Wound Poison

Wound Poison
Wound Poison Level 38 rogue ability 1.5 sec cast Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance to poison the enemy, which instantly inflicts (2.13% of Attack Power) Nature damage and reduces all healing received by 8% for 12 sec, stacking up to 3 times. Rank 2: Wound Poison can now stack 2 additional times.
Usable by
Class	Rogue
School	N/A
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	38
Rank levels	44 (rank 2)
Improvements	[Improved Poisons], [Leeching Poison], [Master Poisoner], [Mastery: Potent Assassin]
Related buff
Wound Poison Each weapon strike has a chance of inflicting additional Nature damage to the victim and reducing all healing received for 12 sec. Duration: 1 hour
Related debuff
Poison Wound Poison Healing effects reduced by 8%. Duration: 12 seconds

Wound Poison is a level 38 rogue ability that applies a poison to their weapons.

Every time the rogue hits with the weapon, there is a 30% chance to damage the victim and poison them for 12 seconds. The poison reduces all healing effects on the victim by 8%, stacking up to 3 times, or up to 5 times for Assassination rogues.

Improvements

All available improvements are exclusive to the Assassination specialization:

• [Mastery: Potent Assassin] (Level 10)
• [Improved Poisons] (Level 43)
• [Leeching Poison] (Talent)
• [Master Poisoner] (Talent)

Notes

• As a Lethal poison, Wound Poison cannot be used at the same time with [Deadly Poison] or [Instant Poison].
• In PvP combat, the healing reduction effect is halved to 4% per stack.

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now available to all rogues as a baseline ability. Wound Poison now stacks up to 3 times, and reduces healing taken by 8% per stack (previously 25% and did not stack). An additional rank has been added for Assassination.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now available only to Assassination. Poison now lasts for 12 seconds, down from 15 seconds.
  
• Hotfix (2014-10-16): Damage reduced by 40%.
  
• Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): Now deals 33% more damage.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Replaced  [Wound Poison].
  
• 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): Healing reduction reduced from 50% to 25%.
  
• Hotfix (2009-02-18): Wound Poison now has a PvP duration of 10 seconds.
  
• Hotfix (2007-02-13): Mortal Strike and Wound Poison (rank 4) no longer stack at any rank.
  
• 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 TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB