Bowa poison damage question

[bluewiind]

My bowazon has 6x313 and 10x100 poison sc's. I have been reading somewhere about the negative effect on poison damage when mixing up two different poison sources as far as duration. 313 damage is over 11 seconds and 100 is over 5 seconds. Could someone plz clearify this for me? In my situation what exacly happens? Tnx

[WrongdayJ]

:scratch: OK here goes:

1st the damage rate (approx.). . .you have to add these together for every poison source you have. Technically you are supposed to be doing this calculation as damage per frame and such, but I will simplify and use damage per second. . .it get's you in the ballpark and doesn't require any additional math steps- which, if you are like me, is a good thing.

Your 1st charms- 313 over 11 sec. = rate of 28.45/sec
28.45 (rate) x 6 (charms)= 170.7

Your 2nd charms- 100 over 5 sec. = rate of 20/sec.
20 (rate) x 10 (charms)= 200

Combined rate of damage= 370.7/sec.


Next you have to average the duration from all of your poison sources. This is where you can make or break your poison augmentation:

11 sec. x 6 charms = 66 sec.
5 sec. x 10 charms= 50 sec.

(66+50) / 16(the # of individual poison sources)= Total combined duration of 7.25 sec.

You will do 370.7 damage per second over 7.25 seconds for a total damage of 2687.575 hit points.

That is a VERY good poison rate and damage total for just using charms. I am impressed! :thumbsup:

The most I've ever been able to muster (so far) using charms alone is 2256 over 6.5 sec.

The bottom line in poison augmentation is that you want long durations on your charms. Even one short duration could cost you LOTS of damage. A charm that did 100 over 3 seconds is not as good (in your case) as a charm that did 10 damage over 10 seconds. You have enough charms though that your average wouldn't be changed too much, but every bit counts- especially when you only have a few poison sources.

You have inspired me. . .looks like I better go hunting some better poison charms. . .

[bluewiind]

:scratch: OK here goes:

1st the damage rate (approx.). . .

313 over 11 sec. = rate of 28.45/sec
100 over 5 sec. = rate of 20/sec.

28.45 (rate) x 6 (charms)= 170.7
20 (rate) x 10 (charms)= 200

Combined rate of damage= 370.7

now for Duration:
11 sec. x 6 charms = 66
5 sec. x 10 charms= 50.
(66+50)/16(the # of poison sources)= Total combined duration of 7.25 sec.

You will do 370.7/sec. over 7.25 sec. for a total damage of 2687.575

Not bad at all. . .That is a very good poison rate and damage total for just using charms. I am impressed. :thumbsup:

The most I've ever been able to muster (so far) is 2256 over 6.5 sec.

You have inspired me. . .looks like I better go hunting some better poison
charms. . .


Thank you for a detailed answer, I guess I dont have much to worry about then. I am glad I inspire somebody. :) I have a mix of max dam/frw and poison charms and do over 8k damage at 7 fps. Damn smiters are still hard tho, I have a titan/ss switch and walk against them but still loose most of the time...oh well