I liked having a poison effect because I liked playing a rogue a long time ago in wow, but, upkeeping it was kind of just a combo that existed only to upkeep it. It wasn't hard for me at all to keep my buffs and debuff up, but it did act like a speed bump sometimes. VPR feels exactly the same except now you just have more incentive to not forget to do your 1-2-3. So the change is neutral-to-positive for me. ^-^