40 Energy; Melee Range; Instant; 20 sec cooldown
Ghostly Strike ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 A strike that deals 125% (180% if a Dagger is equipped in your Main Hand) weapon damage and increases your chance to dodge by 15% for 7 sec. Awards 1 combo point.
40 Energy, melee range, instant, 20 sec cooldown. Dagger bonus is new.
What Ghostly Strike 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 A strike that deals 125% weapon damage and increases your chance to dodge by 15% for 7 sec. Awards 1 combo point.
Where Ghostly Strike sits in the Subtlety tree
Ghostly Strike is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 10 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Initiative, Improved Distract
How often people take Ghostly Strike
25 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 19% — put at least one point in Ghostly Strike. 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 @5:05
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage