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Subtlety Rogue Talents
Subtlety Rogue talents, row by row
Class Talents 44
Row 1
Your Nature and Bleed ]?a319032[ Your Nature ]?a400783[ Awards 1 combo points.
Blinds the target, causing it to wander disoriented for 1 min. Damage may interrupt the effect. Limit 1.
Provides a moment of magic immunity, instantly removing all harmful spell effects. The cloak lingers, causing you to resist harmful spells for 5 sec.
Row 2
Shiv's Energy cost is reduced by 20, its cooldown is reduced by 15 sec, and its range is increased by 3 yds.
Connected from Shiv
Movement speed increased by 15%.
Connected from Shiv, Blind
Gouges the eyes of an enemy target, incapacitating for 4 sec. Damage may interrupt the effect. Must be in front of your target. Awards 1 combo points.
Blind has 50% reduced cooldown, 70% reduced duration, and applies to all nearby enemies.
Connected from Blind
Grappling Hook has 1 additional charge.
Connected from Blind, Cloak of Shadows
While Stealth or Shadow Dance is active, you move 20% faster.
Connected from Cloak of Shadows
Row 3
Increases the non-damaging effects of your weapon poisons by 20%.
Connected from Fleet Footed, Toxic Stiletto
Evasion also reduces damage taken by 20%, and Feint also reduces non-area-of-effect damage taken by 20%.
Fatal attacks instead reduce you to 7% of your maximum health. For 3 sec afterward, you take 85% reduced damage. Cannot trigger more often than once per 6 min.
Connected from Thrill Seeking, Gouge or Airborne Irritant, Fleet Footed
Increases the target's damage by 15%, and redirects all threat you cause to the targeted party or raid member, beginning with your next damaging attack within the next 30 sec and lasting 6 sec.
Enemies have 30% reduced damage and healing for 6 sec after Blind or Sap's effect on them ends.
Connected from Thrill Seeking, Shadowrunner
Row 4
Wound Poison can now stack 2 additional times.
Connected from Master Poisoner
Energy cost of Feint and Crimson Vial reduced by 10.
Connected from Master Poisoner
Physical damage taken reduced by 5%.
Connected from Elusiveness or Cheat Death
Increases your Agility by 3%.
Connected from Tricks of the Trade or Blackjack
Reduces the cooldown of Sprint by 60 sec.
Connected from Tricks of the Trade or Blackjack
Row 5 opens at 8 points spent in Class Talents
Crippling Poison reduces movement speed by an additional 10%.
Connected from Improved Wound Poison
Increases your dodge chance by 100% for 10 sec. Dodging an attack while Evasion is active will trigger Mastery: Main Gauche.
Connected from Nimble Fingers, Improved Wound Poison
Increases the healing you receive from Crimson Vial, healing potions, and healthstones by 25%.
Connected from Nimble Fingers
Increases the damage of your weapon poisons by 10%.
Connected from Nimble Fingers, Quick Fingers, Deadened Nerves
Shroud of Concealment has 50% reduced cooldown.
Connected from Quick Fingers
Feint has 1 additional charges.
Connected from Quick Fingers, Improved Sprint
Sprint increases movement speed by an additional 30% and has 4 sec increased duration.
Connected from Improved Sprint
Row 6 opens at 8 points spent in Class Talents
Coats your weapons with a Non-Lethal Poison that lasts for 60 min.
Coats your weapons with a Non-Lethal Poison that lasts for 60 min. Each strike has a chance of poisoning the enemy, reducing their damage by 4.1% for 1 min.
Connected from Evasion, Superior Mixture
Increases the critical strike chance of your attacks that generate combo points by 5%.
Connected from Virulent Poisons, Evasion, Iron Stomach
When you deal the killing blow to a target that yields experience or honor, the cooldown of Crimson Vial is reduced by 15 sec and your next use heals 5% of your health instantly.
Connected from Virulent Poisons
Your finishing moves deal 6% increased damage.
Connected from Graceful Guile, Virulent Poisons, Stillshroud
Reduces the duration of movement slowing effects 30%.
Connected from Graceful Guile, Featherfoot
Row 7 opens at 8 points spent in Class Talents
You have a 20% chance to partially evade any damage dealt to you, reducing the damage it deals by 20%.
Connected from Deadly Precision, Numbing Poison or Atrophic Poison
Slice and Dice grants additional attack speed equal to 100% of your Haste.
Connected from Deadly Precision, Deep Cuts, Sanguine Vial
Shadowstrike damage increased by 8%.
Energy cost of finishing moves reduced by 6%.
Connected from Unbreakable Stride, Deep Cuts
Row 8 opens at 23 points spent in Class Talents
Adds a Leeching effect to your Lethal poisons, granting you 3.1% Leech.
Connected from Danger Sense
Critical strike chance increased by 1%. Critical strike damage bonus of your attacks that generate combo points increased by 10%.
Connected from Danger Sense, Swift Slasher
Slice and Dice heals you for up to 1% of your maximum health per 3 sec.
Connected from Swift Slasher
Connected from Improved Ambush or Tight Spender, Swift Slasher
You are healed of your maximum health over 6 sec after activating Vanish.
Connected from Improved Ambush or Tight Spender
Row 9 opens at 23 points spent in Class Talents
Increases your maximum Energy by 50 and Energy regeneration by 5%.
Connected from Leeching Poison
Damaging finishing moves consume a supercharged combo point to function as if they spent 2 additional combo points.
Connected from Recuperator
Abilities requiring Stealth can be used for 2 sec after Stealth breaks. Combat benefits requiring Stealth persist for an additional 2 sec after Stealth breaks.
Connected from Soothing Darkness
Row 10 opens at 23 points spent in Class Talents
Restore 100 Energy. When your Energy is reduced below 30, drink a Thistle Tea.
Connected from Vigor
Critically striking with an attack that generates combo points increases the critical strike chance of your next finishing move by 10%.
Connected from Lethality
Increase the bonus granted when a damaging finishing move consumes a supercharged combo point by 1.
Connected from Supercharger
Gain 1 additional max combo point. Your finishing moves that consume more than 5 combo points have increased effects, and your finishing moves deal 5% increased damage.
Connected from Alacrity
Vanish has 1 additional charges.
Connected from Subterfuge
Subtlety Talents 41
Row 1
Your Stealth abilities allow you to see the flaws in enemies' defenses, causing your attacks to ignore 30% armor for 10 sec.
Row 2
Gloomblade has 15% increased critical strike chance. While behind your target, Backstab critical strikes grant Find Weakness for 10 sec.
Connected from Find Weakness
Draws upon surrounding shadows to empower your weapons, causing your attacks to deal 20% additional damage as Shadow and causing your combo point generating abilities to generate double combo points for 16 sec.
Connected from Find Weakness
Shuriken Storm has 15% increased critical strike chance. Shuriken Storm critical strikes grant Find Weakness for 10 sec.
Connected from Find Weakness
Row 3
After entering Stealth, your next combo point generating ability generates full combo points.
Connected from Improved Backstab
Shadowstep's cooldown is reduced by 20%, and its maximum range is increased by 20%.
Increases healing received by 8%.
Connected from Shadow Blades
Gaining Stealth, Vanish, or Shadow Dance causes your next Shuriken Storm to have 100% increased chance to critically strike.
Connected from Improved Shuriken Storm
Row 4
Shroud of Concealment increases the movement speed of allies by 100% and leaving its area no longer cancels the effect.
Connected from Premeditation
After using Vanish or Shadow Dance, your next Cheap Shot is free and ignores its cooldown.
Your finishing moves heal you for 5% of damage done. At full health gain shielding instead, absorbing up to 10% of your maximum health.
Connected from Premeditation, Quick Decisions or Ephemeral Bond
Vanish grants you a shield for 6 sec, absorbing damage equal to 18% of your maximum health.
Movement speed increased by 20% and damage taken reduced by 10% for 8 sec after gaining Stealth, Vanish, or Shadow Dance.
Connected from Quick Decisions or Ephemeral Bond, Silent Storm
Shuriken Storm reduces enemies' movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.
Shuriken Storm increases your movement speed by 30% for 3 sec when striking 3 or more enemies.
Connected from Silent Storm
Row 5 opens at 8 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Gain over 3 sec when you enter Stealth or activate Shadow Dance.
Connected from Shrouded in Darkness, Shot in the Dark or Exhilarating Execution
Punctures your target with your shadow-infused blade for (123% of Attack Power) Shadow damage, bypassing armor. Critical strikes apply Find Weakness for 10 sec. Awards 1 combo points.
Connected from Shot in the Dark or Exhilarating Execution
Abilities deal 10% more damage while Stealth or Shadow Dance is active.
Connected from Cloaked in Shadows or Fade to Nothing, Shot in the Dark or Exhilarating Execution
Secret Technique damage increased by 15%.
Connected from Cloaked in Shadows or Fade to Nothing
Your finishing moves generate per combo point spent.
Connected from Cloaked in Shadows or Fade to Nothing, Night Terrors or Terrifying Pace
Row 6 opens at 8 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Gloomblade and Shadowstrike have a 15% chance to create a Shadow Clone that repeats the attack for 50% of normal damage as Shadow.
Connected from Master of Shadows
Shadow Dance increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities by 10%.
Shadow Dance increases attack speed by 25%.
Connected from Master of Shadows
Shadow Dance has 1 additional charge.
Connected from Gloomblade, Shadow Focus, Master of Shadows
Eviscerate and Black Powder deal an additional 30% damage as Shadow while Find Weakness is active.
Connected from Relentless Strikes, Shadow Focus, Improved Secret Technique
Gain 1 additional max combo point. Your finishing moves that consume more than 5 combo points have increased effects, and your finishing moves deal 5% increased damage.
Connected from Relentless Strikes
Shuriken Storm has a 15% chance to create a Shadow Clone that repeats the attack for 50% of normal damage as Shadow.
Connected from Relentless Strikes
Row 7 opens at 8 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Shadow Clones deal 15% increased damage. Cheap Shot creates a Shadow Clone to Shadowstrike the target for 50% of normal damage as Shadow. Kidney Shot creates a Shadow Clone to Eviscerate the target for 50% of normal damage as Shadow.
Connected from Planned Execution or Warning Signs, Weaponmaster
Shadow Dance duration is increased by 150% of your Haste stat. Current bonus duration:.2 sec
Connected from Planned Execution or Warning Signs, Double Dance
Lash out at your target and 2 additional nearby enemies, inflicting (630% of Attack Power) Shadow damage and causing them to Bleed for (1106% of Attack Power) damage over 14 sec. of all damage from Finishing Moves is repeated as Shadow, split evenly among affected enemies.
Connected from Shadowed Finishers, Double Dance
Your abilities deal 5% increased magic damage.
Connected from Secret Stratagem, Shadowed Finishers
Shadow Clones deal 15% increased damage and your effects that have a chance to create them have 5% additional chance to occur.
Connected from Shuriken Tornado, Secret Stratagem
Row 8 opens at 20 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Find Weakness causes your attacks to ignore an additional 20% armor.
Connected from Umbral Edge, Deepening Shadows
Gloomblade, Shuriken Storm, and Shadowstrike have 10% increased damage while Find Weakness is active.
Connected from Goremaw's Bite, Deepening Shadows
Connected from Goremaw's Bite
Shadow damage increased by 8%.
Connected from Goremaw's Bite, Veiltouched
Black Powder deals increased damage equal to 20% of your Mastery when it spends 5 or more combo points.
Connected from Replicating Shadows, Veiltouched
Row 9 opens at 20 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Find Weakness increases the damage of finishing moves by 5%. Shadow Dance increases the damage of finishing moves by 5%. Shadow Blades increases the damage of finishing moves by 5%.
Connected from Perforated Veins, Improved Find Weakness
Shadow Dance increases all ability damage by 5%, and Shadowstrike and Shuriken Storm damage by an additional 5%.
Connected from Lingering Shadow, Perforated Veins, Deeper Daggers
Eviscerate and Black Powder have 15% increased critical strike damage bonus.
Connected from Potent Powder, Deeper Daggers
Row 10 opens at 20 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Connected from Death Perception
While Shadow Dance is active, your Shadow Techniques triggers 25% more frequently and generates 1 additional combo points.
Connected from Dark Shadow, Death Perception
While Shadow Dance is active, each different attack that generates or spends combo points lashes out at the target, dealing (420% of Attack Power) Shadow damage.
Connected from Dark Shadow
Remaining out of combat for 6 sec increases the duration of your next Shadow Dance by 4 sec.
Connected from Finality, Dark Shadow
Your weapon poisons have 10% increased application chance and now deal damage as Shadow instead of Nature. Shadow damage increased by 10%.
Connected from Finality
Row 11 opens at 20 points spent in Subtlety Talents
Damaging attacks that expend Shadow Techniques to generate combo points have a 15% chance per stack expended to create a Shadow Clone that repeats the attack for 50% of normal damage as Shadow.
Deathstalker 14
Row 1 opens at 1 points spent in Deathstalker
Garrote applies 3 stacks of Deathstalker's Mark to your target, unless Deathstalker's Mark is already active. You learn Mark for Death. When you spend 5 or more combo points on attacks against a Marked target you consume an application of Deathstalker's Mark, dealing (156% of Attack Power) Plague damage. Move your active Deathstalker's Mark to your target.
Row 2 opens at 1 points spent in Deathstalker
Fan of Knives damage increased by 60%.
Connected from Deathstalker's Mark
Auto-attacks against Marked targets deal an additional (10% of Attack Power) Plague damage.
Connected from Deathstalker's Mark
Damage dealt to targets other than your Marked target deals 5% Plague damage to your Marked target.
Connected from Deathstalker's Mark
Critical strike damage bonus increased by 20%.
Connected from Deathstalker's Mark
Row 3 opens at 1 points spent in Deathstalker
Deathstalker's Mark has a 30% chance to immediately consume a stack when applied.
Connected from Precise Killer
Row 4 opens at 1 points spent in Deathstalker
Connected from Clear the Witnesses
Rupture damage increased by 20%.
Connected from Hunt Them Down
After Deathmark expires, gain 30% increased Nature damage for 30 sec.
Connected from Singular Focus
Row 5 opens at 1 points spent in Deathstalker
Cloak of Shadows duration increased by 2 sec.
Evasion reduces magical damage taken by 15%. Cloak of Shadows reduces physical damage taken by 20%.
Connected from Unshakeable Drive
If you have critically struck with Fan of Knives, increase the critical strike chance of Fan of Knives and Crimson Tempest by 10% and critical strike damage by 20% for 8 sec.
Fan of Knives and Crimson Tempest deal 30% additional damage while 2 or more enemies are afflicted with Rupture.
Connected from Corrupt the Blood
Each time you consume a stack of Deathstalker's Mark, reduce the cooldown of Shadowstep by 3 sec.
Shroud of Concealment duration increased by 5 sec.
Connected from Lingering Darkness or Symbolic Victory
Deathstalker's Mark deals 40% of its normal damage to all other enemies within 8 yds that are afflicted by Rupture.
Connected from Quietus Celeris
Row 6 opens at 1 points spent in Deathstalker
When you consume the final Deathstalker's Mark from a target or your target dies, gain 30 Energy and Darkest Night, causing your next Envenom cast with 5 or more combo points to critically strike, deal 35% additional damage, and apply 3 stacks of Deathstalker's Mark to the target if no other Deathstalker's Mark is active. Envenom cast with Darkest Night does not consume a stack of active Deathstalker's Marks.
Connected from Momentum of Despair or Follow the Blood, Ethereal Cloak or Bait and Switch, Shadewalker or Shroud of Night, Mass Casualty
Trickster 14
Row 1
Targets struck are Fazed for 10 sec. Fazed enemies take 5% more damage from you and cannot parry your attacks. This effect may occur once every 20 sec.
Row 2 opens at 1 points spent in Trickster
You take 5% reduced damage from Fazed targets.
Feint reduces damage taken from area-of-effect attacks by an additional 10%
Connected from Unseen Blade
Unseen Blade and Killing Spree increase the damage of your finishing moves by 4% for 12 sec.
Connected from Unseen Blade
Row 3 opens at 1 points spent in Trickster
Attacks that generate combo points deal 50% increased critical strike damage to Fazed targets.
Connected from Unseen Blade
Fazed increases damage taken by an additional 3%.
Connected from Unseen Blade
Row 4 opens at 1 points spent in Trickster
Tricks of the Trade's threat redirect duration is increased to 1 min.
Blind and Shroud of Concealment have 10% reduced cooldown. Pick Pocket and Sap have 10 yd increased range.
Connected from Surprising Strikes
Slice and Dice grants 10% additional attack speed and gives your auto-attacks a chance to refresh your opportunity to strike with Unseen Blade.
Taking damage from an area-of-effect attack while Feint is active or dodging while Evasion is active refreshes your opportunity to strike with Unseen Blade. This effect may only occur once.
Connected from Flawless Form
Unseen Blade may now occur once every 25 sec and has 25% chance to strike twice.
Connected from Hoodwink
Row 5 opens at 1 points spent in Trickster
Killing Spree applies Fazed to any targets struck.
Connected from Smoke or Mirrors
Row 6 opens at 1 points spent in Trickster
Killing Spree has 10% reduced cooldown and allows your next 2 strikes of Unseen Blade to ignore its cooldown.
Connected from So Tricky or Don't Be Suspicious
Activating Adrenaline Rush creates a cloud of smoke for 6 sec, allowing attacks from within the cloud to apply Fazed, stacking up to 2 additional times. Effect persists for 6 sec after leaving the cloud.
Finishing moves have 12% increased chance to critically strike Fazed targets.
Connected from Devious Distractions
Blade Flurry damage is increased by 25% while Flawless Form is active.
Connected from Thousand Cuts or Flickerstrike
Pistol Shot has 20% increased critical strike chance and now triggers Unseen Blade when available.
Connected from Flashing Steel
Row 7 opens at 1 points spent in Trickster
After 4 strikes with Unseen Blade, your next Dispatch will be performed as a Coup de Grace, functioning as if it had consumed 5 additional combo points, and granting you 5 stacks of Flawless Form.
Connected from Cloud Cover or No Scruples, Disorienting Strikes, Nimble Flurry, Clever Combatant
Best Subtlety Rogue builds
These builds are counted, not opinions. We read the active talent loadout of the highest-rated Subtlety Rogue players on the US ladders (Solo Shuffle, 3v3 Arena and Battleground Blitz), decoded every code against the Subtlety Rogue tree, and tallied what they actually run. 300 decoded loadouts feed this section. Loadouts last read November 4, 2026. Each build links into the calculator above with every point already placed.
Solo Shuffle: 100 top players, best rating 2983
No identical build is run by more than 4 of these 100 players, so the loadouts below are the real ones that sit closest to what most of them take.
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76 talents are taken by at least 90% of the 100 Solo Shuffle players, out of roughly 74 talents in a full loadout. They include Alacrity, Ancient Arts, Blind, Dark Shadow, Deadened Nerves, Deadly Precision, Death Perception and Deep Cuts, plus 68 more.
The ladder is split on Unbreakable Stride (40%), Bait and Switch (63%), Blackjack (63%), Tricks of the Trade (37%), Toxic Stiletto (66%) and Weaponmaster (33%). The percentage is the share of Solo Shuffle players running that talent, so a number near 50% means the top of the ladder has not settled on it.
Choice nodes where players take different sides: Blackjack (63%) against Tricks of the Trade (37%); Bait and Switch (63%) against Ethereal Cloak (32%); Follow the Blood (68%) against Momentum of Despair (28%); Fade to Nothing (81%) against Cloaked in Shadows (19%).
Rarely taken but still seen on the ladder: Finality (8%), No Scruples (7%), Symbolic Victory (7%), Virulent Poisons (7%), Cold Blooded Killer (6%) and Iron Stomach (6%).
Hero tree split: Trickster 97% and Deathstalker 3%.
3v3 Arena: 100 top players, best rating 3043
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73 talents are taken by at least 90% of the 100 3v3 Arena players, out of roughly 87 talents in a full loadout. They include Blind, Danger Sense, Deadly Precision, Deep Cuts, Double Dance, Evasion, Find Weakness and Fleet Footed, plus 65 more.
The ladder is split on Lingering Shadow (53%), The Rotten (46%), Blackjack (44%), Tricks of the Trade (56%), Deepening Shadows (61%) and Weaponmaster (37%). The percentage is the share of 3v3 Arena players running that talent, so a number near 50% means the top of the ladder has not settled on it.
Choice nodes where players take different sides: Tricks of the Trade (56%) against Blackjack (44%); Bait and Switch (65%) against Ethereal Cloak (32%); Fade to Nothing (73%) against Cloaked in Shadows (27%); Follow the Blood (76%) against Momentum of Despair (21%).
Rarely taken but still seen on the ladder: Cold Blooded Killer (9%), Iron Stomach (9%), Leeching Poison (9%), Lethality (9%), Symbolic Victory (9%) and Planned Execution (8%).
Hero tree split: Trickster 96% and Deathstalker 4%.
Battleground Blitz: 100 top players, best rating 2841
No identical build is run by more than 3 of these 100 players, so the loadouts below are the real ones that sit closest to what most of them take.
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61 talents are taken by at least 90% of the 100 Battleground Blitz players, out of roughly 74 talents in a full loadout. They include Alacrity, Ancient Arts, Blind, Deadly Precision, Death Perception, Deep Cuts, Deeper Stratagem and Double Dance, plus 53 more.
The ladder is split on Toxic Stiletto (49%), Superior Mixture (48%), Bait and Switch (53%), Unbreakable Stride (47%), Nimble Fingers (46%) and The Rotten (54%). The percentage is the share of Battleground Blitz players running that talent, so a number near 50% means the top of the ladder has not settled on it.
Choice nodes where players take different sides: Bait and Switch (53%) against Ethereal Cloak (36%); Follow the Blood (60%) against Momentum of Despair (30%); Fade to Nothing (72%) against Cloaked in Shadows (28%); Blackjack (76%) against Tricks of the Trade (24%).
Rarely taken but still seen on the ladder: Leeching Poison (10%), Airborne Irritant (9%), Atrophic Poison (8%), Exhilarating Execution (8%), Silent Storm (8%) and So Tricky (8%).
Hero tree split: Trickster 96% and Deathstalker 4%.
Where the brackets disagree: Superior Mixture is run by 83% in 3v3 Arena but 48% in Battleground Blitz; Tricks of the Trade is run by 56% in 3v3 Arena but 24% in Battleground Blitz; Blackjack is run by 76% in Battleground Blitz but 44% in 3v3 Arena; Unbreakable Stride is run by 47% in Battleground Blitz but 21% in 3v3 Arena. Pick the loadout from the bracket you queue for.
Method: top US ladder entries per bracket that have a stored loadout, active loadout only. Builds are grouped by the exact talents chosen, ranks and choice nodes included. Small samples are never shown (a bracket needs at least 8 decoded loadouts).
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