Poisoned

Poisoned

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Intensity

Game link

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Deals damage every second; decreases healing effectiveness by 33%; damage stacks intensity.

— In-game description

Poisoned is a condition that inflicts damage over time and stacks intensity, however the heal potency decrease is unaffected by the number of stacks on a foe, which can stack up to 1500 times. Characters suffering from poison appear green tinted. Damage is determined by the following formula:

(0.06 * Condition Damage) + (0.375 * Level) + 3.5 damage per stack per second,

(0.06 * Condition Damage) + 33.5 damage per stack per second at level 80.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that apply poisoned

Weapon skills that poison

Mace

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   Manifest Toxin

Pistol

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   Poison Dart Volley

Engineering Kit

• Elixir Gun
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     Fumigate
• Grenade Kit
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     Poison Grenade
• Elite Mortar Kit
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     Poison Gas Shell

Short bow

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   Poison Volley

Sword

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   Serpent's Strike

Dagger

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   Stalker's Strike

Dagger

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   Serpent Stab
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   Deadly Delivery
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   Double Arc

Short bow

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   Choking Gas

Dagger

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   Lotus Strike

Rifle

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   Death's Retreat

Staff

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   Chaos Storm (randomly)

Staff

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   Chilblains

Scepter

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   Putrid Curse

Reaper Shroud

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   Soul Spiral

Underwater weapon skills that poison

Spear

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   Venomous Sphere

Harpoon Gun

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   Escape

Spear

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   Poison Tip Strike

Death Shroud

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   Dark Water

Trident

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   Foul Current

Utility skills that poison

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   Viper's Nest
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   Vulture Stance
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   Thousand Needles
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   Spider Venom
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   Impairing Daggers
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   Binding Shadow
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   Corrosive Poison Cloud
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   Corrupt Boon (on self)
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   Signet of Spite
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   Necrotic Traversal (active from Flesh Wurm)
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   Serpent Siphon
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   Radiation Field

Elite skills that poison

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   Plaguelands
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   Reaper of Grenth
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   Summon Sylvan Hound (from Sylvan Hound)

Profession mechanics that poison

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   Vent Radiation (tool belt skill with Radiation Field)
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   Deadly Venom (Juvenile Forest Spider unique skill)
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   Insect Swarm (Juvenile Marsh Drake unique skill)
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   Poison Barbs (Juvenile Whiptail Devourer unique skill)
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   Poison Cloud (Juvenile Marsh Drake unique underwater skill)
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   Poison Cloud (Juvenile Murellow unique skill)
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   Poison Cloud (Juvenile Whiptail Devourer unique underwater skill)
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   Poison Gas (Spider family common skill)
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   Poisonous Cloud (Juvenile Carrion Devourer unique skill)
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   Poisonous Maul (Juvenile Murellow unique underwater skill)
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   Twin Darts (Devourer family common skill); 10% chance
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   Exploding Venom Sack (foraged with Juvenile Warthog; random)
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   Throw Gunk (foraged with Juvenile Warthog; random)
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   Throw Scale (foraged with Juvenile Warthog; random)
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   Exploding Venom Sack (stolen)
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   Rusty Scrap Strike (stolen)
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   Throw Scale (stolen)

Downed skills that poison

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   Death Curse
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   Fetid Ground
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   Trail of Knives — With  Serpent's Touch
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   Venomous Knife (Stealth Attack)

Combos that apply poison

•  Combo Field: Poison ×  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
•  Combo Field: Poison ×  Combo Finisher: Whirl

Skills that remove poisoned

Healing skills that remove poison

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   A.E.D.
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   Hide in Shadows

Profession mechanics that remove poisoned

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   Leafy Bandage (tool belt skill with Healing Seed)

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply poisoned

 Corruption

•  Venom Enhancement — When you inflict torment you also inflict poison. Poison lasts longer.

 Wilderness Survival

•  Poison Master — Upon using a beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
•  Refined Toxins — While you are above the health threshold, your strikes inflict poison. While your pet's health is above the health threshold, its strikes inflict poison.

 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.

 Chaos

•  Method of Madness — Cast Lesser Chaos Storm when you use a heal skill.

 Death Magic

•  Death Nova — When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.

 Curses

•  Master of Corruption — Reduces recharge on corruption skills. Corruption skills inflict additional conditions on you.

 Spite

•  Signets of Suffering — Signets have improved passive effects. Gain the benefits of your equipped signet passives while in shroud. Signets recharge every second that you are in shroud.

Traits that improve poisoned

 Corruption

•  Venom Enhancement — When you inflict torment you also inflict poison. Poison lasts longer.

 Wilderness Survival

•  Poison Master — Upon using a beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

 Deadly Arts

•  Potent Poison — Increased poison duration. Poison deals increased damage. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional poison stacks.
•  Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.

Traits that benefit from poisoned on self

 Wilderness Survival

•  Oakheart Salve — Gain regeneration when you suffer from bleeding, poison or burning. While you have regeneration, you take reduced damage.

Traits that benefit from poisoned on foes

 Death Magic

•  Putrid Defense — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.

 Soulbeast

•  Predator's Cunning — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.

Traits that remove poisoned

See also: Condition#Traits that remove conditions

See also: Boon#Traits that convert conditions into boons

 Acrobatics

•  Pain Response — Gain regeneration and remove conditions when struck while your health is below the threshold.

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Upgrade components that apply poison

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Afflicted (rank 6 - death nova when defeating an enemy)
•   Superior Rune of the Krait (rank 6 - when using an elite skill)
•   Superior Rune of the Sunless (rank 6 - when using an elite skill)

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Blight (AoE attack on critical hit)
•   Superior Sigil of Doom (next attack after weapon swap)

Upgrade components that increase poisoned duration

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Afflicted (rank 2 - increases duration by 10%)
•   Superior Rune of Rata Sum (rank 2 - increases duration by 10%)
•   Superior Rune of Scavenging (rank 6 -increases duration by 20%)
•   Superior Rune of Thorns (rank 2, 4 and 6 - increases duration by 10%, 20%, and 20%)

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Venom (increases duration by 20%)

Related consumables

See also: Condition#Related consumables

•   Spinach Burger - +5% poison duration.
•   Deluxe Burger - +7% poison duration and +40 precision.
•   Horseradish Burger - +10% poison duration and +50 precision.
•   Spicy Cheeseburger - +12% poison duration and +60 precision.
•   Fancy Truffle Burger - +15% poison duration and +70 precision.
•   Cluster of Baneberries - Inflicts poison on self.

Player chatter

• When poison is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	High toxicity!	I need an antidote!
Charr	Venom...too strong...	It's poison!
Human	Venom... too strong...	Venom... too strong...
Norn	I'm poisoned!	Ugh, poison...
Sylvari	It's poisonous!	I've been poisoned...

Version history

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All damage conditions will now stack up to 1500 times. This condition will now stack in intensity. Poison's healing reduction will not depend on the number of stacks. Any poison will result in a static -33%, just as it currently does. The formula for this condition has been rescaled to account for the new behavior of damaging conditions and to put more focus on the condition damage stat. New damage over time: 3.5 + (0.375 * Level) + (0.06 * Condition Damage)
March 19, 2015	Updated condition damage. Previously, a condition that had a fractional remainder of time after it dealt damage would not inflict the rest of its damage. For example, a 1.5-second burn would deal 1 second of burning damage, then fail to inflict the remaining 0.5 seconds of burning. Conditions will now deal this fractional damage either at the beginning or end of their duration, depending on when the next damage pulse would occur and their remaining duration.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Poisoned has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the G-Star Demo, this condition stacked in intensity but not duration.
• At the G-Star Demo, multiple applications of this condition increased its duration instead.
• This condition was changed to stack in intensity since the June 23, 2015 game update.

See also

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Poison.

• Poisoned - the effect from the story steps Liberating Apatia and Retribution

References

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Effects (stacking)