poison - increases to chaos damage

Hello everyone,

Do You know how does poison mechanics works in PoE 2?

I precisely want to ask about increases to chaos damage, does it affect poison? Because in skill log, damage from poison does not increase when i add inc. chaos dmg nod in tree or item with inc. to chaos dmg.

poison is based of physical damage. you can have 1 up to 4 poisons (if skilled) on a target.
poison is chaos damage.
added chaos damage does not increase poison damage as you already noticed.

at least this is how i understand how it works by now

ya it isn't like poe1. poison damage is based off hit damage, and doesn't get scaled after the damage is calculated im pretty sure. so the only way to scale poison damage is to increase your hit damage

im pretty sure poison can be applied by physical OR chaos, so increased chaos damage should be able to increase the base damage that you start the poison with, if you're poisoning with chaos damage

It seems to be like both of You said. So only way to increase poison damage by inc. chaos damage is when I would already have some base chaose damage in hit. Like base damage in bow or some modifier with chaos dmg - i.e. "extra chaos damge".

What do You think about withered status? will it increase poison dmg or not?

I'd assume Wither does increase poison damage. As you're not applying a +%Chaos Damage to yourself (which does not work), but a +%Chaos damage taken to the recipient.