Choking Gas

Fire an arrow that dazes enemies on impact and poisons the target area. — In-game description

Choking Gas

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Short bow

Game link

API

13024

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0.5½  

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Choking Gas

Fire an arrow that dazes enemies on impact and poisons the target area.

 Damage: 220 (0.6)^?

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

 Initial Impact Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 4

 Field Duration: 3 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Poison

 Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— 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.

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Daredevil

• Impacting Disruption — Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Notes

• Poison is applied each second for the duration of the area of effect.
• Triggers Signet of Malice once for the initial damage and once per condition pulse for each target affected.This means if the maximum number of targets are hit with both the initial hit and subsequent 4 tricks of poison, a maximum of 25 triggers for a single field is possible.
• Great synergy with Pressure Striking, Impacting Disruption and Superior Sigil of Draining.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 11, 2021	Increased poison duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE and WvW only. This now matches the duration in structured PvP modes.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
April 28, 2020	Increased initiative cost from 6 to 7 in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This ability now dazes foes on its initial impact rather than when they are above a poison-stack threshold. The daze duration has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 1 second. Increased initiative cost from 4 to 6 in PvP and WvW.
September 23, 2017	Fixed an incorrect field-duration skill fact.
June 20, 2017	The daze duration of this skill has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 1 second. Poison duration has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds. Daze interval has been increased from 1 second to 4 seconds. All of these changes affect PvP only.
May 16, 2017	Increased damage by 200%. This skill now briefly dazes foes with 5 or more stacks of poison every pulse. The same foe cannot be dazed more than once every second.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Decreased the poison duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
September 09, 2014	This skill now deals a small amount of damage on the initial impact.
April 15, 2014	Reduced the poison per pulse from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. Added a weakness skill fact when traited with Lotus Poison.
April 30, 2013	Added an Unblockable skill fact to reflect functionality.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Choking Gas has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.