Toxic Pool
Assassin skill · Venomcraft line · tier 2
The flask bursts on the ground and the poison spreads into a pool that burns.
It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 9 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.
Values by rank
Toxic Pool scales with Poison. Its value at each rank is 17.8 + 5.1 × rank:
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | 22.9 | 28 | 33.1 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 48.4 | 53.5 | 58.6 | 63.7 | 68.8 |
The value is the game's internal number for this skill.
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Venomcraft skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it
The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.
How to unlock it
- 1 Rank 5 in Poisoned Blade Tier 1 of the Venomcraft line.
- 2 Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
- 3 One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.
Rank 5 in Toxic Pool opens Deadly Venom.
Mastery and synergies
Line mastery: every point in the other Venomcraft skills makes Toxic Pool 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.
Toxic Pool has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.
Venomcraft line
| Skill | Tier | Type | Cooldown | Scales with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damage over time | 8 s | Poison | |
| 2 | Area damage | 9 s | Poison | |
| 3 | Control | 12 s | Chill | |
| 4 | Damage over time | 8 s | Poison | |
| 5 | Ultimate | 16 s | Poison |
Other Assassin skills
Source: closed-beta game client 0.7.2. Data from the closed beta, so values may change at launch.