Spider Venom

Venom. Poison foes with your next few attacks. — In-game description

Spider Venom

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Venom

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

13037

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Spider Venom

Venom. Poison foes with your next few attacks.

₆ Spider Venom (24s): Your attacks poison foes.

₃ Spider Venom (24s): Your attacks poison foes.

 Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Poison (6s): 201 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Attacks: 6

 Venom Duration: 24 seconds

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Potent Poison — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

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.

Notes

• The number of uses on this skill's effect will decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, 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 spider venom allies can gain from 6 to 25. Allies cannot have more than 6 stacks of spider venom from the same source at any one time. You cannot grant yourself more than 6 stacks of spider venom at any one time unless Leeching Venoms is also equipped.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Poison duration decreased from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.
May 26, 2020	Reduced the number of venom stacks from 6 to 3 in PvP and WvW.
December 03, 2019	Reduced poison duration from 6 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
August 28, 2018	Poison duration has been reduced from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only.
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.
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: Spider Venom has been added to the game.