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June 28, 2022

  • Leeching Venoms: This trait now grants stacks of Spider Venom when entering or exiting stealth instead of every interval while in stealth.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 320 (0.033)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 160 (0.0165)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Spider Venom.png3 Spider Venom (30s): Your attacks poison foes.
Spider Venom.png1 Spider Venom (30s): Your attacks poison foes.
Miscellaneous effect.png Venom Stacks: 3
Miscellaneous effect.png Venom Stacks: 1

— In-game description

October 26, 2021

  • (Undocumented) Added a missing word ("utility") to the description.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom while stealthed. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 353 (0.033)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 160 (0.0165)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 6
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 2
Duration.png Venom Gain Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

July 08, 2020

  • Leeching Venoms: Fixed a bug that caused the life-stealing damage to be higher than expected in PvP and WvW.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Venom skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom while stealthed. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 353 (0.33)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 160 (0.0165)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 6
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 2
Duration.png Venom Gain Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

July 07, 2020

  • Leeching Venoms: Reduced life-stealing base damage from 320 to 160 in PvP and WvW. Reduced life-stealing power coefficient from 0.0333 to 0.0165 in PvP and WvW.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Venom skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom while stealthed. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 353 (0.33)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 160 (0.0165)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 6
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 2
Duration.png Venom Gain Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

February 25, 2020

  • Leeching Venoms: (Competitive split, undocumented) Reduced maximum stacks of spider venom provided by this trait from 6 to 2.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Venom skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom while stealthed. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 353 (0.33)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 6
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 2
Duration.png Venom Gain Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

October 01, 2019

  • Leeching Venoms: This trait now immediately grants a stack of spider venom when the thief first enters stealth and every 3 seconds after.

July 16, 2019

  • Leeching Venoms: This trait has been moved to new slot in the same tier. It no longer reduces recharge of venoms. Instead it causes the thief to stack spider venom automatically while in stealth.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Venom skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom while stealthed. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 353 (0.33)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Miscellaneous effect.png Maximum Venom Stacks: 6
Duration.png Venom Gain Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

July 26, 2016

  • Leeching Venoms: This trait no longer grants might to allies it is applied to.
    • This trait now reduces the recharge of venom abilities.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Siphon life from your foe when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike. Venom recharges are reduced.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 351
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

June 23, 2015

  • Leeching Venoms: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
    • Added: Gain 2 stacks of might for 20 seconds when activating a venom.
Leeching Venoms.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Leeching Venoms

Gain might when activating a venom. Siphon life from your foe when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 351 (0.033)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?
Might.png2 Might (20s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

— In-game description

April 30, 2013

  • Leeching Venoms: Increased the damage scale from power by 33%.
    • Increased range from 325-400 to 325-425.
Trait IX.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Leeching Venoms

Siphon life from your foe when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 350 (0.033)?
Damage.png Life Siphon Healing: 325 (0.2)?

— In-game description

January 28, 2013

November 15, 2012

Trait IX.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Leeching Venoms

Steal health when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike.

— In-game description

Original version

Trait IX.png

Leeching Venoms

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Shadow Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Leeching Venoms

Steal health when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike.

— In-game description