Efficient Strikes

Rogue · Combat · available from the first tier · 2 ranks

Efficient Strikes 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

Efficient Strikes ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Reduces the Energy cost of your Sinister Strike and Hemorrhage abilities by 3.
Rank 2 Reduces the Energy cost of your Sinister Strike and Hemorrhage abilities by 5.

What Efficient Strikes 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 Sinister Strike.

Rank 1 Reduces the Energy cost of your Sinister Strike ability by 3.
Rank 2 Reduces the Energy cost of your Sinister Strike ability by 5.

Where Efficient Strikes sits in the Combat tree

Efficient Strikes is a Combat talent for Rogue. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

Same row: Coup de Grace, Lightning Reflexes

How often people take Efficient Strikes

77 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (50%) put at least one point in Efficient Strikes. 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 Efficient Strikes

8 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Efficient Strikes.

Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 2/2 , 76 up
Rogue Combat 9/29/0 · 2/2 , 48 up
Rogue Combat 9/15/0 · 2/2 , 6 up
Rogue Combat 5/18/0 · 2/2 , 6 up
Rogue Subtlety 5/12/23 · 2/2 , 5 up
Rogue Combat 9/18/2 · 2/2 , 3 up
Rogue Combat 5/29/2 · 2/2 , 2 up
Rogue Combat 5/24/2 · 2/2

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)