In World of Warcraft: Dragonflight there are now more options than ever for the Subtlety Rogue's talent builds. The Talent system has been completely revamped and roughly resembles what we see in WoW Classic. While it brings back old memories, these new talents are even more complex and difficult to decide on a great build.

Best Overall Talent Build for Subtlety Rogues in WoW: Dragonflight

Luckily, Dragonflight comes with a "Starter Build" you can use if you'd like to simply have the game assign you talents to start with. This build is available if you open your talent UI and choose "Starter Build" in the bottom left corner.

You will need to fill out both the Rogue Class Talent Tree and the Subtlety Specialization Talent Tree when choosing talents for your Rogue in WoW Dragonflight. The Rogue Class tree represents a tree that all rogues can use regardless of their specialization. The Subtlety tree will be specific to the Subtlety specialization and only active when you have that specialization chosen.

In this guide, we will go over what we recommend as the best overall talent choices for the Subtlety Rogue's damage output. As new data and DPS Rankings are gathered, we will add in additional talent builds with specific targets such as a Meta Raid Talent Build for maximum raid DPS, and PvP talent builds as well.

Dragonflight Rogue Class Talent Build

The Rogue Class Talents here differ from the Outlaw and Assassination builds, as the play style of the Subtlety Rogue is so different. Here you will go into some important talents such as Find Weakness and Shadow Dance. After all, how can you call yourself a Sub Rogue without Shadow Dance these days?

We've chosen the left-side of talents as well for some key damage-improving and critical strike-related talents such as Deadly Precision, Seal Fate, and Lethality. Finish it up by adding Thistle Tea which should be more useful than Cold Blood, especially as you will be rocking some high crit chances already.

We've left off Echoing Reprimand, but if you really love using it, you can choose it and go further down the middle tree, while taking points away from the left side and out of Seal Fate. We recommend either centering around Seal Fate OR Echoing Reprimand, but not both. You want to make sure you have enough points for your Shadow Dance tree on the right side.

Dragonflight Subtlety Rogue Talent Raid Build

The main goal of the build below is to stack up and synergize your shadow damage output. Focusing on the end-goal of Dark Brew to increase shadow damage by 10%, you also take many other talents along the way to help synergize with this:

• Deeper Daggers will increase your shadow damage dealt after using Eviscerate
• Flagellation deals shadow damage
• Shadowed Finishers make your Eviscerate deal an additional 40% damage as shadow
• Velitouched increases your magic damage of abilities by 5%, including shadow.
• Shadow Blades deal shadow damage

While stacking up these, and also grabbing any talents related to Symbols of Death and Sepsis, the synergy will offer great single-target damage for a raid setting.

Dragonflight Subtlety Rogue Talent AoE Mythic+ Build

If you are looking for a build for Mythic+, usually you want to focus a little more on the AoE side of things. In this build we focus mostly on the right-side of talents. Take what you can to stack up that shadow damage still, but remove some of the left-side talents in favor of taking Shuriken Storm-related talents to increase your usefulness in these settings.

Finally, at the bottom right of the Talent Menu there are three optional talents. These are Talents used in PvP and don't have any effect on raid DPS.

Stay tuned for more WoW Dragonflight content as we'll be adding more content and guides just like we've done with our WotLK Classic Directory!