Your combat loop
Press the first one that is ready.
Combat’s own loop, from level 10. 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 5% more than Instant Poison on both weapons. About even (within 3%): Deadly Poison on the main hand, Instant Poison on the off hand; or Deadly Poison on both weapons.
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Blade Flurry Cooldown · every 2 min
Use it whenever it is ready, every 120 sec. It raises the rest.
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Adrenaline Rush For energy · every 5 min
Use it whenever it is ready, every 300 sec, for energy.
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Shank Rank 2 Every 8 sec
Use it whenever it is ready, every 8 sec.
2% of your damage -
Slice and Dice Rank 2 Keep up · combo points
Keep it up with combo points.
no damage of its own -
Sinister Strike Rank 8 Filler
Spend the rest of your energy on it.
24% of your damage -
Eviscerate Rank 7 Finisher
Spend the rest of your combo points on it.
13% of your damage -
Instant Poison V Main hand
Keep it on your main-hand weapon.
5% of your damage -
Deadly Poison IV Off hand
Keep it on your off-hand weapon.
9% of your damage -
Auto attack All the time
Your weapon swings on its own. Stay in melee range.
47% 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
Sinister Strike
Eviscerate- All the time
Instant Poison V
Deadly Poison IVAuto attack
