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Sinister Strike

Sinister Strike

50 Energy	Melee Range

Instant
Requires Rogue
Requires level 1

Requires Melee Weapon
An instant strike that causes 160% Physical damage.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

50 Energy

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Normalized Weapon Damage

Effect #2

Add Combo Points

Effect #3

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 160

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Guides

Rogue DPS Guide (Assassination,
Combat, Subtlety)

Rogue PvE
compendium - the
do's and dont's

Warlords of Draenor
Rogue Changes

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Comment by robopolis

Sinister Strike is the move that makes even slow wepons useful to daggers, because unlike most warrior skills which work with the next melee skill, Sinister Strike is an instant cast. So if you happen to have a sword in your main hand and a dagger in your off hand then the slow DPS of the dagger will be made up by the higher damage that will be recieved from Sinister Strike

Comment by NerArth

With combat talents Aggression and Surprise Attacks instead of 180 in the tooltip it probably says around 208 bonus.
(I'm no math genious or anything so it may be wrong, nice if someone could check this out)
~~Check Hendak's post below, mine is outdated.~~

Trivia: Back in the day, Sinister Strike dealt 100% weapon damage (normal weapon damage) plus a fixed amount that was dependent on the skill's rank and on talents.

Comment by Yakeshi

This is one of the three moves you start with as a Rogue. The other two are Eviscerate and Throw.

Comment by Selendis

If you r leveling in subtlety, cuz it has a lot of traveling\\cave soloing\\elite mob assassination skills you wont use ss cuz of hemo, its cheaper and has a buff. On low levels ss and hemo has approx equal damage on average.

Comment by dreadblood

this move doesnt make ur char do the special attack thing (like heroic strike) but instead will just hit them normally with a sound and a purple thingy, this is good because seeing my gnome jump into my enemies face a lot is just plain stupid :P

Comment by Meggie

Despite its name this attack is made with the right hand.
In latin, sinister means 'left side'.

Comment by Roguesaxaphone

can get up to 3cp on a crit, seal fate+glyphed SS but it all depends on ur crit chance too bad there isnt a SS version of puncturing wounds

Comment by Onyx7

Can someone post an equation to figure out the approximate damage this would put out including imp SS(30%) and aggression(20%)? I'm trying to figure just how much more effective SS is vs. RS

Comment by Probaton

More to the point you only ever want to use Revealing Strike when you have exactly four combo points and you know your next finisher is going to be an Eviscerate or a Rupture (which you probably shouldn't be using anyway).

If you really know what you're doing you could also bang one out if you're at exactly four points, are going to S'n'D and you know your next finisher after that is going to be an Eviscerate and that it's going to pop in less than 15 seconds. However, most of us are probably better of sticking with rule one.

Comment by Catoria

Is Sinister Strike only available to one spec now? I can't find it on my sub rogues, and thought it was gone - but my combat rogue still has it.

Comment by sylancer

Sinister Strike actually is only available for Combat Rogue,

for Subtlety Rogue, Hemorrhage replaces Sinister Strike.
for Assassination Rogue, Dispatch replaces Sinister Strike.

Hearthstone: Sinister Strike

Comment by puretko

http ://www. thefreedictionary.com/sinister
http ://www. oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sinister
Reading the above and looking at my rogue attacking with his right hand, i think you guys are mislead to believe that sinister is used as appointment for direction.
It's actually more accurate to read it as something treathening,evil and unexspected.
It's a rogue move after all , so it totally sinks into the conception of the class.
After all ninjas are masters of deception and what is better than a surprise, misleading attack which cannot be forseen - and evaded.

Comment by Dreamslave

I feel like this attack costs far too much energy. Whenever I get bored with Sub PvP, I give combat a shot, then realize how terrible an idea it is because I'm energy starved so quickly.

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