Poison, Steel, and Shadow
The Rogue is the master of opportunistic damage and cunning control. Our redesign focuses on elevating the core fantasy of each path: Assassination becomes the master poisoner, Combat the relentless swashbuckler, and Subtlety the ultimate shadow-dancer, providing unique and vital roles in any group.
Assassination ☠️
Target: No DPS Adjustment (Focus on QoL/Scaling)
The meticulous killer who uses potent toxins to dispatch their foes. We fix their gearing frustrations and give them a more satisfying and thematic finishing move.
Core Fixes 🔧
The Improved Poisons talent is reworked to grant spell hit chance for your poisons based on your melee hit, eliminating the need for frustrating split-stat gearing.
Rupture is improved to apply instantly at 5 combo points, and Mutilate's damage against poisoned targets is increased, creating a smoother damage flow.
Power Infusions ✨
A new finishing move talent that consumes your Deadly Poison stacks to deal a massive burst of Nature damage and temporarily increases poison application chance.
A new cooldown talent that marks a target for death, increasing all damage you deal to them by 20% for a short duration. The ultimate single-target execution.
Applying or refreshing Rupture or Garrote grants a stacking buff that increases your poison damage and critical strike chance.
When you and a target both suffer damage from your Envenom, your next Envenom deals 30% extra damage and refunds 10 energy.
Combat 🤺
Target DPS Tune: -8-12% (Tune Top-End, Improve AoE/Energy)
The relentless swashbuckler who overwhelms foes with a flurry of steel. We tune their dominant top-end damage while shoring up their weaknesses in AoE and energy management.
Core Fixes 🔧
Blade Flurry is reworked to cause your single-target attacks to strike up to 2 additional nearby targets, providing meaningful cleave damage on a cooldown.
Combat Potency's proc chance is increased, and Adrenaline Rush now also provides a steady stream of energy, reducing frustrating periods of downtime.
Power Infusions ✨
A new capstone talent. Become an unstoppable whirlwind of steel, teleporting between nearby enemies and striking with both weapons for massive burst damage.
An optional finishing move talent that unleashes a storm of daggers, dealing instant damage and applying a powerful bleed to all enemies in the area.
Core abilities grant a stacking melee haste buff, rewarding an aggressive, sustained assault.
Landing a finisher on a low-health target empowers your next Sinister Strike, creating a powerful execute-phase gameplay loop.
Subtlety 🤫
Target: Solidify Role as Unique Utility/Burst DPS
The master of shadows who creates opportunities through deception. We elevate them from a PvP-only niche to a vital raid asset with unique debuffs and unparalleled burst windows.
Core Fixes & Buffs 🔧
Hemorrhage is redesigned to increase all physical damage taken by the target by 5%, giving Subtlety a unique and highly coveted raid debuff.
Your Ambush and Garrote now apply a massive armor reduction debuff for 10 seconds, creating an incredible opening burst window for your entire raid.
Power Infusions ✨
The iconic cooldown. A new talent allows you to use your Stealth abilities like Ambush and Garrote for a short time, even while visible. The ultimate burst window.
A new talent that instantly generates 5 combo points on your target, allowing for rapid execution of finishers during your burst windows.
Shadowstep and Vanish leave behind a Phantom Zone that buffs allies' movement speed and stealth detection.
Landing two finishers on different targets quickly empowers your next Backstab or Shuriken Toss, rewarding skillful target swapping.