Assassination Rogue
Assassination Rogue — DPS
Poisons and bleeds that build to devastating Envenom windows.
Last updated 8/28/2026 by Guild guides
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Overview
Assassination is the damage-over-time rogue. You keep bleeds and poisons rolling, build combo points, and spend them on Envenom to amplify everything at once. It ramps slowly and pays off enormously on long fights, and it keeps damaging targets while you handle mechanics.
How this spec operates
- Energy and Combo Points feed
Envenom — bleed and poison uptime is the backbone. - Keep
Garrote and 
Rupture rolling — they define your sustained damage. - Envenom refreshes poisons and amplifies damage — spend combo points consistently.
- AoE spreads bleeds with
Fan of Knives and 
Crimson Tempest — breadth over depth on dying packs. 
Shiv on cooldown applies the debuff that amplifies your poisons when talented.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
Weaknesses
- Excellent sustained single-target damage
- Damage keeps ticking through movement
- Strong multi-target through spread bleeds
- Slow ramp — weak on short-lived targets
- Punished by target swapping
- Energy-starved during setup
What top logs actually run
Sampled from Warcraft Logs via Archon · updated 2026-08-27T12:00:00Z · 55456 parses
Spec & Hero Popularity
39.8%
Keystone Level
+17
DPS
261.0k