Guild Wars 2

I currently play a P/D thief which heavily focuses on condition. Until now I’ve been using Spider Venom, but today I started to play around with one of my racial skills, Radiation Field.

It provides me AoE poison and weakness and it’s a combo field (poison). This skill gives me the ability to poison every single target in the area I’m putting the field and if I chose SB and shoot targets outside of the ring, letting the arrow go through the field, it will poison everyone around it too (I can also drop Cluster Bomb for even more AoE weakness).

The two skills:

Spider Venom

• Poison foes with your next five attacks.
• Poison: 6 s (504 damage)
• Duration: 30 s

Radiation Field

• Duration: 15 s
• Poison: 3 s (252 damage)
• Weakness: 3 s
• Combo Field: Poison
• Range: 1,200

As you can see SV deals more damage to a single target, but for a group situation when we’re attacking multiple targets, would it be better of me to do RF? I could share my SV with all my allies, so poisoning all the targets in the area could be done in that way too.

Have anyone used Radiation Field before and have some inputs to give me? I’m really having a hard time deciding on this…

radiation has more potential if your skilled enough to use it well but…

the key is you can trait for spider venom to heal you, recharge 20% faster, and grant you might

so if you get good with radiation and find other decent traits, id say got for radiation