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23.01.2024 - 22:27 / wowhead.com / Dragonflight / Wishlist
With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Assassination Rogue Writer, Whispyr, offers a retrospective highlighting Assassination's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
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Assassination Retrospective & War Within Wishlist
Assassination has seen a lot of ups and downs throughout Dragonflight, receiving a new capstone in 10.0.5, as well as a bigger talent tree rework alongside the other rogue specs in 10.2. Let's take a look back at how the spec has evolved, talk about what's working well (and not working well), before diving into a small wishlist for the Hero Talents coming with The War Within. Before we start, I do want to thank those who have helped share their views on the spec over the last weeks. Having another view on a topic helps the feedback cycle immensely and drives conversation. I appreciate you all so much for it.
Reflecting on the Past
Assassination going into Dragonflight had its issues, but it had strong roots in some core foundational concepts that drove players to the spec. A lot of the spec at the start of 10.0 could be summarized as follows:
Weaknesses
Mythic+ Woes
Going into 10.0, the situation for Assassination in Mythic+ was quite dire. The spec had serious issues in the talent tree trying to juggle single target and AoE talents, often failing at doing either successfully without severely hampering the other. While the lack of AoE was addressed at the start of the expansion, it wouldn't be until 10.2 that the vision would be clear. For the first half of the expansion, this ended up leaving Assassination clinging to Indiscriminate Carnage as a one-button solution to everything AoE. During Season 1 and Season 2, Indiscriminate Carnage was an active cast that applied bleeds to 8 targets. This then created a situation where the bleeds got spread quickly, but there was nothing rotationally to fill the space afterward, which made for a very awkward rotation where your only source of AoE spreading bleeds was also your burst and simultaneously also eliminated a big part of the greater rotation. Outside of the confusion of «what do I do after Indiscriminate Carnage», it was quite straightforward and fairly simple. The addition of Arterial Precision later in the tier helped push a bleed-centric build even further, even though the talent juggle between single target and AoE was still problematic.
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