Opportunity
Rogue · Subtlety · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Opportunity 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
Opportunity ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the damage dealt by your Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, and Mutilate abilities by 4%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage dealt by your Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, and Mutilate abilities by 8%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage dealt by your Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, and Mutilate abilities by 12%.
- Rank 4 Increases the damage dealt by your Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, and Mutilate abilities by 16%.
- Rank 5 Increases the damage dealt by your Backstab, Garrote, Ambush, and Mutilate abilities by 20%.
What Opportunity 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 damage dealt when striking from behind with your Backstab, Garrote, or Ambush abilities by 4%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage dealt when striking from behind with your Backstab, Garrote, or Ambush abilities by 8%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage dealt when striking from behind with your Backstab, Garrote, or Ambush abilities by 12%.
- Rank 4 Increases the damage dealt when striking from behind with your Backstab, Garrote, or Ambush abilities by 16%.
- Rank 5 Increases the damage dealt when striking from behind with your Backstab, Garrote, or Ambush abilities by 20%.
Where Opportunity sits in the Subtlety tree
Opportunity is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Setup, Master of Deception
How often people take Opportunity
100 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (65%) put at least one point in Opportunity. 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.
Builds that take Opportunity
8 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Opportunity.
- Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 2/5 , 76 up
- Rogue Subtlety 7/8/24 · 2/5 , 27 up
- Rogue Subtlety 5/12/23 · 2/5 , 5 up
- Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 2/5 , 4 up
- Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 2/5 , 3 up
- Rogue Combat 9/18/2 · 2/5 , 3 up
- Rogue Assassination 9/0/2 · 2/5 , 3 up
- Rogue Combat 5/29/2 · 2/5 , 2 up
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)