Guild Wars 2

Okay this is how it will work…

You have venoms equipped in your inventory you will get an item buff called Venom Well. This item allows you to inflict “Venom Points” on anything you hit. The passive are what uses these venom points to inflict conditions. A venom’s active creates a combo field at the selected location and it deals little to no damage. These fields are comparable to Caltrops except that these fields will add 5 VP to anyone hit by the initial blast and 1 VP per second.

Whenever you score a crit on an enemy that enemy gets 1 “Venom Point” which lasts for 10s and will stack to 25. Once the VP breaks a certain threshold, adding venom points will also add certain conditions. Venoms with multple conditions that have different thresholds will will start inflicting multiple conditions so long as the threshold is passed.

WARNING: If you have no venoms on cooldown you will instantly lose the Venom Well buff!

The Venoms will be listed as such:

Venom Name Cooldown
Passive condition(seconds): Threshold

Active conditions(seconds)
Range: Units
Radius: Units
Duration: Seconds
Combo Field: Type

Here they are:
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Spider Venom 40
Poison(5s): 5
Bleeding (2s): 10

Poison(7s)
Range: 600
Radius: 200
Duration: 5
Combo Field: Poison

Skale Venom 40
Vulnerability(4s): 7
Torment (3s): 15

Torment(3s)
Range: 600
Radius: 200
Duration: 5
Combo Field: Lightning

Ice Drake Venom 40
Chill(3s): 15

Chill(3s)
Range: 600
Radius: 200
Duration: 5
Combo Field: Ice

Reef Drake Venom 60
Confusion(3s): 15
Daze(1s): 24

Confusion(2s)
Range: 600
Radius: 200
Duration: 4
Combo Field: Ethereal

Basilisk Venom 90 (Elite)
Immobilize(1s): 24

Petrify(2s)
Range: 600
Radius: 100
Duration: 2
Combo Field: Light

Orrian Venom 30 (Heal Skill)
Steal Life: 3
Steal Life: 7
Steal Life: 13
Steal Life: 21

Poison(5s enemy), Regeneration(3s allies)
Heal: 3484
Ally Heal: 1202
Range: 0
Radius: 200
Duration: 5
Combo Field: Dark
NOTE: Each Steal Life threshold stacks and heals for 134 each.

I’d rather see Venoms play like Signets but with no cast effect, Just something like the guardians Virtues but again with no on casts effects (Meaning like it is on your weapons at all times type of thing).

Examples:

Spider Venom: Ever 5th attack does poison
Skale Venom: 20% chance on Crit to apply Vulnerability
Basilisk Venom: When you reach 50% Hp next attack stuns foe (30sec cooldown)

I think this would be more flexibility to those venoms and more usable within more builds for pve/pvp and wvw.

T~T thats boring tho….

I personally think venoms should be more F key options for us Anet did say in their descriptions that we utilize venom but let’s face it, the only poison most of us use in Lotus Strike. But giving us venoms and incorporating them to our F keys I think would be a nice step toward thief revolution

Bump for non boring crappy venoms! :D

I like the idea of adding venoms to f keys. At the moment they seem to be more or less a waste of a skill slot when you have so many other better options. I occasionally swap between them in pvp but the only other time i’ve bothered with them was when i tried out a venom share build.

Other then Devourer Venom their effects are barely noticable.