Poison

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Condition. While suffering from this injury, you lose Health over time.

— In-game description

Contents 1 Related skills 1.1 Skills that cause poison 1.2 Skills that enhance poison 1.3 Skills that require poison 1.4 Environment effects that cause poison 2 Notes

[edit] Related skills

[edit] Skills that cause poison

• Apply Poison
• Poison Arrow (elite)
• Poisonous Bite
• Poison Tip Signet
• Viper's Nest
• Chilblains - on self
• Envenom Enchantments - for any other enchantments
• Poisoned Heart
• Death Nova - on death of ally
• Fetid Ground - if target is knocked down
• Necrotic Traversal
• Toxic Chill (elite) - if target is hexed or enchanted
• Virulence (elite) - target must already have a condition
• Black Spider Strike - if target foe is hexed
• Falling Spider - if target is knocked down
• Entangling Asp
• Viper's Defense

[edit] Skills that enhance poison

• Toxicity
• Seeping Wound (elite)

[edit] Skills that require poison

• Signet of Toxic Shock

[edit] Environment effects that cause poison

• Poison Spout
• Poison Jet
• Poison Dart
• Some areas contain swamps where a player may be afflicted by poison by passing through it after a short time. The explorable area The Black Curtain, and the mission D'Alessio Seaboard are two examples. Other places such as North Kryta Province have swamps, but do not inflict poison.

[edit] Notes

• Poison is a condition that causes 4 pips of health degeneration on a character. The visual indication of poison is a revolving ring of green mist around a character's waist. The health bar for the affected character also turns pale green.
• Poison only affects fleshy creatures.
• Poisonous weapon upgrades lengthen the duration of poison by 33%.
• A Rune of Purity or the Inscription "Pure of Heart" can be used to reduce poison duration by 20%.
• List of condition removal skills

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Conditions
Bleeding • Blind • Burning • Cracked Armor • Crippled • Dazed • Deep Wound • Disease • Poison • Weakness