Lethality
Rogue · Assassination · opens at 10 points spent · 5 ranks
Lethality works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Lethality ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 4%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 8%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 12%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 16%.
- Rank 5 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.
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 6%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 12%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 18%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 24%.
- Rank 5 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 30%.
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.
- Requires: Malice
- Same row: Relentless Strikes, Improved Expose Armor
How often people take Lethality
17 of the 146 public Rogue builds saved here — 12% — put at least one point in Lethality. 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 Lethality
8 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Lethality.
- Rogue Assassination 26/25/0 — 5/5
- Rogue Assassination 38/11/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Assassination 38/11/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Assassination 38/11/2 — 4/5
- Rogue Combat 16/33/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 18/33/0 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 18/33/0 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 22/29/0 — 5/5
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.69893