Cold Blood

Rogue · Assassination · opens at 15 points spent · 1 rank

Cold Blood has been read from Forever footage and matches its Classic Era wording.

Instant; 3 min cooldown

Cold Blood ranks in Forever

Rank 1 When activated, increases the critical strike chance of your next Sinister Strike, Backstab, Ambush, Eviscerate, or Mutilate by 100%.

Text and slot from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.

What Cold Blood 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 When activated, increases the critical strike chance of your next Sinister Strike, Backstab, Ambush, or Eviscerate by 100%.

Where Cold Blood sits in the Assassination tree

Cold Blood is a Assassination talent for Rogue. You need 15 points in Assassination before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Vile Poisons, Improved Poisons

How often people take Cold Blood

77 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 57% — put at least one point in Cold Blood. 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.

Where this came from

Same as Classic (verified).

BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage