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Instant Poison VII
Classes: Rogue
Requires Level 68
Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.
Each strike has a 20% chance of poisoning the enemy which instantly inflicts [161 + 0.10 * AP] Nature damage.

This is currently how Instant poison is looking on PTR. It has 20% chance to do 161 damage + 10% of my AP, say 300 extra in a raid. Roughly every 5th attack will procc an instant untalented (counting combat speccs).

Wound Poison V
Classes: Rogue
Requires Level 64
Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.
Each strike has a 50% chance of poisoning the enemy, causing [112 + 0.04 * AP] Nature damage and reducing all healing effects used on them by 50% for 15 sec.

This is the level 64 rank of wound. It has 50% chance to procc 112 + 4%, say 120 extra in a raid.
Every other attack will procc wound poison.

Counting combat, the only poison talent that we will possible get our hands on is Vile Poison. It affects both, so I won't enter it here.

But straight up, counting every 100 attacks.
20 attacks of 100 will procc instant poison of 460~ damage each = 9200.

50 attacks of 100 will land Wound Poison of 230~ damage each = 11500 damage.

These are very round numbers, but answer us this Mr.Shoehead (that made the last 2 PTR-patches), are wound poison really meant to out-damage instant and deadly poison?

Precision increases the proc chance of poisons by 5%, which makes it closer, but Wound is still leading over Instant?

But still, isn't Deadly poison far better than either of them?

Edited, Sep 22nd 2008 11:01am by Ehcks

Precision affects both of them, so it doesn't change anything.

And you're not going to go DP/DP ever.

Yeah except that in this case it doesn't matter.

Wound still does more damage.

And it's "affects" btw.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/effects

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/affects

When you affect something, you have an effect on it.

I'm still not even sure that Precision increases proc rates. Ideally it would, but I think since it's treated as spell hit, it just works on potential resists.

Which is nice, but pretty lackluster.

Edit: just checked on beta, and yeah, it's working like spell hit, not like Imp Poisons. Smiley: lol

Nice, but at the same time a whole lot less worthwhile than we were thinking.

RP, just wanted to let you know that I often find myself strolling through the halls of The Pentagon humming that damned boom de yada song from your avatar.





Thanks alot.

Is the start post in reference to the highest ranks of each of these poisons, meaning at no time from lvl 68 - 80 will we learn a new IP or WP? I am just thinking maybe IP will increase in damage more than WP over the increase in ranks and eventually at lvl 80 IP will be the best damaging poison compared to WP.

Ofcourse if these are max ranks then yeah thats weird