Night Elf
Apart from having the highest base Agility, night elves do not have much going for them in the way of racials for an Assassination rogue. Shadowmeld will drop you off the threat table until you break stealth however, between TotT, Vanish, and even Feint, threat is very unlikely to be an issue. Quickness will of course give you some survivability though most of the time, nothing life threatening should be swinging at you.
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Hi,
I searched the thread and was surprised no one else mentioned this. The above information should be updated to include the fact that NE rogues can use shadowmeld + stealth right afterwards to gain an additional garrote attack and 20 additional seconds of overkill.
Also their racial elusiveness which makes them move at +5% speed while stealthed does stack with quickening & nightstalker, allowing NE rogues to move at +4% speed while stealthed instead of -2% speed that other races get.
While it might not be huge, these definitely are a dps increase and probably should be noted on the first page.