Boot Knife
Rogue · Subtlety · opens at 25 points spent · 5 ranks
Boot Knife does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.
Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes
Boot Knife ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Grants your Shank ability a 20% chance to add 2 Combo Points to the target.
- Rank 2 Grants your Shank ability a 40% chance to add 2 Combo Points to the target.
- Rank 3 Grants your Shank ability a 60% chance to add 2 Combo Points to the target.
- Rank 4 Grants your Shank ability a 80% chance to add 2 Combo Points to the target.
- Rank 5 Grants your Shank ability a 100% chance to add 2 Combo Points to the target.
Where Boot Knife sits in the Subtlety tree
Boot Knife is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 25 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens.
How often people take Boot Knife
1 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (1%) put at least one point in Boot Knife. 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.
Where this came from
New in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)