Black Powder

For the artifact trait, see [Black Powder].

Black Powder
Black Powder Level 16 Subtlety rogue ability 35 Energy Instant Requires Melee Weapon Finishing move that launches explosive Black Powder at all nearby enemies dealing Physical damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. 1 point : (11.69% of Attack Power) damage 2 points: (23.38% of Attack Power) damage 3 points: (35.07% of Attack Power) damage 4 points: (46.76% of Attack Power) damage 5 points: (58.45% of Attack Power) damage
Properties
Class	Rogue
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	16
Improvements	[Deeper Daggers], [Finality], [Follow the Blood], [Shadowed Finishers]

Black Powder is a Subtlety rogue ability.

Notes

• During beta, this ability was called Shadow Vault and threw out shurikens.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2024-11-26): Damage increased by 20%.
  
• Hotfix (2024-10-08): damage increased by 35%.
  
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Now a level 16 baseline ability for Subtlety (was a row 2 Subtlety talent).
  
• Hotfix (2022-12-12): Damage reduced by 5%.
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-21): Damage increased by 5%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Subtlety talent (was a level 52 Subtlety ability). Rank 2 converted into the [Shadowed Finishers] talent.
  
• Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29):
  • Black Powder's damage per combo point increased by 33%.
  • Now causes targets with Find Weakness to suffer an additional 40% damage as Shadow (was 50%).
    
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB