Venom

Venom Class: Assassin Required Level: 30 Skill Tree: Shadow Disciplines Requires: Claw Mastery, Burst of Speed, Fade Active / Passive Cost: 12 Mana Poisons the Assassin's weapons. Damage Type: Poison

Venom is an Assassin Skill in Diablo II.

Lore

Poison use is another technique an Assassin has to help even the odds when battling demons and their ilk. An Assassin who has mastered this skill secretly coats her weapons with vile toxins.

General Information

Synergies

• Gives synergy to: None
• Receives synergy from: None

Venom caps the poisoning duration at 0.4 seconds, thus preventing long term poisoning. Consequently, all other items will only inflict poison damage for 0.4 seconds. Example: Though 700 damage over 10 seconds might seem impressive, only 28 damage will be inflicted due to the 0.4 seconds cap.

If a character who is buffed with Venom uses a physical skill that also inflicts poison (Poison Dagger for example), the duration is instead set to 0.4 seconds plus the duration of the skill itself, while the rate of damage is added to the attack. This results in a monstrous amount of damage added to the skill. For example, if a necromancer with level 15 Venom from Treachery Rune Word active uses level 25 Poison Dagger (which poisons over 11.6 seconds), the duration of the poison will be set to 12 seconds (11.6 + 0.4), and Venom will provide a total of 9150-9750 damage over that period (305/0.4*12 to 325/0.4*12).

Venom does stack with Burst of Speed or Fade (in earlier versions of the game, it was erroneously overriding Fade if cast).

Skill Progression

Mana Cost: 12
Poison Damage is dealt over 0.4 seconds

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Poison Damage	60–80	75–95	90–110	105–125	120–140	135–155	150–170	165–185	185–205	205–225	225–245
Skill Duration	120	132	144	156	168	180	192	204	216	228	240

Level	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	25
Poison Damage	245–265	265–285	285–305	305–325	325–345	350–370	375–395	400–420	425–445
Skill Duration	252	264	276	288	300	312	324	336	348	408