Guild Wars 2

The new poison master works as advertised, but for one critical bug – pets that natively apply poison (such as forest spider, murellow etc) apply regular (unbuffed damage) poison, which blocks the application of the damage-enhanced poison.

This pretty much means you can only use the trait with non-poison-applying pets, which is kind of the opposite to what the trait suggests. Poison applied by swap, rather that by the pet functions as it should.

Repro:

• equip trait
• equip forest spider pet (do not swap to it in battle)
• attack a bad guy
• observe that spider applies 10+ of poison and that its damage sucks as per usual poison, and that applying poison yourself (eg: shortbow #2) does not increase the poison’s damage

(hushed silence)

And why would you post this in the balance sub forum over the bug sub forum?

Please post this in the bug forum, hopefully ANet will read it, and fix the bug

dancingmonkey.4902:

And why would you post this in the balance sub forum over the bug sub forum?

because it doesn’t seem to get read there.

scerevisiae.1972:

dancingmonkey.4902:

And why would you post this in the balance sub forum over the bug sub forum?

because it doesn’t seem to get read there.

Ah, I see. You feel an issue effecting you makes you special, and there for gives you the right to break the forum rules and use reasonable logic to locate it where the proper dev has a chance to see it. Check .

It does not belong in balancing forums, and trust me, it will get more attention in the bug forums then anywhere else.

it could be argued it’s not a bug, so balance forum is equally appropriate.

bump for visibility.