Venomous Knife

Stealth Attack. Throw a knife, bleeding and poisoning your target. — In-game description

Venomous Knife

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Downed

Type

Stealth Attack

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Stealth Attack. Throw a knife, bleeding and poisoning your target.

  Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 ₃ Bleeding (8s): 528 Damage

 ₂ Poison (8s): 536 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

  Poison When Downed (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

  Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Serpent's Touch — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• Potent Poison — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

Critical Strikes

• Sundering Shade — Stealth Attack skills inflict vulnerability and grant fury upon successfully hitting foes.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Shadow Siphoning — Stealth attacks siphon health if they hit. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per interval.
• Rending Shade — Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

Trickery

• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Specter

• Panaku's Ambition — Gain barrier when you strike foes with a stealth attack. When you apply stealth to allies you also grant them barrier. This effect can only be received once and will reset when stealth is removed.

Notes

• This skill is the only Stealth Attack that does not have a 1 second recharge.
• It is possible to use this skill twice before being revealed if the distance to your target is far enough or if you have quickness.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 2 stacks of poison for 8 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Updated the poison skill fact to scale with the Potent Poison trait.
April 30, 2013	Skills that must be performed from stealth are now labeled as "Stealth Attack."
October 24, 2012	Stealth skills now always apply the Revealed' buff when they hit their target (this update was not originally documented )
August 28, 2012	Game release: Venomous Knife has been added to the game.