Poison

It has been suggested that this article, Poison, be moved to Poisoned because: "That is the actual in-game name of the condition. Probably renamed in an update.".

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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

Poison 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 poison

Weapon skills that apply poison

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   Poison Dart Volley
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   Poison Volley
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   Serpent's Strike
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   Stalker's Strike
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   Serpent Stab
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   Deadly Delivery
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   Double Arc
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   Choking Gas
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   Lotus Strike
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   Death's Retreat
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   Chaos Storm (randomly)
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   Chilblains
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   Putrid Curse
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   Manifest Toxin

Underwater weapon skills that apply poison

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   Escape
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   Poison Tip Strike
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   Foul Current
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   Venomous Sphere

Utility skills that apply poison

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   Viper's Nest
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   Glyph of Alignment
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   Vulture Stance
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   Needle Trap
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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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   Serpent Siphon
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   Radiation Field

Elite skills that apply poison

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

Skills with special conditions that apply poison

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   Fumigate (with Elixir Gun)
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   Poison Grenade (with Grenade Kit)
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   Poison Gas Shell (with Elite Mortar Kit)
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   Vent Radiation (tool belt skill with Radiation Field)
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   Chemical Field (tool belt skill with Purge Gyro)
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   Deadly Venom (Forest Spider pet skill)
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   Insect Swarm (Marsh Drake pet skill)
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   Poison Barbs (Whiptail Devourer pet skill)
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   Poison Cloud (Marsh Drake pet skill (while underwater))
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   Poison Cloud (Murellow pet skill)
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   Poison Cloud (Whiptail Devourer pet skill (while underwater))
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   Poison Gas (Spider pet skill)
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   Poisoning Whirl (Green Jellyfish pet skill)
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   Poisonous Cloud (Carrion Devourer pet skill)
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   Poisonous Maul (Murellow pet skill)
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   Twin Darts (Devourer pet skill)
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   Exploding Venom Sack (stolen)
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   Rusty Scrap Strike (stolen)
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   Throw Scale (stolen)
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   Venomous Knife (downed Stealth Attack)
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   Dark Water (from Death Shroud while underwater)
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   Necrotic Traversal (active from Flesh Wurm)
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   Dark Pact (when removing regeneration)
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   Unholy Feast (when removing regeneration)
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   Putrid Curse (when removing regeneration)
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   Enfeebling Blood (when removing regeneration)
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   Corrupt Boon (when removing regeneration)
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   Well of Corruption (when removing regeneration)
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   Nightfall (when removing regeneration)
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   Soul Spiral (from Reaper's Shroud)
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   Exploding Venom Sack (From Venom Sac found by Forage (warthog))
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   Throw Scale (From Scale found by Forage (warthog))

Downed skills that apply poison

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   Death Curse - (yourself and foe)
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   Fetid Ground
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   Trail of Knives — With  Serpent's Touch
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   Venomous Knife

Combos that apply poison

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

Skills that remove poison

Healing skills that remove poison

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   A.E.D.
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   Hide in Shadows

Skills with special conditions that remove poison

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   Leafy Bandage (tool belt skill with Healing Seed)

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply poison

•  Poison Master — After swapping pets, your pet's first 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.
•  Dagger Training — Dagger attacks have increased damage and a chance to inflict poison on enemies.
•  Serpent's Touch — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
•  Trapper's Respite — Drop a Lesser Needle Trap when you use a healing skill.
•  Descent into Madness — Cast Lesser Chaos Storm when you take falling damage or use a heal skill. Take less damage from falling.
•  Death Nova — When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Lesser Poison Cloud. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
•  Master of Corruption — Reduces recharge on corruption skills. Corruption skills inflict additional conditions on you.
•  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.
•  Venom Enhancement — When you inflict torment you also inflict poison. Poison lasts longer.

Traits that improve poison

•  Poison Master — After swapping pets, your pet's first attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
•  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.
•  Venom Enhancement — When you inflict torment you also inflict poison. Poison lasts longer.

Traits that benefit from poison on self

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

Traits that benefit from poison on foes

•  Putrid Defense — Take less damage from poisoned foes.
•  Predator's Cunning — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.

Traits that remove poison

•  Cleansing Synergy — Using a heal skill triggers a cleansing pulse around you.
•  Evasive Purity — Dodging removes a damaging condition and a non-damaging condition from you.
•  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 Orrian (rank 4 - chance when hit)
• Superior Rune of the Afflicted (rank 6 - death nova on downed)
• Superior Rune of the Krait (rank 6 - when using an elite skill)
• Superior Rune of the Rata Sum (rank 6 - creates a Radiation Field)
• Superior Rune of the Sunless (rank 6 - when using an elite skill)

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Blight 60% Chance on Critical: Area Poison Attack
• Sigil of Superior Doom (next attack after weapon swap)

Upgrade components that increase poison duration

Runes

• Superior Rune of Orrian (rank 2 and 6 - increases duration by 10% and 20%)
• Superior Rune of the Afflicted (rank 4 - increases duration by 15%)
• Superior Rune of the Rata Sum (rank 2 and 6 - increases duration 10% and 20%)
• Superior Rune of Thorns (rank 2, 4 and 6 - increases duration by 10%,15% and 20%)

Sigils

• Sigil of Venom (increases duration)

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: Poison has been added to the game.

Trivia

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Poison.

• 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.

References

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