Venom Sword?

[Totes Fabulous]

Having a hard time understanding the benefit of the venom sword. To confirm, the sword does dmg based off the poison applied to you? Why would I want to poison myself? I know the vampiric axe poisons you...but without crazy high max hp, the average high dmg of the sword would be like....what 20 dmg (20 poison)? There are plenty of other weapons that aren't even Legendary that do more

[Liliy Shikimori]

Before they added the shield it used to cure you from poison as well. Pre pochette update it was really strong since you could put it on a pet and get +100 to poison every time it died. Now... yea, it really does not have a point. It has been updated into obsoletion.

suggestions?
I have a couple of ideas.
every time you take poison damage it adds the amount of damage you took to the blade for this combat.
or poison assassins blade. every time you take poison damage (limit once per combat) it permanently adds +1 damage and its now poison damage.

[LHGreen]

You can still use the Swamp Buckler to remove the poison, so using them together is best. You just stack poison onto yourself somehow, attack, then block. The flavor text should be moved to the Swamp Buckler, though, since it no longer applies to the Venom Sword.

[jackfraust23]

its a heavily nerfed weapon that's only good for gold now

[EnderFate]

Well let me show you what this one capable of (Take a look at my screenshot)

Just like the comment that said to use it with Swamp Buckler.
But if you play CR-8 like me and loop the power. Poison or not it doesn't matter,

The best part is poison can multiply = your damage scales up a lot