Poison Dart Volley

Fire a volley of darts that poison foes. — In-game description

Poison Dart Volley

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol

Activ. type

Channeled

Game link

API

5828

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10.25¼  8  

Poison Dart Volley

Fire a volley of darts that poison foes.

 Damage (5x): 735 (2.0)^?

 Damage (5x): 365 (1.0)^?

 Poison (7s): 235 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Poison (10s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Aim-Assisted Rocket — Missile hits launch a rocket at your target. After enough rockets have been fired, an orbital strike is called instead. This trait has an internal cooldown.

Firearms

• Chemical Rounds — Gain condition damage. Your pistol skills gain increased condition duration.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Amalgam

• Carbolic Composition — Amalgam skills inflict poison on hit. Poison you inflict lasts longer.

Notes

Anomaly:

Tooltip does not update correctly when using Chemical Rounds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 26, 2023	Reduced poison duration from 9 seconds to 7 seconds in PvE only.
February 14, 2023	Increased overall animation speed of this skill by 66%.
July 07, 2020	Increased the poison duration inflicted from 7 seconds to 9 seconds in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per hit from 0.4 to 0.2. Increased poison duration from 7 seconds to 10 seconds.
April 23, 2019	Projectiles fired by this skill no longer fire in a randomized cone. Updated skill facts to show the full attack damage rather than the damage of individual darts.
October 02, 2018	Increased the duration of poison inflicted by this skill from 6 seconds to 7 seconds.
July 10, 2018	Increased the duration of poison inflicted by each shot from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
May 08, 2018	This skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 8-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 10 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP and WvW.
October 18, 2016	The projectiles fired by this skill will now land more consistently.
July 26, 2016	The poison duration of this skill has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the poison duration from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Poison Dart Volley has been added to the game.