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Monday, December 08, 2008

Wound vs Instant poision

Because Z prompted me, I did the very awful math behind Wound and Instant poisons and he is correct.  But to elaborate on his point, if you do not have 5/5 Improved Poison in the Assassination Talent tree then Wound Poison is always better than Instant.  If you do have 5/5 Improved Poison then use Wound Poison until you have 2500 AP, and then switch to Instant.  The math is below in case number people like me want to see the break down. 



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Wound poison VII has a 50% chance of poisoning the enemy, causing [231 + 0.04 * AP] Nature damage and reducing all healing effects used on them by 50% for 15 sec.


Instant poison IX has a 20% chance of poisoning the enemy which instantly inflicts [300 + 0.10 * AP] Nature damage.


Wound VII: (231 + 0.04 * AP) * 0.5 = 115.5 + 0.02 * AP 

Instant IX: (300 + 0.10 * AP) * 0.2 = 60 + 0.02 * AP 


5/5 Improved Poisons- 0.01 * AP > 115 - 90

Wound VII: (unchanged) = 115 + 0.02 * AP 

Instant IX: (300 + 0.10 * AP) * 0.3 = 90 + 0.03 * AP 

10 Comments:

  • At 11:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Spastic.
    I think you got the math wrong.

    For a Mutliate Rogue Improved Poison apply chance is =
    20% (base) + 10% (improved poisons) + 5% (precision).

    So the average damage for Improved Poisons would be =
    105 + 0.035 * AP
    And the cutover from Wound Poision to Improved Poison is at AP = 1823.

    This number goes down even more with Hit Rating gear (which all Rogues should have!).

    On the other hand the cutover point for a Combat Rogue is AP = 17900 (i.e. never).

     
  • At 11:52 AM, Blogger Jenny said…

    hmmm-thanks R ochmoninoff. I can't even remember where I got my IP numbers. I will re-check them. Just curios, where did you get the 20% (base) + 10% (improved poisons) + 5% (precision)?

     
  • At 12:34 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I always get infoes like that from Wowhead.com

    So for the base apply (hit) chance:
    http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43231

    For the impoved poision + apply chance: -talent calculator-
    http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=f0xf0exZ0xV

    And the same for Precision +apply chance: -talent calculator-
    http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=f0xf0exZ0xV

     
  • At 12:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    PS:
    keep up the good work.

    So hard to find a Rogue Blog that's active and interested.

     
  • At 2:58 PM, Blogger Jenny said…

    Cool-thanks Rochmonioff.

     
  • At 12:44 PM, Blogger Jenny said…

    I had a friend at elistsjerks check my math and all seems to be on track.

     
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