtlety Rogue in TBC Classic. The Aldor shoulder enchant,
Greater Inscription of Vengeance
, is slightly better than the Scryer
Greater Inscription of the Blade
. Aldor also provides an excellent early game weapon, the
Vindicator's Brand
.