Guild Wars 2

Does anyone know how poison really works? I understand that there is a -33% healing effectiveness on it but I wanted to get the details.

If I heal someone and they are poisoned do they get the full effect or only 77% of the heal? Or is it that I heal someone and I am poisoned, do they get the full effect or only 77%? Or is it both?

I can’t believe I have been playing this game for almost 2 years and I still don’t fully understand all the conditions. :P

The poison only works on the person that is inflicted by the condition.

Let’s say I’m poisoned and I heal you and me for 900 basic points.
You get healed for 900, and I get healed for 600.
You then use the same spell.
You heal yourself for 900, and I get healed for 600.
This also applies to regen / ressurection / warbanner. Pretty much everything that will show up the green numbers.

In pvp, to slow down revives, you poison the person reviving, not the one being revived

Ok thanks I was wondering that because I recently learned that war banners can be nullified with poison and someone in my guild mentioned that you have to poison the down so the banner doesn’t work. So to cancel out the rezzing power of the war banner I should poison the warrior.

I feel like eekzie’s and Carpboy’s posts contradict each other. Eeek is saying that poison affects incoming heals of the poisoned person but not outgoing heals while Carp is saying poison lowers the outgoing heals on a person.

I feel like poison should affect all healing done by the infected person, which would include outgoing and incoming heals. Basically if you poison a person, other people’s heals are less effective and if that person tries to heal people it is also less effective. Tomorrow I’m going to get into Spvp with some guildies and see how poison affects heals.

Azawrath.7304:

Ok thanks I was wondering that because I recently learned that war banners can be nullified with poison and someone in my guild mentioned that you have to poison the down so the banner doesn’t work. So to cancel out the rezzing power of the war banner I should poison the warrior.

I feel like eekzie’s and Carpboy’s posts contradict each other. Eeek is saying that poison affects incoming heals of the poisoned person but not outgoing heals while Carp is saying poison lowers the outgoing heals on a person.

I feel like poison should affect all healing done by the infected person, which would include outgoing and incoming heals. Basically if you poison a person, other people’s heals are less effective and if that person tries to heal people it is also less effective. Tomorrow I’m going to get into Spvp with some guildies and see how poison affects heals.

Poison affects both outgoing and incoming. My post was simply stating to slow revive speed you actually poison the person reviving. For some reason it doesn’t work if you just poison the downed person (except on their #4 self res). Of course i you have an AoE poison skill it doesn’t matter, as it will hit both