Guild Wars 2

As far as I understood, when you used a venom each application used to cover each firing of the weapon, so a shortbow would hit three targets and apply the venom to each target using up just one application. However I ’ve noticed that now each target hit always consumes an application of the venom, so if you have 3 applications they will be all be applied when the shortbow hits 3 targets.

Has this been changed or was my understanding of venoms wrong in the past?

Think the last big patch changed it for application based attacks for many professions

This have always been working that way. Each hit counts as one application (it would be too much on AoE attacks otherwise).

In fact a Cluster Bomb before would waste multiple charges even when hitting just once. I have to test it, but I think last patch fix made it waste applications only on true hit.

Lokheit.7943:

This have always been working that way. Each hit counts as one application (it would be too much on AoE attacks otherwise).

In fact a Cluster Bomb before would waste multiple charges even when hitting just once. I have to test it, but I think last patch fix made it waste applications only on true hit.

Yea its only on true hit now any combat avoidance by the enemy uses a charge i.e. dodge with actual miss message.

On cluster bomb it is only 2 charges even if using spider venom unless it is counting hitting the wall as a charge or something but I can only get 2 spider venom procs with cluster with out detonation of course.

It not longer is wasted on infiltrator arrows or caltrops(utility) but caltrops do not proc a venom.

Also a cool thing you could do (before the last patch) was geomancy sigil with devourer and lock up 4 targets and it would only count as 1 strike same with all the other venoms except baslisk. Hydromancy did the same as geomancy too was good for devourer caltrops on a little group of 4.