Assassin Skills Discussion

[bigeyedbug]

What I don't understand is: once the Venom is done with its 10 frames of damage, does the duration of other poison items reset? (does a 4 second duration charm, for example, take over and keep applying poison, or was its duration cut short in the first decision to go with Venom?)
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Venom truncates additional poison down to its 10 frame duration. Without reapplication, once those 10 frames are over, the poison state is over too, regardless of whether the the application had a little bit of Pemerald, Tal rune, et al. in it.

For subsequent or simultaneous applications, an equal or higher rate poison will always override a lower one. The game "forgets" the previous poison application, rate, and damage in that case.

For completeness' sake, I guess it's worth mentioning that poison applications always do their initial frame's worth of damage regardless of the poison state of the target. So let's say you've got 100 points of poison damage over 10 frames , and you're successfully re-applying it every 6 frames:

Frame....Damage
1..............10 Initial application
2..............10
3..............10
4..............10
5..............10
6..............10
7..............10 + 10 reapplication
8..............10
9..............10
10............10
11............10
12............10
13............10 + 10 reapplication

So at the end of frame 13, you've got 20 more points of poison damage than you'd expect from the simple "Equal or higher poison rates always override" rule. How much of or even whether that's important enough to explain in your guide is debateable.