Subtlety Rogue DPS Starter Guide - Shadowlands 9.0.2

Great: This covenant can show a lead (usually below 2-3%) in the given situation, depending on renown level.
Good: This covenant will do fine in the given situation.
Underwhelming: Numbers are not impressive and can potentially feel a bit disappointing in the given situation.Best Subtlety Rogue Legendaries

Finality is the best all-round legendary for all situations.

Akaari's Soul Fragment is slightly stronger on pure single target.

Mark of the Master Assassin can be great if you can get many re-stealths, e.g. in dungeons or world content.

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Versatility

Critical Strike

Haste

Mastery

Critical Strike: Chance to deal double damage with your attacks.

Haste: Increases attack speed, energy regeneration and Rupture tick rate.

Mastery: Increases the damage of your finishers.

Versatility: Increases all damage done and reduces damage taken.

Subtlety Rogue Enchants

Weapons: Enchant Weapon - Celestial Guidance and Enchant Weapon - Sinful Revelation (make sure to take two different enchants)

Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Fortified Avoidance / Enchant Cloak - Fortified Leech / Enchant Cloak - Fortified Speed / Enchant Cloak - Soul Vitality

Chest: Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats

Boots: Enchant Boots - Eternal Agility

Rings: Enchant Ring - Tenet of Versatility

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Make sure your poisons are up and not going to run out during the fight.

Be in Stealth.

Engage the boss with Shadowstrike.

Use Slice and Dice.

Use Serrated Bone Spike (Necrolord), Sepsis (Night Fae), or Flagellation (Venthyr).

Pop Shadow Blades and Symbols of Death.

Use Echoing Reprimand (Kyrian).

Enter your first Shadow Dance window.

Use Flagellation (Venthyr) on cooldown.

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. 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.

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 it to avoid capping on charges.

Use Vanish on cooldown and if you will 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 5 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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