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question about poison tick damage and -res/+psn dam

FerociousTerrier · 2026-07-14T05:48:10-07:00

Trying to understand how poison damage gets calculated, re: equipment that reduces poison resistances and increases poison skill damage. For example, when bi…

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ShadowHeart `6380`Moderator

23 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

You can make

Rabies work, but yeah, if you actually want the poison to kill things for you, you kinda need to play solo, with as few minions as possible, and utilize a hit-and-run tactic (just focusing on spreading it and then letting the poison do its thing). It might be fun? I haven't actually properly tried (I have only tried

Rabies briefly, but not with all the bells and whistles in terms of gear).

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ipatrishkov `153`

20 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

I myself am planning to build a

Poison Dagger necro. So yeah, poison, although not as efficient as other damage sources, has its appeal. You just have to live with the thought that you are not godlike all powerfull and have to run more. So don't give up

dionisy_cn `84`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

FerociousTerrier wrote: 1 day ago
Things I am just learning:

https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/ind ... ill_Damage

https://maxroll.gg/d2/resources/poison-damage

Poison damage from multiple sources is very complicated.

I'm also leanring that Venom from Grief or Treachery can do strange things to poison skills and potentially overwrite an ongoing poisoning. SMH. My plan was
Rabies/Fury druid swapping to Grief/Facet shield after Bite, but Grief (and barb Merc was going to have Grief + Plague, too) might overwrite the
Rabies...

You will end up running with just Grief occasionally biting enemies with

Rabies.

SizzleZap `6`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

FerociousTerrier wrote: 23 hours ago

ganseng wrote: 1 day ago
not sure what is more terrible - the bug itself or the fact it hasn't been fixed since 25 years..

vued wrote: 1 day ago

Yep. If non-poison non-open-wounds damage is dealt, poison is interrupted for 8 frames (online). That means Emilio's stabbing and his frost aura reduce your poison damage.

Very disappointed with what I've learned over the past 24hr. I picked druid as my second D2R char for
Rabies. At least I like Fury, and I'm brainstorming a potential Fire Bear build instead.

Give it a go anyway ... making new builds and trying out ideas to see how far you can take them is a large part of the fun with near infinite replay options. I like playing my L80

Werewolf / Summon hybrid with Obedience even though that is hardly optimal for anything ... something about running around as a wolf with a pack of wolves following me around is just fun!

vued `1511`

40 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

SizzleZap wrote: 1 hour ago

FerociousTerrier wrote: 23 hours ago

ganseng wrote: 1 day ago
not sure what is more terrible - the bug itself or the fact it hasn't been fixed since 25 years..

Very disappointed with what I've learned over the past 24hr. I picked druid as my second D2R char for
Rabies. At least I like Fury, and I'm brainstorming a potential Fire Bear build instead.
Give it a go anyway ... making new builds and trying out ideas to see how far you can take them is a large part of the fun with near infinite replay options. I like playing my L80
Werewolf / Summon hybrid with Obedience even though that is hardly optimal for anything ... something about running around as a wolf with a pack of wolves following me around is just fun!

I so agree!

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