Venomous Aura Question

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Posted by: aspry.6975

aspry.6975

Q:

Does Venomous Aura only share venom to 5 targets or is it to anyone who stands within the AoE?

Does Residual Venom & Venomous Strength works with Venom Share?

Thanks.

Do you even balance anet?

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Posted by: DanH.5879

DanH.5879

5 targets, yes all venom traits gets shared.
unfortunately 300 range kinda sux in pve, sacrificing too much (all utilities and elite) to get good for the team results (if you solo … you will have less performance than a standard build)…besides….DA sucks now except venom builds….and i don’t think they are so popular…
eg. want stun breaker: drop a utility slot
want more ini/precision/power ? drop 1 utiliy
want SR ….drop 1 more utility

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Posted by: Lokheit.7943

Lokheit.7943

5 targets, yes all venom traits gets shared.
unfortunately 300 range kinda sux in pve, sacrificing too much (all utilities and elite) to get good for the team results (if you solo … you will have less performance than a standard build)…besides….DA sucks now except venom builds….and i don’t think they are so popular…
eg. want stun breaker: drop a utility slot
want more ini/precision/power ? drop 1 utiliy
want SR ….drop 1 more utility

On Venom Sharer you don’t pick all venoms. Specially the elite. Basilisk has little synergy with VS builds and Thieves Guild is much better (it gives aditional targets to share and cover the 5 cap), take in mind that leeching venoms do aditional armor ignoring damage even if they don’t heal you, you don’t see the number but there is aditional damage (Spider Venom: Around 2.5K extra armor ignoring direct damage per shared target, so you want to have more targets to share).

My recomendation is 2 venoms, specifically Spider and Devourer. The rest of the utility venoms are bad (Skale even with Torment and sharing is still waaaay inferior to them) and Basilisk is for spike builds, not for sharers.