Enhancing Poison

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maoster wrote:

The only way i see the poison changes being anywhere close to viable is there is some way to proliferate stacked poisons (perhaps the duration of the stacked poisons is half the original duration)

from how viper strike was mentioned, why would anyone use viper strike when u can use reave with the poison support gem which boosts the poison dmg(significantly better than longer duration), has built in aoe to equal out vipers need for melee splash(would be superiour in this regard), duration is useless except for single target on incredibily strong bosses.

the core problem with poison of any sort, is it requires time to work, PA works around this by being a set and forget sort of thing from range, and not scaling off hit dmg but melees will not have this option given how poison is scaled off hit dmg, for example, at the moment, if you hit something for half its hp, and poison it, it wont die from the poison, so u have to hit it againm then it is dead and the poison is pointless, and it just gets worse the less dmg you actually do, as poison scales linearly with hit dmg. thus the only way poison would be useful is, for a melee to kill like a few mobs, and the poison to proliferate like a plague and kill the whole pack, and then for bosses, to stack up a large amount of poison on the boss which is just assisted dps(BUT this will only work for phys builds, since poison apparently wont be calculated off elemental dmg. believe me, i have tried to use viper strike, but in the end its aways reave cause the pack clear is so much better, and reave outshines viper evne in boss dps, cause u can just whack on a conc effect and do abillion dmg that way, i tested, against a palace dominus, beat him down to 10% with viper, then ran off, he didnt die..... wat point is it.