Assassination Rogue are a very interesting spec, but kind of lame and boring to play. I’m remiss to say that I was not terribly excited with what I saw for Dragonflight. Here are some ideas I brainstormed while eating a chicken sandwich.
Lethal Decay
Your Deadly Poison can be applied up to three times. Deal 2% increased Damage Over Time for each Poison affecting the target.
Shadow Walker
Attacks made from Stealth generate one additional combo point every 2 seconds for 6 seconds, and cause your next Finishing Move to act as if it consumed 5 combo points.
Exsanguinating Strikes
Critical hits against targets affected by your Rupture have a 35% chance to instantly deal damage equal to (Critical Strike Chance)% of the Damage Over Time effect of Rupture. Rupture can trigger this effect as well.
Skin To Liquid
Empower your poisons, causing them to deal 60% more damage for 6 seconds. At the end of the duration, they suffer damage equal to 30% of the damage caused by Skin To Liquid over 12 seconds. 1 Minute Cooldown.
Necrotic Apotheosis
Mutilate critical strikes inflict your target with a horrendous plague hidden in your dagger, stacking up to 5 times. Your next Envenom deals 6% additional Nature damage over 8 seconds per stack of Necrotic Apotheosis.
Vile Invigoration
Consumes the poisons on your target, causing them to instantly deal 20% Attack Power Nature damage to the target. For each poison consumed in this way, your Energy Regeneration is increased by 2 per second for 10 seconds. 2 Minute Cooldown.
Dripping Agony
Enhance your dagger with a vicious modification, causing your offhand critical strikes to tear the flesh of your target which deals 2.5% Attack Power Bleed damage over 8 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. At 5 stacks, your next Shiv causes the target to take 80+(Mastery%)% Attack Power physical damage and consume the Dripping Agony stacks. (If you have 22% mastery, it will deal 102% Attack Power.)
Assassins Intent
Fill your allies with murderous intent, causing Vendetta to grant up to 5 nearby allies 8% Haste and 4% Versatility for the duration.
Vile Cyclone
Envenom causes your next Fan of Knives to cast twice and apply your poisons one additional times.
Death Sentence
Your next Ambush within 12 seconds causes the target to also be afflicted with Garrote, and Rupture as if it had consumed 5 combo points. 1.5 Minute Cooldown.
Venom Storm
Fan of Knives critical strikes cause your next Poisoned Knife to deal 15% additional poison damage over 4 Seconds as nature, and to strike one additional target. Stacks up to 5 times, lasts 30 seconds.
Finality
When Vendetta fades, you gain 1% increased Haste and Mastery per second for the next 10 seconds.
Cauldron of Putrescence
Create a venomous cauldron, allowing up to 10 nearby allies to coat their weapons in poison, causing their Auto Attacks to deal 2% additional damage as Nature Damage. Lasts up to 30 minutes, persists through death. 5 Minute cooldown.
Puncture Wound Massacre
Your mutilate damage deals an additional 4% damage over 6 seconds as Bleed Damage, stacking up to 3 times. When Puncture Wound Massacre deals damage against a target affected by your Rupture, there is a (Haste )% chance that Rupture will instantly trigger its Damage Over Time effect. (The effect is based on your Haste, if you have 28% Haste, it will be a 28% chance to proc).
Verdict of the Impure
For every second your target is affected by Deadly Poison, gain (1+(Character Level/10)) Mastery, stacking up to 30 times. Once you reach 30 stacks, the mastery is lost and you gain 6% Haste and Versatility, fading over 10 seconds. Can only trigger once per minute.
Defiled Ambition
Shadowstep increases the range of your next Mutilate, Envenom, or Rupture, and slow the target by 25% for 3 seconds.
Headsman’s Edict
You can wield Two Handed Swords, Axes, and Pole arms instead of a dagger. Mutilate and Ambush are now usable with two handed weapons. Bleed damage increased by 25% while wielding a two handed weapon, and your critical strikes with auto attacks cause the target to suffer 18% Attack power over 3 seconds bleed damage. (idk just seems fun
Crucible of Carnage
Targets hit by Fan of Knives afflicted by Rupture release a burst of venomous shrapnel, causing your Weapon Poisons to instantly trigger on a nearby enemy and have a 35% chance to inflict them with Rupture as if it had consumed 2 Combo Points.
Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions or ideas.