Malice
Rogue · Assassination · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Malice works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Malice ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 3%.
- Rank 4 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 4%.
- Rank 5 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 5%.
Rank 1 from footage. Ranks 2+ were still Classic text; rewritten from rank 1 with linear scaling. Rank 2+ values not yet seen on camera.
What Malice 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 your critical strike chance by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your critical strike chance by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your critical strike chance by 3%.
- Rank 4 Increases your critical strike chance by 4%.
- Rank 5 Increases your critical strike chance by 5%.
Where Malice sits in the Assassination tree
Malice is a Assassination talent for Rogue. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away. Taking it opens Lethality.
- Unlocks: Lethality
- Same row: Improved Gouge, Remorseless Attacks
How often people take Malice
131 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 97% — put at least one point in Malice. 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
- Rank 1 from existing Forever footage overlay; later ranks were Classic leftovers and were scaled from rank 1 (linear, same method as Savage Strikes)