From WoWWiki
| Sap |
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| Usable by |
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| Class | Rogue |
| Properties |
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| Type | Utility |
| School | Physical |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Talents |
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Improvement talents | Dirty Tricks |
| Other information |
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| Ranks | 4 |
| Requirements | Requires Melee Weapon Requires Stealth |
| Related debuff |
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Sap is the longest-lasting crowd control ability a Rogue has. It will completely incapacitate a target for up to 60 seconds.
Rank table
| Rank
| Duration
| Level
| Cost
|
| 1
| 25 sec.
| 10
| 4
|
| 2
| 35 sec.
| 28
| 81
|
| 3
| 45 sec.
| 40
| 1 4
|
| 4
| 60 sec.
| 71
| 25
|
Notes
- It is important to note that ranks 1-3 of Sap will only affect humanoids; rank 4 offers additional types of NPC's in addition to a duration increase.
- Sap does not have a chance to break early, always lasting the full duration unless the sapped target is hit. It suffers diminishing returns & duration in PVP.
- It is no longer considered an incapacitate effect.
- Sap can last longer than 1 minute with Glyph of Sap.
Related talents
- Dirty Tricks increases the Sap range and decreases energy cost.
Tips
- Sapping in a neutral town does aggro the guards.
- Sap is an effective crowd control technique, especially with the improved talent. Don't forget to tell the party which mob you are sapping, as any damage breaks the effect.
- Sap does not cause threat, meaning that if you Sap a mob and then move out of normal aggro range, the mob will not attack you after the Sap effect is broken.
- You may choose to Sap a different target. The first Sap target will wake when the second one is Sapped.
- Mobs that are Sapped won't be tagged as your kill until you deal damage to them. Be wary of other players stealing your kill.
- Sap can be useful in a PvP environment, to even out a 2-on-1, to take out a Shaman's totems before you fight him, to capture a flag quickly in battlegrounds, or even after a Vanish. Remember, like all crowd-control effects, Sap is limited to a 10-second duration in PvP.
- Sapping a player of the opposite faction will turn on your PvP Flag. Be wary.
Patch changes
Patch 2.1:
Patch 2.4:
- Sap is no longer considered an incapacitate effect; changed to allow more creatures to be crowd controlled in dungeons who were previously immune.