Guild Wars 2

I have played venom share from R10 to 35 and gone on and off with each patch to see if it is viable now. But it still isn’t.
i do not believe it are the venoms that are to weak (not as strong as any other utility but traited they are ok). BUT the venom thief is forced to go at least 20(30)/x /30/x/x and take all the venom traits in master and grand master to make the venoms strong enough to be a good build.

And then it is not worth taking any other util cuz you put everything in those traits.(maybe a stun breaker)

As a result the thief can not stand alone against a equal skilled opponent , you always need an ally.

so my suggestion: remove some of the venom traits and implement them in the venoms themselves like 20% recharge change this with 1 extra stack and make venoms 35 sec standard recharge.

if anyone else has a suggestion post it here for the devs cuz buffing the venoms and keeping the traits is just not the way to do it.

Im in the same boat as you, i runned VS builts for many months and always get bored for the same reason, is a very thig built with too lottle variations, and make you too dependable of others to be usefull and oustanding.

I personaly think tha venoms has portencial but no with venomus aura restraining them. but that could be somtehing very easy to chage if Anet really had the will to do so. How? really easy

All venoms have a 30 seg cooldown (24 if traited with fast venoms).

Venomus Aura trait now have an added fact:
Increase all venoms base cooldown in 15 seg (to the current 45 seg or 36 when fast venoms trait is active)

So venoms are usefull in all ways and Venomus Aura will handle the bourden of been “too powerfull in some scenarios” by itself.

magom.3275:

Im in the same boat as you, i runned VS builts for many months and always get bored for the same reason, is a very thig built with too lottle variations, and make you too dependable of others to be usefull and oustanding.

I personaly think tha venoms has portencial but no with venomus aura restraining them. but that could be somtehing very easy to chage if Anet really had the will to do so. How? really easy

All venoms have a 30 seg cooldown (24 if traited with fast venoms).

Venomus Aura trait now have an added fact:
Increase all venoms base cooldown in 15 seg (to the current 45 seg or 36 when fast venoms trait is active)

So venoms are usefull in all ways and Venomus Aura will handle the bourden of been “too powerfull in some scenarios” by itself.

ok i like your suggestion we should prob forget about the whole thief team support and make venoms a decent way of making a condo thief that would fix the problem.

even so they can also choose to make it team support but then it is going to need some serious trait attention.

It will always be the same until venemous aura is fixed. Venoms are balanced against their potential maximum use with venemous aura (5x) and that means the venom skills are at best 50% of what they need to be worth for a slot on their own merit.

Venoms should just be a shareable buff, shouldn’t have to trait 30 in SA to get it.

There, fixed.