Am I the only one who finds poison incredibly weak?

[Goynus™]

Even using builds where I get the poison dart towers for 5 gold a piece it still isn't worth getting. I do much more damage with basic towers or cannon towers. Same with the 1x2 towers that spill poison, the only time those seem good aswell is paired with the 10% damage boost perk and even then you should only really have like one in your maze to get it. Maybe I'm playing wrong? IDK.

A lot of the towers seem weak imo though in general, like the electric towers and the drone seem not super great either. Not super weak like the poison stuff but just underwhelming.

Almost every build I do it seems like you get far better success just running cannon earthquake, with a few ice missile launchers. Any tips? Should I setup my maze a certain way to better utilize the other towers?

[Pipmalice / 悪気ピップ]

Poison on its own can have the problem where you're dumping dps into things that are already dead , specially if everything is on most progressed priority. So does take some planning into account and sometimes switching priority.

Dart and the 1x3 spray tower are both decently strong on their own. But where poison really shines is in the relics. It has some of the best relics in the game which makes it go insane. Specially when taking the sacred flame poison tends to be one of the best things you can have due to the sheer amount of relics you see. (Aside from missile tower due to how silly its scaling is with 10% damage increase counting as a 33% damage increase due to things being rounded up)

But on beating heroic on every character poison was probably amongst my most used things. (Generally by the time i pick up decimate tower i already have a winning set up as its too expensive to pick early so havn't been able to give it a fair test)

[Lionbreaker08]

I'm honestly surprised no one has really mentioned Fire Venom, All my Heroic Wins have been carried by Fire Venom + Fireball tower/Sniper/Fire upgraded Missiles + Poison Gates with sprinkler.

[MrAIWA77]

https://ibb.co/T4FjZR3 Das ist das beste was Ich mit Gift schaffe
Es ist zwar nicht nur Gift aber dafür hat es am meisten schaden gemacht
ich hab auch einige versuche gebraucht um ehrlich zu sein xD

MFG AIWA

[NMP]

Poison's power is alright. You can win with poison alone on heroic sacred fire, with no poison relics on the default character. As mentioned by others it is a bit tricky because you will overkill stuff, but darts are quite good for 10 gold. Not sue about the poison gate tower, seems ok too and fills an important role in poison archetype, but feels less strong than the other two. Decimator timing (you need to wait until you start having a lot of enemies and a long path, otherwise darts are just better) and targeting is tricky too, but it is very strong as well as long range AOE.

The towers mentioned (canon, earthquake, icicle) are among the strongest and more importantly most straightforward, so poison being slightly trickier to play isn't really an indication it's too weak. Lightning ball towers also need a bit of planning, but they are really good too (and fun!).

Overall I don't see major issues with tower balance, with the exception of basic tower maybe, and scrap. But it's kind of the point of these to be weak. Maybe there is a case to be made about hammer being in a weird spot also : very weak on their own, completely busted with enough speedup (try out electric hammer with 4 greater speed runes). But none of that matters too much, the game is still at an early stage and I think there are more interesting things to do than tweaking balance.

[日凵呂丹廾丹尺凵]

The plant is poison too and its good for big monster

[Evelo]

Just won my first Bone Desert + Sacred Fire + Hard Mode because of Poison. They have a lot of front end damage, so having a large track to allow time for the poison to trickle enemies down is the strategy.

[Leanna]

Poison weak? XD
I don't know what you are doing but my best run was with poison dart towers as well as the showers with icicle towers at the back for their effect.

Like, it was extremely stupid, there was no difficulty at all, so I don't know what you are doing to think poison is weak.

I had the relic that adds chill to all poison sources, later on the run I got the relic that makes chill'd enemies explode and spread chill, setting dart towers to highest HP was also huge.