Subtlety Rogue Gearing Guide

Our tierset this time around is just a simple damage increase to some of our spells, it is a lot more simple compared to the last tier, which I think is a good thing.

• (2) Set Bonus: Symbols of Death increases the damage done by your next Secret Technique by 20%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Secret Technique increases the damage done by your other finishers by 16% for 7 seconds.

You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Subtlety Rogue, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

As to what gems to use in your Circe’s Circlet refer to the ring’s section below.

• Raiding
• Mythic+

Treacherous Transmitter: A very strong stat on-use trinket with an annoying mini game and a 1 min 30 cooldown note that the orb / platform always spawns at your 1 o-clock (perfect for our cooldowns).

Void Reaper’s Contract: A very straight forward damage proc trinket that gains bonus effectiveness when the target drops below 35% health.

Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj: A pretty straight forward stat proc trinket that increases a random secondary stat for 20 seconds.

Ara-Kara Sacbrood: Just a very simple main stat proc trinket with a delayed damage proc tied to it, a very solid passive option and quite good for Mythic+.

Mad Queen’s Mandate: A 2 minute on-use trinket with a big damage nuke.

All three of these embellishment perform very similar to each other one drawback from the lining ones are that you need to stay above 80% health as much as possible whereas the Focusing Lens is just a stable damage proc, personally I recommend going with the Focusing Lens for a more consistent option.

• Elemental Focusing Lens
• Duskthread Lining
• Dawnthread Lining

Cyrce’s Circlet

Patch 11.0.7 adds this new ring, Cyrce’s Circlet, similar to what we had back in Dragonflight and it is currently 2.4% better than our 2nd best option, ill quickly go over which gems you should get for it.

For Single Target:

• Singing Thunder Citrine: Thunderlord’s Crackling Citrine / Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine
• Singing Sea Citrine: Fathomdweller’s Runed Citrine
• Singing Wind Citrine: Windsinger’s Runed Citrine

For AoE:

• Singing Thunder Citrine: Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine
• Singing Sea Citrine: Fathomdweller’s Runed Citrine
• Singing Wind Citrine: Windsinger’s Runed Citrine