Help with Poison and Gu build

[PARADISE LOSTO]

I really like poison theme and want efficent build with it in this game. Can you help me out?

[No gf]

Status ailment aren't that good in the game right now. Kung fu that add stacks of poison, fire, and water are negligible, as they add so little stacks to your enemy the battle is usually over before the aliment stacks becomes large enough to hold any consequences.

Most of the status aliment stacks comes from equipment instead of kung fu. If you really want to stack poison on enemy simply wear equipments that give poison will do. There's no need to tunnel vision yourself with a specific kung fu punch move that gives 4 stacks of poison to your enemy, when your equipments can reliably gives like 30 stacks of poison per turn.

Spikes (return damage when getting hit) however is pretty good and it's a reliable build you can do. Even some NPC runs it and they're borderline impossible to beat without cheesing because even if you do anything right and beat them in the rock paper scissors game in combat you'll just get killed by yourself with returning damage.

That being said, there's a specific weapon that gives you the passive ability of adding 5 stacks of poison to your enemy per 100 damage you inflict during battle, and that's one way to cheese the game by killing people without suffering the murderer penalty.

[Trip]

I tried REALLY hard with a poison theme build and couldn't make it work. I got to where I was carrying about 40 poison ailments and could do a 400 damage skill for just 3 palms but it's a pain in the ass to carry that many poison ailments in your meridians.

I got to where I put hundreds of stacks of poison on an opponent, but could never leverage that into damage DURING the fight. It would just royalty mess them up after the fight.

[nDervish]

Originally posted by Trip:

I got to where I put hundreds of stacks of poison on an opponent, but could never leverage that into damage DURING the fight. It would just royalty mess them up after the fight.

Which, to be fair, is a great way to kill people without it being a crime or getting the "murderer" bad karma in your next life. Just beat them senseless, "show mercy", "teach them a lesson" (so they're left on low Vigor), and then watch as the 1500 stacks of poison gas you put on them do their work. "Oops. Not my fault..."

[FOXXOF]

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