Heiho,
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well, I should know by now that this code thing eats tables :-P
reformatted the whole stuff
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before I'm going into gory details, you can stack duration of Antidotes' (and Thawing Pots') effect by repeatedly drinking them (or feeding them to your hireling. You also may enhance your equipment with 'poison length reduce' modifiers, they'll help _a_lot_.
monstats, skills and missiles poison damage is written in configuration data as 'elemental damage each frame', so in following data you see '5 damage' and an elemental duration (ELen) of 400, it means in each of the 400 frames 5 points damage are dealt. This differs from how poison damage modifiers on _items_ are listed in configuration data (they're listed as total damage over frames).
MonStats' and directly therein assigned Missiles' damage values are subject to global modifiers from MonLvl and DifficultyLevels. Skills' damage values are no subject to these modifiers, even if the skill is just a launcher for a missile (so in some cases you have to adjust Missiles.txt damage values, and in some cases you haven't).
Global adjustment from additional DifficultyLevels.txt unique boss bonus
N, NM, H -> +90, 75, 66%
I'm no good at calculating, so at first here's raw data.
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Radament:
- additional poison damage to A1 Standard Attack
El1Pct gives a percentage of how many of A1 punches will be enhanced with poison. It's always set to 25%, so one blow out of four will carry this additional poison damage in each difficulty. Duration is always set to 1000 frames (40 seconds).
- has also mummy4 missile assigned to A2 Standard Attack (the breathing)
On Missile Level 1 (missLvl) the added poison damage to A2 breathing will be EMin to EMax, this is pretty much what you would call the base poison damage. So we have 9 to 9 damage in each of 400 frames (16 seconds duration).
Missile Level increases similar to Skill Levels (DifficultyLevels.txt), so we have missLvl1 in Normal, missLvl4 in Nightmare and missLvl8 in Hell.
missLvl2 to missLvl8 refer to EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1.
For missLvl4 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 3 + 9 to 5 * 3 + 9 or 24 to 24 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
For missLvl8 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 7 + 9 to 5 * 7 + 9 or 44 to 44 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
(for completeness, and in case I'm wrong about missLvl:
missLvl9 to missLvl16 refer to EMinLev2 and EMaxLev2
missLvl17 to missLvl22 refer to EMinLev3 and EMaxLev3
missLvl23 to missLvl28 refer to EMinLev4 and EMaxLev4
missLvl29 and better refer to EMinLev5 and EMaxLev5)
EDmgSymPerCalc is (always, with monsters) empty, since there are no synergies here :-)
- mLvl 16, 49, 83 in N, NM, H results in MonLvl.txt damage adjustment for ladder mode as follows
Normal: mLvl16 -> 11% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Nightmare: mLvl 49 -> 41% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Hell: mLvl83 -> 94% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
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Andariel
- applies poison damage to A1 Standard Attack
El1Pct gives a percentage of how many of A1 punches will be enhanced with poison. It's always set to 100%, so each blow will carry this additional poison damage in each difficulty.
I don't know what happens in Nightmare, where minimum damage is higher than maximum damage. This is most probably a typo in configuration data, and can cause weird stuff.
Duration varies from 30 frames in Normal to 33 frames in Nightmare (I'd bet this is a typo) to 225 frames in Hell.
- mLvl 12, 49, 75 in N, NM, H results in MonLvl.txt damage adjustment for ladder mode as follows
Normal: mLvl12 -> 8% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Nightmare: mLvl 49 -> 41% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Hell: mLvl83 -> 85% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
- uses AndrialSpray skill to launch andarielspray missile
N, NM, H -> sLvl1, 4, 8
The duration is 400 frames at sLvl1 and increases by 10 frames for each further sLvl (ELevLen columns).
This missile has a small portion of physical damage assigned, too! 'HitShift' is set to zero, so the values have to be divided by 256.
- uses AndyPoisonBolt skill with andypoisonbolt missile
N, NM, H -> sLvl1, 4, 8
Duration is 800 frames (32 seconds) plus 10 frames per sLvl.
This missile also has a portion of physical damage assigned, too! 'HitShift' is set to zero, so the values have to be divided by 256.
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Coldworm
QueenDeath skill uses most probably queenpoisoncloud missile (this is heavily hardcoded stuff, so maybe I'm wrong here).
On Missile Level 1 (missLvl) the poison damage will be EMin to EMax. So we have 6 to 16 damage in each of 800 frames (32 seconds duration).
Missile Level increases similar to Skill Levels (DifficultyLevels.txt), so we have missLvl1 in Normal, missLvl4 in Nightmare and missLvl8 in Hell.
missLvl2 to missLvl8 refer to EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1.
For missLvl4 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 6 * 3 + 6 to 6 * 3 + 16 or 24 to 34 damage in each of 800 Frames duration.
For missLvl8 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 6 * 7 + 6 to 6 * 7 + 16 or 48 to 58 damage in each of 800 Frames duration.
It's released by a skill, so no more value adjustments from MonLvl and DifficultyLevels.
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Achmel
- poisonhit unique boss modifier (similar to fire/cold enchanted, no other boss has this one assigned)
Duration of the death poison explosion will be
mLvl * 5 * 150 frames
mLvl40, 64, 85 in N, NM, H
poisonhit results in added poison damage modifier from MonUMod
which will enhance each A1 or A2 attack with poison damage calculated from assigned MonStats damage (regardless of assigned _kind_ of damage). This is plainly calculated with other percentage modifiers from MonLvl and DifficultyLevels.
- additional poison damage to A1 Standard Attack
El1Pct gives a percentage of how many of A1 punches will be enhanced with poison. It's set to 30% in each difficulty. Duration is always 1500 frames (60 seconds!).
- A2 mummy4 missile (breathing) same like with Radament, but MonLvl adjustments differ:
On Missile Level 1 (missLvl) the added poison damage to A2 breathing will be EMin to EMax, this is pretty much what you would call the base poison damage. So we have 9 to 9 damage in each of 400 frames (16 seconds duration).
Missile Level increases similar to Skill Levels (DifficultyLevels.txt), so we have missLvl1 in Normal, missLvl4 in Nightmare and missLvl8 in Hell.
missLvl2 to missLvl8 refer to EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1.
For missLvl4 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 3 + 9 to 5 * 3 + 9 or 24 to 24 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
For missLvl8 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 7 + 9 to 5 * 7 + 9 or 44 to 44 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
mLvl 40, 64, 85 in N, NM, H results in MonLvl.txt damage adjustment for ladder mode as follows
Normal: mLvl40 -> 25% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Nightmare: mLvl64 -> 52% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Hell: mLvl85 -> 96% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
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Uber Andariel / Lillith / Pandora
This will only happen in closed bnet, and the configuration data at the bnet servers may differ from those on local HDD!
There's at least rumour that she may have the poisonhit modifier on the realms, see Achmel.
Her mLvl is 110.
She has same skills and values like Andariel on local disk, so only adjustments differ.
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well, I should know by now that this code thing eats tables :-P
reformatted the whole stuff
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Quote:Every time I have to fight them in the course of time since I started Diablo, I bang my head against the wall because their poison damage drains my life like mad even with poison resist. I've even tried to turn cleansing on, but it's still quite annoying. Perhaps more annoying is running back to town when your merc dies of poison. So is it just necessary to pack more antidotes vs them? :o
before I'm going into gory details, you can stack duration of Antidotes' (and Thawing Pots') effect by repeatedly drinking them (or feeding them to your hireling. You also may enhance your equipment with 'poison length reduce' modifiers, they'll help _a_lot_.
monstats, skills and missiles poison damage is written in configuration data as 'elemental damage each frame', so in following data you see '5 damage' and an elemental duration (ELen) of 400, it means in each of the 400 frames 5 points damage are dealt. This differs from how poison damage modifiers on _items_ are listed in configuration data (they're listed as total damage over frames).
MonStats' and directly therein assigned Missiles' damage values are subject to global modifiers from MonLvl and DifficultyLevels. Skills' damage values are no subject to these modifiers, even if the skill is just a launcher for a missile (so in some cases you have to adjust Missiles.txt damage values, and in some cases you haven't).
Global adjustment from additional DifficultyLevels.txt unique boss bonus
N, NM, H -> +90, 75, 66%
I'm no good at calculating, so at first here's raw data.
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Radament:
- additional poison damage to A1 Standard Attack
Code:
El1Mode A1
El1Type pois
El1Pct 25
El1MinD 181
El1MaxD 272
El1Dur 1000
El1Pct(N) 25
El1MinD(N) 180
El1MaxD(N) 270
El1Dur(N) 1000
El1Pct(H) 25
El1MinD(H) 180
El1MaxD(H) 270
El1Dur(H) 1000El1Pct gives a percentage of how many of A1 punches will be enhanced with poison. It's always set to 25%, so one blow out of four will carry this additional poison damage in each difficulty. Duration is always set to 1000 frames (40 seconds).
- has also mummy4 missile assigned to A2 Standard Attack (the breathing)
Code:
EType pois
EMin 9
MinELev1 5
MinELev2 5
MinELev3 5
MinELev4 5
MinELev5 5
Emax 9
MaxELev1 5
MaxELev2 5
MaxELev3 5
MaxELev4 5
MaxELev5 5
EDmgSymPerCalc -
ELen 400On Missile Level 1 (missLvl) the added poison damage to A2 breathing will be EMin to EMax, this is pretty much what you would call the base poison damage. So we have 9 to 9 damage in each of 400 frames (16 seconds duration).
Missile Level increases similar to Skill Levels (DifficultyLevels.txt), so we have missLvl1 in Normal, missLvl4 in Nightmare and missLvl8 in Hell.
missLvl2 to missLvl8 refer to EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1.
For missLvl4 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 3 + 9 to 5 * 3 + 9 or 24 to 24 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
For missLvl8 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 7 + 9 to 5 * 7 + 9 or 44 to 44 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
(for completeness, and in case I'm wrong about missLvl:
missLvl9 to missLvl16 refer to EMinLev2 and EMaxLev2
missLvl17 to missLvl22 refer to EMinLev3 and EMaxLev3
missLvl23 to missLvl28 refer to EMinLev4 and EMaxLev4
missLvl29 and better refer to EMinLev5 and EMaxLev5)
EDmgSymPerCalc is (always, with monsters) empty, since there are no synergies here :-)
- mLvl 16, 49, 83 in N, NM, H results in MonLvl.txt damage adjustment for ladder mode as follows
Normal: mLvl16 -> 11% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Nightmare: mLvl 49 -> 41% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Hell: mLvl83 -> 94% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
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Andariel
- applies poison damage to A1 Standard Attack
Code:
El1Mode A1
El1Type pois
El1Pct 100
El1MinD 33
El1MaxD 33
El1Dur 30
El1Pct(N) 100
El1MinD(N) 60
El1MaxD(N) 33
El1Dur(N) 33
El1Pct(H) 100
El1MinD(H) 33
El1MaxD(H) 33
El1Dur(H) 225El1Pct gives a percentage of how many of A1 punches will be enhanced with poison. It's always set to 100%, so each blow will carry this additional poison damage in each difficulty.
I don't know what happens in Nightmare, where minimum damage is higher than maximum damage. This is most probably a typo in configuration data, and can cause weird stuff.
Duration varies from 30 frames in Normal to 33 frames in Nightmare (I'd bet this is a typo) to 225 frames in Hell.
- mLvl 12, 49, 75 in N, NM, H results in MonLvl.txt damage adjustment for ladder mode as follows
Normal: mLvl12 -> 8% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Nightmare: mLvl 49 -> 41% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Hell: mLvl83 -> 85% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
- uses AndrialSpray skill to launch andarielspray missile
N, NM, H -> sLvl1, 4, 8
Code:
EType pois
EMin 32
MinELev1 32
MinELev2 32
MinELev3 32
MinELev4 32
MinELev5 32
Emax 64
MaxELev1 32
MaxELev2 32
MaxELev3 32
MaxELev4 32
MaxELev5 32
EDmgSymPerCalc -
ELen 400
ELevLen1 10
ELevLen2 10
ELevLen3 10The duration is 400 frames at sLvl1 and increases by 10 frames for each further sLvl (ELevLen columns).
This missile has a small portion of physical damage assigned, too! 'HitShift' is set to zero, so the values have to be divided by 256.
Code:
MinDamage 1792
MinLevDam1 1280
MinLevDam2 1280
MinLevDam3 1280
MinLevDam4 1280
MinLevDam5 1280
MaxDamage 2560
MaxLevDam1 1280
MaxLevDam2 1280
MaxLevDam3 1280
MaxLevDam4 1280
MaxLevDam5 1280- uses AndyPoisonBolt skill with andypoisonbolt missile
N, NM, H -> sLvl1, 4, 8
Code:
EType pois
EMin 32
MinELev1 38
MinELev2 44
MinELev3 40
MinELev4 46
MinELev5 52
Emax 64
MaxELev1 38
MaxELev2 44
MaxELev3 40
MaxELev4 46
MaxELev5 52
EDmgSymPerCalc -
ELen 800
ELevLen1 10
ELevLen2 10
ELevLen3 10Duration is 800 frames (32 seconds) plus 10 frames per sLvl.
This missile also has a portion of physical damage assigned, too! 'HitShift' is set to zero, so the values have to be divided by 256.
Code:
MinDamage 1792
MinLevDam1 1280
MinLevDam2 1280
MinLevDam3 1280
MinLevDam4 1280
MinLevDam5 1280
MaxDamage 2560
MaxLevDam1 1280
MaxLevDam2 1280
MaxLevDam3 1280
MaxLevDam4 1280
MaxLevDam5 1280___________________________________________
Coldworm
QueenDeath skill uses most probably queenpoisoncloud missile (this is heavily hardcoded stuff, so maybe I'm wrong here).
Code:
EType pois
EMin 6
MinELev1 6
MinELev2 6
MinELev3 6
MinELev4 6
MinELev5 6
Emax 16
MaxELev1 6
MaxELev2 6
MaxELev3 6
MaxELev4 6
MaxELev5 6
EDmgSymPerCalc -
ELen 800
ELevLen1 -
ELevLen2 -
ELevLen3 -On Missile Level 1 (missLvl) the poison damage will be EMin to EMax. So we have 6 to 16 damage in each of 800 frames (32 seconds duration).
Missile Level increases similar to Skill Levels (DifficultyLevels.txt), so we have missLvl1 in Normal, missLvl4 in Nightmare and missLvl8 in Hell.
missLvl2 to missLvl8 refer to EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1.
For missLvl4 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 6 * 3 + 6 to 6 * 3 + 16 or 24 to 34 damage in each of 800 Frames duration.
For missLvl8 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 6 * 7 + 6 to 6 * 7 + 16 or 48 to 58 damage in each of 800 Frames duration.
It's released by a skill, so no more value adjustments from MonLvl and DifficultyLevels.
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Achmel
- poisonhit unique boss modifier (similar to fire/cold enchanted, no other boss has this one assigned)
Duration of the death poison explosion will be
mLvl * 5 * 150 frames
mLvl40, 64, 85 in N, NM, H
poisonhit results in added poison damage modifier from MonUMod
Code:
66 unique +elem min dmg% (N)
66 unique +elem min dmg% (NM)
66 unique +elem min dmg% (H)
100 unique +elem max dmg% (N)
100 unique +elem max dmg% (NM)
100 unique +elem max dmg% (H)- additional poison damage to A1 Standard Attack
Code:
El1Mode A1
El1Type pois
El1Pct 30
El1MinD 120
El1MaxD 152
El1Dur 1500
El1Pct(N) 30
El1MinD(N) 33
El1MaxD(N) 33
El1Dur(N) 1500
El1Pct(H) 30
El1MinD(H) 33
El1MaxD(H) 33
El1Dur(H) 1500El1Pct gives a percentage of how many of A1 punches will be enhanced with poison. It's set to 30% in each difficulty. Duration is always 1500 frames (60 seconds!).
- A2 mummy4 missile (breathing) same like with Radament, but MonLvl adjustments differ:
Code:
EType pois
EMin 9
MinELev1 5
MinELev2 5
MinELev3 5
MinELev4 5
MinELev5 5
Emax 9
MaxELev1 5
MaxELev2 5
MaxELev3 5
MaxELev4 5
MaxELev5 5
EDmgSymPerCalc -
ELen 400
ELevLen1 -
ELevLen2 -
ELevLen3 -On Missile Level 1 (missLvl) the added poison damage to A2 breathing will be EMin to EMax, this is pretty much what you would call the base poison damage. So we have 9 to 9 damage in each of 400 frames (16 seconds duration).
Missile Level increases similar to Skill Levels (DifficultyLevels.txt), so we have missLvl1 in Normal, missLvl4 in Nightmare and missLvl8 in Hell.
missLvl2 to missLvl8 refer to EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1.
For missLvl4 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 3 + 9 to 5 * 3 + 9 or 24 to 24 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
For missLvl8 we get
Poison Damage = EMinLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMin to EMaxLev1 * (missLvl - 1) + EMax
This results in 5 * 7 + 9 to 5 * 7 + 9 or 44 to 44 damage in each of 400 Frames duration.
mLvl 40, 64, 85 in N, NM, H results in MonLvl.txt damage adjustment for ladder mode as follows
Normal: mLvl40 -> 25% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Nightmare: mLvl64 -> 52% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
Hell: mLvl85 -> 96% of listed MonStats/Missiles damage
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Uber Andariel / Lillith / Pandora
This will only happen in closed bnet, and the configuration data at the bnet servers may differ from those on local HDD!
There's at least rumour that she may have the poisonhit modifier on the realms, see Achmel.
Her mLvl is 110.
She has same skills and values like Andariel on local disk, so only adjustments differ.