Poisoning

Description

• The Poisoning skill allows players to inflict varying levels of poison on creatures and players. Poisoning can occur through use of a poisoned weapon or casting the poison spell via the Magery skill. Players with the Poisoning skill can apply poison to all fencing weapons and some swordsmanship weapons. Poison applies damage over time to the target unless they are able to cure themselves of the poison.

Poison Overview

Poison Damage

• Players are now capped at having at most 8 Poison effects active on creatures at a time
• If a player attempts to poison an additional creature while already at the maximum, they will receive a system message informing them of this restriction
• Player-inflicted Poison (through spells or weapons) damage against creatures is increased by 50%
• Player-inflicted Poison (through spells or weapons) has its damage increased by (100% * (Taste ID Skill / 100)) (PvM only)
• When a non-tamed creature takes damage from poison, if the creature or player that poisoned them is more than 18 tiles away, the poison will downgrade its damage to Lesser Poison
• Poison ticks coming player-based poison will resolve as Lesser Poison for damage if any of the following are true:
• The player is Not Alive (no change)
• The player is more than 18 Tiles away from the creature (no change)
• If a player is Hidden and they currently have Poison effects active on multiple creatures, each time a Poison Tick occurs on one of those creatures it will have a (33% (Total Creatures Poisoned - 1)) chance to resolve the poison's damage as Lesser Poison instead of their actual poison level

Poison Stacking

• Every non-tamed/non-summoned creature can now have multiple Poison effects stacked on them, with the following rules:
• Creatures will only ever have one Poison Type active on them at a time (i.e Lesser, Regular, Greater, Deadly, Lethal)
• Each Player is allowed to apply poison onto an already poisoned creature so long as it is the same poison level
• Each Player is also allowed to have one of their followers apply Poison onto an already poisoned creature so long as it is the same poison level
• If a Player or Player Follower applies a higher level poison than what is currently on a creature, it will clear out the poison of all other players/followers currently stacked on it
• Poisoned creatures will track individual Tick Count Remaining amounts for each player/creature that poisoned it (which starts at Tick 0 and ends at Tick 10)
• A poisoned creature will use a single timer to resolve all Poison Ticks at the same time (i.e. every 5 seconds a Lethal Poisoned creature will resolve multiple creature/player poison ticks on it at once)
• A creature will be considered Poisoned, and have a Green status health bar, so long as any creature/player has any Poison Ticks remaining on it
• Any bonuses players/followers have towards increasing Poison Damage or boosting Poison Effects will only apply to their own individual Poison Ticks resolving (i.e. all players don't get a bonus to Poison Damage on a creature due to a single player using Mind Rot or having Poison Mastery Chain Links/Aspect)

Poison Resistance (Creature)

• Many creatures have a Poison Resistance stat (listed as a percentage % value, but will not resist poison cast from players, only a chance to resist each tick of damage
• Players may temporarily receive Poison Resistance through skills such as Taste ID and various item effects
• Poison Resistance on creatures is checked on a Per Poison Tick Basis, so abilities/effects that trigger multiple Poison Ticks to be resolved at once (such as Poison Strike/Poison Aspect Weapon or Spell Proc) will make multiple Poison Resistance checks against each tick being resolved, rather than a single Poison Resistance check that would nullify the entire stack of Poison Ticks
• Most creatures with Poison Resistance will now have a Minimum Poison Resistance that they cannot be reduced below with effects (will typically be 1/4th of their normal Poison Resistance, but may be higher for harder content and Bosses)

Poison Tolerance (Player)

The handling on Poison Tolerance is as follows:

• Whenever a player or tamed/summoned creature inflicts Greater Poison or above on another player, it applies a cumulative Poison Tolerance effect on the victim that lasts 5 minutes
• A player can have multiple Poison Tolerance effects stacked on them, and each Poison Tolerance effect has their own independent duration timer
• Poison Tolerance reduces the chance for ANY opposing players to Upgrade Poison Spellcasts OR Apply Melee Weapon Poison against them (i.e. a player with a 25% upgrade/application chance against a player with 50% poison tolerance would now have a 12.5% upgrade/application chance)
• Players can at most receive 50% Poison Tolerance from stacked effects
• Poison Tolerance has no effect in the Arena

Poison Tolerance increases as follows:

Poisoned Weapons

• Poison may be applied to any stabbing weapon. This includes all Fencing weapons and all swords, but not axes or polearms and no maces.
• Chance to inflict poison in PvP is flat 25% for all poison types
• Chance to inflict poison in PvM is 25% + (Effective Poisoning Skill / 4%) for all poison types
• Players need 95 Printed Poisoning skill or higher to apply Lethal Poison via weapon
• Chance to not lose poison charge on a failed infliction check is (50% * (Poisoning Skill / 100))
• Chance for player to cure poison that was inflicted by a player with poisoning is reduced by (25% * (Poisoning Skill / 100))
• If a creature is hit by a poisoned weapon, but the creature is already poisoned with an equal or higher poison level than what's on the weapon, no poison attempt will be made with the weapon (and no poison charges will be lost)
• Players with Poisoning skill use fractional amounts of Poison Charges when inflicting poison with a weapon onto a creature
• Players will lose (1 - (0.50 * (Effective Poisoning Skill / 100)) Poison Charges when inflicting poison from a weapon onto a creature
• A minimum of 0.20 Poison Charges are used on each poisoning attempt (if players have bonuses to Effective Poisoning Skill such as through Mastery Chain Links)
• Players may attempt to apply poison to weapons by single-clicking the weapon with poison potions in their inventory. Available poison types will be listed in the context menu.

Melee Poison Sting

• When a player makes a Melee Hit with a Poisoned weapon against a creature the player has already poisoned with that same poison type, they will have a chance to resolve a Melee Poison Sting against the target that immediately resolves 1 Poison Tick
• The chance for a Melee Poison Sting to occur will be based on the highest of the player's Effective Poisoning Skill and Effective Alchemy Skill
• Chance for Melee Poison Sting to occur is (50% * (Higher Effective Skill / 100)) and is further Scaled by Weapon Speed
• You can only Melee Poison Sting once every 5s

Poison Spellcasting

• Poison spell when cast by creatures will be at Lesser Poison
• Poison spell and Poison Field spells cast by players default to Regular Poison
• A player's effective Poisoning skill for spellcasting is capped by their Magery skill (players may go above 100 Poisoning at 100 Magery however)
• Players must have at least 60 Poisoning to upgrade poison level to Greater Poison
• Players must have at least 80 Poisoning to upgrade poison level to Deadly Poison
• Players must have at least 100 Poisoning, as well as 100 Magery, to have a chance to upgrade to Lethal Poison
• Upgrading to Greater Poison will cost 1 extra nightshade and 2 extra nightshade for Deadly Poison (the spell's poison will not upgrade if player does not have sufficient nightshade)
• Players are able to cast Lethal Poison, onto both creatures and players
• In order to be able to upgrade to Lethal poison, the player must have a Lethal Poison potion in their backpack (if they do not have, they cannot upgrade to Lethal Poison)
• On a successful Lethal Poison upgrade cast, there is a 20% chance a Lethal Poison potion in their backpack will be consumed (and players will be notified); this chance is increased to 40% in PvP
• Casting Lethal Poison will require consumption of 3 extra Nightshade if no Lethal Poison Potion is required for the spellcast (similar to upgrading to Greater Poison taking 1 extra nightshade, and upgrading to Deadly Poison taking 2 extra nightshade)

Spellbased Poison Sting / Failure to Upgrade

If a Poison spell hits an already poisoned target, and fails to upgrade the target's poison to a higher level than what it already has on them (which will always be the case if the target has Lethal poison), the target will instead take 10 * (((Caster Poisoning Skill + Caster Taste ID Skill) * 0.5) / 100) Damage, which will be roughly equivalent to Fireball damage when cast by a Poison Mage template.

We'll refer to this damage as '''Poison Sting damage'''. Poison Sting damage itself will not cause an interrupt to the target, but the normal interrupt handling for the Poison Spell will be in place as before (i.e. normal handling for being a 3rd circle offensive spell). The Poison Sting mechanic will apply when casting the spell onto both creatures and players.

PvM Bonuses (Spells)

The chance for players to upgrade spell poison levels against creatures are:

PvP Bonuses (Spells)

The chance for players to upgrade spell poison levels against other players, including distance, are:

Curing Poison

Progressive Curing

• The first Cure Potion a player drinks every 30 seconds will now be a free consumption (players will get a system message telling them this occurred)
• Each consecutive failed attempt at curing poison now increases chance of the next attempt by a flat value equal to the unmodified base cure chance (before factoring in adjustments for Poison Skill, Taste ID, or Other Player Effects) assigned to the type of poison

'''Example of curing Deadly Poison inflicted by a player with GM Poisoning Skill and GM Taste ID:'''

• The base chance to cure Deadly Poison via Greater Cure Potion or GM Magery is 50% chance
• If they fail their cure attempt, their next attempt will receive a flat 50% bonus
• Poisons inflicted with GM Poisoning and GM Taste ID have their initial cure chance reduced by a scalar of 50% (i.e. 50% base cure chance becomes 25% cure chance)
• Subsequent attempts are still increased by the unmodified base cure chance as a flat percentage

'''Example of curing Lethal Poison inflicted by a player with 120 Poisoning Skill and 120 Taste ID:'''

• Base chance to cure Lethal Poison via Greater Cure Potion or GM Magery is 25% chance
• If they fail their cure attempt, their next attempt will receive a flat 25% bonus
• Poisons inflicted with 120 Poisoning and 120 Taste ID have their initial cure chance reduced by a scalar of 60% (i.e. 25% base cure chance becomes 10% cure chance)
• Subsequent attempts are still increased by the unmodified base cure chance as a flat percentage.

Potion Cure Chances

Bandaging Cure Chances

Cure and Arch Cure Spell Chances

• Chance to Cure = ((150% - (Poison Level * 25%)) * (Magery Skill / 100))

Poison Kit

• Players can craft Poison Kits with the Alchemy skill, which is a Blessed item that allow players to customize the handling of their Poison Effects towards creatures (these bonuses will never affect players)

Poison Text Visuals

Creature Poison Single Click

• Players can toggle whether to display single-click overhead Poison text for creatures by typing [SingleClickPoisonTicks or by navigating to Paperdoll -> Help -> Commands -> Mechanics -> SingleClickPoisonTicks
• Players can see what Type of Poison they individually have on a creature as well as how many Poison Ticks they have remaining on the creature by single-clicking or doing All Names

• If a creature is currently poisoned, but the player themselves doesn't have any poison applied on the target, single-clicking the creature or doing All Names will simply display what type of Poison is currently active on it (i.e poison from other players/creatures)

Creature Poison Overhead Messages

• In order to reduce the amount of overhead text spam related to the new poison stacking mechanics, some changes have been made to overhead text messages derived from Poison for creatures

Applying Poison

• When Poison is applied to a creature, it will only display the "Creature X is wracked in extreme pain"-type message overhead to the player who applied the Poison
• Tamed/Summoned Creatures that become poisoned, however, will always still display these messages to their controller

Resolving Poison Ticks

• The "Creature X is wracked in extreme pain"-type message that occurs when resolving Poison Ticks for creatures will now only display to players who have poison active on the creature
• Tamed/Summoned Creatures that are poisoned, however, will always still display these messages to their controller

Creature Poison Overriding

• If another player or creature applies a Higher level of Poison than what is currently on the target, all other players who previously had a lower level Poison effect active on the creature will see a "*poison overridden*" message displayed above the creature for them (indicating their Poison on the creature has now been wiped out)

Creature Poison Tick Completion

• When a player's 10th (Final) Poison Tick resolves on a creature, they will see a "'''*poison complete*'''" message displayed over the creature (indicating their poison effect has ended on the creature)

Training

• Poisoning wont raise faster on Shelter Islands/Newplayer Dungeon
• Train the skill by applying the skill-appropiate Poison to a bladed weapon
• Roughly 100 Poison potions for 50 - 60 skill
• Roughly 750 Greater Poison potions for 60 - 80 skill
• Roughly 1100 Deadly Poison Potions for 80 - 100 skill