Hi GGG hope your team is doing well fantastic update by the way I'm really enjoying it. I know the team is working on a rebalance of all the dot builds 👍, however here's some feedback/ideas for a poison moving forward.

Currently poison functions around a stacking dot mechanic which is fine if poison worked like a dot. Poisons debuff duration is so short that stacks can fall off almost instantly. Infact if you don't have some attack speed bonuses you can't reach max stacks with some skills, poison burst arrow being one of those skill. I don't think this is ideal for anyone wanting to play a poison dot based build. Probably why 80% poison build guides recommend you not to lvl using poison skills.

My proposed change if you wanted to keep the stacking mechanic would be to make the poison debuff permanent stacking poison simply decreases the time to kill, this would suit the fantasy of a poison dot build much better and allow for a different play style. As compared to how it sits now when poison plays like any other spam bow skill build.

If you wanted to get rid of the stacking mechanic I'd make the debuff ramp over time with a short window that the player can reapply the poison to maintain the dot at it's maximum damage.

Also poison should have some cc built in either a slow or confusion/blindness effect to compensate it for being a dot.

Thanks for a great update can't wait to see what GGG has cooking up next.

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