Rupture

Rupture
Rupture Melee   range 25 Energy Instant Requires Melee Weapon Finishing move that causes damage over time. Lasts longer per combo point. Assassination While you have poisoned your target, this damage deals x additional Nature damage and grants you 10 Energy. You gain additional Energy if a target dies with Rupture active.
Usable by
Class	Rogue
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Casting time	Instant
Cooldown	(GCD 1 sec)
Talents
Specialization	Assassination, Subtlety
Level required	46
Other information
Requirements	Requires Melee Weapon
Related debuff
Rupture Suffering X damage every 2 sec. Duration: Variable
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• Rupture
• Meleerange
• 25 Energy
• Instant
• Finishing move that causes damage over time. Lasts longer per combo point.
  
  Assassination
  While you have poisoned your target, this damage deals x additional Nature damage and grants you 10 Energy. You gain additional Energy if a target dies with Rupture active.

Rupture is a rogue ability learned at level 46 for those with the Assassination or Subtlety specialization. It is a finishing move that inflicts a DoT on the target, the damage and duration of which is determined by the number of combo points used.

Modified by

Assassination abilities

• Venomous Wounds
• Relentless Strikes

Subtlety abilities

• Sanguinary Vein
• Mastery: Executioner

Notes

Previously, rupture was a static damage finishing move that offered the same DPS no matter how many combo points were saved up -- additional combo points only extended the duration of rupture. The prevalent strategy was to gauge how many seconds left your target had to live, and to only use enough combo points to match it. However, rupture was overhauled to improve its scalability and make it a more attractive ability for end-game use.

Rupture now increases damage and duration per combo point used. It also factors in a percentage of your total attack power as bonus damage that is spread out over the duration of your rupture. The bonus damage from your attack power scales based on the number of combo points on the target.

Tips

• Save this for longer fights, or fights against highly-armored opponents.
• Be careful of using any DoT-type attacks, as it commits you to the fight in that many Crowd Control abilities will be broken by the damage it causes.
• As of patch 2.4, skeletal and non-corporeal undead (such as wraiths), elementals, and mechanical creatures are now susceptible to bleed effects.
• Works well against other rogues who may use vanish to escape, since any damage removes stealth.

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Rupture is no longer available to Combat Rogues.
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes.
  

External links

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• WoWDB