Serpent Keeper¶
who tends venom like a fire
Path: Trickster · Everyone · all classes: Ascendancy
Nodes¶
| Name | Type | Effect | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of the Initiation | Start | — | |
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Hardened Blood | Small | +7.5% poison resistance |
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Lingering Venom | Small | 10% increased poison duration |
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Poison Damage | Small | 20% increased poison damage over time |
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Slippery | Small | 7.5% increased evasion rating |
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Spreading Venom | Small | 10% increased area of effect for poison |
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Venom Build-up | Small | 20% increased poison chance |
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Know the Antidote | Notable | +3 health regeneration on poison recently (4 s) |
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Quiet Fever | Notable | Your poison grows stronger on enemies you have not hit manually for a while |
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Venom Reserve | Notable | Part of the poison past your poison limit is kept as poison chance for your next hit on the same target |
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Shed the Skin | Notable | Dodge rolls shed part of the poison on you and leave a short poison trail |
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Serpent Brood | Notable | When a poisoned enemy dies, part of your remaining poison on it passes to one enemy nearby |
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Two Fangs | Notable | Hitting the same enemy with a different weapon than the last one builds up poison faster |
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Swift Venom | Small | 10% increased poison damage speed |
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Light Step | Small | 5% increased movement speed |
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Squeeze the Venom | Notable | Manual critical hits on poisoned enemies make one of your poisons deal its remaining damage faster |
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Gather the Bitterness | Notable | Killing a poisoned enemy manually stores part of your poison on it as poison chance for your next poisoning hit |
Data from Path of Valheiman 6.0.6, extracted 2026-11-09.