Heightened Senses, a Subtlety Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Heightened Senses is a passive talent in row 4 of the Subtlety tree. It needs 15 points in Subtlety, so the earliest you can take it is level 25 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Heightened Senses

2 ranks

Requires 15 points in Subtlety

Increases your Stealth detection as if you were 1 level higher and reduces your chance to be hit by spells and ranged attacks by 2%.

Every rank of Heightened Senses

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases your Stealth detection as if you were 1 level higher and reduces your chance to be hit by spells and ranged attacks by 2%.
Rank 2	Increases your Stealth detection as if you were 3 levels higher and reduces your chance to be hit by spells and ranged attacks by 4%.

Where it sits in the Subtlety tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

Row above (row 3)

Row below (row 5)

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

Compared with Classic Era

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

Position

Classic Era

Subtlety, row 5, column 1

WoW Forever

Subtlety, row 4, column 1

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases your Stealth detection and reduces the chance you are hit by spells and ranged attacks by 2%.

WoW Forever

Increases your Stealth detection as if you were 1 level higher and reduces your chance to be hit by spells and ranged attacks by 2%.

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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.