Poison Barbs

Beast. Spray poisonous barbs in an arc in front of you, damaging and poisoning foes. — In-game description

Poison Barbs

 

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Pet

Whiptail Devourer

Slot

Pet (skill list)

Type

Beast

Game link

API

12674

This skill has an underwater replacement: Poison Cloud (whiptail devourer)

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20.5½  20  

Poison Barbs

Beast. Spray poisonous barbs in an arc in front of you, damaging and poisoning foes.

 Damage: 720 (0.65)^?

₄ Poison (6s): 804 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pierces

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Wilderness Survival

• Carnivore — Steal health from enemies when you or your pet disable them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

• Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
• Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

• Pack Alpha — Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
• Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Soulbeast

• Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
• Predator's Cunning — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• Fires out 5 barbs in a fan pattern, each possible to hit with it's own stack of damage and poison.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. Increased the power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.65. Increased the poison stacks from 1 to 4 and poison duration from 2 seconds to 6 seconds. This skill now pierces and can only hit a target once.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Poison Barbs has been added to the game.