Mavfin,Jul 15 2003, 10:00 PM Wrote:How does Venom's new duration interact with other poison damager? I mean, with a 0.4 sec duration, 240 damage would give a rate of 240/0.4 or 600/sec damage. You could get xome incredible rates combining this with longer duration poison charms, etc. Is it that simple, or does it work some other way...From what I've seen, heard from others, and experienced in the game, venom sets the duration to 0.4 regardless of your other sources durations. So the only thing that matters is damage per second. An example would be, taking your 600 damage per second venom, or 240 over 0.4 seconds:
Charm - 100 poison damage over 5 seconds; or 20 damage per second. That adds 20 damage per second on top of 600:
600+20 = 620 damage per second.
So your actual poison damage would be 248 now (over 0.4 seconds)
At least this is the way I understand it, if anyone has better information, feel free to jump in.
There IS a way to increase duration, and the only way to do it is through "% increased poison damage" items, since they increase duration of the poison skills along with damage per second.