Wound Poison (item)

For the retail ability, see [Wound Poison].

• Wound Poison
• Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 30 minutes.
  Each strike has a 30% chance of poisoning the enemy, reducing all healing effects used on them by 55 for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times on a single target. 60 charges.
• Classes: Rogue
• Requires Level 32
• Max Stack: 20
• Sell Price: 42

Wound Poison is a poison that is purchased from a poison vendor and applied to a rogue's weapons. Every time the rogue hits with the weapon, there is a chance (modified by the speed of the weapon) of the victim being poisoned for 15 seconds. The poison will reduce all healing effects on the victim by 25%. The effect cannot stack. It can be purchased from poison vendors for 50.

Crafting

Prior to Wrath of the Lich King, Wound Poison was crafted by rogues:

Materials needed

	1x [Essence of Pain]			1x [Deathweed]
	1x [Leaded Vial]

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Now reduce healing by 10%, down from 25%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12):
  • Poisons no longer have levels and scale as abilities do.
  • Healing reduction reduced from 50% to 25%.
    
• Hotfix (2010-01-07): The bonus damage rogues gain from attack power for poisons has been decreased.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Redesigned to have its chance to be applied based on the speed of the weapon (frequency-based).
  
• Hotfix (2009-02-18): Wound Poison now has a PvP duration of 10 seconds.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14):
  • No longer stacks, reduces healing by 50%.
  • Healing reduction to the target no longer stacks with [Aimed Shot], [Mortal Strike], or [Furious Attacks].
    
• Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): All poisons will now enchant the weapon for 1 hour, increased from 30 minutes.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Rogue poisons no longer have charges. No longer requires  [Deathweed].
  
• Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Now causes damage and reduces all healing by 10%, stacks up to 5 times.
  
• Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Icon changed to
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Stacks up to 20.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Removed facing requirement.
  

See also

•  [Wound Poison II]
•  [Wound Poison III]
•  [Wound Poison IV]
•  [Wound Poison V]
•  [Wound Poison VI]
•  [Wound Poison VII]

Other versions

• BC Classic

  

  • Wound Poison
  • Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.
    Each strike has a 30% chance of poisoning the enemy, causing 17 Nature damage and reducing all healing effects used on them by 10% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times on a single target.
  • Classes: Rogue
  • Requires Level 32
  • Max Stack: 20
  • Sell Price: 42

• Wrath Classic

  

  • Wound Poison
  • Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.
    Each strike has a chance of poisoning the enemy, causing (17 + 4% of Attack power) Nature damage and reducing all healing effects used on them by 50% for 15 sec.
  • Classes: Rogue
  • Requires Level 32
  • Max Stack: 20
  • Sell Price: 12

• Cataclysm Classic

  

  • Wound Poison
  • Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.
    Each strike has a chance of poisoning the enemy, causing 17 Nature damage and reducing all healing effects used on them by 25% for 15 sec.
  • Classes: Rogue
  • Requires Level 32
  • Max Stack: 20
  • Sell Price: 12

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