Skale Venom

This article is about the thief skill. For the consumable of the same name, see Skale Venom (consumable).

Venom. Apply vulnerability and torment with your next few attacks. — In-game description

Skale Venom

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Venom

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

13055

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Skale Venom

Venom. Apply vulnerability and torment with your next few attacks.

₄ Skale Venom (24s): Your attacks inflict vulnerability and torment.

 Vulnerability (10s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Vulnerability (6s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Torment (3s): 66 Damage, 95 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Torment (5s): 110 Damage, 159 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Attacks: 4

 Duration: 24 seconds

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Shadow Arts

• 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.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Specter

• Larcenous Torment — Steal health and gain shadow force when you torment a foe. Does not grant shadow force while in shroud.
• Strength of Shadows — Gain expertise based on a percentage of your vitality. Torment you inflict deals increased damage.

Notes

• The number of uses on this skill's effect will decrease if an attack lands, but the counter still decreases even if the attack is negated by Blinded, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Increased the maximum number of charges of skale venom allies can gain from 5 to 25. Allies cannot have more than 5 charges of skale venom from the same source at any one time.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Torment duration decreased from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced vulnerability duration from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.
October 18, 2016	The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds. Its duration has been reduced from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
July 26, 2016	When you use a venom skill, you apply the effects to all nearby allies as well.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All venoms now naturally have one additional charge.
August 06, 2013	The buff provided when this skill is activated will now properly display the remaining number of charges.
June 25, 2013	Replaced weakness with torment.
January 28, 2013	The number of uses on this skill's effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Skale Venom has been added to the game.