In this article, we present you with the best gems and enchants that you can get for an Assassination Rogue in WoW 4.3, including profession-specific perks. We also list the best consumables: food, flasks, and potions.

Make sure to check our Gear Optimisation Guide, which serves as a support guide for this article. The other articles of our Assassination Rogue guide can be accessed from the table of content on the left.

1. Gems↑top

Sockets	Gems
	Agile Shadowspirit Diamond
	Delicate Queen's Garnet, Delicate Inferno Ruby (cheaper), or Delicate Chimera's Eye (JC)
	Socket Bonus is not at least +10 Agility → Delicate Queen's Garnet or Delicate Inferno Ruby (cheaper) Otherwise → Adept Lava Coral or Adept Ember Topaz (cheaper)
	Socket Bonus is not at least +10 Agility → Delicate Queen's Garnet or Delicate Inferno Ruby (cheaper) Otherwise → Glinting Shadow Spinel or Glinting Demonseye (cheaper)

2. Enchants↑top

Slot	Main Enchantments	Extra Enchantments
Head	Arcanum of the Ramkahen
Shoulders	Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal Swiftsteel Inscription (Inscription)
Back	Enchant Cloak - Major Agility Swordguard Embroidery (Tailoring)
Chest	Enchant Chest - Peerless Stats
Wrists	Enchant Bracer - Agility Draconic Embossment - Agility (Leatherworking)	Socket Bracer (Blacksmithing)
Hands	Enchant Gloves - Major Agility	Synapse Springs (Engineering) Socket Gloves (Blacksmithing)
Waist		Ebonsteel Belt Buckle Grounded Plasma Shield (Engineering)
Legs	Dragonscale Leg Armor Dragonbone Leg Reinforcements (Leatherworking)
Feet	Enchant Boots - Assassin's Step
Rings	Enchant Ring - Agility (Enchanting)
Weapons	Enchant Weapon - Landslide

Note that Extra Enchantments can be applied to an item in addition to a Main Enchantment.

3. Consumables↑top

You should always be eating food that provides 90 Agility, whether this is in the form of:

• Skewered Eel or
• Seafood Magnifique Feast or
• Fortune Cookie

Your flask should be a Flask of the Winds.

During the encounter, your best choice for a potion will be Potion of the Tol'vir.

4. Summing-up Profession Perks↑top

Choosing a profession for your Assassination Rogue can impact your raid performance. As a rule, you should shy away from gathering professions (with the exception of Herbalism), which leaves the following viable professions for raiding:

Profession	Perks
Blacksmithing	Provides a 100 Agility gain through two extra sockets: Socket Bracer and Socket Gloves. Only provides an 80 Agility gain if you are still using Delicate Inferno Ruby, and not the newer Delicate Queen's Garnet.
Jewelcrafting	Provides a 51 Agility gain through the ability of using 3 Delicate Chimera's Eye. It does provide an 81 Agility gain if you are still using Delicate Inferno Ruby and not the newer Delicate Queen's Garnet.
Alchemy	Provides an 80 Agility gain to your flask through Mixology.
Enchanting	Provides an 80 Agility gain through Enchant Ring - Agility.
Engineering	Provides an 80 Agility gain in average through Synapse Springs. Also provides Grounded Plasma Shield, an additional Waist enchant that can be used as a survival tool during encounters, but it runs the risk of backfiring (in which case, you taunt and take aggro on all nearby mobs).
Inscription	Provides an 80 Agility gain through Swiftsteel Inscription. It also saves you from the trouble of farming reputation with Therazane to get the usual enchantment.
Leatherworking	Provides an 80 Agility gain through Draconic Embossment - Agility. Also provides Dragonbone Leg Reinforcements, a much cheaper equivalent to Dragonscale Leg Armor, the traditional leg enchant.
Tailoring	Provides a gain of approximately 61 Agility through Swordguard Embroidery.
Herbalism	Provides an 80 Haste Rating gain in average through Lifeblood.

You will generally prefer a passive Agility bonus over any of the temporary gains. Indeed, Lifeblood provides Haste Rating, which, as an Assassination Rogue, is much less valuable than any Agility or Attack Power bonus. Synapse Springs is good, but if you already have an on-use trinket, the two effects cannot be used simultaneously and you will prefer that of your trinket, which is, most likely, a lot more powerful than that of Synapse Springs.