Deadly Poison
Deadly Poison 3 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 of poisoning the enemy for X Nature damage over 12 sec. Subsequent poison applications will instantly deal X Nature damage.
Usable by
Class	Rogue
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Level required	10
Other information
Requirements	Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon
Related buff
Deadly Poison Each strike has a chance of causing the target to suffer Nature damage every 3 sec for 12 sec. Subsequent poison applications deal instant Nature damage. Duration: 1 hour
Related debuff
Poison Deadly Poison Suffering X Nature damage every 3 seconds. Duration: 12 seconds
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• Deadly Poison
• 3 sec cast
• Coats your weapons with a Lethal Poison that lasts for 1 hour. Each strike has a 30% chance of poisoning the enemy for X Nature damage over 12 sec. Subsequent poison applications will instantly deal X Nature damage.

Deadly Poison is a core rogue ability learned at level 10. It is the first rogue poison ability and coats weapons with a poison that has a chance to poison the target, dealing nature damage.

Modified by

• [Improved Poisons] ( assassination spec ability)
• [Envenom] ( assassination spec ability)
• [Mastery: Potent Poisons] ( assassination spec ability)

2020

• Glyph of Poisons
• Item Level 25Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Minor Glyph
• Classes: Rogue
• Requires Level 25
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  You apply poisons to your weapons 50% faster.
• Sell Price: 1

Patch changes

• Patch 5.1.0 (27-Nov-2012): The responsiveness of this ability and effects has been improved. 
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): In addition to its existing effects, when a rogue applies Deadly Poison to a target which has already reached the maximum number of applications, this will also trigger the poison which the rogue is using on his or her other weapon.; Another rogue using a higher rank of this poison will no longer prevent the lower rank Deadly Poison from being applied to the target. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): The amount of damage this poison generates from the rogue’s attack power has been increased from 8% per application to 12%. 
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (04-Nov-2008): Deadly Poison Rank 8 will now do less damage than Rank 9. 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Damaging poisons now scale with attack power. 
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): All poisons will now enchant the weapon for 1 hour, increased from 30 minutes. 
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): The difficulty of dispelling these is now based off the level of the player, not the level of the weapon the poison is applied to.; Reduced the reagents required to create most poisons.; Rogue poisons no longer have charges. 
  

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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