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Improved Kidney Shot, an Assassination Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Improved Kidney Shot is a passive talent in row 5 of the Assassination tree. It needs 20 points in Assassination, 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.

Improved Kidney Shot

2 ranks

  • Requires 20 points in Assassination

Enemies Stunned by your Kidney Shot ability take 5% increased damage from your poisons and attacks.

Every rank of Improved Kidney Shot

RankText
Rank 1Enemies Stunned by your Kidney Shot ability take 5% increased damage from your poisons and attacks.
Rank 2Enemies Stunned by your Kidney Shot ability take 10% increased damage from your poisons and attacks.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Assassination tree

Improved GougeRemorseless AttacksMaliceRuthlessnessMurderImproved Slice and DiceRelentless StrikesImproved Expose ArmorLethalityVile PoisonsCold BloodImproved PoisonsVigorMutilateImproved Kidney ShotSeal FateVenom
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
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 Improved Kidney Shot.

Compared with Classic Era

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

Ranks

Classic Era

3 ranks

WoW Forever

2 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

While affected by your Kidney Shot ability, the target receives an additional 3% damage from all sources.

WoW Forever

Enemies Stunned by your Kidney Shot ability take 5% increased damage from your poisons and attacks.

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All Assassination talents

  1. Improved Gouge
  2. Remorseless Attacks
  3. Malice
  4. Ruthlessness
  5. Murder
  6. Improved Slice and Dice
  7. Relentless Strikes
  8. Improved Expose Armor
  9. Lethality
  10. Vile Poisons
  11. Cold Blood
  12. Improved Poisons
  13. Vigor
  14. Mutilate
  15. Improved Kidney Shot
  16. Seal Fate
  17. Venom

The other Rogue trees: Combat and Subtlety. 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.