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Garrote

Garrote

45 Energy	Melee Range

Instant
Requires Rogue
Requires level 48

Requires Stealth
Garrote the enemy, silencing them for 3 sec and causing (54% of Attack power) damage over 18 sec. Awards 1 combo point.

Subtlety
For the next 10 sec, your attacks bypass up to 100% of that enemy's armor

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

18 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

Bleeding

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

45 Energy

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Forms

Stealth

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 2 seconds
Mechanic: Bleeding

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Garrote - Silence

Effect #3

Add Combo Points
Value: 1

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Comments

Comment by Sebas

Sadly this isn't a very useful skill for a rogue to use compared to the others in his or her arsenal...I suppose it's helpful if you really want another DoT but besides that it's a bit useful. Personally, I prefer to use deadly poison for DoTs.

Comment by Trizap

I would use this on priests and warriors, cause warriors have a TON of health, so a DOT is perfect, while a priest can heal very well, plus since Power word:shield absorbs a certain amount of damage and isn't an immunety shield, its only a matter of time till it goes down

Comment by lukeh

In TBC, when you hit level 61 you can learn this new Garrote. Although it doesent seem to be listed here.. when used it will silence your victim for 3 seconds. Which makes this skill extremely helpfull.

Comment by Animastryfe

With garrote being a viable opener now, I can see the following combo being very effective provided you're willing to blow some CDs.

Premed>garrote>Shiv>rupture>vanish>wait for energy>CS/ambush and start your stunlock

Comment by mikejr

This is a very useful skill to low lev rogues, it helps kill runners before they get too far (in addition to rupture and crippling poison), as well as being a good opener against high health enemies.

Like all DOTs, it's best used when the fight is going to last the majority of the DOT.

Comment by Satarus

Great for sneaking up on casters. No blink for you Mr. Mage.

Group up with a mangle druid who opens with pounce (druid CS) and then hits mangle to boost the DPS from your bleeders.

Comment by barfield

No more mages blinking away. No more spell casting mobs slowing or hurting you. Even when the damage isnt instant its comparable to a non critting ambush and all low stamina classes hate dots like this one.

Comment by frmorrison

This is really a good ability, I use it as an opener vs all classes (and the bleedable bosses) except Hunters and Rogues.

This is a far cry to an ability that wasn't even on my bars in WoW 1.0.

Comment by Oblivion537

ok i know stupid question and feel free to down me but how do u pronounce this attack?

Comment by SainType

Another benefit of Garrote is that it isn't affected by plate >.>

Comment by Manvasie

does anyone know how much 262 attack power would increase rank 1's damage by?

Comment by Carlotta

As one can se, Garrote is most likely getting changed in WotLK. It seems that it will do less base damage but on the other hand scale more with Attack Power.

This formula tells us the damage for each of the 6 ticks made by Garrote.
However this formula can be simplified, for knowing the total damage, into this.

612 + AP * 0.42

Comment by Stillmore

Hmmmm i love it the silence always gives me time to charge CPs and give the Plators another Rupture :D

The Cloths get a Kidney Shot to keep them from casting.

Comment by demerkson

With these 3 sec silence and sub talents reducing the energy cost of garotte, as well as the 51 sub pointer, a good rogue through sap, blind, stun can render a healer useless for quite some and then chain silence them for another 10+ sec.

Comment by Eggi

612 seems to a bit too low. ~646 seems to match it a bit better.

Comment by hoosemenzatta

With http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42964, 2/2 oppurtunity, and 2/2 blood spatter, this gets a 70% dmg bonus. Well makes up for having a sword/mace over dagger plus ambush. I find it interesting the dmg bonus can be stacked so high at 19.

Some quick math and i get 78 dmg per tick with 265 AP.(according to tooltip formula)

Comment by Kreine

Bit of a nub question, sorry.

If you have multiple effects to increase the damage by a percentage (Say, Opportunity, Blood Splatter, Glyph of Garrote, and Find Weakness, for a 6%, two 20%s and one 30%), would they be additive for 176% or multiplicative for 198.4%?

Comment by khanzeer10

Great against balance druids and holy paladins.

Comment by Crexxairne

The reasons Garrote is used against those two types of characters are, for instance, Boomkins have a ton of armor as do holy paladins, so straight up stunning them or ambushing them won't be the best use of your opener and Garrote is a bleed effect which is unaffected by damage reduction from armor. And just to throw in there, a 3 second silence which is a pain to deal with as a holy paladin/boomkin. Also its not a bad idea to use Garrote against a feral druid, or any druid in bear form for that matter.

Comment by reflectivesol

Garrote's bleed occurs after 3 seconds and does not break sap until then. However, it does turn on auto-attack. However, if you're quick, if you're fighting a humanoid mob, a good combo can be sap -> wait for 100 energy -> garrote -> quickly push esc -> retarget and backstab (garrote breaks your stealth). You have to be quick when pushing esc. and retargetting to backstab though because you have like 2.5 seconds before the bleed breaks the sap. I was going to try turning around quickly to prevent my auto-attack from working but then when you turn back you auto-attack so you'd have to push esc. anyways.

Edit: Actually, it's kind of easier to turn 180 degrees as you push garrote, then spam backstab after global cooldown is over as you turn back towards the mob.
Also: if you have instant poison on it can proc on garrote and break sap =/

Comment by Maelchav

Just a curiosity... the tooltip doesn't say that it requires a melee weapon like all the other moves do, just stealth. Now, I can't imagine why anyone would use this attack without a weapon (it's an opener, so if you're disarmed for some reason and stealthed you don't have to start fighting), but it appears to be possible. Anyone tried it?

Comment by Ultros

Epic Garrote (epic = glyphed + all talents -excl. total damage talents)

30 Energy Melee range
Instant
Requires stealth
Garrote the enemy, silencing them for 3 sec causing (1214 + 0.714*AP) damage over 15 sec
-ticks every 3 sec for (243+0.143*AP)-
increased by attack power. Must be stealthed and behind the target. Awards 2 combo points.

Let's take this apart;
30 energy, cheap enough, dirty deeds talent
1214+0.714*ap over 15 sec, assuming cummulative stacking (rather then multiply'n), 20% opportunity, 30% blood spatter, 20% glyph which also reduces the time, allowing faster blinding etc
243+0.143*AP /tick, since the reduced time, ticks are (total dam/5) rather then (totam dam/6)
2 combo points, initivative talent

All these talents aren't hard to get, and got other bonusses then just garrote, so you don't have to build around it.
Imo, this skill a bit underestimated, since most rogues will open with ambush or cheap shot or something like that.

Another thing is, that this opener can be used with non-daggers or even without weapons, like mentioned above.

Edit: grammar

Comment by MikeOxbig

Do you use Garrote? I sure do.

Comment by Rappe

What has always given me a headache, is how this is actually done... I mean, garrote means basicly "to strangle" with a piano wire or similar...

However, I've come to a theory. The rogue has a pocketful of barbed wire (Check the icon for garrote closely) and he/she pounces at an enemy, and quickly strangles the opponent really forcefully, making numerous bleeds on it's neck, thus causing silence effect and bleeding effect.

Although, I am not completely satisfied with this theory, so if you have a better one... Do share. :D

Comment by Novabe

While toying around with my fishing gear on, I found I could use garrote on a rat.... With a fishing pole equipped.

NOTE: Doesn't require a weapon. So if you are currently disarmed, Vanish and pop this. May help in some situations. Although may be more practical to just disarm the enemy as well, lol.

I've been playing a rogue for a long time and just now realized this... /facepalm

Comment by GluedIndex

Any chance this may get an instant damage buff?
Like through a talent similar to Priest's "Improved Devouring Plague" - Instantly deal 30% of Devouring Plague's periodic effect.
Would love to see this crit and create 2-3 combos.

Comment by Tithanas

As of 5.0.4 garrote doesn't have a positional requirement any more. Now we can strangle our enemies from front too.

Comment by NeolichA52

For Assassination rogues, does this spell still give energy regen for 5.0?

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