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

Relentless Strikes

Rogue · Assassination · opens at 20 points spent · 5 ranks

Relentless Strikes 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

Relentless Strikes ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Your finishing moves have a 4% chance per Combo Point to restore 25 Energy.
  2. Rank 2 Your finishing moves have a 8% chance per Combo Point to restore 25 Energy.
  3. Rank 3 Your finishing moves have a 12% chance per Combo Point to restore 25 Energy.
  4. Rank 4 Your finishing moves have a 16% chance per Combo Point to restore 25 Energy.
  5. Rank 5 Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per Combo Point to restore 25 Energy.

What Relentless Strikes 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 1 ranks in Classic Era rather than 5.

  1. Rank 1 Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.
  2. Rank 2 Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.
  3. Rank 3 Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.
  4. Rank 4 Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.
  5. Rank 5 Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.

Where Relentless Strikes sits in the Assassination tree

Relentless Strikes is a Assassination talent for Rogue. You need 20 points in Assassination before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Relentless Strikes

10 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (7%) put at least one point in Relentless Strikes. 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 Relentless Strikes

3 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Relentless Strikes.

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)