Cheat Death
Cheat Death (Passive) Passive An attack that would otherwise be fatal will instead reduce you no lower than 10% of your maximum health, and damage taken will be reduced by 80% for 3 sec. This effect cannot occur more than once per 90 seconds.
Usable by
Class	Rogue
Properties
School	Physical
Talents
Talented	Yes
Level required	45
Related buff
Cheating Death All damage taken reduced by 80%. Duration: 3 seconds
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• Cheat Death (Passive)
• Passive
• An attack that would otherwise be fatal will instead reduce you no lower than 10% of your maximum health, and damage taken will be reduced by 80% for 3 sec. This effect cannot occur more than once per 90 seconds.

For the warrior Tier 3 effect with the same name, see Cheat Death (warrior buff).

Cheat Death is a passive rogue talent available at level 45. Its main purpose is to increase survivability in PVP situations, oftentimes allowing a healer just enough time to land a crucial heal.

Notes

• Patch 4.1.0 (26-Apr-2011): Cheat Death now reduces damage taken by 80% while in effect, down from 90%. Its internal cooldown has been raised to 90 seconds, up from 60. 
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Cheat Death was activating by a warlock’s Chaos Bolt but not working. Chaos Bolt will still trigger Cheat Death, but will not kill the rogue. 
  
• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Cheat Death received a large change to it's mechanics. "Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes." The resilience required to reach the 90% damage reduction cap is 22.5% critical strike damage reduction, or 444 resilience. 
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008): A combat log message will now show when this ability activates and now has an animation.. It will now almost always be accurate in displaying the amount of damage done to a rogue when under the effects of Cheat Death. 
  
• Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): When multiple attacks land simultaneously, all those resolved after the attack which triggered Cheat Death will now have their damage reduced by 90% as intended. However, the combat log will still report them doing full damage. 
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): The chances of avoiding damage were increased to 33/66/100% from 10/20/30%. 
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): Added a visual, sound, and combat log message when the Cheat Death talent saves the rogue from death. 
  

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