Dirty Deeds, a Subtlety Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Dirty Deeds is a passive talent in row 5 of the Subtlety tree. It needs 20 points in Subtlety, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Dirty Deeds

2 ranks

Requires 20 points in Subtlety

Reduces the Energy cost of your Cheap Shot and Garrote abilities by 10, and your Garrote ability no longer requires you to be behind your target.

Every rank of Dirty Deeds

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Reduces the Energy cost of your Cheap Shot and Garrote abilities by 10, and your Garrote ability no longer requires you to be behind your target.
Rank 2	Reduces the Energy cost of your Cheap Shot and Garrote abilities by 20, and your Garrote ability no longer requires you to be behind your target.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Subtlety tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

Quietus

That talent needs Dirty Deeds at 2/2.

Same row

Row above (row 4)

Row below (row 6)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Dirty Deeds.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text and its position.

Position

Classic Era

Subtlety, row 5, column 3

WoW Forever

Subtlety, row 5, column 1

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Reduces the Energy cost of your Cheap Shot and Garrote abilities by 10.

WoW Forever

Reduces the Energy cost of your Cheap Shot and Garrote abilities by 10, and your Garrote ability no longer requires you to be behind your target.

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The other Rogue trees: Assassination and Combat. Everything that changed for the Rogue since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.