Example of what I mean
Let’s say I’m playing a Novamancer, and i repeatedly cast Poison Nova, does the damage stack?
Poison damage is a little complex but in short poison damage from any source will never stack…
https://maxroll.gg/d2/resources/poison-damage
Good read…
Which should have been fixed a long time ago.
Poison damage should be additive, because it struggles too much as is already, with being nullified by mercs and skeletons et cetera.
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Poison damage does need to be adjusted somehow but it is a scary balancing game since if they stack, I would imagine pnova would be then become quite OP and any PvP char with a bunch of PDSCs would also get a silly huge boost in damage. If the game could at least guarantee highest damage poison overrides any other sources that would be a good start but with how poison damage is coded I’m not sure it will ever be something the current devs will mess with.
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I have to admit that even though i played for several years i never bothered to read up on poison and how it works. I just settled for “it sucks except for early levels with the potions, stopping regeneration and in pits on a necromancer.”
Why did people use to have inventorys full of poison charms? Are those an exception where poison stacks?
Edit: Read that maxroll and i understand the words meaning and all, but i just can’t follow the explanation at all. I am dumb
First off PNova as it currently stands does not suck. May not be S/S+ tier but Trangs nec is very viable and having full end game gear makes pnova a+ tier which is quite acceptable… Even rabies druid with the proper gear has some decent power too. Both strong SSF builds too. Poison jav iirc got buffed in d2r but I haven’t gotten around to testing a new build. Venom on a wwsin is also quite strong…
Full inventory of PDSCs is a PvP thing especially during classic d2 heyday but I’ve seen some since d2r released, mainly bowazons trying to be cancer…one hit, run away until you drop to 1 and then finish you off…