Envenom

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For the Season of Discovery rune, see [Envenom].
Envenom
Ability rogue disembowel.png
  • Envenom
  • Level 22 Assassination rogue ability
  • Replaces [Eviscerate]
  • Melee range
  • 35 Energy
  • Instant
  • Finishing move that drives your poisoned blades in deep, dealing instant Nature damage and increasing your poison application chance by 30%. Damage and duration increased per combo point.

    1 point: (40% of Attack Power) damage, 1 sec
    2 points: (80% of Attack Power) damage, 2 sec
    3 points: (120% of Attack Power) damage, 3 sec
    4 points: (160% of Attack Power) damage, 4 sec
    5 points: (200% of Attack Power) damage, 5 sec
Properties
Class Rogue
School Nature
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 22
Improvements [Cut to the Chase], [Fate Intertwined], [Rapid Injection], [Twist the Knife]
Related debuff
  • Envenom
  • Poison application chance increased by 30%.
  • Duration: 1-5 seconds

Envenom is an Assassination rogue finishing move that deals instant poison damage and increases the chance to apply poison effects.

Tips and tactics

Envenom works much differently than other abilities that the rogue might be used to, and therefore must be used with certain considerations in order to benefit fully from its capabilities.

  • Unlike most other rogue abilities, Envenom is classified as a Nature Spell. Therefore, it will have diminished, or even no effect against mobs with high nature resistance or immunity.
  • It is possible for Envenom to critically hit its target, causing twice the normal damage. Its chance to crit is based on your melee crit chance, unlike other poison effects, which are based on your spell crit chance.
  • The rogue must also build combo points fast to use Envenom effectively. Abilities such as [Cheap Shot] and [Mutilate] are effective Combo Point builders.

Patch changes

  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2024-10-25): Fixed an issue that caused Envenom's buff to gain more duration than intended when expending a supercharged combo point from the [Supercharger] talent while [Twist the Knife] was also talented.
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.5 (2024-10-22): Tooltip updated to contextually reflect the overlapping behavior when Twist the Knife is known.
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2024-08-22): Damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2023-11-28): Fixed an issue that caused Envenom's buff to persist beyond its intended duration when used with fewer than 5 combo points.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Damage increased by 8% and duration reduced by 1 second.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 5%. These changes do not affect PvP combat.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Fixed an issue that prevented Envenom's buff from retaining up to 30% of its duration when refreshed.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 22 (was 36).
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2017-02-03): Damage increased by 4%.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 36 (was 10) and once again replaces [Eviscerate].
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2016-08-22): Envenom damage has been increased to 60% Attack Power per point (was 50%).
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer refreshes the duration of [Slice and Dice]. Damage reduced by 15%. Now learned at level 10 (was 20) and no longer replaces Eviscerate.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now deals 30% more damage.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2014-12-18): Envenom should no longer incorrectly consume all of the Rogue's combo points if the ability misses or was dodged.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • [Cut to the Chase]'s effects have been merged into Envenom. Now refreshes the duration of Slice and Dice.
    • Now increases poison chance by 30% (up from 15%).
  • Mists-Logo-Small.png Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now deals 20% more damage.
  • Mists-Logo-Small.png Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now an Assassination specialization ability at level 20 (was learned at 54). No longer requires Deadly Poison, application chance applies to all poisons, and replaces Eviscerate.
  • Cata-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2010-11-24): Envenom now properly scales with Potent Poisons.
  • Cata-Logo-Small.png Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 54 (was 62).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Scaling has been increased from 7% to 9% of attack power per combo point.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now has an additional 15% chance to apply  [Deadly Poison] and a 75% increased frequency of applying  [Instant Poison] for 1 sec, plus an additional 1 sec per combo point (was a 15% chance to apply both poisons.)
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): The tooltip values have been corrected to be accurate.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Now also increases your chance to apply poisons by 25% for 2-6 seconds (based on combo points).
  • Bc icon.gif Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.

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