The Best Rogue Spec in Midnight (It’s Not What You Think) — Transcript

Discover the best rogue spec in Midnight with real gameplay tests comparing Assassination, Outlaw, and Subtlety for optimal performance.

Key Takeaways

Subtlety is currently the best overall rogue spec in Midnight for both AoE and single-target damage.
Assassination is reliable and easy to play, making it ideal for players who prefer consistency over burst.
Outlaw requires perfect execution and good RNG to perform well, making it less consistent for most players.
Timing and managing burst windows are crucial for maximizing Subtlety's potential.
Recent patches have significantly improved Subtlety’s single-target damage, enhancing its viability.

Summary

The video analyzes all three rogue specs in Midnight through actual gameplay, not just theory or simulations.
Assassination is the safest and most consistent spec, great for low gear and forgiving mistakes.
Outlaw is flashy and fast but highly dependent on RNG and high execution, making it inconsistent for most players.
Subtlety offers the highest burst damage and control, excelling in priority targets and early game content.
Assassination has strong AoE and single-target damage with easy execution and energy management.
Outlaw's damage heavily relies on getting the 'jackpot' from Roll the Bones, which can be unreliable.
Subtlety benefits from recent buffs, including improved single-target damage and better AoE performance.
The video includes tips for maximizing each spec, such as timing burst windows for Subtlety and managing cooldowns for Outlaw.
Guides for each spec are linked in the video for viewers wanting deeper learning.
Final verdict favors Subtlety as the best overall spec, Assassination as the most consistent, and Outlaw as the highest skill cap spec.

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If you are playing the wrong rogue spec right now, you're just making the game harder for yourself. Less damage, slower kills, and more mistakes. And the worst part, most players don't even realize it. So, before you commit to a spec in Midnight, you need to watch this video. Since Midnight launched, I've been testing all three rogue specs in real content. Not just sims, not just theory, but actual gameplay.

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And I keep getting the same question everywhere: What's the best rogue spec right now?

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So, let's answer it properly. So, let's start with assassination. So, assassination is the safest spec that you can play right now.

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It has very consistent damage. It's easy to execute properly. It's strong with low gear and doesn't punish mistakes too hard. You keep your bleeds up, cycle your venoms, and it just works.

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A quick tip: uptime is everything. You don't overcomplicate it. So, the verdict is real simple.

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It's reliable, but it's not the best spec right now. But it depends a lot on your play style.

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Because if you don't feel very comfortable playing outlaw or even subtlety, you can play assassination. You're going to perform well. As you can see on the screen, the AoE damage is actually very nice. It's very consistent. It doesn't have very

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high burst like subtlety has. But the damage consistency is very, very good. And for high keys, I believe that's going to be more important than a very, very high burst in the initial seconds of the fight.

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Now, for the single target. As you can see on the screen, our single target is actually one of the best of the three rogue specs.

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It has an initial burst. As we can see, we went to more than 100k damage on the boss.

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And with the implacable talent, which is one of our apex talents, we almost cannot run out of energy if we manage our energy correctly, at least on single target.

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That's one of the really good things that a rogue has right now with the current state of the spec.

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But if you guys aren't sure how to utilize and maximize your implacable talent, I have the perfect guide that's going to be on the top right corner of the screen that you can click and watch if you want, and I explain

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there everything about how to play as a rogue on Midnight. So, you guys feel free to watch that video if you want. So, now outlaw. This is the most misleading spec right now.

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It's fast, it's flashy, and it looks insanely strong. But it comes with a cost. It's a high APM, RNG, and consistent decision-making spec.

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If your execution isn't clean, your damage falls apart. So, quick tip: if you can't maintain 100% pressure all of the time, don't play it. Because it has very high potential, but it's inconsistent for most players.

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So, as you can see on the screen right now, the AoE damage is very, very consistent like assassination.

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But the RNG on the rolls is what makes this spec not very good to play. We are relying too much on the rolls, and the rolls are not very, very good.

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So, if you don't get a jackpot, the damage just doesn't feel that great. That's basically the problem of the spec right now.

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They need to fix Roll the Bones. If they don't fix it, it's going to be a problem because we are going to rely always on the jackpot to get the maximum damage.

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And if you don't get a jackpot, your damage won't feel great at all. So, our single target is actually a bit of a problem.

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Because again, if you don't have the jackpot, it won't feel very, very good. That's because the damage won't ramp up as much as we want.

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And as it should. So, as you can see on the screen, compared to assassination, it's not the best. And if you compare it to subtlety, it's just the worst. But if the fight goes long enough, the damage ramps up. As everyone knows,

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when we just dispatch, we get our CDs a little bit of cooldown reduction.

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So, we can utilize that in the fight to get the damage ramping up.

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But that's basically it for outlaw. There's not much that you can do to ramp up your damage if you don't have good RNG and if you don't hit the jackpot. Of course, as we know, with the

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tier set, we want to utilize Blade Rush as much as we can because the tier set improves 30% on the AoE damage and an additional 15% on the single target damage. So, we want to use Blade Rush on

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cooldown. And of course, we want to use Between the Eyes after we use Blade Rush because of the 15% increased damage on the single target. Again, if you guys aren't sure how to play outlaw, I have the perfect guide that's also

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going to be on the top right corner of the video. So, you guys can click it and watch the guide if you aren't sure how to play outlaw.

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Now subtlety. This is where things change. It has high burst. You have full control of your damage. And it's extremely good with priority targets.

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And in early Midnight, this matters more than anything. You don't need perfect uptime, you need strong windows. So, quick tip: if you play around your burst, timing is everything.

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For example, as you can see on the screen right now, on the pull that we are doing in the Algeth'ar Academy dungeon, on the first pull, we could have started doing damage when the tank started to pull because we have

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Trick of the Trade. As I know, we can utilize Secret Technique much better when we have a lot of targets on the screen.

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I just waited for the tank to gather everything so I could start doing some damage and utilize my burst.

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As you can see, we went straight to the first DPS on the meter, and the DPS was insane from the first second because we let the tank gather everything.

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And we utilized the best timing to use Secret Technique, which gave us a lot of damage in the first seconds of the fight. So, you always want to utilize that and the timing, as we said in the video.

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So, as we saw in this, as we can see on the screen right now, subtlety has one of the best, if not the best, AoE damage of the three rogue specs. I believe it's actually the best spec, but

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this is actually personal opinion. But we're going to go through that in a moment.

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But our AoE target is just insane. The rotation is really, really simple. We just press three or four buttons at maximum. But yeah, for the AoE, that's it. Our single target

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is actually one of the most powerful single targets in the game right now because of the buff that we got last week.

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And if you guys didn't know, Deathstalker is going to be buffed next week on the next reset.

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So, we're going to be able to move the Deathstalker mark between targets and everything. So, it's going to be really, really good. So, we're going to see how that impacts subtlety and assassination because

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outlaw doesn't have Deathstalker. But our single target was massively improved in the last patch, and it's one of the best in the game.

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So again, if you guys aren't sure how to play subtlety, I have the perfect guide for you guys that's going to be on the top right corner of the screen. So, you guys can watch that guide as well.

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The final verdict. This is just my opinion, but I believe this is going to be the overall opinion right now.

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So, best overall, even for solo content and everything, I believe subtlety is better right now.

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Even with the four set because everything that we tested in this video was with the four set.

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The most consistent right now is assassination. And the highest skill gap is, of course, outlaw.

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All right, guys. So, thank you for watching this video. I hope this video helped you in any form possible. If you enjoyed this video, please drop a like and subscribe. That will really help me. My name is Mishket, and I'll see you

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on the next video.

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on the next video.

Topics:Midnight rogue specsAssassination rogueOutlaw rogueSubtlety roguerogue DPS comparisonWoW Midnight guiderogue gameplay tipsRoll the Bones RNGrogue burst damagerogue AoE damage

Frequently Asked Questions

Which rogue spec is the best overall in Midnight?

According to the video, Subtlety is the best overall rogue spec in Midnight due to its high burst damage, control, and strong performance in both AoE and single-target scenarios.

Is Outlaw a good spec to play in Midnight?

Outlaw can be very strong but is highly dependent on RNG and requires perfect execution. If you cannot maintain 100% pressure or rely on good Roll the Bones outcomes, it may not be the best choice.

What makes Assassination a good rogue spec for beginners?

Assassination is the safest and most consistent rogue spec, with easy execution, strong damage even with low gear, and forgiving mechanics that do not heavily punish mistakes.

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