Serpent's Touch

Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison. — In-game description

Serpent's Touch

Specialization

Deadly Arts (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Minor

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Serpent's Touch

Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.

₂ Poison (10s): 670 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Poison (10s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Poison When Downed (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

— In-game description

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Steal
•   Deadeye's Mark
•   Siphon — Steal

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Trail of Knives
•   Venomous Knife

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Diving Knife
•   Cheap Shot

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

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.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 03, 2019	Reduced poison stacks from 2 to 1 in PvP only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This skill now applies 2 stacks of poison for 10 seconds. Added: While in the downed state, your attacks apply 2 seconds of poison.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Serpent's Touch has been added to the game.