Rogue

Overview

A stealthy melee specialist with high single-target damage, poisons and the best control tools in the game.

Rogues open from Stealth, build combo points and spend them on finishers. WoW Forever adds one-handed axes, longer-lasting poisons that stack with weapon stones, and a Sap that no longer breaks Stealth.

Specs

• AssassinationMelee DPS

  Daggers, poisons and finishers. Venom boosts poisons at 21 points and Mutilate caps the tree at 31 points.

  Full build coming after launch
• CombatMelee DPS

  Hard-hitting direct damage with every weapon type, Blade Flurry cleave, and Hack and Slash in place of four specialization talents.

  Combat build and talents →
• SubtletyMelee DPS

  Tricks and bleeds. Death Mark at 31 points stores damage and releases it after 6 seconds.

  Full build coming after launch

What changed from Classic

• Changed
  One-handed axes

  Rogues can now equip one-handed axes.

• Changed
  Better poisons

  Poisons have more charges and can be applied alongside sharpening stones and weightstones.

• Changed
  Sap keeps you in Stealth

  Using Sap no longer breaks Stealth.

• Changed
  Distract hides you better

  It also lowers enemies' ability to detect Stealth for 10 seconds, but warns enemy players that a Rogue is near.

• Changed
  Expose Armor stacks with Sunder

  It reduces more armor and no longer blocks a Warrior's Sunder Armor.

• New
  Shank and Poised

  Added November 2. Shank (level 24) is a 5 Energy off-hand strike that cannot miss and gives back Energy, on a 10-second cooldown. Poised (level 18): out of combat at full Energy, your next Energy ability costs 10 less.

• New
  Mutilate (Assassination, 31 points)

  A dual-dagger attack for 60 Energy that gives 2 combo points. It moved to the bottom row of the tree on November 2.

• New
  Venom (Assassination, 21 points)

  Since November 2 a passive: Shank increases your poison damage by 30% and how often poisons apply.

• New
  Hack and Slash (Combat)

  Replaces the dagger, mace, sword and fist weapon specializations, with an extra-attack chance for axes.

• New
  Flawless Execution (Combat, 16 points)

  Makes Eviscerate cost 15 less Energy (was 10).

• New
  Death Mark (Subtlety, 31 points)

  Added November 2, replacing Thousand Cuts. A 25 Energy finisher that marks the target and stores part of your damage per combo point, Garrote and Rupture at double rate. After 6 seconds the stored damage is dealt.

• Changed
  Premeditation (Subtlety, 11 points)

  Lasts 20 seconds. Moved to row 3 on November 2.

• Removed
  Weapon specializations and others

  Dagger, Mace, Sword and Fist Weapon Specialization (merged into Hack and Slash), Sleight of Hand and Deadliness were removed. Murder, Improved Distract, Quietus, Cutthroat and Thousand Cuts were removed on November 2.

Abilities