Vile Poisons, an Assassination Rogue talent in WoW Forever

Vile 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 moved since Classic Era, from row 4, column 2 to row 4, column 1 of the Assassination tree.

Vile Poisons

5 ranks

• Requires 15 points in Assassination

Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 4% and gives your poisons an additional 8% chance to resist dispel effects.

Every rank of Vile Poisons

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 4% and gives your poisons an additional 8% chance to resist dispel effects.
Rank 2	Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 8% and gives your poisons an additional 16% chance to resist dispel effects.
Rank 3	Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 12% and gives your poisons an additional 24% chance to resist dispel effects.
Rank 4	Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 16% and gives your poisons an additional 32% chance to resist dispel effects.
Rank 5	Increases the damage dealt by your poisons by 20% and gives your poisons an additional 40% chance to resist dispel effects.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Assassination tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Cold Blood
• Improved Poisons

Row above (row 3)

• Relentless Strikes
• Improved Expose Armor
• Lethality

Row below (row 5)

• Vigor
• Mutilate
• Improved Kidney Shot

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

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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.