Skelk Venom

Venom. Heal yourself. Your next few attacks heal you. — In-game description

Skelk Venom

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Venom

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

21778

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Skelk Venom

Venom. Heal yourself. Your next few attacks heal you.

 Initial Self Heal: 4,210 (0.75)^?

 Initial Self Heal: 3,578 (0.4)^?

 Healing: 1,206 (0.3)^?

₅ Skelk Venom (30s): Striking an enemy heals you.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Attacks: 5

 Venom Duration: 24 seconds

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Shadow Arts

• Shielding Restoration — Grant barrier to nearby allies when you use a healing skill.
• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Notes

• The base healing done by the initial cast of this skill is equal to (50 + Level^2 * 0.65).
• The base healing done on hit by this skill is equal to (6 + Level^2 * 0.1875).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Increased the maximum number of charges of skelk venom allies can gain from 4 to 25. Allies cannot have more than 4 charges of skelk venom from the same source at any one time.
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial heal coefficient from 0.75 to 0.4. Reduced initial base heal from 4210 to 3578
May 08, 2018	The base healing per hit of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 25% base heal increase in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased the venom healing per hit by 25% in PvP and WvW.
October 18, 2016	The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds. Its duration has been reduced from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
July 26, 2016	When you use a venom skill, you apply the effects to all nearby allies as well.
April 19, 2016	The base healing modifier for venom strikes has been increased by 40%. The healing contribution for both the initial heal and venom strikes has been increased by 50%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All venoms now naturally have one additional charge.
November 04, 2014	Reduced the recharge of venom abilities from 45 seconds to 40 seconds.
December 10, 2013	Skelk Venom has been added to the game.