Corrosive Poison Cloud

This article is about the necromancer utility skill. For other skills with similar names, see Poison Cloud.

Corruption. Weaken yourself and envelope[sic] the target area in a noxious cloud that blocks enemy missiles and poisons foes and leaves them weakened. — In-game description

Corrosive Poison Cloud

   

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Corruption

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

10689

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0.5½  30  

Corrosive Poison Cloud

Corruption. Weaken yourself and envelope[sic] the target area in a noxious cloud that blocks enemy missiles and poisons foes and leaves them weakened.

₄ Poison (2s): 268 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Weakness (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Self Weakness (6s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blocks Missiles

 Duration: 8 seconds

 Duration: 6 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Poison

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Curses

• Master of Corruption — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Putrid Defense — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.
• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Notes

• This skill applies the listed effects to enemies five times. Once at creation then once every two seconds afterwards for eight seconds. The self-weakness is only applied once.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	Reduced duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only.
April 23, 2019	Skills that destroy missiles will now block missiles instead
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed an issue that allowed this ability to block unblockable attacks.
September 29, 2015	Updated this skill to destroy projectiles that enter its area. Increased the poison stacks from 3 to 4 stacks and reduced their duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds. Decreased the duration from 12 seconds to 8 seconds. Increased the frequency pulses from every 3 seconds to every 2 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the number of poison stacks from 1 stack for 3 seconds to 3 stacks for 3 seconds.
January 27, 2015	The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds. The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Added an unblockable skill fact.
December 14, 2012	Updated Corrosive Poison Cloud's skill fact to display the proper duration of the applied conditions.
November 15, 2012	This skill's duration tooltip has been corrected.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Corrosive Poison Cloud has been added to the game.