Rupture

For the Pet Battle ability, see [Rupture].

Rupture
Rupture Level 17 Assassination, Subtlety rogue ability Melee range 25 Energy Instant Requires Melee Weapon Finishing move that tears open the target, dealing Bleed damage over time. Lasts longer per combo point.   1 point : (50.12% of AP) over 8 sec   2 points: (75.18% of AP) over 12 sec   3 points: (100.24% of AP) over 16 sec   4 points: (125.3% of AP) over 20 sec   5 points: (150.36% of AP) over 24 sec
Properties
Class	Rogue
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	17
Improvements	[Deeper Stratagem], [Venomous Wounds]
Related debuff
Bleed Rupture Bleeding for (12.53% of AP) damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8-24 seconds

File:RuptureTCG.jpg

In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Rupture is a level 17 Assassination and Subtlety rogue finishing move that inflicts a bleeding wound on the target, working as a DoT.

Notes

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 scaling and make it a more attractive ability for end-game use. This change was later reverted, making the DPS the same regardless of the number of combo points used.

Improvements

• [Deeper Stratagem]
• [Venomous Wounds]

Tips and tactics

• Save this for longer fights, or fights against highly-armored opponents. Don't waste combo points extending the duration for longer than the fight is likely to last.
• 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.
• The [Hemorrhage] ability will not add damage to Rupture (or any other DoT).
• Works well against other rogues who may use [Vanish] to escape, since any damage removes stealth.

Patches and hotfixes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now also usable by Subtlety rogues.
  
• Hotfix (2017-02-03): Damage increased by 4%.
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): The damage of the spell no longer scales up based on combo points spent. Now, combo points spent scale up its duration.
  
• Hotfix (2016-08-22): Rupture damage has been decreased to 25% Attack Power (was 30%).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer available to Subtlety rogues. Damage increased by 327%. No longer deals additional Nature damage or grants Energy to poisoned targets, nor causes the rogue to gain additional Energy if a target dies with Rupture active.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • No longer available to Combat rogues.
  • [Venomous Wounds]'s effects have been merged into baseline Rupture for Assassination Rogues. It no longer triggers from Garrote and now always triggers when Rupture deals damage (up from a 75% chance).
    
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): Skeletal and non-corporeal undead (such as wraiths), elementals and mechanical creatures are now susceptible to bleed effects.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22): Rupture now increases in potency with greater attack power.
  

See also

• Rupture, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB