Hi hi,
I am an assassination rogue and I love doing timewalking, because it lets us use cool itens from the past like the MoP cloak and legion legendaries. I am trying on this timewalking month to optimize my damage by mixing together all the borrowed power, gems and enchants I can, but I have a doubt of which ring I should use. Can you guys help me out?
My first pick is Shadowmight Ring. It is good because it has 2 socket slots and a haste bonus. I try to maximize haste for more procs of the pandaren cloak and corruptions.
My second pick would be the Icc Ring. Although it has only one slot and an agility bonus instead of haste, it has an attack power proc.
I can only pick one of those two, because my other ring slot goes to the pre-legendary wod ring. How much does attack power impact on dps? Is the attack proc of the icc ring worth it or the flat hast buff is better?
Thanks for the help
Im confused , i know when timewalking got introduced that using old gear was the META but didnt they nerf that ?
I only remember being so down bout having an entire gearset for timewalking become obsolete because of that nerf , never bothered again…
Did they revert it or something ?
They did nerf it, but it still does make quite a diference when you use borrowed powers. You will not be miles away on dps like before, but will still be garanteed to be the top dps. (my margins go from barely the first to 10% more damage then second place. Never got second place while using this gearset).
My worry with haste gems in old gear is for procs of the pandaren cloak (right now I can have 3 to 4 procs per minute. Other then that, you can spam Vendetta a lot with the legendary boots, with a bonus poison damage to “nothing personal” by Zoldyck legendary. Add this to Infinite Stars and Twilight Devastation (both at rank 1 because you are not using the BFA cloak) and you are ready to smash the damage meters.
I will give you what I use for timewalking as a Sub Rogue with talents 2131311 and essences Unbound Force, Breath of The Dying, Memory of Lucid Dreams, Crucible of Flame.
Gear is
Azerite Helm - Sygian Guise
Heart of Azeroth,
Shoulders - Legendary shoulders from legion, Mantle of the Master Assassin
Azerite Chest - Vest of the Insatiable Maw
Wrist - Armguards of insatiable Maw
Weapons - Legion Artifcat Weapon or Rogue legendary weapons
Gloves - Fanged Slayer Handguards
Belt - Bloodfeaster Belt
Pants - Fanged Slayer Leggards
Feet - Twist Toe Tabi
Ring - Soul of the Shadowblade Legion legendary
Ring - Band of Insidious Rumantions
Trinket - Lustrous Golden Plumage
Trinket - Soul Capaciator but I would love to have Bleeding Hollow Vessel
Enchants/Sockets/Corruption
All current BFA gear such as bracers,ring,waist are 12% mastery corruption
All old content with sockets is Agility Sockets such as Feet,Ring,
Feet are enchanted with agility
Weapon Enchants are Force Multipler and Gale Force Striking
The Unbound Force pairs really well with legendary shoulders which are a must have, 100% crit is op no matter what. Otherwise you just wanna stack op 2 set bonuses like the Tomb one which increases damage by 10% and agility/mastery.
This set was more designed to not be a lot of work to get but still do a decent amount of damage. I’m sure there is a more BiS build out there.
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Thank you very much! Going to look into some of those, and see what I can do to adapt it as well 
I don’t know if it still works but look into some of the content appropriate enchants for your time waking weapons. Unless they changed it, the content appropriate weapons can be very powerful, but they should be the correct thing for the job. Like the legendary daggers during cataclysm, they are great for that content but I think they’re only good for that content and not for MoP and later. So a BiS time walking set can be very different and interesting depending on the content you’re doing. All of this assuming you have the gear or farmed the gear and have the space to store it all.
You’re right in that the legendary daggers may be really good for Cata timewalking but may suck in WoD timewalking compared to something else. The scaling is really wonky. The only thing that will remain BiS for a long time is legion shoulders probably but I hear 100% crit is coming back for Shadowlands.
Also look at:
the Epic Ring from WoD right before the Legendary
Mirror of the Blademaster from Hellfire Citadel (WOD) - it’s a 1 min CD with 20 uptime