Serrated Blades ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Causes your attacks to ignore 3% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%.
- Rank 2 Causes your attacks to ignore 6% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 20%.
- Rank 3 Causes your attacks to ignore 9% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 30%.
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 Serrated Blades 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 Causes your attacks to ignore 100 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.
- Rank 2 Causes your attacks to ignore 200 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 20%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.
- Rank 3 Causes your attacks to ignore 300 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 30%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.
Where Serrated Blades sits in the Subtlety tree
Serrated Blades is a Subtlety talent for Rogue. You need 15 points in Subtlety before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Improved Distract first. Taking it opens Hemorrhage.
- Requires: Improved Distract
- Unlocks: Hemorrhage
- Same row: Heightened Senses, Premeditation
How often people take Serrated Blades
33 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 24% — put at least one point in Serrated Blades. 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 (rogue tree overview frame, prerequisite arrows)
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
- Rank 1 from existing Forever footage overlay; later ranks were Classic leftovers and were scaled from rank 1 (linear, same method as Savage Strikes)