Subtlety Rogue DPS Starter Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

Use Serrated Bone Spike (Necrolord) on targets that do not have the DoT ticking on them and that will live for 21 or more seconds.
Other than that, you can use it outside your burst windows in order to avoid capping on 3 charges (trying to keep 2 ready for incoming new targets), or to fish for the Lead by Example buff if you have the Emeni soulbind.

Use Sepsis (Night Fae) on cooldown with space for the combo point it generates.

Use Symbols of Death on cooldown.

Use Shadow Blades on cooldown with Symbols of Death if your next ability will be a combo-point generator.

Use Echoing Reprimand (Kyrian) on cooldown but not during Shadow Dance. It should align pretty well to be used into the crit buff of every third Symbols of Death. Against 5 or more enemies, you can drop it entirely, unless you are using Resounding Clarity.

Use Shadow Dance with Symbols of Death every 30 seconds. With Enveloping Shadows, you will usually get in another use between two Symbols windows that you can use to avoid capping on charges.

Use Vanish on cooldown and follow up with Shadowstrike.

Maintain Slice and Dice against up to 5 targets.

Refresh Rupture on your main target when it is about to run out.

Against up to 4 targets, you can apply Rupture to other targets if they are going to live for most of its duration. However, this is only worth doing outside of Symbols of Death/Shadow Dance windows and if you want to maximize on priority damage, you should not apply it on targets beside your main one anyway. Against 4 or more, you can drop Rupture entirely.

Use Black Powder against 3 or more targets for AoE damage (i.e. you don't want to funnel everything into one priority target).

Use Eviscerate.

Use Shuriken Storm at 3 or more targets.

Use Shadowstrike if available due to Stealth or Shadow Dance.

Use Shuriken Storm at 2 targets.

Use Backstab.

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