03-01-2004, 12:57 PM
I'm not asking for the ridiculous 10s of 1000s of damage due to the old bug. However, it seems odd to me, that for a skill which adds around 300-500 damage(the actual number escapes me, it's level 17 Venom), my 1.09 venom-sin(inventory full of various venom charms and 1 small cold charm) is doing MISERABLY in Nightmare. Hell, one quick look at the LCS™, and all I notice is that the damage she's doing with her 6 emerald Long War Bow, is CRAPPED(when Venom is on). According to the weapon itself, it's supposed to do 600 damage over 7 seconds. But due to Venom setting ALL poison durations to 0.4, I found the following calculation:
(600/7)*(4/10)=60/7*4=approximately? 34 damage. What the hell? Basically, the new Venom screws you over unless you have supremely high poison damage per second(frame, whatever).
So it seems to me, that all Venom does now, is compact your regular damage, into those 0.4 seconds(which is really sad, since 0.4 seconds is less than a 1/10th of the duration for even the crappiest charm), forcing you to fire more often, and making venom relatively useless for preventing regeneration(unless facing a singular monster) Someone please smack the idiot who decided to do that. The objective of playing with poison is so that you DON'T have to run around smacking the monsters every few seconds. What kind of idiotic poison hardly hurts the body, and is flushed in less than a second(I'll leave tobacco out of this)?
But I guess it could be summed up in one phrase.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The Venom skill itself was fine before 1.10. The only thing that needed fixing was how poison durations stacked instead of averaging.
(600/7)*(4/10)=60/7*4=approximately? 34 damage. What the hell? Basically, the new Venom screws you over unless you have supremely high poison damage per second(frame, whatever).
So it seems to me, that all Venom does now, is compact your regular damage, into those 0.4 seconds(which is really sad, since 0.4 seconds is less than a 1/10th of the duration for even the crappiest charm), forcing you to fire more often, and making venom relatively useless for preventing regeneration(unless facing a singular monster) Someone please smack the idiot who decided to do that. The objective of playing with poison is so that you DON'T have to run around smacking the monsters every few seconds. What kind of idiotic poison hardly hurts the body, and is flushed in less than a second(I'll leave tobacco out of this)?
But I guess it could be summed up in one phrase.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The Venom skill itself was fine before 1.10. The only thing that needed fixing was how poison durations stacked instead of averaging.