Rogue Talents Updated for 4.3

This area list the talents a rogue can take as they level and what they do for each rogue build in World of Warcraft. Rogue talents have not changed a lot since the launch of cataclysm but there has been some changes. If anyone needs the old information talents and skills as they were during 4.0.1 feel free to check out that information. The current talents are listed below and I will also list future changes to rogue talents on this page.

 

Assassination Talents Updated for 4.3

Talent
Description
Vendetta
Rank 1
 Marks an enemy for death, increasing all damage you deal to the target by 20% and granting you unerring vision of your target, regardless of concealments such as stealth and invisibility. Lasts 30 sec.
30 yd range, Instant, 2 min cooldown
Your Eviscerate and Envenom abilities have a [33% / 67% / 100%] chance to refresh your Slice and Dice duration to its 5 combo point maximum.
Each time your Rupture or Garrote deals damage to an enemy that you have poisoned, you have a [30% / 60%] chance to deal 675 additional Nature damage and to regain 10 Energy. If an enemy dies while afflicted by your Rupture, you regain energy proportional to the remaining Rupture duration.
When you Backstab an enemy that is below 35% health, you instantly recover [15 / 30] Energy.
Overkill
Rank 1
 While stealthed, and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth, you regenerate 30% additional energy.
Increases the spell damage taken by any target you have poisoned by 8%, causes your Envenom ability to no longer consume Deadly Poison, and reduces the duration of all Poison effects applied to you by 50%.
Gives a [50% / 100%] chance to refund all combo points used when performing your Expose Armor ability.
Reduces all damage taken by [3% / 7% / 10%].
Seal Fate
Rank 1-2
 Your critical strikes from abilities that add combo points have a [50% / 100%] chance to add an additional combo point.
Deadly Brew
Rank 1-2
 When you apply Instant, Wound, or Mind-Numbing Poison to a target, you have a [50% / 100%] chance to apply Crippling Poison.
Cold Blood
Rank 1
 When activated, generates 25 Energy and increases the critical strike chance of your next non-periodic offensive ability by 100%.
Instant, 2 min cooldown
Vile Poisons
Rank 1-3
 Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by [12% / 24% / 36%] and gives you [33% / 67% / 100%] of the normal chance of applying poisons from your equipped melee weapons when you use the Fan of Knives ability.
Ruthlessness
Rank 1-3
 Gives your melee finishing moves a [20% / 40% / 60%] chance to add a combo point to your target.
Quickening
Rank 1-2
 All healing effects on you are increased by [10% / 20%] and your movement speed is increased by [8%/15%]. This does not stack with most other movement speed increasing effects.
Increases the critical strike chance of your Backstab ability by [10% / 20% / 30%], and the critical strike chance of your Mutilate ability by [5% / 10% / 15%].
Blackjack
Rank 1-2
 Even after your Sap wears off, its effects linger on enemies, reducing their damage done by [35%/70%] for 8 sec.
After killing an opponent that yields experience or honor, you have a [50% / 100%] chance to increase the critical strike chance of your next ability within 15 sec by 40% and to refresh your Slice and Dice and Recuperate abilities to their original duration.
Coup de Grace
Rank 1-3
 Increases the damage done by your Eviscerate and Envenom abilities by [7% / 14% / 20%].
Lethality
Rank 1-3
 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, Mutilate and Hemorrhage abilities by [10%/20%/30%].

 

Combat Talents Updated for 4.3

Talent
Description
Killing Spree
Rank 1		 Step through the shadows from enemy to enemy within 10 yards, attacking an enemy every 0.5 sec with both weapons until 5 assaults are made and increasing all damage done by 20% for the duration. Can hit the same target multiple times. Cannot hit invisible or stealthed targets.
10 yd range, Instant, 2 min cooldown
Bandit's Guile
Rank 1-3		 Your Sinister Strike and Revealing Strike abilities have a [33% / 67% / 100%] chance to grant you an evolving insight into an opponent's defenses, increasing damage to that target by up to 30%. Opponents can adapt over time, negating this benefit, and Striking a different opponent will begin the cycle anew.
Restless Blades
Rank 1-2		 Your damaging finishing moves reduce the cooldown of your Adrenaline Rush, Killing Spree, Redirect and Sprint abilities by [1 / 2] seconds per combo point.
Throwing Specialization
Rank 1-2		 Increases the range of Throw and Deadly Throw by [5 / 10] yards and gives your Deadly Throw a [50% / 100%] chance to interrupt the target for 3 seconds.
Adrenaline Rush
Rank 1		 Increases your Energy regeneration rate by 100% and your melee attack speed by 20% for 15 sec.
Instant, 3 min cooldown
Savage Combat
Rank 1-2		 Increases your total attack power by [3% / 6%] and all physical damage caused to enemies you have poisoned is increased by [2% / 4%].
Combat Potency
Rank 1-3		 Gives your successful off-hand melee attacks and Main Gauche attacks a 20% chance to generate [5 / 10 / 15] Energy.
Blade Twisting
Rank 1-2		 Gives your damaging melee attacks a [20% / 40%] chance to daze the target, reducing movement speed by 70% for [4 / 8] sec.
Lightning Reflexes
Rank 1-3		 Increases your chance to dodge enemy attacks by [3% / 6% / 9%] and your attack speed by [2% / 4% / 6%].
Revealing Strike
Rank 1		 An instant strike that causes 125% of your normal weapon damage and increases the effectiveness of your next offensive finishing move on that target by 35% for 15 sec. Awards 1 combo point.
40 Energy, Melee Range, Instant
Reinforced Leather
Rank 1-2		 Increases your armor contribution from cloth and leather items by [25% / 50%].
Improved Gouge
Rank 1-2		 Increases the effect duration of your Gouge ability by [1 / 2] sec and reduces its Energy cost by [15 / 30].
Improved Slice and Dice
Rank 1-2		 Increases the duration of your Slice and Dice ability by [25% / 50%].
Improved Sprint
Rank 1-2		 Gives a [50% / 100%] chance to remove all movement-impairing effects when you activate your Sprint ability.
Aggression
Rank 1-3		 Increases the damage of your Sinister Strike, Backstab, and Eviscerate abilities by [7% / 14% / 20%].
Improved Kick
Rank 1-2		 Causes your Kick ability to also silence the target for [1 / 3] seconds.
Improved Recuperate
Rank 1-2		 Causes your Recuperate ability to restore an additional [0.5% / 1%]  of your maximum health and reduces all damage taken by [3% / 6%] while your Recuperate ability is active.
Improved Sinister Strike
Rank 1-3		 Increases the damage dealt by your Sinister Strike ability by [10% / 20% / 30%] and reduces its Energy cost by [2/4/6].
Precision
Rank 1-3		 Increases your chance to hit with weapon and poison attacks by [2% / 4% / 6%].

 

Subtlety Talents Updated for 4.3

Talent
Description
Shadow Dance
Rank 1		 Enter the Shadow Dance for 6 sec, allowing the use of Sap, Garrote, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Premeditation, Pick Pocket, and Disarm Trap regardless of being stealthed.
Instant, 1 min cooldown
Slaughter from the Shadows
Rank 1-3		 Reduces the Energy cost of your Backstab and Ambush abilities by [7 / 14 / 20], and the Energy cost of your Hemorrhage and Fan of Knives abilities by [2 / 4 / 6].
Serrated Blades
Rank 1-2		 Your Eviscerate has a [10% / 20%] chance per combo point to refresh your Rupture on the target to its original duration.
Cheat Death
Rank 1-3		 You have a [33% / 66% / 100%] chance that an attack which would otherwise kill you will instead reduce you to 10% of your maximum health. In addition, all damage taken will be reduced by 80% for 3 sec. This effect cannot occur more than once per 90 seconds.
Preparation
Rank 1		 When activated, this ability immediately finishes the cooldown on your Sprint, Vanish, and Shadowstep abilities.
Instant, 5 min cooldown
Sanguinary Vein
Rank 1-2		 Increases your damage dealt to targets with a Bleed effect on them by [8% / 16%] and gives your Bleed effects a [50% / 100%] chance to not break your Gouge.
Honor Among Thieves
Rank 1-3		 Increases the critical strike chance of all party and raid members by 5%. When any player in your party or raid critically hits with a spell or ability, you have a [33% / 66% / 100%] chance to gain a combo point on your current target.  This effect cannot occur more than once every [4 / 3 / 2] seconds.
Premeditation
Rank 1		 When used, 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.
30 yd range, Instant, 20 sec cooldown
Enveloping Shadows
Rank 1-3		 Reduces the damage taken by area of effect attacks by [10% / 20% / 30%]  and increases the duration of your Feint ability by [1 / 2 / 3] seconds.
Energetic Recovery
Rank 1-3		 Empowers your Recuperate ability, causing its periodic effect to also restore [4 / 8 / 12] Energy.
Find Weakness
Rank 1-2		 Your Ambush, Garrote, and Cheap Shot abilities reveal a flaw in your target's defenses, causing all your attacks to bypass [35% / 70%] of that enemy's armor for 10 seconds.
Hemorrhage
Rank 1		 An instant strike that deals 155% weapon damage (225% if a dagger is equipped) and causes the target to take 30% additional damage from bleed effects for 1 min. Awards 1 combo point.
35 Energy, Melee Range, Instant
Elusiveness
Rank 1-2		 Reduces the cooldown of your Vanish and Blind abilities by [30 / 60] seconds, and your Cloak of Shadows and Combat Readiness abilities by [15 / 30] seconds.
Waylay
Rank 1-2		 Your Ambush and Backstab hits have a [50% / 100%] chance to unbalance a target, increasing the time between their melee and ranged attacks by 20%, and reducing movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds.
Opportunity
Rank 1-3		 Increases the damage dealt with your Backstab, Mutilate, Garrote and Ambush abilities by [10% / 20% / 30%].
Initiative
Rank 1-2		 Gives you a [50% / 100%] chance to add an additional combo point to your target when using your Ambush, Garrote, or Cheap Shot ability.
Nightstalker
Rank 1-2		 Increases your speed while stealthed by [5% / 10%] and reduces the cooldown of your Stealth ability by [2 / 4] seconds.
Improved Ambush
Rank 1-3		 Increases the critical strike chance of your Ambush ability by [20% / 40% / 60%] and its damage by [5% / 10% / 15%].
Relentless Strikes
Rank 1-3		 Your finishing moves have a [7% / 14% / 20%] chance per combo point to restore 25 energy.