Acrid poison scales off PLAYER health

[Krueger]

I need to get home to confirm this but Ive noticed everyone being super confused about the poison damage scaling and tooltip.

If I understand correctly this is because the 10% max health damage of the poison is based on 10% of player health NOT enemy health.

This means if you want to buff poison damage, stack hp.

Youre welcome.

EDIT:

This has been solidly debunked. Well done me for spreading lies 😅

Originally posted by QoLMods:

My findings so far:
- The poison damage is visually bugged, the green number you see is the minimum poison tick damage that scale with your level up to 10% of the target's max HP, the poison damage ticks should vary against different HP values and it DOES but not visually. Only 1 target I found where the poison numbers ticks correctly..the bazaar dude.
- Because the minimum damage cap, weak enemies can be damaged higher than 10% of their max HP.
- Poison does 10% of the target max HP damage over 10 seconds (30 ticks), you can kill any boss in the game if you applied poison 10 times(in 100 seconds), so yes poison is extremely powerful actually...
- Poison doesn't proc, crit, kill or scale with any item except 1.........Shaped Glass! >.> (1 glass = 20% of max HP..etc)
- Poison doesn't stacks in term of damage (intensity) or duration, new application of poison merely overwrite the old one, so it will always last 10 secs.

This seems to be some solid information for now. Will test later myself.

[Derpykat5]

I belive this is incorrect. It seems to be a bit broken or weird at the moment, but it definitely scales off of enemy HP. Try poisioning the newt in the bazaar and each tick will hit for more than your max health.

[BigMcLargeHuge]

from the update post it says 10% of enemy hp
so obviously as the enemy HP scales so does the damage done.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by derpykat5:

I belive this is incorrect. It seems to be a bit broken or weird at the moment, but it definitely scales off of enemy HP. Try poisioning the newt in the bazaar and each tick will hit for more than your max health.

A wisp ticked for 18
A Golem ticked for 18
A Greater wisp ticked for 18

[Derpykat5]

Originally posted by Lunacy:

Originally posted by derpykat5:

I belive this is incorrect. It seems to be a bit broken or weird at the moment, but it definitely scales off of enemy HP. Try poisioning the newt in the bazaar and each tick will hit for more than your max health.

A wisp ticked for 18
A Golem ticked for 18
A Greater wisp ticked for 18

Maybe the damage is unaffected, but the time is scaled? If so, that would make it a really terrible ability, but that's not the case since while those guys tick for 18, the bazaar newt ticks for 1080.

[빈빈]

Its the enemies HP! Stop spreading rumours.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by derpykat5:

Originally posted by Lunacy:

A wisp ticked for 18
A Golem ticked for 18
A Greater wisp ticked for 18

Maybe the damage is unaffected, but the time is scaled? If so, that would make it a really terrible ability, but that's not the case since while those guys tick for 18, the bazaar newt ticks for 1080.

That could make sense, that's how Gasoline works. Says it deals more damage but is really just a longer DoT with the same base damage per second.
Though it does way more than 100% of the weak enemy health in a couple of seconds in most cases.

[Krueger]

Originally posted by derpykat5:

Originally posted by Lunacy:

A wisp ticked for 18
A Golem ticked for 18
A Greater wisp ticked for 18

Maybe the damage is unaffected, but the time is scaled? If so, that would make it a really terrible ability, but that's not the case since while those guys tick for 18, the bazaar newt ticks for 1080.

Well damn I thought I had it 😂

From that description it just sounds super buggy... theres no logical way it can be working right with those numbers.

[Kupo Nut]

My findings so far:
- The poison damage is visually bugged, the green number you see is the minimum poison tick damage that scale with your level up to 10% of the target's max HP, the poison damage ticks should vary against different HP values and it DOES but not visually. Only 1 target I found where the poison numbers ticks correctly..the bazaar dude.
- Because the minimum damage cap, weak enemies can be damaged higher than 10% of their max HP.
- Poison does 10% of the target max HP damage over 10 seconds (30 ticks), you can kill any boss in the game if you applied poison 10 times(in 100 seconds), so yes poison is extremely powerful actually...
- Poison doesn't proc, crit, kill or scale with any item except 1.........Shaped Glass! >.> (1 glass = 20% of max HP..etc)
- Poison doesn't stacks in term of damage (intensity) or duration, new application of poison merely overwrite the old one, so it will always last 10 secs.

[Krueger]

Quick downvote this thread!

[Thom]

It also unambiguously says in the tooltip that it deals 10% of *their* health. And Acrid's description says he "uses powerful poisons to melt tanky enemies".

I noticed there is some difference between targets (like 9 vs 10), maybe because of armor? But since it deals almost identical damage to most targets (bosses, elites, squishy and durable normal enemies) despite massive health differences, it's apparently simply bugged.

[Lunacy]

Bosses seem to melt pretty fast, it could just be a visual bug?

[Kyo]

poison scales with focus crystal as well, just need to be in range

[Tartared Turtle]

Originally posted by Lunacy:

Originally posted by derpykat5:

I belive this is incorrect. It seems to be a bit broken or weird at the moment, but it definitely scales off of enemy HP. Try poisioning the newt in the bazaar and each tick will hit for more than your max health.

A wisp ticked for 18
A Golem ticked for 18
A Greater wisp ticked for 18

This is a visual bug. The damage is right but doesn't show the right amount.

[Kupo Nut]

Originally posted by Kyoski:

poison scales with focus crystal as well, just need to be in range

Good find, just tested it , bazaar dude damage changed from 225 to 258 in close range (you have to be close the entire duration to take effect).

[Kupo Nut]

Originally posted by Krueger:

Quick downvote this thread!

lol it's ok, my findings are not 100%..there is still some weirdness with scaling, numbers are a bit off

Edit:
Apparently, poison damage is now fixed and show different amount between targets:
- Poison is affected by Armor (tested with natural toxins)
- Stacks with Armor-Piercing Rounds, 3 items so far affect poison damage + Armor reduction