Venom(Warning, may be ranty)

[AtomicKitKat]

But isn't it the objective of using poison charms to BOOST poison damage? To me, it just sounds pretty ridiculous, that all my charms will now do only 1/12th(or even less!) of their listed damage, just because of Venom. As usual, Blizzard screws over the variants(and yes, a bow-using assassin is very much a variant) Not everybody carries a full inventory of arrows, and yes, I could always go to town for some, or pick up some, etc, but requiring me to stick 10 arrows into one monster just to kill it? That's a bit much. My point here, is that Venom+Poison charms=lugging around dead-weight, since the damage you'll be doing with Venom ON, is about the same, if not WORSE, than with Venom OFF. The damage RATE might be higher, but it makes me think that somebody's been diluting the assassin's poison stock.

Like I said, fix the bow bug, but spread out Venom's damage over the average duration. So instead of 400-500 over 0.4, say the average duration got raised to 4 seconds, it won't do 4000-5000 damage, but just 400-500 over 4 seconds, versus 400-500 over 0.4 seconds. Would this make the poison damage from Venom inconsequential? No. That's still pretty damn potent. It's just that you don't have to become a one-target bower, concentrating your fire over and over again into ONE target, while simultaneously getting pounded by another 30. And yes, I know about CoS, Mind Blast, et al. But just try Mind Blasting when your primary target is in the main crowd. Bye Bye Experience.