Alot of posts and guides though recommend that venom rush is the talent that is recommended. Of course I believe that isn't wrong because venom rush is useful since you are given additional energy and potentially more energy regeneration due to 3 targets having venom rush on them giving you a 15% increase (maximum energy increase from the talent) but you're not always in fights that would provide you with multiple targets. Which is unfortunate but it makes me wonder if that 5% increase and an additional 10 energy would provide you with the additional DPS on a sustained single target fight that most raids and dungeon bosses turn out to be.
In those situations I would then lean onto shadow reflection as the best choice for burst damage instances as a rogue. Albeit it'll be much harder if you are not going to be a good melee and miss out on the opportunity due to mechanics but that's the dance we can now take as a combat rogue as blizzard realized that not having the ability to control our insight phases was weakening our overall damage. For those of you who aren't aware we can move from each insight phase by using 4 Eviscerate's. This is important as you can maintain a insight phase longer because you know how many will need to be used and you won't need to worry so much about keeping the insight phase up because each Eviscerate will cause the insight phase to refresh it's timer but this only applies to the first 2 phases because the last phase will not refresh it's timer.
I don't feel any loss from not having shadow blades because now I'm more focused on maintaining the phases alongside ensuring that I'm using my energy efficiently. This is a good move really because it adds depth to being a combat rogue because during mist of Pandaria's siege of orgrimmar days, I was finding it extremely easy to raid, and give damage but on the long run would have been boring for a competitive player and move onto a more challenging spec like subtlety or worse... Another class altogether.
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