Weapon Expertise ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the chance for your attacks to be Dodged or Parried by 1%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the chance for your attacks to be Dodged or Parried by 2%.
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 Weapon Expertise 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 skill with Sword, Fist and Dagger weapons by 3.
- Rank 2 Increases your skill with Sword, Fist and Dagger weapons by 5.
Where Weapon Expertise sits in the Combat tree
Weapon Expertise is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 25 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Blade Flurry first.
- Requires: Blade Flurry
- Same row: Aggression
How often people take Weapon Expertise
47 of the 135 public Rogue builds saved here — 35% — put at least one point in Weapon Expertise. 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.
- 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)