Deadly Ambition

Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use. — In-game description

Deadly Ambition

Specialization

Deadly Arts (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Deadly Ambition

Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage.
Applies poison once per attack use.

 Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Condition Damage: +180

 Condition Damage: +120

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Harrowing Storm — Axe
•   Orchestrated Assault — Axe
•   Death Blossom — Dagger
•   Shadow Shot — Dagger
•   Shadow Strike — Pistol
•   Repeater — Pistol
•   Unload — Pistol
•   Flanking Strike — Sword
•   Larcenous Strike — Sword
•   Pistol Whip — Sword
•   Measured Shot — Scepter
•   Endless Night — Scepter
•   Twilight Combo — Scepter

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Deadly Arts

• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Potent Poison — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 27, 2024	This trait will now function as expected with axe dual-wield skills.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Condition damage attribute bonus increased from 120 to 180.
December 03, 2019	This trait now applies 1 stack of poison for 3 seconds when striking with a dual-wield attack. This effect has no cooldown but can only occur once per dual-wield attack use. This trait is no longer split between game modes.
November 04, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to apply more poison than expected.
October 29, 2019	The internal cooldown of this trait has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP only. The stacks of poison have been decreased from 2 stacks to 1 stack in PvP only.
August 13, 2019	Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to activate multiple times on the same target without going on cooldown.
July 17, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this trait to not apply extra poison stacks with the Potent Poison trait equipped.
July 16, 2019	Trapper's Respite has been reworked and renamed into Deadly Ambition. Inflict 2 stacks of poison for 3 seconds when striking a foe, with an internal cooldown of 3 seconds in PvE [sic], 5 seconds in PvP. Gain +120 condition damage when this trait is equipped.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Renamed this trait to include an apostrophe in the title. Renamed the skill triggered by this trait to Lesser Needle Trap. Increased Poison duration to 10 seconds.
May 16, 2017	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to display an incorrect poison duration.
March 28, 2017	All traps created by the thief will have a 1-second arm time before the trap can affect enemies. Needle Trap: This skill now delivers a strike.
August 25, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from being affected by the recharge reduction provided by the trait Deadly Trapper.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Trapper's Respite has been added to the game.