I waited to comment until I could log in and try it out. I felt DREAD reading the patch notes, but after playing the only dread gone are my beloved dread skills.

I immediately fell in love with Viper because it had a great class fantasy of injecting venom and maintaining the effect throughout the fight to "weaken" the enemy.

Mechanically it was also fun to manage these timers. As others said if they needed this easier for some reason, why not just increase to 30 seconds/1 minute?

Feel sad and disheartened now, as a core part of the experience is just now completely gone.