Secret Technique

Secret Technique
Secret Technique Row 5 Subtlety rogue talent Melee range 30 Energy 1 min cooldown Instant Finishing move that creates shadow clones of yourself. You and your shadow clones each perform a piercing attack on all enemies near your target, dealing Physical damage to the primary target and reduced damage to other targets. 1 point : (60% of Attack Power) total damage 2 points: (120% of Attack Power) total damage 3 points: (180% of Attack Power) total damage 4 points: (240% of Attack Power) total damage 5 points: (300% of Attack Power) total damage Cooldown is reduced by 1 sec for every combo point you spend.
Properties
Class	Rogue
School	Physical
Cooldown	1 minute
Talents
Talent required	[Cloaked in Shadows]/ [Fade to Nothing]
Other information
Improvements	[Devious Distractions], [Disorienting Strikes], [Flawless Form]

Secret Technique is a Subtlety rogue talent.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2025-03-11): Damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2025-03-04): Damage reduced by 5%.
  
• Hotfix (2024-08-22): Damage now reduced by 30% in PvP combat (was 40%).
  
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Damage reduced by 6%.
  
• Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07):
  • Damage increased by 12%.
  • Shadow clone attacks no longer double-dip from the bonuses of [Deeper Daggers], [Veiltouched], and [Dark Brew].
  • Moved to row 5 (was row 4).
    
• Hotfix (2023-06-26): Damage now reduced by 40% in PvP Combat (was 33%).
  
• Hotfix (2023-06-05): Damage is now reduced by 33% in PvP Combat (was 25%).
  
• Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat (was reduced by 30%).
  
• Hotfix (2022-12-19): Damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2022-12-12): Fixed an issue that caused Secret Technique to interact incorrectly with [Cold Blood].
  
• Hotfix (2022-12-07): Secret Technique can now correctly trigger [Alacrity].
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-28): Fixed an issue that prevented Shadow damage dealt by Secret Technique's Shadow Clones from being correctly modified by talents that increase Shadow damage.
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-21):
  • Damage increased by 5%.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Secret Technique's built-in cooldown reduction from benefitting from [Echoing Reprimand]'s Animacharged combo points.
    
• Hotfix (2022-11-01): Damage increased by 5%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 4 Subtlety talent (was a level 50 Subtlety talent).
  
• Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): No longer maximum target capped, and instead deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now available at level 50 (was 100). Damage increased by 20% and now capped at 6 targets.
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Added.
  

External links

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