Assassination Rogue Leveling Guide
Assassination Rogue Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:October 23, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Assassination Rogue leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
Talents
Assassination Rogue
Deathstalker Level 70
If you are struggling with damage taken, you can dropLightweight Shiv for Iron Wire.
Spec Tree
- Indiscriminate Carnage
- To apply your bleeds in large packs.
- Caustic Spatter
- For efficient cleave from a main target.
- Improved Garrote
- Pretty good since you get to restealth between packs.
- Crimson Tempest
- Easy to build for aoe finisher.
Class Tree
- Shadowrunner
- Small but pretty nice movement speed when moving in Stealth.
- Blackjack
- Is pretty decent in combination with Airborne Irritant if you are fighting a lot of mobs.
- Cheat Death
- For when you inevitably pull the high hp elite mob.
Hero Talents
- Both Deathstalker and Fatebound can be good.
- If you do end up playing Fatebound, make sure to pick up Cold Blood.
- Fatebound in particular is pretty strong since you will most likely get to keep Lucky Coin for prolonged periods of time.
- Death's Arrival is also excellent for dotting mobs.
- As Deathstalker you have the usual hero talents like:
- Bait and Switch which will be very good when you are fighting large packs.
- Momentum of Despair
- Lingering Darkness
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Deathstalker as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Hunt Them Down.
- Pick Corrupt the Blood.
- Pick Momentum of Despair.
- Pick Darkest Night.
- Pick Clear the Witnesses.
- Pick Singular Focus.
- Pick Lingering Darkness.
- Pick Shadewalker.
- Pick Fatal Intent.
- Pick Mark of Peroth'arn
Rotation
Assassination Rogue
Single-Target
- In the early levels, mobs will likely be dying pretty quickly, so following a rotation is not necessary. This is more important for boss quests where you might need more than 2-3 people to kill them.
- The following graph assumes you have Slice and Dice running, and Darkest Night from a previous pack dying. If you do not have Darkest Night, start with Ambush.
AoE
- Generally you want to DoT all the mobs around you but in like in M+, just a non pandemic Garrote is enough.
- In earlier levels, mobs will be dying really fast. Just using Shadowstep and Fan of Knives might be enough to kill them off.
- You can skip the extra Garrote all together and just Rupture one mob to cleave the rest down with Caustic Spatter.
- The following graph assumes you have Slice and Dice running, and Darkest Night from a previous pack dying. If you do not have Darkest Night, start with Ambush.
Shopping List
Assassination Rogue
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Dreamwalker's Healing Potion
- 20x Hissing Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Perfecto
Reviewed by: Kush