Rogue Subtlety Rotation & Opener

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

1 Shadowstrike 2 Eviscerate 3 VanishOff-GCD 4 Shadowstrike 5 Goremaw's Bite 6 Eviscerate 7 Shadow DanceOff-GCD 8 Shuriken Storm 9 Shuriken Storm 10 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 11 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 12 Shadow BladesOff-GCD 13 Secret Technique 14 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 15 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD

1 Ethereal Augmentation 2 Shadowstrike 3 Eviscerate 4 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 5 Shadow BladesOff-GCD 6 Shadow DanceOff-GCD 7 Goremaw's Bite 8 Secret Technique 9 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 10 Shadowstrike 11 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 12 Eviscerate 13 Shadowstrike 14 Eviscerate 15 Eviscerate

1 Shadowstrike 2 Eviscerate 3 VanishOff-GCD 4 Shadowstrike 5 Eviscerate 6 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 7 Shadow BladesOff-GCD 8 Shadow DanceOff-GCD 9 Goremaw's Bite 10 Eviscerate 11 Secret Technique 12 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 13 Shadowstrike 14 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 15 Eviscerate

#showtooltip Shadowstrike
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Vanish
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Shadowstrike

Ability	Top-player CPM
Eviscerate	20.0
Backstab	9.6
Shadowstrike	7.6
Shuriken Storm	4.9
Black Powder	3.5
Shadow DanceOff-GCD	3.1
FeintOff-GCD	1.2
Goremaw's Bite	1.2
Shadow BladesOff-GCD	0.7
Crimson Vial	0.6
Mark for DeathOff-GCD	0.4
VanishOff-GCD	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 Shadowstrike 2 Eviscerate 3 Shuriken Storm 4 Shuriken Storm 5 Backstab 6 Shuriken Storm 7 Shuriken Storm 8 Backstab 9 FeintOff-GCD 10 Backstab 11 Goremaw's Bite 12 Shadow BladesOff-GCD 13 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 14 Shadow DanceOff-GCD 15 Secret Technique

1 Shadowstrike 2 Shuriken Storm 3 Shuriken Storm 4 Shuriken Storm 5 Shuriken Storm 6 Sprint 7 Shuriken Storm 8 Shuriken Storm 9 FeintOff-GCD 10 Shuriken Storm 11 Shuriken Storm 12 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 13 Shadow BladesOff-GCD 14 Shadow DanceOff-GCD 15 Goremaw's Bite

1 Shadowstrike 2 Shuriken Storm 3 Shuriken Storm 4 Mark for DeathOff-GCD 5 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 6 Shadow BladesOff-GCD 7 Shadow DanceOff-GCD 8 Goremaw's Bite 9 Secret Technique 10 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 11 Secret TechniqueOff-GCD 12 Black Powder 13 FeintOff-GCD 14 Shuriken Storm 15 Shuriken Storm

#showtooltip Shadowstrike
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Shadow Blades
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Shadowstrike

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 87% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 13%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 65% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 5%	Rune of Self-Mending 62% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 31% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 8%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Masterful Cunning 49% Rune of Burning Haste 43% Rune of Critical Power 8%	Rune of Masterful Cunning 69% Rune of Burning Haste 20% Rune of Critical Power 5% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 5%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 95% Rune of Echoes 5%	Rune of Overload 97% Rune of Echoes 3%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

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 Shadow Dance
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Secret Technique

#showtooltip Shadow Dance
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Shuriken Storm

#showtooltip
/cast Shadow Dance
/cast Shadow Blades

#showtooltip Black Powder
/cast Coup de Grace
/cast Black Powder

#showtooltip Shadow Blades
/cast Shadow Blades
/use 13
/use 14
/use Light's Potential

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

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

#showtooltip
/cast [@focus][] Kick

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	Eviscerate	20.0
2	Shuriken Storm	11.6
3	Black Powder	11.4
4	Backstab	9.6
5	Shadowstrike	7.6
Z	Shadow DanceOff-GCD	3.1
X	FeintOff-GCD	2.4
C	Goremaw's Bite	1.2
V	Shadow BladesOff-GCD	0.7
R	Crimson Vial	0.6
F	Tricks of the Trade	0.5
T	ShadowstepOff-GCD	0.5
G	Mark for DeathOff-GCD	0.4
Shift+1	VanishOff-GCD	0.4
Shift+2	Stealth	0.3
Shift+3	Sprint	0.3