Flash of Steel
Rogue · Combat · opens at 25 points spent · 5 ranks
Flash of Steel 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
Flash of Steel ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the Energy generated by your Shank ability by 3 and reduces its cooldown by 0.4 sec.
- Rank 2 Increases the Energy generated by your Shank ability by 6 and reduces its cooldown by 0.8 sec.
- Rank 3 Increases the Energy generated by your Shank ability by 9 and reduces its cooldown by 1.2 sec.
- Rank 4 Increases the Energy generated by your Shank ability by 12 and reduces its cooldown by 1.6 sec.
- Rank 5 Increases the Energy generated by your Shank ability by 15 and reduces its cooldown by 2 sec.
Where Flash of Steel sits in the Combat tree
Flash of Steel is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 25 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens.
How often people take Flash of Steel
3 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (2%) put at least one point in Flash of Steel. 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)