I have a WW SIN. I am currently using 10x 313 psn damage over 11 seconds sc. My WW does 6562-7177 without venom. However, when venom is activited my damage lowers to 4948-5627. How is this possible?
Never played a WW Sin but I remember that the poison damage from items gets calculated down to 40%.
Found a thread for it:
https://www.diabloii.net/forums/threads/why-my-dmg-goes-down-when-venon.174834/
https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Venom_(skill)
venom’s length is hardcoded to 0.4. unfortunately it has the byproduct of affecting item poison sources too, reducing their lengths to 0.4 as well. poison damage actually works by bitrate (a set amount of damage every tick). venom ruins this because when combining poison sources, the length is often extended, and the total damage dealt is divided over its length (per frame). then the length that would normally be like 5-10 seconds is set to 0.4 seconds, effectively removing most of the poison damage. the character screen shows some poison damage loss, but its not even close to how much you’ve actually lost.
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