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

Serrated Blades

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

Serrated Blades 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

Serrated Blades ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Causes your attacks to ignore 3% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%.
  2. Rank 2 Causes your attacks to ignore 6% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 20%.
  3. Rank 3 Causes your attacks to ignore 9% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 30%.

What Serrated Blades 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 Causes your attacks to ignore 100 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.
  2. Rank 2 Causes your attacks to ignore 200 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 20%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.
  3. Rank 3 Causes your attacks to ignore 300 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 30%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.

Where Serrated Blades sits in the Subtlety tree

Serrated Blades is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 10 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Hemorrhage.

How often people take Serrated Blades

24 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (16%) put at least one point in Serrated Blades. 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 Serrated Blades

5 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Serrated Blades.

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)