Poisoned

"Poison" redirects here. For other uses, see Poison (disambiguation).

Deals damage every second; decreases healing effectiveness by 33%; damage stacks intensity. — In-game description

Poisoned

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Intensity

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Deals damage every second; decreases healing effectiveness by 33%; damage stacks intensity.

— In-game description

Poisoned is a condition that inflicts damage over time and stacks intensity, however the heal potency decrease is unaffected by the number of stacks on a foe, which can stack up to 1500 times. Characters suffering from poison appear green tinted. Damage is determined by the following formula:

(0.06 * Condition Damage) + (0.375 * Level) + 3.5 damage per stack per second,

(0.06 * Condition Damage) + 33.5 damage per stack per second at level 80.

Related skills

See also: Condition#Related skills

Skills that apply poisoned

Weapon skills that apply poisoned

•   Manifest Toxin — Mace
•   Abyssal Blot — Spear
•   Venomous Sphere — Spear
•   Poison Dart Volley — Pistol
•   Stalker's Strike — Dagger
•   Serpent's Strike — Sword
•   Poison Volley — Short bow
•   Toxic Strike — Spear
•   Deadly Delivery — Dagger
•   Double Arc — Dagger
•   Instinctive Engage — Dagger
•   Serpent Stab — Dagger
•   Neurotoxin Burst — Dagger
•   Toxic Shot — Short bow
•   Venomous Volley — Axe
•   Lotus Strike — Dagger
•   Choking Gas — Short bow
•   Ashen Assault — Spear
•   Entangling Asp — Spear
•   Falling Spider — Spear
•   Poison Tip Strike — Spear
•   Escape — Harpoon gun
•   Malicious Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   Malicious Shadowsquall — Scepter
•   Death's Retreat — Rifle
•   Malicious Ashen Assault — Spear
•   Shadowsquall — Scepter
•   Twilight Combo — Scepter
•   Chaos Storm — Staff
•   Putrid Curse — Scepter
•   Chillblains — Staff
•   Foul Current — Trident
•   Vile Blast — Pistol

Bundle skills that apply poisoned

•   Poison Gas Shell — Elite Mortar Kit
•   Fumigate — Elixir Gun
•   Poison Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Poison Grenade — Grenade Kit

Transform skills that apply poisoned

•   Eternal Night — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Dark Water — Death Shroud
•   Soul Spiral — Reaper's Shroud

Healing skills that apply poisoned

•   Elixir of Promise — Elixir

Utility skills that apply poisoned

•   Viper's Nest — Trap
•   Vulture Stance — Stance
•   Exploding Spores — Cantrip
•   Thousand Needles
•   Spider Venom — Venom
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip
•   Well of Sorrow — Well
•   Corrosive Poison Cloud — Corruption
•   Corrupt Boon — Corruption
•   Necrotic Traversal
•   Signet of Spite — Signet
•   Serpent Siphon — Punishment

Elite skills that apply poisoned

•   Plague
•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Profession mechanic skills that apply poisoned

•   Vent Radiation — Tool belt, Radiation Field
•   Chemical Field — Tool belt, Purge Gyro
•   Poison Gas
•   Primal Cry — Beast
•   Undead Plague
•   Venomous Outburst
•   Exploding Venom Sack — Stolen skill
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Stolen skill
•   Throw Cursed Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Scale — Stolen skill
•   Steal Defenses — Stolen skill

Pet skills that apply poisoned

•   Deadly Venom — Juvenile Forest Spider
•   Insect Swarm — Juvenile Marsh Drake
•   Poison Barbs — Juvenile Whiptail Devourer
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Marsh Drake
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Murellow
•   Poison Cloud — Juvenile Whiptail Devourer
•   Poison Gas — Spider
•   Poisonous Cloud — Juvenile Carrion Devourer
•   Poisonous Maul — Juvenile Murellow
•   Undead Plague — Wallow

Downed skills that apply poisoned

•   Venomous Knife
•   Fetid Ground

Drowning skills that apply poisoned

•   Cheap Shot
•   Death Curse

Skills that convert regeneration into poisoned

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Combos that apply poisoned

•  Combo Field: Poison ×  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
•  Combo Field: Poison ×  Combo Finisher: Whirl

Racial skills that apply poisoned

•   Radiation Field
•   Vent Radiation — Tool belt, Radiation Field
•   Reaper of Grenth
•   Bite

Common skills that apply poisoned

•   Alkar's Alchemical Acid
•   Dark Water — Jellyfish Battle Form
•   Exploding Venom Sack — Venom Sac (bundle)
•   Fire Bloated Putrid Cow — Trebuchet
•   Fire Putrid Cow — Trebuchet
•   Fire Rotting Cow — Trebuchet
•   Lob Solvent — Solvent Sprayer
•   Overload Gun — Solvent Sprayer
•   Poison Barrage
•   Poison Cloud — Hylek Blowgun (Huayapl), Hylek Blowgun (Ni-tlacua Hunter)
•   Poison Dart
•   Poison Spray — Solvent Sprayer
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Rusty Scrap, Pile of Dirt
•   Rusty Shrapnel
•   Skale Toxin — Skale Tamer
•   Taste Ooze — Escaped Experiment
•   Throw — Ball of Ooze, Ball of Ooze (Researcher Tramma)
•   Throw Gunk — Gunk (consumable), Ettin Gunk, Ball of Gunk, Gunk, Swamp Gunk
•   Throw Poison Pot — Pot of Hylek Poison, Pot Of Hylek Poison, Hylek Poison Pot, Pot of Hylek Poison (bundle)
•   Throw Putrid Arm — Undead Arm (bundle)
•   Throw Scale — Drake Scale (bundle), Scale (bundle)
•   Throw Unstable Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
•   Tongue Lash — Potion of Hylek Transformation
•   Toxic Unveiling Volley — Arrow Cart
•   Viper's Leap

Skills that remove poisoned

See also: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons, Condition#Skills that remove conditions

Healing skills that remove poisoned

•   A.E.D. — Gadget
•   Hide in Shadows — Deception

Profession mechanic skills that remove poisoned

•   Leafy Bandage — Tool belt, Healing Seed

Racial skills that remove poisoned

•   Leafy Bandage — Tool belt, Healing Seed

Common skills that remove poisoned

•   Spread Pollen — Mossheart form

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that poison

• Diabolic Inferno (Corruption) — Invoke Torment applies poison and burning.
• Poison Master (Wilderness Survival) — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
• Eclipse (Druid) — Your Celestial Avatar skills are offensively augmented.
• Debilitating Blows (Untamed) — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Serpent's Touch (Deadly Arts) — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
• Deadly Ambition (Deadly Arts) — Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use.
• Panic Strike (Deadly Arts) — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Master of Corruption (Curses) — Corruptions gain reduced recharge time and inflict additional conditions on you.
• Septic Corruption (Harbinger) — Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud 2 skill also inflicts poison.

Trait skills that poison

•   Drop Gunk (Streamlined Kits) — Drop gunk at your location to inflict a random condition.
•   Lesser Chaos Storm (Method of Madness) — Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies. The first strike of the storm dazes foes.
•   Poison Nova (Death Nova) — Corruption. The target area is enveloped in a noxious cloud of poison.

Traits that improve poisoned

• Yearning Empowerment (Corruption) — Damaging conditions you apply last longer.
• Poison Master (Wilderness Survival) — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.
• Predator's Cunning (Soulbeast) — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
• Lotus Poison (Deadly Arts) — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Potent Poison (Deadly Arts) — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.
• Jagged Mind (Virtuoso) — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Parasitic Contagion (Curses) — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Putrid Defense (Death Magic) — Poison damage is increased. Applying poison grants carapace.

Traits that remove poisoned

• Shadow's Embrace (Shadow Arts) — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.

Traits that benefit from poisoned on self

• Oakheart Salve (Wilderness Survival) — Gain regeneration when you are inflicted with bleeding, poison, or burning. While you have regeneration, you take reduced strike damage.

Traits that convert regeneration into poisoned

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Related equipment

See also: Condition#Related equipment

Relics that apply poison

• Relic of the Afflicted — Create a Death Nova at a foe's location upon their defeat that inflicts poison and bleeding.
• Relic of the Blightbringer — Gain stacks of Greer's Virulence when you inflict poison on a foe. After reaching the maximum number of stacks, the next time you inflict poison also inflicts additional conditions on nearby enemies.
• Relic of the Demon Queen — Poison that you apply reduces healing by an additional amount. Disabling a foe applies poison.  Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.
• Relic of the Krait — After using an elite skill, emit a wave of corruption that inflicts damaging conditions.
• Relic of the Nightmare — After using an elite skill, send forth a nightmare pulse that inflicts fear and poison on nearby enemies.
• Relic of the Sunless — Using an elite skill summons a pool on the target enemy that inflicts poison and cripple. Pool duration scales with the recharge of the elite skill.
• Relic of Vass — After using a healing or elixir skill, your next few attacks inflict poison. Healing skills can only trigger this effect once every interval.

Relics that improve poison

• Relic of the Demon Queen — Poison that you apply reduces healing by an additional amount. Disabling a foe applies poison.  Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.

Relics that benefit from poison

• Relic of the Blightbringer — Gain stacks of Greer's Virulence when you inflict poison on a foe. After reaching the maximum number of stacks, the next time you inflict poison also inflicts additional conditions on nearby enemies.

Upgrade components that apply poison

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Blight (AoE attack on critical hit)
• Superior Sigil of Doom (next attack after weapon swap)

Upgrade components that increase poisoned duration

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Afflicted (rank 2 - increases duration by 10%)
• Superior Rune of Rata Sum (rank 2 - increases duration by 10%)
• Superior Rune of Scavenging (rank 6 -increases duration by 20%)
• Superior Rune of Thorns (rank 2, 4 and 6 - increases duration by 10%, 20%, and 20%)

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Venom (increases duration by 20%)

Related consumables

See also: Condition#Related consumables

• Spinach Burger - +5% poison duration.
• Deluxe Burger - +7% poison duration and +40 precision.
• Horseradish Burger - +10% poison duration and +50 precision.
• Spicy Cheeseburger - +12% poison duration and +60 precision.
• Fancy Truffle Burger - +15% poison duration and +70 precision.
• Bowl of Kimchi Tofu Stew - +15% poison duration and +70 condition damage.
• Cluster of Baneberries - Inflicts poison on self.

Player chatter

• When poison is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	High toxicity!	I need an antidote!
Charr	Venom...too strong...	It's poison!
Human	Can't...breathe...	Venom... too strong...
Norn	I'm poisoned!	Ugh, poison...
Sylvari	It's poisonous!	I've been poisoned...

Version history

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All damage conditions will now stack up to 1500 times. This condition will now stack in intensity. Poison's healing reduction will not depend on the number of stacks. Any poison will result in a static -33%, just as it currently does. The formula for this condition has been rescaled to account for the new behavior of damaging conditions and to put more focus on the condition damage stat. New damage over time: 3.5 + (0.375 * Level) + (0.06 * Condition Damage)
March 19, 2015	Updated condition damage. Previously, a condition that had a fractional remainder of time after it dealt damage would not inflict the rest of its damage. For example, a 1.5-second burn would deal 1 second of burning damage, then fail to inflict the remaining 0.5 seconds of burning. Conditions will now deal this fractional damage either at the beginning or end of their duration, depending on when the next damage pulse would occur and their remaining duration.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Poisoned has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the G-Star Demo, this condition stacked in intensity but not duration.
• At the G-Star Demo, multiple applications of this condition increased its duration instead.
• This condition was changed to stack in intensity since the June 23, 2015 game update.
• In the Chinese release of Guild Wars 2,  Poisoned uses the icon.

References

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Poison.

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