Crippling Poison (item)

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For the retail ability, see [Crippling Poison].
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  • Crippling Poison
  • Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.

    Each strike has a 50% chance of poisoning the enemy, slowing their movement speed by 70% for 12 sec.
  • Classes: Rogue
  • Requires Level 20
  • Sell Price: 17c

Crippling Poison is a rogue poison, available for 70c. Every time the rogue hits with the poisoned weapon, there is a 70% chance of the victim being slowed for 12 seconds.

Source

Crippling Poison is sold by poison vendors.

Improvements

  • Glyph of Crippling Poison
  • Major Glyph
  • Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.

    Increases the chance to apply Crippling Poison to your target by an additional 20%.
  • Classes: Rogue
  • Requires Level 20
  • Sell Price: 1s

Notes

  • Has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
  • Useful in PvP and instances to slow runners. Using this in your offhand and [Shiv] makes this very reliable.
  • Only affects movement speed, does not affect attack speed.
  • Crippling Poison, Shiv, and [Deadly Throw] combined allow a form of kiting.

Patch changes

  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed. Poisons are now Spellbook abilities that affect both weapons at once instead of crafted items.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2009-02-18): Crippling Poison now has a PvP duration of 10 seconds.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Reduced to 1 rank, slowing movement by 70%.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Stacks up to 20.

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