Deflection ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your Parry chance by 2%.
- Rank 2 Rank 2 values not yet captured from footage.
- Rank 3 Increases your Parry chance by 3%.
Text and slot from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.
What Deflection 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 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.
- Rank 1 Increases your Parry chance by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your Parry chance by 2%.
Where Deflection sits in the Combat tree
Deflection is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 5 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Improved Sinister Strike first. Taking it opens Riposte.
- Requires: Improved Sinister Strike
- Unlocks: Riposte
- Same row: Puncturing Wounds, Precision
How often people take Deflection
19 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 14% — put at least one point in Deflection. 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
Changed in Forever.
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 (rogue tree overview frame, prerequisite arrows)
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage