Midnight 12.1 arena
Assassination Rogue PvP guide
How Assassination Rogues actually play arena: the PvP talents they take, what they press when they go, how they survive, what to kick on them, and the comps they play. Counted from real rated games, not written from memory.
Most taken PvP talent
Smoke Bomb
97%
Main cooldown
Kingsbane
91%
First defensive
Feint
64%
On the enemy healer
Blind
24%
Assassination Rogue PvP talents
How often each PvP talent is taken. Click one for what it does.
Creates a cloud of thick smoke in an 8 yard radius around the Rogue for 5 sec. Enemies are unable to target into or out of the smoke cloud.
180s cooldown · lasts 5s
Feint decreases your damage taken by an additional 25% while stunned and its energy cost is reduced by 30%.
Disarm the enemy, preventing the use of any weapons or shield for 5 sec.
45s cooldown · lasts 5s in arena
lasts 8s
Class and spec tree talents, with the build most players run and every cooldown adjusted for it: Assassination Rogue talents and kit.
What Assassination Rogues press when they go
The offensive cooldowns in their goes, and how often each one is in it.
Kingsbane
Deathmark
Thistle Tea
Crowd control on the enemy healer during a go
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Blind
24%
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Garrote - Silence
23%
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Sap
17%
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Kidney Shot
10%
How Assassination Rogues survive a go
Dies in
41%
of rounds. Every spec: 24%
Dies first in
28%
of rounds. Every spec: 17%
When a go lands on an Assassination Rogue, the defensives pressed and how often:
Their own
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Feint
64%
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Crimson Vial
49%
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Vanish
30%
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Cloak of Shadows
29%
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Evasion
28%
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Gladiator's Medallion
24%
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Smoke Bomb
17%
From their team
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Pain Suppression
20%
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Holy Word: Serenity
10%
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Leap of Faith
8%
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Evangelism
8%
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Guardian Spirit
5%
Assassination Rogues as kickers
Assassination Rogues stop 15% of the high-priority enemy casts they meet with their interrupt ready. Across every spec with an interrupt it is 11%.
A chance is a cast from a kick list, begun while the player was alive, free to act, had their kick off cooldown and stood within its range. The combat log has no line of sight, so a pillar may have been in the way.
Assassination Rogue 3v3 arena comps
The teams Assassination Rogues play in most.
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Counted from rated arena games uploaded to MindCollector: every player in every game, not only the one who recorded it. Updated 26 Oct 2026.
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