Deflection

Rogue · Combat · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks

Deflection works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Deflection ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases your Parry chance by 2%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases your Parry chance by 4%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases your Parry chance by 6%.

What Deflection 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. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.

  1. Rank 1 Increases your Parry chance by 1%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases your Parry chance by 2%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases your Parry chance by 3%.

Where Deflection sits in the Combat tree

Deflection is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 5 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Riposte.

How often people take Deflection

20 of the 146 public Rogue builds saved here — 14% — put at least one point in Deflection. Counted across the 1498 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 Deflection

4 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Deflection.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893