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

Lethality

Rogue · Assassination · opens at 10 points spent · 2 ranks

Lethality 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

Lethality ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 10%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 20%.

What Lethality 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. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 2.

  1. Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 6%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 12%.

Where Lethality sits in the Assassination tree

Lethality is a Assassination talent for Rogue. You need 10 points in Assassination before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Malice first.

How often people take Lethality

2 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (1%) put at least one point in Lethality. 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)