Poison Master

Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased. — In-game description

Poison Master

Specialization

Wilderness Survival (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Poison Master

Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

 Damage Increase: 25%

₂ Poison (8s): 536 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Combat Only

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Stalker's Strike — Dagger
•   Serpent's Strike — Sword
•   Poison Volley — Short bow
•   Toxic Strike — Spear
•   Serpent Stab — Dagger
•   Deadly Delivery — Dagger
•   Double Arc — Dagger
•   Instinctive Engage — Dagger
•   Neurotoxin Burst — Dagger
•   Toxic Shot — Short bow

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Viper's Nest — Trap
•   Vulture Stance — Stance
•   Exploding Spores — Cantrip

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Poison Gas
•   Undead Plague
•   Prelude Lash — Beast
•   Primal Cry — Beast
•   Spiritual Reprieve — Beast
•   Unflinching Fortitude — Beast
•   Worldly Impact — Beast
•   Venomous Outburst

Pet skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blinding Roar — Juvenile Sand Lion
•   Blinding Slash — Juvenile Raven, Juvenile White Raven
•   Bloodthirsty Charge — Juvenile Wallow
•   Boil — Juvenile Salamander Drake
•   Brash Slash — Juvenile Eagle
•   Chilling Howl — Juvenile Alpine Wolf
•   Chilling Slash — Juvenile Owl
•   Chilling Whirl — Juvenile Rainbow Jellyfish, Juvenile Blue Jellyfish
•   Consuming Flame — Juvenile Fire Wyvern
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Black Moa
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Pink Moa
•   Deadly Venom — Juvenile Forest Spider
•   Electrocute — Juvenile River Drake
•   Enfeebling Maul — Juvenile Black Bear
•   Enfeebling Roar — Juvenile Black Bear
•   Fang Grapple — Juvenile Fanged Iboga
•   Feeding Frenzy — Juvenile Shark
•   Fire Breath — Juvenile Salamander Drake
•   Forage Feathers — Juvenile Siamoth
•   Forage Rock — Juvenile Boar
•   Forage Scale — Juvenile Warthog
•   Forage Sword — Juvenile Pig
•   Frost Breath — Juvenile Ice Drake
•   Frost Nova — Juvenile Ice Drake
•   Furious Pounce — Juvenile Tiger
•   Furious Screech — Juvenile Red Moa
•   Gale Breath — Juvenile Phoenix
•   Guardian's Roar — Juvenile White Tiger
•   Head Toss — Juvenile Rock Gazelle
•   Howl of the Pack — Juvenile Hyena
•   Hunker Down — Juvenile Siege Turtle
•   Icy Bite — Juvenile Snow Leopard
•   Icy Maul — Juvenile Polar Bear
•   Icy Pounce — Juvenile Snow Leopard
•   Icy Roar — Juvenile Polar Bear
•   Icy Screech — Juvenile White Moa
•   Immobilizing Whirl — Juvenile Red Jellyfish
•   Insect Swarm — Juvenile Marsh Drake
•   Intimidating Howl — Juvenile Krytan Drakehound
•   Jacaranda's Embrace — Juvenile Jacaranda
•   Lacerating Slash — Juvenile Hawk
•   Lashtail Venom — Juvenile Lashtail Devourer
•   Ley Energy Pulse — Juvenile Sky-Chak Striker
•   Lightning Assault — Juvenile Electric Wyvern
•   Lightning Breath — Juvenile River Drake
•   Mighty Roar — Juvenile Jungle Stalker
•   Paralyzing Venom — Juvenile Black Widow Spider, Juvenile Jungle Spider
•   Poison Barbs — Juvenile Whiptail Devourer
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Marsh Drake
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Murellow
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Whiptail Devourer
•   Poisonous Cloud — Juvenile Carrion Devourer
•   Poisonous Maul — Juvenile Murellow
•   Protecting Screech — Juvenile Blue Moa
•   Purge Conditions — Juvenile Brown Bear
•   Regenerate — Juvenile Carrion Devourer
•   Regenerate — Juvenile Fern Hound
•   Rending Barbs — Juvenile Lashtail Devourer
•   Rending Maul — Juvenile Arctodus
•   Rending Pounce — Juvenile Lynx
•   Savannah Strike — Juvenile Cheetah
•   Shake It Off — Juvenile Brown Bear
•   Smoke Cloud — Juvenile Smokescale
•   Sonic Barrier — Juvenile Reef Drake
•   Sonic Shriek — Juvenile Reef Drake
•   Spike Barrage — Juvenile Bristleback
•   Stalk — Juvenile Jaguar
•   Stunning Rush — Juvenile Armor Fish
•   Terrifying Howl — Juvenile Wolf
•   Weakening Venom — Juvenile Cave Spider
•   Poison Gas — Spider
•   Undead Plague — Wallow
•   Panopticon — Juvenile Spinegazer
•   Rallying Roar — Juvenile Warclaw

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Soulbeast

• Predator's Cunning — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Druid

• Eclipse — Your Celestial Avatar skills are offensively augmented. Striking enemies grants additional astral force.

Untamed

• Debilitating Blows — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Notes

• The poison scales from your condition damage, not your pet's.
• Applies  Poison Master while in combat.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 23, 2019	This trait no longer grants poison on the next attack when swapping pets. It now grants this effect upon the use of a beast skill.
March 05, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to fail if the ranger was in a downed state. Fixed a bug that prevented the effect applied by this trait from being removed when the ranger's pet's attack failed to hit.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Reduced poison damage increase to 25%. Increased poison duration to 8 seconds. Increased poison stacks to 2.
April 15, 2014	Poison Master has been added to the game.