20 yd range; Instant; 2 min cooldown
Premeditation ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Adds 2 Combo Points to your target. You must add to or use those combo points within 20 sec or the combo points are lost.
20 yd range, instant, 2 min cooldown. No longer the capstone; combo points now last 20 sec.
What Premeditation 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 used, adds 2 combo points to your target. You must add to or use those combo points within 10 sec or the combo points are lost.
Where Premeditation sits in the Subtlety tree
Premeditation is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 15 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Preparation.
- Unlocks: Preparation
- Same row: Heightened Senses, Serrated Blades
How often people take Premeditation
46 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 34% — put at least one point in Premeditation. 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 @5:07
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage