Initiative

Rogue · Subtlety · opens at 10 points spent · 3 ranks

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

Initiative ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Gives you a 33% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.
  2. Rank 2 Gives you a 67% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.
  3. Rank 3 Gives you a 100% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.

What Initiative 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 Gives you a 25% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.
  2. Rank 2 Gives you a 50% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.
  3. Rank 3 Gives you a 75% chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.

Where Initiative sits in the Subtlety tree

Initiative is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 10 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Initiative

56 of the 146 public Rogue builds saved here — 38% — put at least one point in Initiative. 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 Initiative

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

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893