Lethality
Rogue · Assassination · opens at 10 points spent · 5 ranks
Lethality works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Lethality ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 6%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 12%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 18%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 24%.
- Rank 5 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 30%.
Now also covers Mutilate and Hemorrhage. Requires Malice.
What Lethality 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 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 6%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 12%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 18%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 24%.
- Rank 5 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, and Hemorrhage abilities by 30%.
Where Lethality sits in the Assassination tree
Lethality is a Assassination talent for Rogue. You need 10 points in Assassination before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Malice first.
- Requires: Malice
- Same row: Relentless Strikes, Improved Expose Armor
How often people take Lethality
112 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 83% — put at least one point in Lethality. 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 @5:04