Iron Wire
Garrotes applied from stealth or during the Improved Garrote window silence their target for 5 sec. Enemies silenced by Garrote deal 15% reduced damage for 5 sec.
Tree position
In the Assassination Rogue talent tree, Iron Wire sits in the Assassination specialization talents, row 6 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Assassination Talents.
Choice node
Iron Wire shares its node with Intent to Kill. A character takes one of the two.
Intent to KillShadowstep's cooldown is reduced by 33.3333% when used on a target afflicted by your Garrote.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Iron Wire from Bloody Mess.
Bloody MessGarrote and Rupture damage increased by 15%.
Connected below
Iron Wire leads on to Amplifying Poison.
Amplifying PoisonCoats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 60 min. Each strike has a chance to poison the enemy, dealing (8.1% of Attack Power) Nature damage and applying Amplifying Poison for 12 sec. Envenom can consume 10 stacks of Amplifying Poison to deal 35% increased damage.
Same row
Also on this row: Sanguine Stratagem, Fatal Concoction, Finish the Job or Negotiable Contract, Lethal Dose, Flying Daggers or Secondary Poisoning and Poison Bomb.
Sanguine StratagemGain 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.

Finish the JobAll damage you deal is increased by 10% while Deathmark is active.
Negotiable ContractIf the target of your Deathmark dies, Deathmark jumps to a nearby enemy combatant for its remaining duration.
Lethal Dose2 ranksYour weapon poisons and Nature or Bleed damage over time abilities deal 1% increased damage to targets for each of your lethal poison or damage over time effects on them.
Flying DaggersFan of Knives has its radius increased to 12 yds, deals 20% more damage, and an additional 10% when striking 5 or more targets.
Secondary PoisoningWhen you apply a Weapon Poison with a single-target attack, you have a 50% chance to strike a nearby enemy for (15% of Attack Power) Physical damage and apply the same Weapon Poison to them.
Poison BombEnvenom has a chance per combo point spent to smash a vial of poison at the target's location, creating a pool of acidic death that deals Nature damage over 2 sec to all enemies within it.
Talent trees
Iron Wire is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Rogue: Assassination (DPS), Outlaw (DPS), Subtlety (DPS).
Iron Wire Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)