Guild Wars 2

I think that something needs done with balisk venom… you cannot use any sigils or runes to increase its duration because it turns your victim to “stone” if this is the case then stun breakers shouldn’t work on it either… You need to let us increase duration or remove stun breakers from this skill it only last 1 1/2 sec anyway and is an elite skill

The fact that it ignores defiant and is shareable with venom share and is also stackable weights up for it

yes it ignores defiant but who uses balisk venom on a npc?? lawl, and yes its sharable but us thieves usually run solo, I never use share traits cause my job is to kill quickly not buff partys

Venoms suck period.

I NEVER use them.

very nice synergy with lyssa runes

It was originally unbreakable with a 1 second duration but it was nerfed because it was too OP. Tbh, it’s not in a bad place right now, but it does need a buff to at least make it better than Devourer Venom.

Spyder.9713:

yes it ignores defiant but who uses balisk venom on a npc?? lawl, and yes its sharable but us thieves usually run solo, I never use share traits cause my job is to kill quickly not buff partys

I have legit run this (Residual Venoms, Venomous Aura, basilisk venom) in PUGs to save them. You can easily get 4 seconds of stone with zero coordination, which shuts down a boss enough for people to reposition, apply heals, or finish reviving someone that’s downed, without worrying about Defiant.

I’m assuming the OP is more interested in PvP contexts for this skill though – in which case I still think it’s fine. You can stun break it, but basilisk has the subtle benefit of not triggering most (if any) on-stun effects, while also setting a player up for a kill as you’re bursting them.