Murder, an Assassination Rogue talent in WoW Forever

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

Murder

2 ranks

  • Requires 5 points in Assassination

Increases all damage dealt by 2% against Humanoid and Giant targets.

Every rank of Murder

RankText
Rank 1Increases all damage dealt by 2% against Humanoid and Giant targets.
Rank 2Increases all damage dealt by 4% against Humanoid and Giant targets.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Assassination tree

Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
Row above (row 1)
Row below (row 3)

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases all damage caused against Humanoid, Giant, Beast and Dragonkin targets by 1%.

WoW Forever

Increases all damage dealt by 2% against Humanoid and Giant targets.

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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.