Wound Poison
Wound 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, which instantly inflicts X Nature damage and reduces all healing effects on them for 15 sec.
Usable by
Class	Rogue
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Level required	30
Other information
Requirements	Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon
Related buff
Wound Poison Each weapon strike has a chance of inflicting additional Nature damage to the victim and reducing all healing effects on them for 15 sec. Duration: 1 hour
Related debuff
Poison Wound Poison Healing effects reduced by 25%. Duration: 15 seconds
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• Wound 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, which instantly inflicts X Nature damage and reduces all healing effects on them for 15 sec.

Wound Poison is a core rogue ability learned at level 30. Each strike from a coated weapon has a chance to poison targets, inflicting instant nature damage and reducing healing effects used them for a short period of time.

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): Wound Poison now deals 33% more damage.; The responsiveness of this ability and effects has been improved. 
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (29-Nov-2011): Wound Poison now reduces the target's healing received by 25%, up from 10%. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Redesigned to have its chance to be applied based on the speed of the weapon (frequency-based). 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Damaging poisons now scale with attack power.; Wounding Poison no longer stacks, reduces healing by 50%. 
  
• 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. 
  
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): "Wound Poison" now causes damage and reduces all healing by 10%, stacks up to 5 times. 
  

External links

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