Choking Gas/history
February 28, 2022
- (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
“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
May 11, 2021
- Choking Gas: Increased poison duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE and WvW only. This now matches the duration in structured PvP modes.
“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
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
July 07, 2020
- Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
“Fire an arrow that dazes enemies on impact and poisons the target area.
- Damage: 220 (0.6)?
Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness 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
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
April 28, 2020
- Choking Gas: Increased initiative cost from 6 to 7 in PvP only.
“Fire an arrow that dazes enemies on impact and poisonous the target area.
- Damage: 220 (0.6)?
Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness 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
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Choking Gas: 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.
“Fire an arrow that dazes enemies on impact and poisonous the target area.
- Damage: 220 (0.6)?
Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness- Daze: 1 second
- Number of Targets: 5
- Poison Threshold: 5
- Pulses: 4
- Field Duration: 3 seconds
Interval: 1 second Interval: 4 seconds- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
September 23, 2017
- Choking Gas: Fixed an incorrect field-duration skill fact.
June 20, 2017
- Choking Gas: 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.
“Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud. Foes at or above the poison threshold are dazed.
(The same foe cannot be dazed more than once per interval.)
- Damage: 220 (0.6)?
Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness Daze: ½ seconds Daze: 1 second- Number of Targets: 5
- Poison Threshold: 5
- Pulses: 4
- Field Duration: 3 seconds
Interval: 1 second Interval: 4 seconds- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
May 16, 2017
- Choking Gas: 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.
- This skill now briefly dazes foes with 5 or more stacks of poison every pulse.
“Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud. Foes at or above the poison threshold are dazed.
(The same foe cannot be dazed more than once per interval.
- Damage: 220 (0.6)?
- Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness
- Daze: ½ seconds
- Number of Targets: 5
- Poison Threshold: 5
- Pulses: 4
- Field Duration: 4 seconds
- Interval: 1 second
- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
June 23, 2015
- Choking Gas: Decreased the poison duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
“Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.
- Damage: 73 (0.2)?
- Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness
- Number of Targets: 5
- Pulses: 4
- Field Duration: 4 seconds
- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
September 09, 2014
- Choking Gas This skill now deals a small amount of damage on the initial impact.
“Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.
- Damage: 79
- Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness
- Number of Targets: 5
- Pulses: 4
- Field Duration: 4
- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
April 15, 2014
- Choking Gas: Reduced the poison per pulse from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. Added a weakness skill fact when traited with Lotus Poison.
Choking Gas
- Profession
- Thief (skill list)
- Weapon
- Short bow
- Game link
“Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.
- Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness
- Duration: 4 seconds
- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description
April 30, 2013
- Choking Gas skill: Added an Unblockable skill fact to reflect functionality.
Choking Gas
- Profession
- Thief (skill list)
- Weapon
- Short bow
- Game link
“Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.
- Poison (5s): 168 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness
- Duration: 4 seconds
- Radius: 240
- Combo Field: Poison
- Range: 900
- Unblockable
— In-game description