Ruthlessness, an Assassination Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Ruthlessness 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 3 ranks. It is the same as in Classic Era.

Ruthlessness

3 ranks

Requires 5 points in Assassination

Gives your finishing moves a 20% chance to add a Combo Point to your target.

Every rank of Ruthlessness

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Gives your finishing moves a 20% chance to add a Combo Point to your target.
Rank 2	Gives your finishing moves a 40% chance to add a Combo Point to your target.
Rank 3	Gives your finishing moves a 60% chance to add a Combo Point to your target.

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 Ruthlessness.

Compared with Classic Era

Ruthlessness is the same as in Classic Era.

It sits in the same place and has the same number of ranks.

Its rank 1 text differs from Classic only in capitalization, punctuation or spacing.

Rank 1 text Formatting only

Classic Era

Gives your finishing moves a 20% chance to add a combo point to your target.

WoW Forever

Gives your finishing moves a 20% chance to add a Combo Point to your target.

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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.