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Instant Poison

Spell

Instant Poison

Physical

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Rogue

3 secSelf Only

Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 30 minutes.

Instant Poison

Tooltip

Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 30 minutes.
Each strike has a chance of poisoning the enemy which instantly inflicts 15 Nature damage. 60 charges.

How it works

Its aura has a 20% chance to proc when its trigger condition is met.

Instant Poison is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 360, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 1800.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 60.

What it does

Instant Poison is a spell with a 3 sec cast and no range (it targets the caster).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast time3 sec
Proc chance20%
Effect #1Effect 360
Value: 1800
Misc value: 323
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 60

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Instant Poison appears in: 1 skill line and 1 item (listed under Provided by).

Skill lines

  • Rogue, learned automaticallySkill line

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Instant Poison". This page is record #8679. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#28428used by: Cast by Instant Poison Proc; school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#41189effect types: noneA different effect setup
#59242used by: Cast by Instant Poison Proc; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#88863effect types: noneA different effect setup
#143210effect types: noneA different effect setup
#143224used by: Cast by Instant Poison; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#315584effect types: noneA different effect setup
#315585used by: Cast by Instant Poison; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#394326effect types: noneA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data
Level data sightedBase level 20 in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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