Your combat loop
Press the first one that is ready.
Assassination’s own loop, from level 40. Before that every Rogue plays the same loop.
Own loop from: Combat level 10Subtlety level 10Assassination level 40
Use Instant Poison on the main hand, Deadly Poison on the off hand. It does 4% more than Instant Poison on both weapons and 7% more than Deadly Poison on both weapons. About even (within 3%): Deadly Poison on the main hand, Instant Poison on the off hand.
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Shank Rank 1 Every 10 sec
Use it whenever it is ready, every 10 sec.
1% of your damage -
Slice and Dice Rank 1 Keep up · combo points
Keep it up with combo points.
no damage of its own -
Rupture Rank 3 Keep up · combo points
Keep it up with combo points.
12% of your damage -
Mutilate Rank 1 Filler
Spend the rest of your energy on it.
21% of your damage -
Eviscerate Rank 6 Finisher
Spend the rest of your combo points on it.
3% of your damage -
Instant Poison III Main hand
Keep it on your main-hand weapon.
8% of your damage -
Deadly Poison II Off hand
Keep it on your off-hand weapon.
12% of your damage -
Auto attack All the time
Your weapon swings on its own. Stay in melee range.
41% of your damage
The first 30 seconds
When to press each one from the pull. The blue line under a press is the global cooldown (1 sec) or cast it holds: nothing else on the global cooldown can go until it ends, so of two that are ready together the higher one goes first.
- In the gaps
Slice and Dice
Rupture
Mutilate
Eviscerate- All the time
Instant Poison III
Deadly Poison IIAuto attack
