Deadly Ambition

Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use. — In-game description

Deadly Ambition

Specialization

Deadly Arts (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

External links

API

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Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage.
Applies poison once per attack use.

  Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

  Condition Damage: +120

— In-game description

Related traits

 Deadly Arts

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

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 03, 2019	This trait now applies 1 stack of poison for 3 seconds when striking with a dual-wield attack. This effect has no cooldown but can only occur once per dual-wield attack use. This trait is no longer split between game modes.
November 04, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to apply more poison than expected.
October 29, 2019	The internal cooldown of this trait has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP only. The stacks of poison have been decreased from 2 stacks to 1 stack in PvP only.
August 13, 2019	Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to activate multiple times on the same target without going on cooldown.
July 17, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to not apply extra poison stacks with the Potent Poison trait equipped.
July 16, 2019	Trapper's Respite has been reworked and renamed into Deadly Ambition. Inflict 2 stacks of poison for 3 seconds when striking a foe, with an internal cooldown of 3 seconds in PvE [sic], 5 seconds in PvP. Gain +120 condition damage when this trait is equipped.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Renamed this trait to include an apostrophe in the title. Renamed the skill triggered by this trait to Lesser Needle Trap. Increased Poison duration to 10 seconds.
March 28, 2017	All traps created by the thief will have a 1-second arm time before the trap can affect enemies. Needle Trap: This skill now delivers a strike.
May 16, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to display an incorrect poison duration.
August 25, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from being affected by the recharge reduction provided by the trait Deadly Trapper.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Trapper's Respite has been added to the game.