Just got it for 1dkp. I think I'll only use it when I see fat armored Paladins and I need to get some poison through.

Venomous Totem dropped last night, every other rogue passed for him. I'm saving dkp for armor.

Visual Effect: Turns your rogue avatar green, does not lay a totem on the ground.
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Percent to apply poisons can be increased:

Improved Instant Poison (Max): 10%
Bloodfang 3-piece bonus: 5%
Venomous Totem (for 20 seconds): 30%

45% increased chance to instant poisons
35% increased chance to poisons.

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Base Percentages for all poisons (Best rank pre-A'Q):

Instant 6: 20%
Wound 4: 30%
Deadly 4: 30%
Mind-numbing 3: 20%
Crippling 2: 30%


Uses-----
PvP Use 1: Imagine Warsong Gluch poping a V.Totem with crippling. For 20 seconds your crippling poisons can be applied twice as often in the same ammount of time. Couple that with Eskhander's claw (Off-hand), Icy chill Enchantment and a sprint - You're bound to make sure the flag carrier isn't going to be going anywhere fast.

Keep in mind you're not also fighting against the flag carrier for poison cleaning, you're also fighting his/her friends with cleansing. Against any organized group they will clean and scrub their flag carrier.


PvP Use 2: For combat rogues...
V.Totem + Adrenaline rush + Blade Furry. Inside any group of enemies with a healer, you'll make a good effort to kill, severely damage all in your grasp for 20 seconds. 1500 damage is a hefty extra load to deal to two (or even one) opponent.


Example Blackwing Lair fights:
Vaels (Second boss) - When the warriors are within executing, pop this on to deal more damage to the dragon.

Firemaw (fourth boss) - mid-way through the fight, when coming out of the hiding corner, hit the adrenaline rush and V Totem to unleash plenty of dps on the drake. Don't forget to feint and when it's time to go back to heal and let the buff wear out, Vanish in the corner to wipe your aggro and to clear your aggro ceiling completely.



There's plenty of other uses for both PvP and PvE, just be smart what you're doing and realize that the extra damage will compete with the warrior's aggro ceiling, it's a safe bet to vanish after the trinket is on cooldown

Vanish Cooldown: 5 Minutes
(3-piece nightslayer : 4.5 minutes)

Edited, Fri Feb 10 15:46:41 2006

yeah its not like almost every mob in high-lvl pve is immune against all sorts of poisons,but nice-to-have for pvp and duels.there's better stuff out there to put in the trinket slot though.

I don't understand why any of you think this trinket is bad...it's kind of like the rogue version of talisman of EP (with exception of the ZG trinket). It will significantly increase your dps, though for a short amount of time. Definitely worth replacing one of your other trinkets once every five minutes for a ton of instant poison procs.

how bout something that is actually rogue like? you stab some one with posion theyer gonna get posioned. woop. why not something that severs the spinal chord at the base of the neck, instantly killing the target. reqires stelth. 60min cooldown.

why do all the other classes get neat nifty trinkets with awesome procs and we get this piece of craptacularness

pretty sure a rouge with a fast offhand and slice and dice can utilize this to do a good deal of additional damage over those 20 seconds.

x = weapon speed

(20/(x * .7)) * (130 * .3)

.7 is speed multiplier with s&d
130 is average damage from poisons

so a 1.3 speed dagger would do just around 900 additional damage, and the slower mainhand sword will ussually do the same (unless your dual weilding daggers, in which case it would be more)

So theoreticly 1500 to 2000 additional damage just from the poisons this thing lets you land in 20 sec. Not bad for a trinket.

Edited, Sat Jul 23 04:17:58 2005

Bleh thats crap...