While Assassinations rotation may have suffered from the removal of Artifact Ability Kingslayers and relegating several of the Legion-era Artifact Traits into talents, it still stands as one of the best damage specs in the game.

As it is with all rogue specs, Assassination has access to great sustain and survivability options such as Crimson Vial to restore health, Evasion to dodge melee strikes, and the ever-powerful Cloak of Shadows to both avoid taking magical damage and drop harmful effects such as King Rastakan’s Deathly Withering.

Poisons and bleeds allow damage to tick away even when the player must move for mechanics such as Grong’s Reverberating Slam.

Assassination is the highest single damage melee class in the game right now.

Ranking as the 6th highest in damage for single target damage according to WoW-DPS and number one among melee DPS specs, Assassination is doing very well.

For players interested in raiding, World of Warcrafts flagship PvE mode, Assassination rogue is one of the best choices. There isn’t a lot of grey area in which of the three rogue specs is best in 8.1.5: it’s Assassination. Assassination: Best for Single Target Damage Knowing that, we’ll look into which rogue spec is the beset for Battle for Azeroth. Knowing that, we’ll look into which rogue spec is the beset for Battle for Azeroth.For a pure damage class such as rogue, there’s always one question at the back of their players minds: which spec is the most powerful right now? While certain specs vary in strength depending on what type of gameplay the players is doing, there are roles that they stand out in.

While certain specs vary in strength depending on what type of gameplay the players is doing, there are roles that they stand out in. For a pure damage class such as rogue, there’s always one question at the back of their players minds: which spec is the most powerful right now?

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