Is toxic supposed to stack?

[Caridor]

So I got a couple of bits of gear.

One of them blows enemies up for every STACK of toxin/burning/bleed on them and the other explicitly states it adds +2 stacks of toxin every time you apply the effect. (Anatomist's amulet, bought from the Liege on Footfall)

So I give Heinrick two drukari blades, dual weapon fighting and head off only to find it doesn't stack. I can slash at a thing all day and believe me, he gets enough stacks of corpus whatever and enough healing from his own abilities to slash at things all day, but it doesn't add any further stacks. You get one from his passive that applies a special, separate kind of toxic and one from the sword but nothing.

Is this intended or a known bug?

[tempest.of.emptiness]

So many things are broken it is hard to know what is intended sometimes. I was thinking that maybe when you get an effect that does X toxic damage per turn, that maybe the game was calling that X "stacks" of toxic damage, and maybe something that adds 2 stacks of toxic damage would change it so that the effect was doing "x+2" damage per turn.

I haven't been able to confirm that, and it could be completely wrong. It's just the only thing I could think of that would make some sense of the odd wording on items like the ones you're talking about.

[Morgian]

I am not sure, but can you even have multiple stacks of the same affliction? I cannot remember offhand having more than one burning or poison on me.
I suspect it is a weak item by design since it is found on such a low tier. Might also be a leftover from the beta which could use a better description. I suspect it merely increases the difficulty of the resistance check at the beginning of each turn.

[Vesemir]

toxic people are stacked on these forums