Dirty Tricks

Rogue · Subtlety · opens at 5 points spent · 2 ranks

Dirty Tricks 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

Dirty Tricks ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Reduces the Energy cost of your Sap and Blind abilities by 25%.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the Energy cost of your Sap and Blind abilities by 50%.

Where Dirty Tricks sits in the Subtlety tree

Dirty Tricks is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 5 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Quick Getaway.

How often people take Dirty Tricks

25 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (16%) put at least one point in Dirty Tricks. 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 Dirty Tricks

3 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Dirty Tricks.

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)