Questions about poison

[Flarfy]

Questions about poison

Im thinking of building an assassin who uses venom and burst of speed as her main skills. It will be a "concept build" character, and I won't take it much higher than what it takes to max venom. I want her to be a poison obsessed freak with the whole bag filled with poison charms... But I suddenly waugely remember someone writing that charms won't add to her damage. Is this correct?

Can someone explain how charms add to damage while using venom. And also about the durations. Are the durations set to the same, or does EACH source of poison just work individually on it's own?

(Sorry if this have been asked before in which case I'm a moron at using the search function)

Help me, understand please

 

[stephan]

When venom is active, your poison duration is capped by it (0.4 seconds). A toxic small charm (100 dmg over 5 sec) will therefor only add 100*0.4/5 = 8 poison damage (over 0.4 sec).

 

[Flarfy]

What if venom isn't active? How does the durations from different sources work then?

 

[ßæq]

What if venom isn't active? How does the durations from different sources work then?

well...if I remember right,the actual damage&duration works like that;
*total damage (is easy) = sum of all sources

Let's say you have an axe which socketed with a p.emerald(100.5 damage over 7 seconds) and a Tal Rune(75 damage over 5 seconds) and (12 poison damage over 3 sc. charm) in your inventory.

the question is how many sources you have?
three different sources(P.emerald-Tal Rune-charm)

Duration = [P.emerald (7sc.)] + [Tal Rune (5sc.)] + [charm (3sc.)] / 3 different sources
Duration = 15 seconds / 3
actual duration is '' 5 '' second

NOW you have (P.emerald + Tal Rune + charm poison damage) over 5 second
Your Damage is 187 p.damage over 5 second
and
187/5 ===> 37,4 poison damage per second over 5 second


in my opinion;
if you want to use Venom,don't think about different poison sources
but you can always use SWEET poison skill damage items :wink2:

 

[Flarfy]

Thanks for the very usefull replies.
Too bad I can't abuse poison the way I planned