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Venomous Claw

Venomous Claw

Cast Time: Instant
Target: Enemy
Range: 5 meters
Cost: 1147 Stamina
Skill description
Rake an enemy with your claw, dealing 414 Poison Damage and an additional 1100 Poison Damage over 8.5 seconds. The poison seeps into the target and deals increased damage the longer it lasts, dealing 9% more damage for every 2 seconds.
New effect
Converts into a Stamina ability and deals Poison Damage. The damage over time increases the longer the effect lasts.
Name: Venomous Claw
Type: Active ability
Location: Dragonknight > Ardent Flame

Types of damage:
  • Poison Damage
Champion Points buffing this skill:
  • Master at Arms
  • Mighty
  • Piercing
  • Precise Strikes
  • Thaumaturge
Champion Points protecting against this skill:
  • Hardy
  • Iron Clad
  • Thick Skinned


Venomous Claw is a skill located in the Ardent Flame (which can be found in the Dragonknight skill tree). Venomous Claw is a morph of Searing Strike.

Venomous Claw deals the following types of damage: Poison Damage. Which means that it gets buffed by the following blue champion point trees: Mighty, Piercing, Precise Strikes, Thaumaturge. Also the following red champion point trees protect against this skill: Hardy, Thick Skinned.


Base ability

Searing Strike

Other morph

Burning Embers

Builds utilizing Venomous Claw

Name Author
Stamina Dragonknight Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online Alcast
Stamina Dragonknight 2H Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online Alcast
Werewolf Build PvE DPS for Elder Scrolls Online Alcast
Stamina Dragonknight Build PvP for Elder Scrolls Online Alcast

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