Poisoned

Deals damage every second; decreases healing effectiveness by 33%; damage stacks intensity. — In-game description

Poisoned

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Intensity

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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 apply poisoned

•   Manifest Toxin — Mace
•   Venomous Sphere — Spear
•   Poison Dart Volley — Pistol
•   Stalker's Strike — Dagger
•   Serpent's Strike — Sword
•   Poison Volley — Short bow
•   Toxic Strike — Spear
•   Deadly Delivery — Dagger
•   Double Arc — Dagger
•   Serpent Stab — Dagger
•   Lotus Strike — Dagger
•   Choking Gas — Short bow
•   Poison Tip Strike — Spear
•   Escape — Harpoon gun
•   Death's Retreat — Rifle
•   Chaos Storm — Staff
•   Putrid Curse — Scepter
•   Chilblains — Staff
•   Foul Current — Trident

Bundle skills that apply poisoned

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

Transform skills that apply poisoned

•   Dark Water — Death Shroud
•   Soul Spiral — Reaper's Shroud

Utility skills that apply poisoned

•   Viper's Nest — Trap
•   Vulture Stance — Stance
•   Thousand Needles
•   Spider Venom — Venom
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip
•   Corrosive Poison Cloud — Corruption
•   Corrupt Boon — Corruption
•   Necrotic Traversal
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Serpent Siphon — Punishment

Elite skills that apply poisoned

•   Plague
•   Plaguelands — Corruption

Profession mechanic skills that apply poisoned

•   Vent Radiation — Tool belt
•   Chemical Field — Tool belt
•   Poison Gas
•   Exploding Venom Sack — Stolen skill
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Stolen skill
•   Throw Cursed Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Scale — Stolen skill
•   Steal Defenses — Stolen skill

Pet skills that apply poisoned

•   Deadly Venom — Juvenile Forest Spider
•   Insect Swarm — Juvenile Marsh Drake
•   Poison Barbs — Juvenile Whiptail Devourer
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Marsh Drake
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Murellow
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Whiptail Devourer
•   Poison Gas — Spider
•   Poisonous Cloud — Juvenile Carrion Devourer
•   Poisonous Maul — Juvenile Murellow
•   Twin Darts — Devourer

Downed skills that apply poisoned

•   Venomous Knife
•   Fetid Ground

Drowning skills that apply poisoned

•   Cheap Shot
•   Death Curse

Racial skills that apply poisoned

•   Radiation Field
•   Vent Radiation
•   Reaper of Grenth

Skills that convert regeneration into poisoned

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Combos that apply poisoned

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

Common skills that apply poisoned

•   Alkar's Alchemical Acid
•   Dark Water — Jellyfish Battle Form
•   Exploding Venom Sack — Venom Sac (bundle)
•   Fire Bloated Putrid Cow — Trebuchet
•   Fire Putrid Cow — Trebuchet
•   Fire Rotting Cow — Trebuchet
•   Lob Solvent — Solvent Sprayer
•   Overload Gun — Solvent Sprayer
•   Poison Barrage
•   Poison Dart
•   Poison Spray — Solvent Sprayer
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Rusty Scrap, Pile of Dirt
•   Rusty Shrapnel
•   Skale Toxin — Skale Tamer
•   Throw Gunk — Gunk (consumable), Ettin Gunk, Ball of Gunk, Gunk, Swamp Gunk
•   Throw Poison Pot — Pot of Hylek Poison, Pot Of Hylek Poison, Hylek Poison Pot, Pot of Hylek Poison (bundle)
•   Throw Putrid Arm — Undead Arm (bundle)
•   Throw Scale — Drake Scale (bundle), Scale (bundle)
•   Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
•   Tongue Lash — Potion of Hylek Transformation
•   Toxic Unveiling Volley — Arrow Cart
•   Viper's Leap

Skills that remove poisoned

Healing skills that remove poisoned

•   A.E.D.
•   Hide in Shadows

Profession mechanics that remove poisoned

•   Leafy Bandage — Tool belt with Healing Seed

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply poisoned

• Diabolic Inferno (Corruption) — Invoke Torment applies poison and burning.
• Refined Toxins (Wilderness Survival) — 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.
• Poison Master (Wilderness Survival) — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
• Serpent's Touch (Deadly Arts) — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
• Deadly Ambition (Deadly Arts) — Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use.
• Panic Strike (Deadly Arts) — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Master of Corruption (Curses) — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.

Trait skills that apply poisoned

•   Lesser Chaos Storm (Method of Madness) — Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes.
•   Poison Nova (Death Nova) — Corruption. The target area is enveloped in a noxious cloud of poison.

Traits that improve poisoned

• Yearning Empowerment (Corruption) — Damaging conditions you apply last longer.
• Poison Master (Wilderness Survival) — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
• Lotus Poison (Deadly Arts) — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Potent Poison (Deadly Arts) — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.
• Putrid Defense (Death Magic) — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.

Traits that benefit from poisoned on self

• Oakheart Salve (Wilderness Survival) — Gain regeneration when you are inflicted with bleeding, poison, or burning. While you have regeneration, you take reduced damage.

Traits that benefit from poisoned on foes

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

Traits that remove poisoned

See also: Boon#Traits that convert conditions into boons

• Pain Response (Acrobatics) — Gain regeneration and remove damaging conditions when struck while below the health threshold.
• Shadow's Embrace (Shadow Arts) — Remove conditions periodically while in stealth.

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
• Poisoned - effect received by some hylek instead of  Poisoned.

References

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Effects (stacking)