WoW Forever Talents Talent calculator for World of Warcraft: Forever Patch notes 4 Nov the druid and tank threat changes are in

Ghostly Strike

Rogue · Subtlety · opens at 15 points spent · 1 rank

Ghostly Strike 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

40 Energy · Melee Range · Instant · 20 sec cooldown

Ghostly Strike ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 A strike that deals 125% (180% if a Dagger is equipped in your Main Hand) weapon damage, increases your chance to dodge by 15% for 7 sec, and causes your next Ambush or Garrote cast within 7 sec to not require Stealth. Awards 1 combo point.

What Ghostly Strike 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.

  1. Rank 1 A strike that deals 125% weapon damage and increases your chance to dodge by 15% for 7 sec. Awards 1 combo point.

Where Ghostly Strike sits in the Subtlety tree

Ghostly Strike is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 15 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Ghostly Strike

23 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (15%) put at least one point in Ghostly Strike. 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

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
  • the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)