How fast should you cast poison nova?

[greydarkk]

Does it do more damage to cast it as fast as you possibly can? Or does it not matter since the damage says "over 2 seconds"

I also have another question on poison.

When it lists damage as "over a certain amount of seconds" I assume that means it takes that long to do that amount of damage, so I would assume the lower the number the better?

[Wizdomm]

FCR does not matter for Poison Nova (or Poison Explosion or Poison Dagger for that matter). Your poison skills do a certain amount of dmg over a certain amount of time, and re-poisoning while they are still poisoned from your first attack does not add any damage...it only restarts the time length.

For example, say you do 10K dmg over 2 secs with your Poison Nova. Spamming nova over and over again will not do any more damage than someone casting a nova and waiting 2 secs and casting another, ect.

[greydarkk]

thanks.

Thats what I thought, but will save me quite a lot of mana :)

[factotum]

thanks.

Thats what I thought, but will save me quite a lot of mana :)

You'll need to save mana...Poison Nova *drinks* the blue bulb!

[lumpor]

Also, yes the lower number the better

BUT, that only applies to when the damage isn't affected by poison sources (like poison charms etc). if you use poison dagger, where poison damage from equipment gets factored, things get a little bit more complicated.

[Damric]

you can actually make that poison nova last longer than 2 seconds per cast.

[deadbeater]

Nova is actually the one spell to spam that no one will object if you do. Spam as much as you can; when blue bulb gets low, stay away from monsters and pop a mana potion. Wait till it potion gets full. Then cast lower resist, stab the monster with your dagger, and spam spam nova.

[factotum]

What is the POINT of spamming it, though? The poison on it has a 2 second duration, and all that spamming PN will do is reset the duration--it won't somehow make the monster more poisoned. Same applies to using Poison Dagger before you start using Novas, only in that case it's even more useless because the higher damage of the Nova will simply replace the lower damage of the PD.

[FoxyG]

you can actually make that poison nova last longer than 2 seconds per cast.

how? 10chars

[lumpor]

-enemy poison resistance

So many people in this forum think +skills are better than +% skill damage or -% enemy resistance, but those mods increase damage much more than +skills

[deadbeater]

What is the POINT of spamming it, though? The poison on it has a 2 second duration, and all that spamming PN will do is reset the duration--it won't somehow make the monster more poisoned. Same applies to using Poison Dagger before you start using Novas, only in that case it's even more useless because the higher damage of the Nova will simply replace the lower damage of the PD.

Ok, stop spamming nova, and look in awe how quickly monsters regenerate. They can refill that rectangle to full red in as quickly as 10 seconds. Yes, you want to spam spam nova. And I'm not a spamming fan.

[factotum]

Ok, stop spamming nova, and look in awe how quickly monsters regenerate. They can refill that rectangle to full red in as quickly as 10 seconds. Yes, you want to spam spam nova. And I'm not a spamming fan.

There's a difference between letting the poison duration expire and spamming the spell. Casting once every 2 seconds should be enough to keep the poison on, which is not the same as spamming.

[lumpor]

Poison stops regeneration. Intervals between casting that are less than 2 seconds don't increase damage.

Why spam? If you had a 50 frame cast, then you should spam