Wound poison is weak on Sin Spec. Buff it, add a PvP talent to buff it, or remove the nerf altogether.
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It’s a 24% healing reduction with master poisoner; double subtlety’s 12% reduction. It’s also applied faster and poisoned knife is guaranteed to apply it too.
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the deadly brew removal as a pvp talent was a mistake.
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I know the stats, I’m saying its weak.
Yeah, why? What’s weak about a passively applied 24% healing reduction that be can applied at range with poisoned knife or in AoE with fan of knives? Make an effort to explain what you mean.
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I agree.
Plus Assassination doesn’t have a lot of options in terms of PVP talents either.
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you lose too much damage using wound poison. I have 30% mastery and it says wound is going to strike 73 or something like that.
Assassination is in a strange spot because of damage tuning as it is very low. So it is entirely possible that running with Wound is a lot worse than it should be for Assassination.
Once Assassination receives an increase in damage then I think running Wound will not be as punishing.
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Fair enough. Assassination doesn’t have much option for burst damage outside of Cheese builds using Mark of the Master assassin, and given the mastery improves DoT gameplay, getting a stronger wound poison would give a burst window if usable as a PvP talent kind of like what Sharpened does for warrior. You can DoT them up, pool energy, use exsanguinate, and then attempt to burn target. It’s telegraphed and purgeable, so there is counter play for skill to be involved, and would give Assassination some draw for PvP like it use to have. Right now most classes can power thru the 20-24% reduction by spamming heal and we can’t keep up with damage, even Hybrid off healers. this would curtail that somewhat and like I said, there is counter play with cleanse.
As to using poison knife 40 energy ability to apply 1 stack of wound, it is for Crippling for kiters or deadly for keeping Rogues/Druids for re-stealth if anything, and if you have that much distance the better option is break off and re-stealth for a set up. Fan of Knives applies it at normal rate, so it is a chance to apply 1 stack of poison, which is 4% right now. Hardly worth it.
Its not weak at all Assassinations damage is weak therefore making healing reduction weak because the pressure you put out with it applied is non-existent.
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Wound Poison doesn’t need any buffs, the whole spec does. 24% healing reduction would be very strong if you had the damage to back it up.
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I don’t really notice it as outlaw either. It feels like there are only three states of HP bar in the current game, empty, half or full.