Puncturing Wounds

Rogue · Combat · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks

Puncturing Wounds does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Puncturing Wounds ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab by 10% and your Mutilate by 5%, and gives Backstab a 15% chance to add an additional Combo Point.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab by 20% and your Mutilate by 10%, and gives Backstab a 30% chance to add an additional Combo Point.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab by 30% and your Mutilate by 15%, and gives Backstab a 45% chance to add an additional Combo Point.

Replaces Improved Backstab. Ranks 2 and 3 extrapolated.

Where Puncturing Wounds sits in the Combat tree

Puncturing Wounds is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 5 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Puncturing Wounds

75 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 56% — put at least one point in Puncturing Wounds. 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

New in Forever.

  • Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:05 (Combat row 2, col 1)