Poison (the status ailment) and Poison (the damage type/resistance) share a name, but there’s a bunch of sources of Poison damage in the game that are not the Poison ailment. This leads to a whole lot of needless confusion and ambiguous tooltips, and it’s only going to keep happening as more content gets added to the game.
For instance, here’s the description of Putrid Wraiths from the node in the Summon Wraith skill tree:
…and here’s the description of Putrid Wraiths from the Lich passive node Wraith Bringer:
Do these guys inherently inflict the Poison ailment? Or do they just do Poison damage? Does the version from the skill inflict the ailment (since it says they “Poison enemies”), but not the version from the passive (which just have “ranged poison attacks”)?
WHO KNOWS?
Off the top of my head, calling the damage type “Toxic” would probably be fine, but I’m not attached to that in particular. Just, please, anything but giving them both the same name.