Lethality

Lethality
Talent Lethality {{{cast_time}}} sec cast Requires Rogue Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, Mutilate, Shiv, and Hemorrhage abilities by X%.
Usable by
Class	Rogue
Properties
Type	N/A
School	N/A
Casting time	Unknown sec cast
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Requirements
Location	N/A
Level required	10

• Talent
• Lethality
• {{{cast_time}}} sec cast
• Requires Rogue
• Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Sinister Strike, Gouge, Backstab, Ghostly Strike, Mutilate, Shiv, and Hemorrhage abilities by X%.

Lethality is a 10 point Rogue talent located in the 3rd tier of the Assassination Tree. It increases the damage of critcal strikes for most subtlety attacks.

Rank table

Rank	Damage bonus
1	6%
2	12%
3	18%
4	24%
5	30%

Notes

• Mainly useful for lucky burst damage in pvp, not sustained boss dps.
• Provides 15% more damage to critical hits on your combo point generators.
• The average percent damage bonus on these attacks is given by:

100 * 0.3 * critrate / (.94 + critrate)

• Typical Backstab damage bonus: ~11.7% with Improved Backstab
• Typical Sinister Strike bonus: ~6.3%
• Compare to Opportunity: 20% Backstab bonus
• Compare to Surprise Attacks: 10% Backstab/Sinister Strike bonus (only costs 1 point)
• Compare to Relentless Strikes: ~6% Backstab/Sinister Strike bonus (only costs 1 point)

Patch changes

• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): Lethality no longer affects Ambush.
  

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