World of Warcraft: Dragonflightintroduced a complete overhaul on the talent systems for all classes, not just the Assassination Rogue. Players now have much more robust set of choices to make with their talents compared to the Shadowlands talent trees. The new talent system overhaul seems to have a focus on bringing back what people loved about the game back inWorld of Warcraft Classic.
The new talent system allows you to select talents from a class-specific tree, such as the"Rogue Tree", and also have separate talent points to spend on your specialization tree such as the"Assassination Tree". The Assassination Rogue has a copious amount of great choices in both the Rogue Tree and the Assassination Tree. In this guide we go over ourrecommended choices for talents in order to have the best experience, depending on your goals in the game.
Best Overall Talent Build for Assassination Rogues in WoW: Dragonflight
When you first launch WoW Dragonflight on or afterPre-patch day (October 25th, 2022), you will notice the new talent trees are available. When you open your talent system UI, you can actually select a"Starter Build"from the drop-down menu on the bottom-left side of the UI. This offers players a general build that is excellent in many aspects of the game, and the best build for your overall usage.
We will now go over the best build for overall use.As not much data has been gathered on the many different talent choices available in Dragonflight, we will add in Best Meta Talent Builds later for raids specs and PvP specs.
Dragonflight Rogue Class Talent Build
We won’t go over every choice in these trees, but we will highlight most of the key choices and why they are chosen. The beginning of the tree covers some of your main abilities you want to make sure you have in both PvE and PvP settings includingBlind,Sap,Cloak of Shadows,Evasion, andTricks of the Trade.Shadowstepis also chosen as it is incredibly useful and let’s face it, downright fun to use.
Some other key choices for theRogue Class Treewe like are:
This Dragonflight Rogue Class Build leaves out mostly talents that involvestuns and crowd control. The idea here is to give you the best damage output, but it is also notably missingFind WeaknessandShadow Dancenear the bottom of the talent tree. While venturing down the right path to obtain these would seem to be a wise choice, we believe that thecenter of the tree is more important to the buildand will result in better damage and use overall.
Dragonflight Rogue Assassination Tree Talent Build
Our selections for theAssassination Rogue Talent Treein Dragonflight are centered around what currently appears to provide the most sustained damage in single target (most boss) fights. We notably leave out talent selections such asThrown Precision,Crimson Tempest, andFlying Daggers. This decision is to focus on other talents that deal more focused damage for boss fights, as they are usually the Rogue’s most important enemies to burst down.
Key choices we have made revolve around bleed and poison damage all the way down to include bothAmplifying PoisonandDragon-Tempered Bladesto apply even more poisons to your weapons.
Here is some context behind some of the key selections and what they do to benefit you:
The PvP Talents are usually a matter of choice for the player. Choose what you like in terms of play style, as it will not have bearing on your raiding DPS.
Stay tuned for more WoW Dragonflight content. For now,check out our WoW WotLK Classic Directory!
