Coup de Grace
Rogue · Combat · available from the first tier · 3 ranks
Coup de Grace 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
Coup de Grace ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 7%, and the damage and storage rate of your Death Mark ability by 7%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 13%, and the damage and storage rate of your Death Mark ability by 13%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 20%, and the damage and storage rate of your Death Mark ability by 20%.
What Coup de Grace 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. In Classic Era it is called Improved Eviscerate.
- Rank 1 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 5%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 10%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate ability by 15%.
Where Coup de Grace sits in the Combat tree
Coup de Grace is a Combat talent for Rogue. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Efficient Strikes, Lightning Reflexes
How often people take Coup de Grace
111 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (73%) put at least one point in Coup de Grace. 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 Coup de Grace
8 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Coup de Grace.
- Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 3/3 , 76 up
- Rogue Combat 9/29/0 · 3/3 , 48 up
- Rogue Assassination 5/3/3 · 3/3 , 43 up
- Rogue Subtlety 7/8/24 · 3/3 , 27 up
- Rogue Combat 5/18/0 · 3/3 , 6 up
- Rogue Subtlety 5/12/23 · 3/3 , 5 up
- Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 3/3 , 3 up
- Rogue Combat 9/18/2 · 3/3 , 3 up
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)