How do you run the legendary venom sword?

[Hellhounfd3223]

I honestly don't get how you would realistically make this sword work. Anyone get a build working for it? Even just being able to choose items at will I can't think of a combination that would work here.....

[LHGreen]

I think it used to do double your poison, but the idea is the same. Poison yourself as much as possible through various means, use it, then heal the poison with a swamp buckler or potion.

[Hellhounfd3223]

Originally posted by LHGreen:

I think it used to do double your poison, but the idea is the same. Poison yourself as much as possible through various means, use it, then heal the poison with a swamp buckler or potion.

Yes that's how it works. The question is how are you going to create much less stack the poison necessary to do the 20-50 damage necessary to clear a game. Even if you have infinite poison clear capability this isnt straightforward. Poison ivy only is an initial poison amount....milk is barely anything...wetstones barely anything....the only real source I can think of is the vampire axe....and vamp axe is already getting builttup to do 20-40 damage pretty easily. You can literally beat the game without any leveling up with just the vampire axe.

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by Hellhounfd3223:

Originally posted by LHGreen:

I think it used to do double your poison, but the idea is the same. Poison yourself as much as possible through various means, use it, then heal the poison with a swamp buckler or potion.

Yes that's how it works. The question is how are you going to create much less stack the poison necessary to do the 20-50 damage necessary to clear a game. Even if you have infinite poison clear capability this isnt straightforward. Poison ivy only is an initial poison amount....milk is barely anything...wetstones barely anything....the only real source I can think of is the vampire axe....and vamp axe is already getting builttup to do 20-40 damage pretty easily. You can literally beat the game without any leveling up with just the vampire axe.

Yeah, well, it's a not-very-well-thought-out weapon in a game that's absolutely filled with not-very-well-thought-out items. And poison itself isn't a good idea to include as a status condition for players in a game where limited healing options are the whole point. That's why, for example, Slay the Spire allows YOU to use poison, but not the enemies. There was a lot of stupid involved in some of these decisions, and the attempts at balancing the game tend to range from terrible to non-existent, with some occasional good ideas thrown in.

Anyway, that weapon SHOULD be awesome, but it has almost nothing to support it, so it usually ends up being more trouble than it's worth. Like many other really cool items you'd like to construct a build around. It may work better on some characters than others, though.

[jackfraust23]

it got nerfed into the ground ages ago. It's pretty much useless