Rogue talents
Mutilate and Venom turn Assassination into a real tree. Subtlety ends in Thousand Cuts. Combat keeps Adrenaline Rush.
Assassination17 talents · 2 new
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Combat17 talents · 2 new
0Removed from Classic (4)
- Dagger Specialization (5 ranks)
Increases your chance to get a critical strike with Daggers by 1%. - Mace Specialization (5 ranks)
Increases your skill with Maces by 1, and gives you a 1% chance to stun your target for 3 sec with a mace. - Sword Specialization (5 ranks)
Gives you a 1% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword. - Fist Weapon Specialization (5 ranks)
Increases your chance to get a critical strike with Fist Weapons by 1%.
Subtlety19 talents · 5 new
0Removed from Classic (3)
- Sleight of Hand (2 ranks)
Reduces the chance you are critically hit by melee and ranged attacks by 1% and increases the threat reduction of your Feint ability by 10%. - Improved Sap (3 ranks)
Gives you a 30% chance to return to stealth mode after using your Sap ability. - Deadliness (5 ranks)
Increases your Attack Power by 2%.
MaxedPoints investedAvailableLockedNEW: not in ClassicMV: moved, same effectReworked talents are flagged in the tooltip
About this data
Every talent here was read off the BlizzCon 2026 demo, where all nine classes had their trees open. Ranks the demo never displayed are estimated and labelled in the tooltip. Expect numbers to move once the beta opens on September 17, 2026.
Talent data from talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), export dated 2026-09-14. Names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment.
Keep reading
- All nine WoW Forever talent trees
- Our Classic Era Rogue guide, for how the class played before the rework
- The Classic+ collection, written before the announcement