Rogue Guide

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Assassination

• 51-18-2
  
  
• Hit Cap = 8% with talents
  • 263 rating
    
    
• Poison Hit Cap = 315 with 5/5 Precision
  
  
• Expertise Cap = 26 skill
  • 10 skill from talents
  • 132 rating from gear

• Stats to Stack
  1. Agility
  2. Attack Power
  3. Armor Penetration
  4. Crit
     

• Glyphs
  • Glyph of Mutilate
  • Glyph of Hunger for Blood
  • Glyph of Tricks of the Trade
    
    
• Rotation
  • Open with Garrote, if possible
  • Slice and Dice
  • Hunger for Blood
  • Mutilate
  • Eviscerate or Envenom (to refresh SnD)
  • Multilate to 4+ CP
  • Eviscerate or Envenom (Rupture if you're providing the bleeds)
  • Mutlilate to 4+ CP
  • Eviscerate/Envonom
  • Repeat from Multilate
  • Refresh Hunger for Blood every minute
  • Shiv where appropriate
  • Tricks of the Trade where applicable

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Combat

• 15-51-5
  
  
• Hit Cap = 8% with talents
  • 263 rating
    
    
• Poison Hit Cap = 315 with 5/5 Precision
  
  
• Expertise Cap = 26 skill
  • 10 skill from talents
  • 132 rating from gear
    
    
• Stats to Stack
  1. Agility
  2. Attack Power
  3. Armor Penetration
  4. Crit

• Glyphs
  • Glyph of Sinister Strike
  • Glyph of Rupture
  • Glyph of Killing Spree (or Fan of Knives)
    
    
• Rotation
  • Sinister Strike to 3 combo points
  • Slice and Dice
  • Sinister Strike to 4-5 combo points
  • Rupture
  • Sinister Strike to 5 combo points
  • Eviscerate (if Slice and Dice has less than 12 seconds left do that instead)
    

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Subtlety

• 12-5-54
  
  
• Hit Cap = 8% with talents
  • 263 rating
    
    
• Poison Hit Cap = 787 (no points in Precision)
  
  
• Expertise Cap = 26 skill
  • 10 skill from talents
• 132 rating from gear
  
  
• Stats to Stack
  1. Agility
  2. Attack Power
  3. Armor Penetration
  4. Crit
     

• Glyphs
  • Glyph of Eviscerate
  • Glyph of Hemorrhage
  • Glyph of Vigor
    
    
• Rotation
  • Cheap Shot (or Garrote or Ambush)
  • Hemorrhage (x3)
  • Slice and Dice
  • Hemorrhage (x5)
  • Rupture (Eviscerate if immune to bleed)

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