Subtlety Rogue Dominates Boss Damage - MoP Classic Phase 2 Terrace of Endless Spring DPS Rankings

Posted 2025/10/01 at 2:03 PM by Passion

Warcraft Logs Terrace of Endless Spring, Heart of Fear, & Mogu'shan Vaults statisticsToES & HoF DPS Rankings in MoP Phase 2 - September 30th

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Biggest Changes This Week Rogue

Stone Guard is fairly straightforward. Four consistent targets for Blade Flurry will result in Combat dominating this encounter.

Both Feng the Accursed and Gara'Jal are high uptime single target encounters, making Assassination and Subtlety the way to go.

Spirit Kings has a bit of nuance. At least one Rogue in the raid will likely want to be Combat to Kidney Shot Subetai the Swift, allowing DPS to continue damaging through the Sleight of Hand. As for the other Rogue(s), Assassination or Subtlety are both fine, with Subtlety in the lead currently.

Elegon is a toss-up between Subtlety and Combat. Combat excels in damaging the Energy Charges that spawn with Blade Flurry, whereas Subtlely has higher Boss damage.

Will of the Emperor shows promise for all 3 Rogue specs. Personally, I'd choose to be Assassination on this encounter as it requires the least focus on rotation, making the dance easier.

Imperial Vizier Zor'lok slightly favors Subtlety over Assassination. Subtlety excels with its low cooldowns on encounters with forced downtime.

Blade Lord Ta'yak, similarly to Zor'lok, slightly favors Subtlety. Additionally, your execute phase, as Assassination, is broken up in the final phase, making it difficult to gain too much value from Dispatch.

Garalon is a solid encounter for Combat. It's difficult to ascertain from logs which spec is certainly the best, but Combat can cleave 40% of the damage from the leg off onto the boss, making them a solid target choice for "ethical" dps. If you don’t care about leg DPS, then Subtlety or Assassination are fine choices.

Wind Lord Mel'jarak isn’t a fight with additional enemies, despite what others might say. This boss is a test of how much single-target burst you can muster during the vulnerability window. With that in mind, Subtlety currently outshines the other two specs and is the choice for this encounter.

Amber-Shaper Un'sok is another unusual encounter with the best spec being what your raid needs, whether that’s consistent cleave or single target. If you're falling behind on Slimes, Combat is the play; however, if you're struggling to burst Un'sok in the final phase, then Subtlety is the decision.

Grand Empress Shek'zeer is both an encounter with extended single target and sustained cleave. Combat or Subtlety are fine for this encounter. Assassination loves the extended execution phase. However, it doesn't enjoy the potential of losing uptime on their important cooldown Vendetta, due to being randomly chosen by Visions of Demise.

Protectors of the Endless is plagued with forced downtime as players routinely will need to step out and receive their stacks of Corrupted Essence. For this reason, I'd suggest that you play Subtlety, though Combat seems to also be performing surprisingly well.

For Tsulong, I recommend playing Subtlety. Assassination is also a viable choice with added utility from Mark of Death, enabling a five-combo point Kidney Shot on the Unstable Shas during the day phase; however, depending on your healers, you may miss significant uptime on the execute phase.

Lei Shi heavily favors Subtlety Rogues over other specs as Subtlety's short and powerful CDs are perfect for an encounter that has volatile moments of downtime.

Sha of Fear, like a few other bosses, comes down to what your raid requires. Do you need more single-target DPS for the platforms you're sent off to in Phase 1? Go Subtlety. Do you need more cleave damage to the Dread Spawns in Phase 2? Go Combat. The directional requirements Sha consistently puts you through in Phase 1 can make Subtlety quite annoying to play. For most guilds, I'd recommend Combat.

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Disclaimers and SourceTerrace of Endless Spring, Heart of Fear, & Mogu'shan Vaults Statistics Page on Warcraft Logsincomplete picture of Mists of Pandaria balance

Specs considered underpowered are generally played less and tend to appear weaker than they are.

This happens as many performance-oriented players tend to play the strongest spec or class, increasing the gap between top and bottom specs even further.

Position of specs for the 95th percentile might be skewed by alternative strategies and parse funneling. We're including the chart showing all percentiles' results to paint a better picture for all specs.

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Comment by copege7Doing shamans dirty for another expac. It’s cata all over except Elemental gets to suffer alongside enhancement lmao.Comment by stummyzDoing shamans dirty for another expac. It’s cata all over except Elemental gets to suffer alongside enhancement lmao.Comment by DichotomyFire is super propped up by good rng highrolling due to being the highest variance spec in MoP right now, the difference of getting 4-5 crit pyros into your opening combustion vs. only 1-2 is criminal.

For example I have the same 95% parse on The Stone Guard last week dying to the first explosion due to healers failing cds being literally dead the entire fight that I did this week with a clean kill due to a rng-god-combustion last week while I had average luck this week.

Obviously they'll still have to nerf it before/in ToT progress due to it's insane scaling (not only crit), but I hope they don't overdo it due to parses that you only get in the 90th+ percentile by being lucky with your opening and 3 minute AT+combustion.