Enhancing Poison

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lDantonl wrote:

poison and melee splash buff hype!

dual strike + melee splash + multistrike + FA + melee phys + ICD

dual binos crit build!

Wouldn't Bino + mace/axe Viper Strike be better ?

Omg im so happy xD i love DoT based builds ill be poison FOREVER !!! :D

Sweet...

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Question: Will players be being affected by poisoning monsters and if so, are we getting yet another "must have" potion mod to fight it?

Well, you have Amethyst flasks to mitigate that. I guess that poison and bleed are differentiated by the fact that you can't just remove poison stacks. The need for chaos resistance would make the game more interesting.

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raics wrote:

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Valcrion wrote:

If poison is getting a buff, then I think we need a new Herald. Like a Herald of Infection.

That would have been awesome even WITHOUT the changes! Great name also :)

I'd prefer 'Herald of Change' :)

On the same note, I guess we could get a physical herald too, and potential OP interaction with Facebreakers wouldn't be a problem if it was formulated as 'x-x additional physical damage to weapon attacks and spells'.

I remember Rory and Qarl talking about Herald of Anarchy in the podcast. I prefer Herald of Chaos.

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NeroNoah wrote:

I remember Rory and Qarl talking about Herald of Anarchy in the podcast. I prefer Herald of Chaos.

One thing we can be sure of is it won't be herald of chaos, their herald naming convention is a herald must mention something that comes after, so:
fire is the herald of ash
cold is the herald of ice
lightning is the herald of thunder
chaos is the herald of anarchy

Though, I don't really like 'anarchy' myself, it's also HoA, so maybe Herald of Corruption.

That's a nice detail to know. Well spotted.

Does poison damage work with existing modifiers like increased projectile damage, general increased damage and the likes? I suppose regardless, 100% increased poison damage is a lot.

Also, what uniques induce poison besides snakebite and bino?

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Nephalim wrote:

Does poison damage work with existing modifiers like increased projectile damage, general increased damage and the likes? I suppose regardless, 100% increased poison damage is a lot.

Also, what uniques induce poison besides snakebite and bino?

Consuming dark. And based on Rory post physical/chaos damage will power up the poison so than add in Voltaxic and Apep granted we need more details on the skills and such for volt and apep to get good with this patch