Festering Wound
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- Festering Wound
- A pustulent lesion that will burst on death or when damaged by Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows, dealing (23.845% of Attack power) Shadow damage and generating 3 Runic Power.
- Duration: 30 seconds
Festering Wound is a debuff caused primarily by the death knight ability 
[Festering Strike].
It can also be caused by 
[Festering Scythe] and 
[Legion of Souls].
Patch changes
Hotfix (2025-08-12): Damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat. - Patch 11.2.0 (2025-08-05): Burst damage increased by 25%.
- Hotfix (2025-04-03): Damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
- Hotfix (2024-11-26): Damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Damage reduced by 15%.
Hotfix (2024-05-07): Damage increased by 190% in PvP combat (was 180%). - Hotfix (2024-01-22): Damage is now increased by 180% in PvP Combat (was 195%).
- Hotfix (2023-12-05): Damage increased by 12%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Damage increased by 10%.
- Hotfix (2023-07-31): Damage is now increased by 230% in PvP combat (was 250%).
- Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Damage is now increased by 250% in PvP combat.
- Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 10%.
Patch 8.2.0 (2019-06-25): Damage increased by 15%. 
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Added.