Wowpedia

We have moved to Warcraft Wiki. Click here for information and the new URL.

READ MORE

Wowpedia
Advertisement
Killing Spree
Ability rogue murderspree
  • Killing Spree
  • Row 8 Outlaw rogue talent
  • 10 yd range
  • 2 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Requires Melee Weapon
  • Teleport to an enemy within 10 yards, attacking with both weapons for a total of (576% of Attack power) Physical damage and taking 35% reduced damage over 2 sec.

    While Blade Flurry is active, also hits up to 4 nearby enemies for 100% damage.
Properties
Class Rogue
School Physical
Cooldown 2 minutes
Talents
Talent required Inv weapon shortblade 15 [Improved Main Gauche]
Improvements Ability rogue restlessblades [Restless Blades]
Related buff
Ability rogue murderspree
  • Killing Spree
  • Attacking an enemy every 0.4 sec.
  • Duration: 2 seconds

Killing Spree is an Outlaw rogue talent. It is an instant rogue ability that allows the rogue to deal a large amount of burst damage to an enemy (several enemies with Ability warrior punishingblow [Blade Flurry] in their range).

It is an exclusive choice node with Inv sword 1h artifactskywall d 01dual [Dreadblades].

Notes[]

  • Killing Spree works with Ability warrior punishingblow [Blade Flurry], so popping both will make the rogue attack additional targets instead of focusing on the rogue's main target.
  • Killing Spree also deals incredible damage to single targets and quite often is more effective and reliable when other targets are not in range.
  • Since Killing Spree uses weapon damage, it deals more damage with slow weapons.
  • During Killing Spree, you continue to melee. Your melee swings will benefit from the 50% damage bonus provided by Killing Spree, and you should further enhance this by using Ability rogue slicedice [Slice and Dice].
  • Spell shadow shadowworddominate [Adrenaline Rush]'s 20% increase to attack speed will also enhance your melee swings during Killing Spree, but since you cannot use abilities while Killing Spree is active, you will waste the potential DPS boost provided by the energy regeneration bonus during that time.
  • While Killing Spree is active, all enemies will de-target the rogue, practically rendering the rogue immune to direct damage abilities. Area of Effect attacks and existing Damage over Time debuffs will still damage the rogue.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 5% in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Now reduces damage taken by 35% while active.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-28): Damage is no longer reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 8 Outlaw talent (was a level 50 Outlaw talent).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now capped at 4 additional targets while Ability warrior punishingblow [Blade Flurry] is active. Now available at level 50 (was 90).
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2018-09-07): Damage reduced by 20% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-04-17): Damage of Killing Spree increased by 4%.
  • Legion Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Increased the damage of Killing Spree by 3.5%.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Changed from a level 80 ability to a level 90 talent. No longer causes the rogue to be immune to roots and snares while active.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-06-30): Killing Spree no longer provides immunity to Crowd Control abilities, regardless of Battle Fatigue.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-06-29): Killing Spree should now correctly only provide immunity to roots, snares, and knockback effects.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now only grants immunity to root and snare effects and the effect is now cancelled if the Rogue is affected by other crowd-control effects.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-10-30): Should no longer cancel or end prematurely if one of their targets is immune to damage.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): No longer increases all damage done for the duration. Its damage has been increased to compensate.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-09-18): Killing Spree's range is no longer being incorrectly modified by Blade Flurry.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Targeting has been changed. If Blade Flurry is not active, Killing Spree will now hit the Rogue's target 7 times or pick the closest eligible target if none had been selected. Killing Spree will continue to work as it has while Blade Flurry is active.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Attacks done increased from 5 to 7 and all damage done for the duration increased from 20% to 50%. Now a level 80 Combat ability (was a Tier 7 Combat talent).
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-12-02): Killing Spree should no longer return a script error when only stealthed targets are nearby.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved to Tier 7 (was Tier 11).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Entering a vehicle will now cause this ability to halt, and attempting to use it while on a vehicle will result in an error message.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Error message when no targets are in range has been changed to "Out of Range."
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now also increases all damage done by the rogue while active by 20%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): This ability no longer breaks stealth if it fails due to all targets being out of range.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Instead of making the rogue untargetable, now causes all players to lose targeting on the rogue and the rogue to be unstoppable during its duration.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

External links[]

Advertisement