Hey folks..I have been a hold out in going to Assassination through 7.1.5, but after seeing the lack of appreciable changes to Outlaw..I feel like it might be time to swap specializations. With that being the case, I seem to really be struggling with Cleave and AoE damage. I have been in runs where an Assassination Rogue is keeping up or surpassing me on Outlaw in Cleave and/or AoE damage. I have read the sites and different posts on how to do this, but I am not able to generate anything close to that level of damage in those situations. I feel like I am horrendously missing the boat on something, but this is what I have been doing..
Cleave
- Get Garrote and 5 Point Rupture up on primary target
- Get 5 Point Rupture up on secondary and tertiary targets
- Go back to primary target and start building CPs to Envenom
AoE
- FoK spam to generate 3-5 CPs
- Hit Envenom and hope for Poison Bomb proc
Does anyone have input on what I need to be modifying? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hello. I'm considerably new to the rogue class and so far I have only tried playing Combat in PVE and Subtlety in PVP, so please forgive me my ignorance. My question is regarding Assassination and how should I perform in, say, dungeon/raid trash or multiple targets in general. I know trash isn't important, but getting through it faster is always a bonus and currently I don't 'feel at home' if you will.
I mean, when coming from Combat background, you are so used to just cleaving stuff to death. Now, I do know that Mutilate is the rogue spec when it comes to dealing AOE damage, but how should I do it? Let's say I'm faced with 3-5 targets. On how many targets should I keep Rupture up on? Should I then just keep doing a single-target rotation? At which point there's enough targets to keep spamming FoK?
Thank you in advance for whatever help.