Venom

Rogue · Assassination · opens at 20 points spent · 1 rank

Venom does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes

Venom ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Causes your Shank ability to increase your Poison damage by 30% and your chance to apply Poisons by 20% for 6 sec.

Where Venom sits in the Assassination tree

Venom is a Assassination talent for Rogue. You need 20 points in Assassination before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Mutilate.

Unlocks: Mutilate
Same row: Relentless Strikes, Improved Kidney Shot

How often people take Venom

11 of the 153 public Rogue builds saved here (7%) put at least one point in Venom. 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 Venom

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

Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 1/1 , 76 up
Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 1/1 , 4 up
Rogue Assassination 20/11/2 · 1/1 , 3 up

Where this came from

New in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)