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Serrated Blades, a Subtlety Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Serrated Blades 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 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Serrated Blades

3 ranks

  • Requires 15 points in Subtlety

Causes your attacks to ignore 3% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%.

Every rank of Serrated Blades

RankText
Rank 1Causes your attacks to ignore 3% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%.
Rank 2Causes your attacks to ignore 6% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 20%.
Rank 3Causes your attacks to ignore 9% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 30%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Subtlety tree

CamouflageMaster of DeceptionOpportunitySetupElusivenessDirty TricksImproved AmbushInitiativeGhostly StrikeImproved DistractHeightened SensesPremeditationSerrated BladesDirty DeedsPreparationHemorrhageQuietusCutthroatThousand Cuts
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
That talent needs Serrated Blades at 3/3.
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 Serrated Blades.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Causes your attacks to ignore 100 of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%. The amount of Armor reduced increases with your level.

WoW Forever

Causes your attacks to ignore 3% of your target's Armor and increases the damage dealt by your Rupture ability by 10%.

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All Subtlety talents

  1. Camouflage
  2. Master of Deception
  3. Opportunity
  4. Setup
  5. Elusiveness
  6. Dirty Tricks
  7. Improved Ambush
  8. Initiative
  9. Ghostly Strike
  10. Improved Distract
  11. Heightened Senses
  12. Premeditation
  13. Serrated Blades
  14. Dirty Deeds
  15. Preparation
  16. Hemorrhage
  17. Quietus
  18. Cutthroat
  19. Thousand Cuts

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.