Since the upcoming Smoke Bomb nerf will destroy a portion of this exotic's functionality (not that anyone uses it anyway), and simply granting the exotic the old Smoke behavior does not properly address the issue, I wanted to propose a rework concept: [b]Touch of Venom: • Hold to consume your melee ability, which disorients nearby targets (6m) and grants Venom Touch for 10s • While Venom Touch is active, unpowered melee attack have increased lunge distance (+1m), deal 5x combatant damage, and spread a corrosive poison effect over 3m on hit, which lasts for 4s [i] • Passively grants 30% melee damage resistance while active • 3s cooldown between poison applications after applying 2 stacks of Venom Touch • Can refresh and extend the poison effect by an additional 4s when applying consecutive stacks to a target • Melee and Poison damage multiplier can stack with other buffs such as Stylish Executioner[/i] • After poisoning a target, gain 70% resistance to any incoming attacks while you are within 12m of targets, lasts 5s • While Smoke Bomb is equipped, consuming a melee charge or standing in a Smoke cloud grants Invisibility (5s) and Truesight (3s), and Venom Touch hits apply Weaken (+15%) •Touch of Venom incurs a 13s cooldown between uses, after the buff has expired [/b] I don't know if this would necessarily be broken, but for sake of PvP balance, it could only grant a 50% melee increase, and the poison would tick 8 times total with 0.5s between each tick, each dealing 3-5 damage Also, I know that you still would lose the melee regen part of this exotic, though you are getting much, much more out of your melee. I didn't run the numbers either, so this might utterly break the sandbox if it were allowed to stack with things like Combination Blow, but idk. Anyway, I thought of adding this as well, though it may be dumb: Exotic Interaction: • Increases the duration / combatant damage of Le Monarque's poison effect by 50% • Any kills secured by Le Monarque spread the Touch of Venom poison effect within 4m