PureRage-DoD wrote:
Psn Jav : Stack together with other poison sources like rabies/psn strike etc. and most importantly Plague javelin/disease spray
i dont know about that man, i have to dispute this claim. my info comes from this: a sticky explaining poison dmg on the modsbylaz forums:
( disregard any unfamiliar skill names, like i said this is from another forum)
Important poison facts:
Those are all the poison skills in the game. Before we try and figure out what the difference between each type is, let's first understand the similarities:
1. Poison duration does not affect poison damage per second. In other words, if you do 100 damage per second over 10 seconds, your total damage would be 1000. If you add 5 more seconds, your damage per second won't decrease to 66 (1000:15=66). Instead you will do 1500 total damage (100*15=1500). This is a very good thing that many people don't understand so they try to avoid increased duration. The truth is, it can really help if you want to kill an enemy in 1 hit.
2. Poison damage doesn't stack. If you hit an enemy with an attack that does 100 damage per second, twice, you won't do 200 damage per second. What actually happens is that the highest damage per second is applied.
Example:
You cast gamma field that has a duration of 20 seconds, it rolls for the damage 8 times in this order-
100, 250, 70, 400, 200, 100, 68, 365.
The damage that will be applied is 400, because it's the highest damage per second. The total damage would be 400*20=8000. This also includes changes in the monsters resist. If you poison a monster that has 50% poison resist, then decrease the resist to 0, the poison damage will increase by 50%. This also works very nice in uberquests because even if an enemy turns immune, it will still continue to take damage if it was damaged before becoming immune (this strategy is usually used with gamma field).
3. Poison damage is the only element that triggers on kill procs.
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Types of poison damage:
Now that you know the basics of poison damage, we can get into more detail about the types of poison damage.
Spell poison damage:
This type of poison damage is fairly simple.
affected by-
+spell/poison damage
+skills
+poison duration.
not affected by-
+x to poison damage over y seconds
weapon damage multiplier.
Passive poison damage:
Passive poison damage includes all the skills that passively add poison damage to your attacks. Poison damage added from items works in the same way.
affected by-
+spell/poison skill damage (only in melee,)
+skills (if it's a skill and not on an item)
weapon damage multiplier
+x poison damage over y seconds.
not affected by-
+poison duration
+spell/poison skill damage (only with missiles,)
poison jav disease spay and plague jav fall into the spell poison dmg category bear this in mind