Rogue Skill Glossary

Last updated on Jul 10, 2025 at 00:00 by Lloyd

Welcome to the Ashes of Creation skill glossary for Rogue! This page is great for people new to the Rogue Archetype, as it contains the basic information players need to know to excel at both PvE and PvP.

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1. List of All Rogue Abilities

List of All Rogue Abilities

Below is a list of all the spells available to Mages in Ashes of Creation. Each spell includes a short breakdown of important information regarding it's cast time, cooldown and much more.

1.1.

Acrobatic Strike

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Acrobatic Stirke	Cast: .7s Cooldown: 20s	46 Mana	Range: 4m	Quickly strike your target 3 times for 33% physical damage whilst flipping to the other side of them. Puts your target "Off Balance": Cannot move or rotate for 3.1 seconds. If your target is facing you upon activation, gain "Advantage".

1.2.

Adrenaline

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Adrenaline	Cast: Instant Cast Cooldown: 90s	N/A	Range: N/A	Gain "Adrenaline": Movement Speed is increased by 50% Max Stamina increased by 50. Lasts 5 seconds. Usable without breaking Stealth.

1.3.

Ambusher

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Ambusher	Cast: N/A Cooldown: N/A	N/A	Range: N/A	When attacking targets from behind, you gain 10% bonus crit chance.

1.4.

Caltrops

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Caltrops	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 60s	69 Mana	Range: 30m	Throw out a field of caltrops at target location that lasts 10 seconds. Enemies that move through this field will rapidly take 20-35% pierce damage and become "Snared" Enemy Mounts that take damage from this ability also have a 20% chance to become "Spooked"

1.5.

Cunning

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Cunning	Cast: N/A Cooldown: N/A	N/A	Range: N/A	"Advantage" can stack once.

1.6.

Dash

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Dash	Cast: N/A Cooldown: N/A	N/A	Range: N/A	When you have "Advantage", Dodge is converted to a quicker Dash that only costs 30 stamina.

1.7.

Death's Mark

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Death's Mark	Cast: .5s Cooldown: 60s	46 Mana	Range: 50m	Marked for death by a rogue. Take 10% more damage from their attacks. Lasts 1 minute. After their first attack the duration of this debuff is set to 30 seconds. Killing your marked target will reset the cooldown and heal you for 50% of your max health or your target's max health, whichever is lesser. Death's Mark is only usable while "Stealthed" and has a minimum range of 15m.

Upgrade	Description
Cold Embrace	Death's Mark applies "Chilled" upon initial application. If the target is already "Chilled" they instead become "Frozen".

1.8.

Feint

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Feint	Cast: 1s Cooldown: 15s	19 Mana	Range: 15m	Dash behind your target with a feinting strike, dealing 70% physical damage. Gain "Guile": Evasion increased by 20% on your next weapon combo finisher gain "Advantage".

Upgrade	Description
Agile	If feint is used within melee range of your target, you will instead strike them and then flip away from them.

Upgrade	Description
Devious	Backstab resets the cooldown of Feint.

1.9.

Flurry

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Flurry	Cast: .5s Cooldown: 20s	19 Mana	Range: 30m	Quickly strike your target twice for 50% physical damage. Gain "Flurry": Physical Attack Speed increased by 10%. Lasts 6 seconds. Can be extended up to 12 seconds. Weapon combo finishers grant a charge of "Flurry". "Flurry" does not interrupt your weapon combo.

Upgrade	Description
Trounce	After you consume "Advantage", gain "Trounce": your next "Flurry" or "Thrash" will strike all targets in melee range. Lasts 10 seconds.

1.10.

Grappling Hook

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Grappling Hook	Cast: 1.6s Cooldown: 10s	23 Mana	Range: 30m	Throw a grappling hook at your target location and pull yourself to that position. Taking direct damage during this effect will cause you to become "Tripped" for 1 second. Grappling Hook's cooldown is halved when out of combat.

1.11.

Kick

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Kick	Cast: .5s Cooldown: 25s	37 Mana	Range: 4m	Deals 30% bludgeon damage and applies "Tripped". Consumes Advantage to instead hit all targets within melee range and apply "Tripped" for 1 extra second.

1.12.

Lacerate

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Lacerate	Cast: .6s Cooldown: 10s	33 Mana	Range: 4m	Deals 75% physical damage and applies "Bleeding". If the target is already bleeding, instead applys "Hemorraging". Consumes "Advantage" to instead hit all targets in frontal melee range for 150% physical damage with normal melee AoE falloff.

1.13.

Poisons:

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Chilling Poison	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 20s	23 Mana	Range: N/A	Your damaging abilities and 3 specific hits in each weapon combo will apply "Chilled" for 1.5 seconds. Each hit also applies "Poisoned" Only one type of poison can be applied to your weapons at a time. Lasts 10 seconds.

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Draining Poison	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 20s	23 Mana	Range: N/A	Your damaging abilities and weapon combo hits drain mana from your targets, granting it to you, equal to 20% of the damage dealt. Mana gained is diminished for each target hit beyond the first. Each hit also applies "Poisoned" Only one type of poison can be applied to your weapons at a time. Lasts 10 seconds.

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Withering Poison	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 20s	23 Mana	Range: N/A	Your damaging abilities and 3 specific hits in each weapon combo will apply "Weakened" and "Dazed" for 1.5s Each hit also applies "Poisoned" Only one type of poison can be applied to your weapons at a time. Lasts 10 seconds.

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Wounding Poison	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 20s	23 Mana	Range: N/A	Your damaging abilities and 3 specific hits in each weapon combo have a 50% chance to apply "Wounded". Each hit also applies "Poisoned" Only one type of poison can be applied to your weapons at a time. Lasts 10 seconds.

1.14.

Ruthless

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Ruthless	Cast: N/A Cooldown: N/A	N/A	Range: N/A	Stab and Lacerate have no cooldown when used with 2 stacks of "Advantage"

1.15.

Sap

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Sap	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 20s	55 Mana	Range: 4m	Stab your target with a draining dagger that deals 50% physical damage and consumes up to 10 stacks of "Poisoned" to apply "Sap": Deals 8% necrotic damage every 1.5 seconds for each consumed stack of "Poisoned" and heals the rogue the same amount. Lasts 8 seconds. If the target has 10 stacks of "Poisoned" upon activation, gain "Advantage".

1.16.

Shadow Cascade

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Shadow Cascade	Cast: .7s Cooldown: 90s	69 Mana	Range: 20m	Dash 20 meters forward through your enemies. After a short delay, deals 150-300% necrotic damage to each target hit, increasing based on the amount of missing health on the target. All targets hit suffer "Bleeding" Targets that are "Poisoned" become "Exposed" Targets below 50% health suffer "Hemorraging" Requires and consumes "Advantage".

1.17.

Shadowstep

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Shadowstep	Cast: .6s Cooldown: 20s	37 Mana	Range: 25m	Teleport behind your target. If used on an enemy that is more than 15m away, gain "Advantage".

Upgrade	Description
Ethereal	Shadowstep can be used while disabled and will break out of all disabling effects.

1.18.

Sleep Dart

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Sleep Dart	Cast: .3s Cooldown: 25s	46 Mana	Range: 8-20m	Shoot a sleep dart at a target enemy that applies "Incapacitated" for 10.1 seconds. Minimum range of 8 meters.

Upgrade	Description
Anemia	If the target of your Sleep Dart is "Bleeding", the duration of the applied "Incapacitated" will be extended by 5 seconds and the bleeds will be removed.

1.19.

Smoke Bomb

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Smoke Bomb	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 90s	69 Mana	Range: N/A	Throw a smoke bomb down beneath you that lasts 10 seconds. While within, you are unobservable and activating or leaving "Stealth" only incurs a 3 second cooldown. While within you also gain "Blurred": Evasion increased by 25% Enemies within are periodically afflicted with "Blinded": Accuracy reduced by 25%

Upgrade	Description
Shivering Vapor	Smoke Bomb also periodically applies "Chilled".

1.20.

Soothing Shadows

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Soothing Shadows	Cast: N/A Cooldown: N/A	N/A	Range: N/A	Entering "Stealth" grants you "Soothing Shadows" Heals for 1% of your max health per tick, ramping up to 5% at critically low health.

1.21.

Stab/Backstab

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Stab/Backstab	Channel .4s Cooldown: 10s	33 Mana	Range: 4m	Deals 125% pierce damage. Consumes "Advantage" to deal a bonus 125% pierce damage and apply "Exposed".

1.22.

Stealth

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Stealth	Cast: .7s Cooldown: 10s	N/A	Range: N/A	Enter a powerful form of stealth, becoming fully invisible. Other characters may detect you based on their perception and your stealth level, as well as your distance and angle to them. Your allies will always be able to see you. Movement speed is reduced by 20%. "Stealth" will fade upon most offensive ability activation or if damage taken exceeds 5% of your max health while the effect is active. In either case, Stealth's cooldown will trigger again. Gain "Advantage". Stealth can only be activated when out of line of sight or more than 15m away from all non-allies.

1.23.

Thrash

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Thrash	Cast: .5s Cooldown: 15s	14 Mana	Range: 4m	Deals 80% physical damage to your target. This ability can be activated up to 2 more times in a short time frame for increasing damage. However, you must activate another ability before it can be recast. The third and final strike will apply "Bleeding" to your target and grant "Advantage" to yourself. Thrash does not interrupt your weapon combo.

1.24.

Throw

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Throw	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 18s	46 Mana	Range: 30m	Throw a spinning blade at your target to deal 100% pierce damage and apply "Bleeding" for 6 seconds or up to 12 seconds on full health targets. Throw bounces up to 2 times to other nearby enemies dealing lesser damage with each bounce.

Upgrade	Description
Ricochet	Throw's base damage is increased by 25% and Throw can now bounce up to 3 additional targets.

Upgrade	Description
Unstable Compound	If Throw hits two or more targets, the final target is afflicted with "Unstable Compound": Backstabbing, weapon combo finishing, or killing this target will cause an explosion to hit nearby enemies for 125% fire damage and apply "Burning" for the same amount.

1.25.

Toolbelt

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Expanded Toolbelt	Cast: N/A Cooldown: N/A	N/A	Range: N/A	Your tool abilities can be used without breaking stealth, but increase your chances of being detected. - Throw - Sleep Dart - Poisons - Caltrops - Grappling Hook - Smoke Bomb

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Padded Toolbelt	Cast: .4s Cooldown: 20s	23 Mana	Range: N/A	Your tool abilities can be used without breaking stealth, but increase your chances of being detected. - Throw - Sleep Dart - Poisons - Caltrops - Grappling Hook - Smoke Bomb

1.26.

Umbral Cloak

Action Name	Timers	Cost	Range & Radius	Description
Umbral Cloak	Cast: .5s Cooldown: 90s	N/A	Range: N/A	Apply "Umbral Cloak": Magical Evasion increased by 80%. Lasts 8 seconds. Consumes "Advantage to clear all damaging debuffs and crowd control effects.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Llewd Lloyd is a long-term Ashes of Creation tester and content creator with 5,000+ hours into the game since Alpha 1. He has played every archetype to max level and has specialized in Rogue. He plays for one of the most accomplished guilds in Ashes of Creation, POLAR, and has shoutcasted all of their PvP tournaments to date. He streams on Twitch and posts content on YouTube.

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