Poison is not in a good state

I think Poison need more Love from GGG


The idear is somewhat okay.

U Have to choose, Fast hitting attacks to stack poison ( Bowskills, Tree with +1 to poison stack )
Or u have to Hard hit and apply 1 Poison.

But my problem is the Version, where u only got 1 hit and must scale this hit.

1. U need very high Physical ( Early game Poison is no option with this version)
2. U need most effectivly a big hit with a crit
3. u need to break armour of the enemy, to scale a bigger Phys hit
4. u need Shock to higher the output of your crit, because enemys that are shocked take more ( double i think ) damage, that can scale the poison.
5. And than this hit must Poison / so 100% is needed.
60% support gem, 5 notables in the passive tree. the Rune from Ultimatum ( 10% Poison chance on hit ) cant be used, because u need 2 Physical runes.

With all these needs, its nearly impossible to get a viable Meeleskill to work as a poison version . For example

- Cold got the highest crit chance, i think
- So i use Glacial Cascade.
- Critical hits can always poison on Helmet ( unique ) means, no poison chance
needed, if u crit. So u are forced into take every power charge and Crit
chance note u get. And that are a lot.
- Than u must break armor - There is a skill gem, corossion - But can i put it
on Glacial cascade? - that means less Phys max dmg. so i need a second
source of armour break? maybe. So i take ice Strike that freezes enemys,
pushing my damage and crit chance against them, and start the Corossion. Or
vise versa .
- Than, when un invested 50 Skill points only for Max power charges and Crit
Chance, u need also shock chance... another 10 Skill points to get to these
notes. Just for another 100% effect chance. not that u always Shock btw.
- And when everything is working, and you poison with every hit, the poison just onyl do so much damage, that the hit on bosses do 30% of their max damage and the poison is still not notable and only stay for 2 seconds. Maybe 3 Seconds when u skill some posion duration.

Yeah i know, why should we play poison with meele or something like that. But its poe, we want to experiment. But without one of the Bow or Crossbowskills u cant play poison atm.
Its just better to use the 50 Skill points, that needed to get this to work, to play only 1 Version of Monk, and thats hybrid crit , all max elemental damage. So please consider some option

Give us higher Magnitude in the skilltree, when u only use 1 Poison
Poison must scale better of Phys/chaoshit. or a supportgem, that does this.
something like - "20% of ur Physical hit also apply to ur posion build up, when using this skill"
so u can directly scale the Phys to poison damage.
Last bumped on Dec 13, 2024, 5:26:41 PM

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