Guild Wars 2

Am I right in thinking that before the patch stealing would apply a venom, but after the patch stealing does not apply a venom unless traited with mug?

Steal never applied venoms unless you were traited to Mug. It’s the damage attack from Mug that does it.

Actually, I’m sure about Steal not doing it. I’ve never used Steal w/ Mug to apply a venom. Hrm. I expect it to try to pop a venom as an attack.

I don’t think poison is the same thing as venom. Thieves have Venoms, one of which (Spider Venom) applied Poison.

At least that’s how I read it. If someone knows otherwise, would love to know.

Stooperdale.3560:

Am I right in thinking that before the patch stealing would apply a venom, but after the patch stealing does not apply a venom unless traited with mug?

Before the patch, auto-attack is initiated after Steal, which applies the venom. After patch, auto-attack no longer happen after Steal, thus you need to have a damaging effect to apply venom, either by spec-ing Mug or just start auto-attack.