LEVEL 60 RANKING

Rogue Subtlety: level 60 build, talents, rotation and DPS

This is what our simulator gets for the Rogue Subtlety at level 60: the gear the optimizer finds among the items known from the beta, the preset talents, the rotation followed and the damage of every ability over a 180-second fight against a stationary boss.

364 DPSAverage DPS

#20Rank of 21

20.4%Crit

1 340Attack power

Rotation

Keep Slice and Dice up.
Hemorrhage (or Backstab with daggers) to build combo points.
Eviscerate at 5 combo points.
Instant Poison on the main hand, Deadly Poison on the off hand.

Observed opening

The first 14 seconds of the simulated fight: the hits that deal direct damage, in order.

0 sHemorrhage2 sHemorrhage4 sHemorrhage8 sHemorrhage14 sHemorrhage

Damage by ability

Ability	Share	DPS	Casts / min	Crits
White (main hand)	33.7%	122.7	—	21%
White (off-hand)	25.9%	94.3	—	22%
Hemorrhage	22.2%	80.8	15.1	17%
Deadly Poison	11.6%	42.1	11.8	20%
Instant Poison	5.1%	18.4	7.1	21%
Eviscerate	1.1%	4	0.3	17%
Smokey's Lighter	0.5%	1.9	0.7	—

Active buffs

96%Slice and Dice22%Lord General's Sword

Talents chosen

Combat 20 points

Improved Eviscerate 3/3Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 20%.
Improved Sinister Strike 2/2Reduces the Energy cost of your Sinister Strike ability by 5.
Lightning Reflexes 4/5Increases your Dodge chance by 4%.
Precision 3/3Improves your chance to hit by 3%.
Puncturing Wounds 3/3Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab by 30% and your Mutilate by 15%, and gives Backstab a 45% chance to add an additional Combo Point.
Dual Wield Specialization 5/5Increases the damage done by your off-hand weapon by 25%.

Subtlety 31 points

Camouflage 5/5Reduces your speed penalty from your Stealth ability by 15% and reduces its cooldown by 6 sec.
Opportunity 2/2Increases the damage dealt by your Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, and Mutilate abilities by 10%.
Improved Ambush 3/3Increases the critical strike chance of your Ambush ability by 45%.
Setup 3/3Gives you a 100% chance to add a Combo Point to your target after Dodging one of their attacks or fully resisting one of their spells.
Ghostly Strike 1/1A strike that deals 125% (180% if a Dagger is equipped in your Main Hand) weapon damage and increases your chance to dodge by 15% for 7 sec. Awards 1 combo point.
Improved Distract 2/2Increases the radius of your Distract ability by 5 yds, and further reduces the Stealth detection of distracted enemies as though they were an additional -2 levels lower.
Initiative 3/3Gives you a 100% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.
Premeditation 1/1Adds 2 Combo Points to your target. You must add to or use those combo points within 20 sec or the combo points are lost.
Serrated Blades 3/3Causes your attacks to ignore 9% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 30%.
Dirty Deeds 2/2Reduces the Energy cost of your Cheap Shot and Garrote abilities by 20, and your Garrote ability no longer requires you to be behind your target.
Hemorrhage 1/1An instant strike that deals 100% weapon damage (145% if a Dagger is equipped) and causes the target to take 15% increased Rupture damage from the Rogue. Lasts 15 sec. Awards 1 Combo Point.
Quietus 5/5Your Sinister Strike, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities cause 10% more damage against targets below 35% health.

Level 60 gear

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Mask of the Unforgiven	Stratholme — The Unforgiven
Neck	Beads of Ogre Might	Dire Maul — Falrin's Vendetta
Shoulders	Shadowcraft Spaulders	Stratholme
Back	Cape of the Black Baron	Stratholme — Baron Rivendare
Chest	Tunic of Westfall	Deadmines — The Defias Brotherhood
Wrists	Branded Leather Bracers	Scarlet Monastery — High Inquisitor Fairbanks
Hands	Dreadmist Wraps	Scholomance
Waist	Sagebrush Girdle	Maraudon
Legs	Shadowcraft Pants	Stratholme — Baron Rivendare
Feet	Shadowcraft Boots	Scholomance — Rattlegore
Ring 1	Quick Strike Ring	Molten Core
Ring 2	Blackstone Ring	Maraudon — Princess Theradras
Trinket 1	Smokey's Lighter	Stratholme — The Great Fras Siabi
Main hand	Lord General's Sword	Blackrock Depths — General Angerforge
Off hand	Skilled Fighting Blade	Blackrock Depths — Jail Break!

Item effects simulated

Lord General's SwordSmokey's LighterAttack Power 30

Character stats

250Strength389Agility193Stamina74Intellect100Spirit1 340Attack power20.4%Crit5.5%Hit976Armor

Assumptions

A 180-second fight against a stationary level-63 boss, the raid buffs and consumables of the class's family, a standard race, item effects on. Level-60 base stats and several Classic values are estimates, flagged in the simulator. Results will move with the game.

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