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Improved Poisons, an Assassination Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Improved Poisons is a passive talent in row 4 of the Assassination tree. It needs 15 points in Assassination, so the earliest you can take it is level 25 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Improved Poisons

5 ranks

  • Requires 15 points in Assassination

Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 2%, and gives Poison applications a 10% chance to not consume a charge.

Every rank of Improved Poisons

RankText
Rank 1Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 2%, and gives Poison applications a 10% chance to not consume a charge.
Rank 2Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 4%, and gives Poison applications a 20% chance to not consume a charge.
Rank 3Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 6%, and gives Poison applications a 30% chance to not consume a charge.
Rank 4Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 8%, and gives Poison applications a 40% chance to not consume a charge.
Rank 5Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 10%, and gives Poison applications a 50% chance to not consume a charge.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Assassination tree

Improved GougeRemorseless AttacksMaliceRuthlessnessMurderImproved Slice and DiceRelentless StrikesImproved Expose ArmorLethalityVile PoisonsCold BloodImproved PoisonsVigorMutilateImproved Kidney ShotSeal FateVenom
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
Row above (row 3)
Row below (row 5)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Improved Poisons.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases the chance to apply poisons to your target by 2%.

WoW Forever

Increases the chance to apply Poisons to your target by 2%, and gives Poison applications a 10% chance to not consume a charge.

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All Assassination talents

  1. Improved Gouge
  2. Remorseless Attacks
  3. Malice
  4. Ruthlessness
  5. Murder
  6. Improved Slice and Dice
  7. Relentless Strikes
  8. Improved Expose Armor
  9. Lethality
  10. Vile Poisons
  11. Cold Blood
  12. Improved Poisons
  13. Vigor
  14. Mutilate
  15. Improved Kidney Shot
  16. Seal Fate
  17. Venom

The other Rogue trees: Combat and Subtlety. Everything that changed for the Rogue since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.