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Lethality
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
Location	Assassination, Tier 3
Affects	Critical strike damage bonus
Ranks	5
Requirements
Points required	10
Spec specific	Yes
Talent required	None

• 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

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. 
  

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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