posion damage?

[darnocpdx]

Well Im back after a little more than a year away from the game and Im wondering if the posion damage still stacks like it did before 1.10 on ranged weapons? I really had a blast playing bowmancers before. But just curious if I should starting collecting those charms (old account is gone so starting from scratch again :grrr: ) again.

[gvandale]

welcome!

afaik, pd still stacks. there is a 'tao of poison' that was written for 1.09, and I believe it's been updated for 1.10. If you search the forums, you should find it.

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[BrandonW]

Does not stack. Hitting/casting again merely restarts the poison timer.

(Otherwise pnova necros would be a boringly cookie cutter build like hammerdin, instead of the uncommon but elite build it is now ; )

[gvandale]

are you sure physically applied poison is the same as casted poison? i know rabies / pn do not stack, but venom does...

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[darnocpdx]

Not quite what I ment. It was/is that when useing a ranged weapon that the duration of the posion was cumlitive. So lets say you had 3 posion charms each doing 10 damage for 3 seconds. If you were to melee with that you'd do 30 damage of 3 seconds (I forget the frame rate in which the damage was calculated) However if you used ranged weapons you'd do the same damage as melee per frame however it'd last 9 seconds in the eample given above... Thus trippling the damage from melee.

When I left I had a HC necro that could solo any of the Hell bosses (as long as they didn't spawn PR) with just a few shots of he bow. It was fun.

As far as the Toa I have googled it and can't find any update for 1.1.