poison not effected by PVP penalty

[Jerkazoid]

in 1.09 we all knew this, but 1.10 saw a change to that right?

am i the only one who didnt know psn is not effected by pvp in 1.10?

[van_ham]

Really? I didn't know that either. . . hmm maybe i should rethink the poison builds ive missed. . .

[CEG]

Are you sure about that? My pvp kicksin has 1k venom damage. I have fought numerous chars and landed quite a few kicks. Unless all of them have nice poison resist it seems hard to believe that its not affected by the penalty. Perhaps you could offer some proof/experiences with it? Its not that I dont beleive you, but that my own experience leads me to believe differently.

[Jerkazoid]

well on the lld forums they are trying them out, i remeber trying a psn lvl 29 and she sucked when 1.10 came out,,
and now....

they results of dmg show the pvp penalty does not effect it.

taken from lld101
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19k Psn Jav over 64 Secs
6.5k Plauge Jav over 11 Secs

Letting each run its full duration, here's the damage:
Against Death Hand (75% psn resist, 75% reduction)

Psn Jav total dmg (post pvp): 971 dmg
Plauge Jav total dmg (post pvp): 372 dmg
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do the math withouth the 17% cut.. ull see they equal up... the dmg is getting through un-penalyzed.

[nucks]

Seems like the elemental damage isn't penalized. Fireball and Blizzard doesn't seem to be penalized either. My friend's 11kdmg blizzard still does an avg of 1000 damage to my barb with 258res and dual ravens.

[tyth17867]

yeah it seems that everyones trying psn builds lately, psn nova mostly. i think plague javas are better and even better is a rabies build, i had one a couple months ago, got him up to 66k or so over about 22 seconds. Thats 3k a sec, killed all but high defense barbs usually and defiance pallies.

[Soepgroente]

I calculated that poison nova goes through a penalty of 25%. That's all i know

[Zelc]

Originally Posted by nucks

Seems like the elemental damage isn't penalized. Fireball and Blizzard doesn't seem to be penalized either. My friend's 11kdmg blizzard still does an avg of 1000 damage to my barb with 258res and dual ravens.

A high level Cold Mastery can pierce most of that 258 resistance, leaving you with about -85% or something. 11K * 1.85 * 1/6 = 3391 damage. 3391 * .2 = 678 damage, which seems to be about right.

By the way, I think poison damage is now affected by the PvP penalty. My 82k Plague Javelin could not bring an 11k HP druid down to 1 HP in one hit. Even factoring in 75% resists, an 82k Plague Javelin should do 20.5k without the PvP penalty. I doubt he had 115% poison length reduction (which Infinite told me is also affected by the NM and Hell penalties).

[Jerkazoid]

Originally Posted by Soepgroente

I calculated that poison nova goes through a penalty of 25%. That's all i know

this is even more weird seeing as how the pvp penalty is 17%

i just tested i dont know what the deal is,,, the 17% penalty IS there!

[sbc84]

This is how poison nova works:

10K nova hits a player with 75%resist. The contact damage after 1/6 pvp and 75%resist is 417 poison damage. In addition, the target will also take another 417 poison damage in 2 seconds. The total damage will be 834.