Aggression
Rogue · Combat · opens at 15 points spent · 3 ranks
Aggression works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes
Aggression ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike and Eviscerate abilities by 5%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike and Eviscerate abilities by 10%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike and Eviscerate abilities by 15%.
What Aggression does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike and Eviscerate abilities by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike and Eviscerate abilities by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike and Eviscerate abilities by 6%.
Where Aggression sits in the Combat tree
Aggression is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 15 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Improved Kick, Flawless Execution, Weapon Expertise
How often people take Aggression
44 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (29%) put at least one point in Aggression. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Aggression
5 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Aggression.
- Rogue Combat 9/29/0 · 3/3 , 48 up
- Rogue Combat 5/29/2 · 3/3 , 2 up
- Rogue Combat 5/24/2 · 2/3
- Rogue Combat 9/24/0 · 2/3
- Rogue Combat 9/24/0 · 2/3
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)