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Poison Imbuement

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Poison Imbuement is a Rogue skill from the Imbuements skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player Exploits Condition
Poison Dmg Critical Strike Chance *

'Creates Condition' means this skill creates this condition i.e it could make a target Vulnerable that other skills can take advantage of. 'Exploits Condition' means this skill takes advantage of a condition, not necessarily of its own making. So for example another skill might Stun and this skill could take advantage of that.

* An improved Critical Strike Chance for X seconds can be applied by non-imbueable skills but the increased Poison damage (from Blended Poison Imbuement) can only be exploited via a Poison Imbued Skill.


Poison imbuement

Poison Imbuement

Imbue your weapons with lethal poison. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Poison Damage and apply up to 100% of their Base damage as additional Poisoning Damage for over 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 13 seconds

Damage: Poison

Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Tags: Imbuement

Note:

  • Poison Damage - intial hit with Poison and any Damage over Time (DoT) Poison
  • Poisoning Damage - only DoT Poison

Upgrades

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Enhanced Poison Imbuement

Poison Imbuement’s Poisoning duration is increased by 1 second.

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Mixed Poison Imbuement

Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce Poison Imbuement’s cooldown by 2 seconds.

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Blended Poison Imbuement

Critical Strikes with Poison Imbued Skills deal x75% increased Poisoning Damage.


Other Skills that work with Poison Imbuement

The following skills either:

  • Create a condition Poison Imbuement can exploit
  • Exploit a condition Poison Imbuement creates
Basic Tree
Heartseeker

Heartseeker

Fire an arrow that seeks an enemy, dealing 24% damage and increasing your Critical Strike Chance against them by + 5% for 4 seconds, up to + 15%.

Requires a Ranged Weapon

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Tags: Basic, Marksman, Chain (PH)

Skill

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Fundamental Heartseeker

Heartseeker also increases the Critical Strike Damage the enemy takes by x 5% for 4 seconds, up to x 15%.

Skill

Core Tree
Twisting blades

Twisting Blades

Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing 45% damage and making them take x 8% increased damage from you for 1.5 seconds. After 1.5 seconds the blades return to you, piercing enemies for 72% damage.

Combo Points increases movement speed and damage.

Requires Dual Wielded weapons

Energy Cost: 30

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Tags: Core, Imbueable, Cutthroat

Skill

Barrage

Barrage

Unleash a barrage of 5 arrows that expands outwards, each dealing 22% damage. Each arrow has a 20% chance to ricochet off an enemy up to 1 time. Ricochets deal 40% of the arrow's base damage.

Combo Points increase number of arrows and damage.

Requires Ranged Weapon

Energy Cost: 30

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 16%

Tags: Core, Chain, Imbueable, Marksman

Skill

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Enhanced Barrage

Barrage's ricochet chance is increased to 100% for arrows that damage a Vulnerable enemy or Critically Strike any enemy.

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Advanced Barrage

Whenever a single cast of Barrage ricochets at least 4 times your next cast gains a + 20% increased Critical Strike Chance.

Skill

Flurry

Flurry

Unleash a flurry of stabs and slashes, striking enemies in front of you 4 times and dealing a total of 75% damage to each.

Combo Points increase damage and attack speed.

Requires Dual Wielded weapons.

Energy Cost: 25

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 10%

Tags: Core, Imbueable, Cutthroat

Skill

Rapid fire

Rapid Fire

Rapidly fire 5 arrows each dealing 33% damage.

Combo Points increase number of arrows fired and damage.

Requires a Ranged Weapon.

Energy Cost: 25

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 20%

Tags: Core, Imbueable, Marksman

Skill

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Enhanced Rapid Fire

Each subsequent arrow from Rapid Fire has a +5% increased Critical Strike Chance up to +25% for the 5th arrow.

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Advanced Rapid Fire

Rapid Fire deals 30% increased Critical Strike Damage for 5 seconds after you Evade.

Skill

Penetrating shot

Penetrating Shot

Fire an arrow that pierces through all enemies in a line, dealing 70% damage.

Combo Points increase damage and improves Lucky Hit Chance.

Requires a Ranged Weapon.

Energy Cost: 35

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Tags: Core, Imbueable, Marksman

Skill

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Improved Penetrating Shot

Penetrating Shot deals an additional 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it hits.

Skill

Agility Tree
Shadow step

Shadow Step

Become Unstoppable and quickly move through the shadows and stab your victim from behind for 72% damage. Gain 50% increased Movement Speed for 2 seconds afterwards.

Requires Dual Wielded weapons

Cooldown: 9 seconds.

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 100%

Tags: Agility, Imbueable, Cutthroat, Mobility

Skill

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Enhanced Shadow Step

Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step increases your Critical Strike Chance against them by +8% for 3 seconds

Skill

Dash

Dash

Dash forward and slash enemies for 37% damage.

Requires Dual Wielded weapons

Charges: 2

Charge Cooldown: 12 seconds

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 25%

Tags: Agility, Cutthroat, Mobility, Imbueable

Skill

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Disciplined Caltrops

You have +5% Critical Strike Chance against enemies inside your Caltrops. Double this amount against Vulnerable enemies.

Skill

Weapon Mastery
Weapon Mastery

Gain a bonus when attacking based on weapon type:

  • Daggers: x 5%/10%/15% increased damage to Healthy enemies.
  • Swords: x 3%/6%/9% increased damage.
  • Bows: x 4%/8%/12% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.
  • Crossbows: x 5%/10%/15% increased Critical Strike Damage.

Passive

Concussive

Concussive

After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.

Passive

Subterfuge
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Countering Dark Shroud

While you have at least 2 active shadow from Dark Shroud, gain +8% Critical Strike Chance.

Skill

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Subverting Poison Trap

You deal x10% increased Poisoning Damage to enemies standing inside your Poison Trap.

Skill

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Countering Poison Trap

Poison Trap has a 30% chance to reset your Imbuement Skill Cooldowns when activated.

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Countering Stealth

The skill that breaks Concealment will always be a guaranteed Critical Strike.

Skill

Imbuements
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Enhanced Shadow Imbuement

You have +15% increased Critical Strike Chance against injured enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement.

Skill

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Mixed Shadow Imbuement

Enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement take x12% increased Non-Physical damage for 8 seconds.

Skill

Precision Imbuement
Precision Imbuement

Imbued Skills gain + 3% / 6% / 9% increased Critical Strike Chance.

Passive

Deadly Venom
Deadly Venom

You deal x 3%/6%/9% increased Poisoning damage.

Passive

Alchemical Advantage
Alchemical Advantage

You gain + 1%/2%/3% increased Attack Speed for each enemy you've Poisoned, up to + 15%.

Requires point in Deadly Venom.

Passive

Debilitating Toxins
Debilitating Toxins

Poisoned enemies deal 5% / 10% / 15% less damage.

Requires point in Deadly Venom.

Passive

Ultimate Tree
Rain of arrows

Rain of Arrows

Arrows rain down over a large area 2 times, each wave dealing 110% damage.

Requires a Ranged weapon.

Cooldown: 55 seconds

Damage: Physical

Lucky Hit Chance: 2%

Tags: Ultimate, Imbueable, Marksman

Skill

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Prime Rain of Arrows

Imbuement Skill effects applied by Rain of Arrows have x30% increased potency.

Skill

Alchemist's Fortune
Alchemist's Fortune

Non-Physical damage you deal has a 5% / 10% / 15% increased Lucky Hit Chance.

Requires point in Innervation.

Passive


Items that work with Poison Imbuement

The following items either:

  • Grant a bonus when using Poison Imbuement
  • Create a condition Poison Imbuement can exploit
  • Exploit a condition Poison Imbuement creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Bursting Venoms
Offensive Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 15% chance to create a toxic pool that deals 330 Poisoning damage over 3 seconds to enemies within. While standing in the pool, your Poison Imbuement Skill has no Cooldown and no Charge limit.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Rogue
Aspect of Corruption
Offensive Your Imbuement Skill effects have 24%[x] increased potency against Vulnerable enemies.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

Renegade's Retreat
(Map)
Kehjistan Rogue
Aspect of Imitated Imbuement
Offensive Your Shadow Clones also mimic the Imbuements applied to your Skills. Casting an Imbuement Skill grants your active Shadow Clone 4%[x] increased damage for 9 seconds.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Rogue
Aspect of Noxious Ice
Utility Chilled enemies Poisoned by Poison Imbuement will be further Chilled for 20% per second. You deal 14%[x] additional Poison damage to Frozen (CC) enemies.

Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Rogue
Aspect of Unstable Imbuements
Offensive When casting an Imbuement Skill you trigger an explosion around yourself, applying the Imbuement effects and dealing 78 damage of the same type.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

Whispering Vault
(Map)
Dry Steppes Rogue
Toxic Alchemist's Aspect
Offensive Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skills have up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies 58 Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies. If they were already Poisoned, increase this damage by 100%[x].


Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Rogue
Vengeful Aspect
Offensive Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 25% chance to create an Arrow Storm at the enemy's location , dealing 108 Physical damage over 3 seconds. Your Arrow Storms deal 24% increased damage.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

Inferno Dungeon
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Kehjistan Rogue

* Extraction means the Legendary Aspect can be removed from any Legendary item at the Occultist. A dungeon name means the Aspect will be added to your Codex of Power as a reward after completing that dungeon.

Unique Items

There are no unique items that exploit Poison Imbuement.


Changes to Poison Imbuement

There have been no changes to Poison Imbuement to date.