What is going to happen to poison in 2.0?

I currently have a poison build on my shaman, and I was wondering how it, as well as other poison builds, are going to fare for 2.0. I noticed that none of the archetypes have anything of substance that would increase poison damage, and since courage got nerfed, it really seems like poison is not really going to be useful to any extent in the future, making it a basically useless stat

 

Poison is basically the same in 2.0, I don't know but I think it gets reduced by defense now so its not as op as in PVP?


Im not sure I don't read patch notes

 

courage is nerfed so poison took a giant hit

 

Courage and curse don't work with it and strength also doesn't help anymore so dats neat... tho something pretty cool did change with it silently.

 

what changed?

 

Im still experimenting with it but poison now doesn't have the multiplayer issue it stacks with other players just the display displays the current lasting highest damage.

Plague no longer continues the poison state if new mobs enter only using the current one's timer but now spreads it to nearby mobs if they are close enough.

Each individual hit after being poisoned doesnt refresh the timer.

Pet damage also now begins the poison state

About that first point tho... unsure if bug or not but it also stacks with the same user... use 3 different weapons with poison damage and ALL 3 will tick for the 3 hits so thats a something. Hence me still testing that part. Heck hit a mob and scrollbar through weapons and youll get more damage numbers

 

and str no longer scales poison iirc so!