Infected Wounds

Infected Wounds
Infected Wounds Row 5 Feral druid talent Row 4 Guardian druid talent Passive Rake damage increased by 30%, and Rake causes an Infected Wound in the target, reducing the target's movement speed by 20% for 12 sec. Mangle and Maul cause an Infected Wound in the target, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 12 sec.
Properties
Class	Druid
Talents
Talent required	Feral: [Pouncing Strikes] Guardian: [Brambles]/ [Bristling Fur]
Other information
Affects	[Mangle], [Maul], [Rake]
Improvements	[Wicked Claws]
Related debuffs
Disease Infected Wounds Movement speed slowed by 20%. Duration: 12 seconds Disease Infected Wounds Movement speed slowed by 50%. Duration: 12 seconds

Infected Wounds is a Feral and Guardian druid talent.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Moved to row 5 for Feral (was row 6).
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 Feral and row 4 Guardian talent (was a level 37 Feral and Guardian ability).
  
• Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Now lasts for 12 seconds in PvP combat (was 8 seconds).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 37 (was 54). Guardian version added: [Mangle] and [Maul] slow the target's movement speed by 50% for 12 seconds.
  
• Hotfix (2017-01-31): Infected Wounds now reduces the movement of targets by 50% (was 30%). The reduction remains at 30% in PvP situations.
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now reduces movement speed by 30% (was 50%).
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 54 (was 42).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added at level 42 for Feral (was 40 for Feral and Guardian). Now affects [Rake] instead of [Shred] and [Mangle].
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Infected Wounds has been removed and its effects have been incorporated into [Mangle] and [Shred] for Feral and Guardian druids.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 40 Feral and Guardian specialization ability (was a tier 2 Feral Combat talent). No longer reduces attack speed.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a Tier 2 and 2-rank talent (was Tier 8 and 3 ranks). Now also affects Ravage. Reduces movement speed of the target by 25/50% (was 16/34/50%) and the attack speed by 10/20% (was 7/14/20%).
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): This ability is no longer considered to be in the magical defense category; therefore spell hit no longer applies to its activation. Tooltip error corrected.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): The debuff generated by this talent no longer stacks and instead causes the full effect with a single application.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

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