Rogue Assassination Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Garrote 2 Fan of Knives 3 Rupture 4 Garrote 5 Mutilate 6 Mutilate 7 Mutilate 8 Mutilate 9 Envenom 10 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 11 DeathmarkOff-GCD 12 Kingsbane 13 VanishOff-GCD 14 Envenom

1 Garrote 2 Mutilate 3 Mutilate 4 Rupture 5 Mutilate 6 Mutilate 7 Mutilate 8 Mutilate 9 Envenom 10 Roar of RezanOff-GCD 11 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 12 DeathmarkOff-GCD 13 Kingsbane

1 Garrote 2 Crimson Tempest 3 Mutilate 4 Mutilate 5 Rupture 6 Mutilate 7 Mutilate 8 Garrote 9 Envenom 10 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 11 DeathmarkOff-GCD 12 Kingsbane 13 Envenom

Ability	Top-player CPM
Mutilate	17.8
Envenom	12.1
Fan of Knives	5.1
Garrote	3.1
Rupture	2.4
Crimson Tempest	1.7
Kingsbane	1.0
FeintOff-GCD	1.0
ShadowstepOff-GCD	0.7
Voracious Heart of Ula'tek	0.6
DeathmarkOff-GCD	0.6
VanishOff-GCD	0.6
SprintOff-GCD	0.4
Crimson Vial	0.4

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Garrote 2 Garrote 3 Fan of Knives 4 Rupture 5 Crimson Tempest 6 Crimson Tempest 7 Rupture 8 Crimson Tempest 9 Crimson Tempest 10 EvasionOff-GCD 11 SprintOff-GCD 12 Envenom 13 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 14 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 15 DeathmarkOff-GCD

1 Garrote 2 Garrote 3 Fan of Knives 4 Fan of Knives 5 Rupture 6 Crimson Tempest 7 FeintOff-GCD 8 Crimson Tempest 9 Crimson Tempest 10 FeintOff-GCD 11 Envenom 12 Crimson Tempest 13 Envenom 14 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 15 DeathmarkOff-GCD

1 Tricks of the Trade 2 SprintOff-GCD 3 Crimson Tempest 4 Fan of Knives 5 Rupture 6 Garrote 7 FeintOff-GCD 8 Fan of Knives 9 Garrote 10 Envenom 11 Crimson Tempest 12 Envenom 13 Crimson Tempest 14 Envenom 15 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Deathmark
/cast Deathmark
/use 13

#showtooltip
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Kick

#showtooltip Shadowstep
/cast [@mouseover,nodead,exists][] Shadowstep

#showtooltip
/cast [@NAME][] Tricks of the Trade

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Mutilate	17.8
2	Envenom	12.7
3	Fan of Knives	9.6
4	Crimson Tempest	6.4
5	Garrote	3.1
Z	Rupture	2.4
X	FeintOff-GCD	2.3
C	Kingsbane	1.0
V	Thistle TeaOff-GCD	1.0
R	ShadowstepOff-GCD	0.7
F	Voracious Heart of Ula'tek	0.6
T	DeathmarkOff-GCD	0.6
G	VanishOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+1	Crimson Vial	0.6
Shift+2	Tricks of the Trade	0.6
Shift+3	SprintOff-GCD	0.4