Rupture
Rupture Melee range 25 Energy Instant Requires Melee Weapon Finishing move that causes damage over time, increased by your attack power. Lasts longer per combo point: 1 point: 8 seconds 2 points: 12 seconds 3 points: 16 seconds 4 points: 20 seconds 5 points: 24 seconds
Usable by
Class	Rogue
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Cooldown	(GCD 1 sec)
Level required	46
Other information
Requirements	Requires Melee Weapon
Related debuff
Rupture Suffering X damage every 2 sec. Duration: Variable
TCG image

• Rupture
• Melee range
• 25 Energy
• Instant
• Finishing move that causes damage over time, increased by your attack power. Lasts longer per combo point:
  1 point: 8 seconds
  2 points: 12 seconds
  3 points: 16 seconds
  4 points: 20 seconds
  5 points: 24 seconds

Rupture is a core rogue ability learned at level 46. 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 Edit

• [Anticipation] (talent)
• [Relentless Strikes] (core ability)
• [Venomous Wounds] ( assassination spec ability)
• [Restless Blades] ( combat spec ability)
• [Sanguinary Vein] ( subtlety spec ability)
• [Mastery: Executioner] ( subtlety spec ability)

Notes Edit

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 Edit

• 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.

Related items Edit

• The 5 piece bonus of the Madcap's Outfit armor set reduces the energy cost of Rupture by 5.

Patch changes Edit

• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes. 
  

External linksEdit

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

v • d • e Playable classes Classes  Death knight ·  Druid ·  Hunter ·  Mage ·  Monk  Paladin ·  Priest ·  Rogue ·  Shaman ·  Warlock ·  Warrior Rogue Rogue races · Rogue quests · Rogue abilities · Rogue trainers · Rogue specializations · Rogue talents · Rogue glyphs · Rogue builds · Rogue tactics · Rogue sets · Starting a rogue · Rogue PvE guide · Rogue PvP guide · Rogue macros Rogue category