Thousand Cuts, a Subtlety Rogue talent in WoW Forever
Thousand Cuts is a passive talent in row 7 of the Subtlety tree. It needs 30 points in Subtlety, so the earliest you can take it is level 40 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.
Thousand Cuts
1 rank
- Requires 30 points in Subtlety
- Requires Preparation at 1/1
When your Rupture ability deals periodic damage, the Energy cost of your next Hemorrhage or Backstab ability within 10 sec is reduced by 3, stacking up to 5 times.
Every rank of Thousand Cuts
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | When your Rupture ability deals periodic damage, the Energy cost of your next Hemorrhage or Backstab ability within 10 sec is reduced by 3, stacking up to 5 times. |
Where it sits in the Subtlety tree
- Needs
Preparation at 1/1
- Unlocks
- No talent needs it
- Same row
- None
- Row above (row 6)
- Row below
- None: this is the last row
Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Thousand Cuts.
Compared with Classic Era
Thousand Cuts has no Classic counterpart: the data lists it as new in Forever.
Open the Rogue talent calculator
All Subtlety talents
- Camouflage
- Master of Deception
- Opportunity
- Setup
- Elusiveness
- Dirty Tricks
- Improved Ambush
- Initiative
- Ghostly Strike
- Improved Distract
- Heightened Senses
- Premeditation
- Serrated Blades
- Dirty Deeds
- Preparation
- Hemorrhage
- Quietus
- Cutthroat
- 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.