Does Poison BD get benefit from Wither or Despair?

Poison does poison damage over time: bypass ES, and it was said the damage type is Chaos damage.

So Wither applies Chaos damage taken, refers to hit damage only or both with damage over time? Same question with Despair, or does resistance affect damage over time?

And, what the Choas tag do for poison skills? except and a +1 level from Choas Master.
Last bumped on Jan 24, 2026, 10:35:32 PM
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Poison does poison damage over time: bypass ES, and it was said the damage type is Chaos damage.
Right.

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So Wither applies Chaos damage taken, refers to hit damage only or both with damage over time?
Both.

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... does resistance affect damage over time?
Yes.

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And, what the Choas tag do for poison skills? except and a +1 level from Choas Master.
With this tag things that affect chaos skills will work with posion skills (because the tag makes them chaos skills). That's what gem tags do gameplay-wise.
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MonaHuna#6449 wrote:
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Poison does poison damage over time: bypass ES, and it was said the damage type is Chaos damage.
Right.

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So Wither applies Chaos damage taken, refers to hit damage only or both with damage over time?
Both.

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... does resistance affect damage over time?
Yes.

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And, what the Choas tag do for poison skills? except and a +1 level from Choas Master.
With this tag things that affect chaos skills will work with posion skills (because the tag makes them chaos skills). That's what gem tags do gameplay-wise.


but inc % chaos damage don't work on poison damage

and if resistant is for Hit damage, then it has nothing to do with poison.
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MonaHuna#6449 wrote:
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Poison does poison damage over time: bypass ES, and it was said the damage type is Chaos damage.
Right.

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So Wither applies Chaos damage taken, refers to hit damage only or both with damage over time?
Both.

"
... does resistance affect damage over time?
Yes.

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And, what the Choas tag do for poison skills? except and a +1 level from Choas Master.
With this tag things that affect chaos skills will work with posion skills (because the tag makes them chaos skills). That's what gem tags do gameplay-wise.
but inc % chaos damage don't work on poison damage

Not only chaos, general % inc damage doesn't work as well, as stated in the poison keyword pop-up
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The base Magnitude of Poison is Chaos damage per second equal to 20% of the Pre-mitigation Physical and Chaos damage of the Hit that inflicted it. This magnitude is not further affected by any modifiers to the damage you deal.
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I'm not sure which part of my reply this "but" refers to (also what is poison BD or Chaos Master?).

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and if resistant is for Hit damage, then it has nothing to do with poison.
Resistances mitigate DoT as well as hit damage.

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