Teh Leetest Psn Dmg Wep!!

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Level 37 required, pestilent blade of venom and has 512 psn dmg. Could i mabeh make a psn dagger nec or a rabies wolf with it for fun?

[viamede]

1. Over how many seconds?

2. Generally you look for skills for necro (like the dirt cheap Blackbogs) and speed for a wolf. I think the additional poison damage is pretty insignificant with either of those characters. I read that with rabies you have to watch off skill poison damage as it can cut down the duration of your rabies damage...not sure if its the same for necro. Most of the high elemental damage weapons (like wands and such) are best just for keeping on switch with a melee character in IM areas...but then you may want to go ranged anyway.

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Over 10 seconds.

[Aerath]

Iirc, and I might well be completely off here so do check to make sure, Rabies overrides any and all other poisons (possibly excepting a Necromancer's PoisonNova). Making poison charms and poison weapons pretty much useless.

[viamede]

K Blackbogs has 490 over 10 and about 5 other useful mods for your poison necro...goes for a few pgems but a very handy little weapon if you want to make a poison nec and don't have a deaths web...like who does eh.

Poison is one of those elemental damage skills that looks big until you break it down...like lightning when it is like 37-1002 and you fire once and like wow and fire again and go whoa what happened..huge variablity or spread over many seconds.

Sooo....CHARSI!!!!

[viamede]

Iirc, and I might well be completely off here so do check to make sure, Rabies overrides any and all other poisons (possibly excepting a Necromancer's PoisonNova). Making poison charms and poison weapons pretty much useless.

What I read tho is that if your using rabies and carry a poison charm the poison duration is cut to the charms length effectively cutting short your rabies duration..never tried experimenting tho...heck rabies barely kills anything as it is.

[Aerath]

What I read tho is that if your using rabies and carry a poison charm the poison duration is cut to the charms length effectively cutting short your rabies duration..never tried experimenting tho...heck rabies barely kills anything as it is.

Have read 2 things -
1) highest damage/frame overrules everything else (excluding Venom, which is a completely diferent case)
2) Rabies completely overrules everything else.

And then, what you are refering too, is that the calculation for poison damage is slightly skewed.

The damage per frame is kept, but the number of frames is lowered, so Rabies does not do its full damage. (Since a max Rabies is about 20 seconds, this would lower its damage by about 50%.)

On a sidenote, a full fledged Rabies kills fairly well. Not a lot of critters can take 20k (easily attainable), let alone 40k poison damage.

It just doesn't go anywhere in an 8 person game, since generally speaking the monsters are dead before they can die from the Rabies anyway. It does stop monster regeneration, so a single bite and then switching to Fury isn't too bad.