Poisoning

Poisoning has always been a bit lackluster in PvM, so this first iteration of improvements is designed to make it a more viable option in templates. The first of the changes is adding an AoE poison to poison strikes if you have Poisoning as follows:

• The same creatures that are affected by the Poison Strike are the ones who can be potentially poisoned.
• The chance for an AoE poison scales by Poisoning skill, 5% per 20 skill points (with scaling for in-between)

Poisoning Skill	Poison Level	Chance to Poison
0.0	Lesser	0%
20.0	Lesser	5%
40.0	Lesser	10%
60.0	Lesser	15%
80.0	Regular	20%
100.0	Greater	25%
120.0	Deadly	30%

The second major change is that having Poisoning as well as Taste Identification now provides poison IMMUNITY!

• Both skills must be at the levels listed below to have the immunity effect.
• The immunity is a TRUE immunity (you never even get poisoned) versus the Vampiric Embrace-style “immunity” where you get poisoned, but then it disappears the first time it attempts to tick.
• This change ONLY affects players, not pets (since they couldn’t have Taste ID anyways)

Poisoning & Taste ID Minimum Skill	Immunity Level
40.0	Lesser Poison
60.0	Regular Poison
80.0	Greater Poison
100.0	Deadly Poison
120.0	L

Poisoning is also used in Serpent Arrow. Serpent Arrow calculations have been “fixed” but also overhauled as follows:

• Calculation: Poison Level = ( (Poisoning Skill * 2 + Archery Skill + Dexterity – DistancePenalty) / 100 )
• Distance Penalty: Each tile beyond 3 tiles is a 10.0 point penalty
• Example: 120 Poison, 120 Archery, 150 Dex, and 10 tiles away yields Level = ( 120 * 2 + 120 + 150 – (10-3)*10 ) = 440 / 100 = 4 (rounded down) = Deadly Poison
• This now means ALL levels of poison are possible!