Mutilate

Mutilate is the primary ability of Assassination Rogues and requires two daggers.

Related talents

 * Remorseless Attacks will give your next Mutilate a 20% or 40% increased chance to crit after killing an opponent that yields honor or experience. The improved crit chance lasts for 20 seconds.
 * Opportunity increases the damage of your Mutilate by 10% or 20%.
 * Lethality increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Mutilate by 6%, 12%, 18%, 24%, or 30%.
 * Puncturing Wounds increases critical strike chance of Mutilate by 5/10/15%.

Tips and tactics

 * Poisoning a target is not limited to the rogue's own poisons; other rogues' poison and hunters' Serpent Stings can be used to boost Mutilate damage.
 * To maximize the chance of applying poisons to a target before using Mutilate, open your fights with Cheap Shot and wait the full duration of the stun before using Mutilate. If you have taken Hunger for Blood and don't have someone else that can apply a bleed effect, opening with Garrote, Hunger for Blood, and applying Slice and Dice will give you more than adequate time for poisons to apply before beginning to use Mutilate.
 * Mutilate really helps you take advantage of the talents Cold Blood and Improved Kidney Shot. With the right timing and crits, its possible to get off a Mutilate and Cold Blood Eviscerate or Envenom within the duration of Kidney Shot.
 * When starting a fight out of Stealth (e.g. in an instance) it's often good to start with Shiv and then Slice and Dice before using Mutilate making sure it is used to its full potential with +20% damage bonus.
 * Wound Poison is NOT a good choice for Mutilate in PvE. Between Improved Poisons increasing the proc rate of Instant Poison and Deadly Poison and the Patch 3.3 changes to how Deadly functions at maximum stack, the accepted poison routine is Instant Poison main-hand and Deadly Poison off-hand.