In the first of an occasional series of Rogue Q&As, I’ll be fielding my guildie Dagobert’s questions about how to play Assassination in PvE. This time around, he asks about when to overwrite Rupture and when to spam your Mutilate key. N.B. The answers assume my current 51/13/7 spec.

Dagobert:

i actually did have a question for you morth, something ive noticed on my rogue, when im doing the envenom rupture rotation sometimes i cant pop rupture on the mob because its saying a more powerful spell is active, im assuming thats because i had more AP due to a proc or something last time round, so my question is, when this happens should i wait for the previous rupture to run out then rupture or should i envenom and rebuild? i have been doing the envenom and rebuild at the moment as it seems standing around doing nothing, even tho regen energy is happening, standing around would lower the DPS ?

Answer after the break…
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