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For the Classic poison item, see Inv misc herb 16 [Wound Poison].
Wound Poison
Inv misc herb 16
  • Wound Poison
  • Level 23 rogue ability
  • 1.5 sec cast
  • Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon
  • Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance to poison the enemy, which instantly inflicts (2.8% of Attack power) Nature damage and reduces all healing received by 8% for 12 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Properties
Class Rogue
School Physical
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 23
Improvements Inv misc herb 16 [Improved Wound Poison], Rogue leeching poison [Leeching Poison]
Related buff
Inv misc herb 16
  • Wound Poison
  • Each strike has a chance of inflicting additional Nature damage to the victim and reducing all healing received for 12 sec.
  • Duration: 1 hour
Related debuff
Inv misc herb 16
  • Poison
  • Wound Poison
  • Healing effects reduced by 8%.
  • Duration: 12 seconds
  • Max stacks: 3

Wound Poison is a rogue ability that applies a poison to their weapons.

Every time the rogue hits with the weapon, there is a 30% chance to damage the victim and poison them for 12 seconds. The poison reduces all healing effects on the victim by 8%, stacking up to 3 times, or up to 5 times for Assassination rogues.

Notes[]

  • As a Lethal poison, Wound Poison cannot be used at the same time with Ability rogue dualweild [Deadly Poison] or Ability poisons [Instant Poison].
  • In PvP combat, the healing reduction effect is halved to 4% per stack.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-10-31): Reduced the level of learning Ability poisonsting [Crippling Poison] to level 10 and Wound Poison to level 23 so they always precede talents that affect them.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Rank 2 converted into the Inv misc herb 16 [Improved Wound Poison] talent.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
    • Now available to all rogues at level 38. Wound Poison now stacks up to 3 times, and reduces healing taken by 8% per stack (previously 25% and did not stack).
    • Rank 2 added for Assassination at level 44: Wound Poison can now stack 2 additional times.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-02-21): Wound Poison's healing reduction effect has been reduced to 20% in PvP (24% with Ability creature poison 06 [Master Poisoner]).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 54 (was 25).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now available only to Assassination. Poison now lasts for 12 seconds, down from 15 seconds. Now learned at level 25 (was 30).
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-10-16): Damage reduced by 40%.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-05-10): Fixed an issue where healing reduction effects from Ability warrior bloodbath [Mortal Wounds], Wound Poison, and Ability hunter potentvenom [Widow Venom] were stacking.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): Now deals 33% more damage.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Poisons are now Spellbook abilities that affect both weapons at once instead of crafted items. Wound Poison is now a Lethal poison learned at level 30.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Now reduce healing by 10%, down from 25%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12):
    • Poisons no longer have levels and scale as abilities do.
    • Healing reduction reduced from 50% to 25%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Hotfix (2010-01-07): The bonus damage rogues gain from attack power for poisons has been decreased.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Redesigned to have its chance to be applied based on the speed of the weapon (frequency-based).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Hotfix (2009-02-18): Wound Poison now has a PvP duration of 10 seconds.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14):
  • Bc icon Hotfix (2007-02-13): Mortal Strike and Wound Poison (rank 4) no longer stack at any rank.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Now causes damage and reduces all healing by 10%, stacks up to 5 times.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Wound Poison now has a new icon (was Ability poisonsting)
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Stacks up to 20.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Removed facing requirement.

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