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: (95.4% of Attack Power) over 8 sec; 2 points: (143.1% of Attack Power) over 12 sec; 3 points: (190.8% of Attack Power) over 16 sec; 4 points: (238.6% of Attack Power) over 20 sec; 5 points: (286.3% of Attack Power) over 24 sec;
Properties
Class	Rogue
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	17
Improvements	[Bloody Mess], [Finality], [Indiscriminate Carnage], [Replicating Shadows], [Sanguine Blades], [Venomous Wounds]
Related debuff
	Bleed ; Rupture ; Bleeding for (23.856% of Attack power) damage every 2 seconds. ; Duration: 8-24 seconds ;

For the Waycrest Manor subzone, see Rupture (Waycrest Manor). For the pet battle ability, see [Rupture].

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.

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.

Patch changes

Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Damage increased by 20%.
Hotfix (2022-11-28): Fixed an issue that prevented Rupture's duration from benefiting from Animacharged combo points (via [Echoing Reprimand]) when casting Rupture on an enemy afflicted by [Deathmark].
Hotfix (2022-11-01): Damage increased by 5%.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now also usable by Subtlety rogues. Now learned at level 17 (was 20).
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.
Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 20 (was 22).
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. Now learned at level 22 (was 46).
Hotfix (2014-12-15): Venomous Wounds' damage has increased by 20%.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
- No longer available to Combat rogues.
- [Venomous Wounds]' effects have been merged into baseline Rupture for Assassination Rogues. Now deals additional Nature damage and you regain 10 Energy when Rupture damages a poisoned target. If an enemy dies while afflicted by your Rupture, you regain up to 120 energy, based on remaining duration.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now learned at level 46 (was 20).
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.