Potent Poison

Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison. — In-game description

Potent Poison

Specialization

Deadly Arts (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Potent Poison

Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

 Damage Increase: 33%

 Damage Increase: 20%

 Duration Increase: 33%

 Duration Increase: 5%

 Additional Poison Stacks: 1

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Venomous Volley — Axe
•   Lotus Strike — Dagger
•   Choking Gas — Short bow
•   Poison Tip Strike — Spear
•   Ashen Assault — Spear
•   Entangling Asp — Spear
•   Falling Spider — Spear
•   Escape — Harpoon gun
•   Malicious Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   Malicious Shadowsquall — Scepter
•   Death's Retreat — Rifle
•   Malicious Ashen Assault — Spear
•   Shadowsquall — Scepter
•   Twilight Combo — Scepter

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Eternal Night — Enter Shadow Shroud

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Thousand Needles
•   Spider Venom — Venom
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip
•   Well of Sorrow — Well

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Exploding Venom Sack — Stolen skill
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Stolen skill
•   Throw Cursed Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Scale — Stolen skill
•   Steal Defenses — Stolen skill

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Venomous Knife

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Cheap Shot

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Deadly Arts

• Serpent's Touch — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
• Deadly Ambition — Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use.
• Panic Strike — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.

Notes

• The damage modifier stacks multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus poison duration from 20% to 5%.
July 10, 2018	This trait has been split and will now grant 20% bonus to poison duration and damage in both PvP and WvW, with PvE remaining at 33%.
March 27, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from applying the extra poison stack to Deadeye's Mark.
May 16, 2017	In addition to its previous effect, this trait now increases the number of stacks of poison applied by other Deadly Arts traits.
October 18, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented the condition's duration increase from displaying in the Attributes section.
September 29, 2015	Increased poison damage from 10% to 33%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier. Added: Poison deals 10% more damage.
November 26, 2013	Updated the thief skills that caused poison to reflect the extended duration that this trait applies.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Potent Poison has been added to the game.