NIN poison attacks in the future?

[DPZ2]

The only 'poison' effects for Ninja back in the day was a buff to damage. Two buttons that did nothing but that. They removed them and buffed up the actual damage, so these two were no longer necessary.

The only poison DoTs I remember are from Bards and the Arcanist Twins.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The Ninja's poisons of old were more there decide whether you wanted to have a stun or an interrupt.

The closest we currently get to anything poison is Scholar's DoT.

[Kolsykol]

I think it was a stun or heal.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I think it was a stun or heal.

50% of a 140 Potency attack's damage is not much of a heal...
The main one really was Jugulate, which was a 1 second silence (such effects got turned into interrupts). Which with Enhanced Wasp Venom turned into a 2 second stun.

This was before Role Actions, so Ninja didn't have access to Leg Sweep so it was the only stun they could get access to.

[Equitable_Remedy]

I don't get why ninja doesn't have any poison attacks like a poison mist or spray. It would be nice to have some sort of attacks like that

I'd prefer to keep the focus on weaponskills and ninjutsu; I don't know that I see the value in diluting those core gish themes with poison just because.

[hagare]

so NINs don't have a DoT based poison attack?
I mean it's basically just flavor text at that point.
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[Fyrebrand]

I love DoTs, although I can understand that situations where you can make full use of them are limited, and they compete for space in an ever-growing kit of skills that bloats with each new expansion. I agree that it feels bad not to have any poisons on a rogue/ninja character, because I'm so used to that in other MMOs or fantasy games. Doton would have made more sense as an AoE poison cloud, rather than some vague "I made the ground angry" magic. Trick Attack is also a rather generic-sounding move that could have easily been themed as injecting a wound-festering toxin that causes the target to take more damage from incoming attacks. Heck, make it a blow dart or something while we're at it, that'd be cool.

[Equitable_Remedy]

Doton would have made more sense as an AoE poison cloud, rather than some vague "I made the ground angry" magic.

Earth—the "vague" magic is earth element ninjutsu. NIN also have wind, fire, lightning, and water ninjutsu.

Wind, fire, lightning, water, earth, poison—one of these is not like the others.

[Mikey_R]

Earth—the "vague" magic is earth element ninjutsu. NIN also have wind, fire, lightning, and water ninjutsu.

Wind, fire, lightning, water, earth, poison—one of these is not like the others.

Don't forget Ice, one Ninjutsu for every elemental affinity.

[Equitable_Remedy]

Don't forget Ice

We don't talk about Hyoton.