Venom is the Poison status. Poison status holding up to 10 independently sourced stacks. Each stack deals 5% of the applying hit every 12 ticks for 200 ticks. Behaves normally on bosses.
Stacking long-duration Venom and spreading decay. Its payoff is Contagion, and the affinity page lays the eight of them side by side.
2 draft cards can put it on your build: Venom Coat and Toxic Wake.
1 relic effect applies it straight off your gear: Serpent's Eye.
The numbers
how it behaves in a fight
Ticks every12 ticks
Damage per tick5% of the hit
Damage while moving×1
Chain damage50%
Draft cards that apply it
2 cards
Gear that applies it
1 relic effect
Uniques
7 Uniques