I've played a poison thief but not a trapper.

You are dealing with a thief who has two full thief paths but little straight damage ability.

Poison path if anything by itself is underpowered, especially with how *long* it takes for neurological poison to apply it's best effects. You can die in melee in the time it takes for that to work or the target will get back into their cabal or into a town protected by tribunal.

Grenade poison application rates are also horrid, check all the logs where Flaaayin uses a grenade... typically he's tossing it and standing there with his thumb up his ass doing an AOE massacres, if that, and may or may not have wasted expensive ingredients creating the grenade. They also blow up in your face.

Fear poison is great for what it does and mind control poison is niche with the exception of the forget effect. But if you think you're going to land all your poisons on a target as a run of the mill poisoner, you're insane.

The problem with Flaaayin is his traps, not his poisons. And the trap problems were problems ever since the blue dragon lair went in with half-kobolds spamming stackable traps and the imms never paid attention either to the bitching of the groups navigating it or the boards. They stack and last too long, that's it. It's fine for them to do the debuffs they do but they either need to be weaker and keep their durations or stronger and have half the durations of their skill/melee counterparts. (speaking primarily of boneshatter/impale traps)

If you want to specifically #### up a poisoner's day without using explore area X monster blood, grab the Ancient Hide of the Green dragon or play a poison resistant race. The poisons will fail often enough for you to get your licks in.