Subtlety Rogue DPS Macros and Addons - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

ElvUI is a complete replacement for the default User Interface. Not only isthis a popular AddOn among top players, but we here at Icy Veins use it for allour characters. ElvUI eliminates most of the inefficiencies of the Blizzardinterface, which are many and varied. It is extremely user friendly, and takesvery little time to set up and master. It also comes already furnished withalmost everything you need; unit frames, raid frames, minimap, buffs anddebuffs, and much more. You can easily unlock and drag all the componentsaround so your UI will look exactly the way you want it to. ElvUI is clean,easy to use, and a great starting point for your UI.

For a quick configuration guide, you can check outPandacho's guide.

Weak Auras is the most important AddOn for players seeking to master theirclass and take their gameplay to new heights. If you aspire to do any Mythicraiding, this is the most powerful tool in your kit. Weak Auras allows you todisplay helpful visuals cues anywhere on your screen, which enable you to playbetter. Most players use it to track their trinket procs, highlight on screendisplays of their most important cooldowns, or track the timers of bossmechanics. It is highly customisable and makes keeping track of your procs andcooldowns effortless. The drawback of Weak Auras is that is has a bit of alearning curve and is not the most user friendly. Weak Auras allows you toimport other players data directly into their UI, however, and most playerschoose to simply import other people's Weak Auras rather than make their own.Weak Auras can be used to create just about anything you can imagine, as it isa LUA scripting tool (essentially an AddOn that creates other AddOns, in-game).This is by far the most essential AddOn for players looking to step into Mythicraiding.

Boss Mods are helpful pre-made timers that allow you to keep track of thenoteworthy mechanics in any given encounter. Usually they come equipped withhelpful prompts, visuals, and sounds to ensure you do not miss anythingimportant.

BigWigs is the bestboss mod available currently. It is extremely customizable, allowing you tochange what is displayed on an individual boss level and how boldly you wanteach alert customized. BigWigs is typically the most accurate and periodicallyupdated of the available Boss Mods. It does not require any setup at all,though there are a dizzying array of options and customizations should you wishto personalize your setup.

This is really just BigWigs, but for dungeons. It has the same customizationoptions, and allows you to prepare as best as you can for all mechanics that willbe thrown at you in regular or Mythic+ dungeons.

Deadly BossMods is an alternative to BigWigs, though it usually is not as accurateearly in the patch. Most of the alerts are loud and flashy by default, makingthis a potentially good choice for players who have very little experience in araid environment.

Nameplates are essential for allowing you to easily keep track of basicdebuffs and quickly select new targets in combat. While ElvUI nameplates docome standard with the AddOn, they are a little limited and occasionally buggy.Listed below are some good alternatives.

Plateroffers the highest degree of customization and accuracy. For example, you caneasily configure the nameplates to enlarge and change color when a targetreaches a certain percentage of health, which can be very helpful for classeswith executes. They always correctly display your debuffs, and their click boxis very accurate. Some setup is required, although it is very simple andstraightforward.

TidyPlates arenot quite as customizable or accurate as KUI, but they are an improvement overthe default UI or the ElvUI nameplates. They are also great out of the box,requiring little to no setup at all, which is a plus for some players.

Details is a moreheavyweight damage meter, taking up quite a bit of memory. It offers extensivein-game analysis tools compared to Skada, however, allowing you to break downyour data in depth without leaving the game. This is the recommended damagemeter if you do not log your raid data.

These AddOns are just small trimmings that might make your life a little easier.

If you not not satisfied with the default combat text, this AddOn isan alternative that allows you to heavily customize your scrolling combat text.Quite a bit of setup is required.

Death Note displaysthe last several deaths for each of your party or raid members. For 30 secondsprior to their death, a complete timestamp of their combat log is displayed,showing their current health, what heals they received, what buffs and debuffsthey had, whether they used their personal cooldowns, etc. This AddOn ishelpful for breaking down your own death as well as finding out whether thatguy really did use his healthstone.

Whenever one of your abilities comes off cooldown, this AddOn flashes alarge transparent version of the ability in the center of your screen, alertingyou that it is off cooldown. You can easily configure what is displayed, or useit by default.

This AddOnallows you to set up text assignments that are displayed to everyone else inthe raid group that have the AddOn. Extremely beneficial for raiding guilds,particularly when assigning jobs like interrupt orders, or what players aresoaking in what quadrants of the room, etc.

• #showtooltip Shadowstep
• /cast Cold Blood
• /cast Secret Technique

If you are talented into Cold Blood you only use it with Secret Technique so this macro is a must have for any Subtlety Rogue player.

• #showtooltip Shadow Dance
• /cast Shadow Dance
• /cast Symbols of Death
• /cast Shadowstrike

• #showtooltip Shadow Dance
• /cast Shadow Dance
• /cast Symbols of Death
• /cast Shuriken Storm

These two macros allow you to cast all the abilities that you want to in thesame second when entering Shadow Dance. If you want to, you can alsoadd Shadow Blades to the macros. These should be separate keybindsand should only be used once every time you cast Shadow Dance.

• #showtooltip Shadowstep
• /cast [target=mouseover,exists,noharm] Shadowstep

This macro is a spammable mouseover Shadowstep. It will not castShadowstep until you mouseover a friendly target, meaning that you canspam it in scenarios where you need to Shadowstep a friendly target, for example.

• #showtooltip Shadowstep
• /cast [@party1] Tricks of the Trade

• #showtooltip Shadowstep
• /cast [@focus][2] Tricks of the Trade

The first macro will allow you to automatically Tricks the party leader, which can be helpful in Mythic+ situations, freeing up your focus for more important focus macros such as focus interrupt macros. The second macro allows you to Tricks your focused party member.

When you switch targets by clicking on a nameplate or boss frame, your Roguewill not actually start auto attacking unless you use an ability or physically rightclick the model. Startattack macros replace your default abilities so that if youswitch targets but do not have enough Energy to immediately use one of your abilities,you will still begin auto attacking immediately. An example startattack macro isdisplayed below:

• #showtooltip Backstab
• /startattack
• /cast Backstab

Simply replace "Backstab" with any ability of your choice. This is a good macrofor any melee class or spec. Note that you do not have to do this for every singleone of your abilities, just a few of your main rotational abilities that you arelikely to use immediately when switching to a new target.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@mouseover] Tricks of the Trade

This macro will cast Tricks of the Trade on your mouse over target.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@focus] Tricks of the Trade

This macro will cast Tricks of the Trade at your focus. This can be useful ifyou prefer this over the mouseover option.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@mouseover, help] [@focus, help] [@targettarget, help] Tricks of the Trade

This macro combines the two macros from above. Also, if you have no mouseover targetand no focus, then it casts Tricks of the Trade on your target's target (who ismost likely going to be the tank if you are targeting the boss).

• /cast [target="Tank's Name"] Tricks of the Trade

Finally, this is a simple macro if you are usually casting Tricks on the same tank beforeor during each pull.