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Subconscious Registered user Adventurer of the Human Mind Last page view: 5398 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes and 16 seconds ago. |
Ehh. Just lost promising lvl 11 dwarven assassin with nice heap of daggers&knives with various prefixes and suffixes. Just one of those little bees did its 'kamikaze' attack and I died afterwards from around 30 hp to -2 in single turn, and what pisses me off is that he had poison resistance! So! Is there really a quaranteed amount of damage while poisoned, I mean the damage interval is pretty random and so does the damage. Sometimes its like every 5 turns and does only about 2-5 dmg and so... WTF!? more than 30 dmg from poisoning and having poison resistance! /edit forgot to say that it was I who died on poison (not the bee) :D "The white baby dragon equips the small shield." WTF :D [Edited 1 time, last edit on 2/22/2008 at 10:34 (GMT -5) by Subconscious] |
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Maelstrom Registered user The Knight of the Black Rose Last page view: 3124 days, 8 hours, 13 minutes and 42 seconds ago. |
Poison comes in various degrees. From ~60 to 1-2. I don't think poison resistance lowers damage, just speeds up recovering from poison, which means each time you get less damage, since you're poisoned less. So a death ooze poison will still deal a lot of damage at first. A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees a light at the end of that tunnel. A realist sees a train. And the train driver sees three idiots on the tracks. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4246 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 30 seconds ago. |
Poison resistance can reduce the damage, and more importantly improves recovery. But if you get a lot of poisoning hits they all stack, and some creaures have stronger poisoning attacks than others, so a swarm of bees or a quickling queen can cause even the most resistant character to be very quickly drained of HP. In those circumstances it's best to use a potion of cure poison to instantly relieve yourself, rather than relying on the resistance. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4075 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
And remember to use Slow Poison instead of Neutralize Poison if you're that heavily poisoned. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4904 days, 15 hours, 1 minute and 26 seconds ago. |
After reading the OP, the only explaination I can think of, is that you were doomed and didn't know it. Or maybe you were in the SMC, but even then, it shouldn't have been THAT bad. Since this is in the non-spoiler forum, I am not sure wether to sensor this or not. I will tag it, just in case, but I don't think it's spoily. Just a bit of advice on handling early game sever poisoning. Which you probably already know anyway. Spoiler The frequency that your PC recieves damage from poison, is determined in large part, by HOW poisoned you are. A mild poisoning will inflict small damage, perhaps every 7 turns, occuring less frequently as time passes. A severe poison will inflict more damage, perhaps every turn. If mildly poisoned, just wait it out. If severely poisoned, you can pray for healing of HP's, and for healing of poison. Remember though, the poison healing will not occur, if you are missing even a SINGLE HP. For this reason, you must not pray as soon as you are severely poisoned. Doing this will cause you to be healed a bit, but leave you with severe poisoning. It is possible (probable) that right after you pray, you will suffer a HP loss. Thus ruining your chance for a devine poison healing, if you only have two prayers available. For severe poisoning, wait as long as you can, before praying. You will have a good idea of how close to cut it, based on how much damage is being inflicted each turn. Wait for the damage to happen, THEN pray two times consecutively. This will heal HP's and remove poisoning. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Ancient_pink_dragon Registered user So I was talking to a dark elf Last page view: 5715 days, 5 hours, 1 minute and 56 seconds ago. |
The best advice for not getting poisoned. Bring a missle weapon, and always keep an eye out for a quick escape. You attack the Ancient pink dragon with all of your force, but do not mange to harm it! The Ancient Pink Dragon breaths a deathray, poision, fire, acid, ice, lightning, water, corruption, missle, petrefication, and stun breath at you. All of your equipment is torn apart! You die... ####################################### ..-------------------------------D%$[(% ####################################### Robojesus_gintfrg St99 Le99 Wi99 Dx99 To99 Ch99 A99 Ma99 Pe99 L++ Dv/Pv 1500/1500 H -5843(18857) P 99999 (99999) Exp50/48320283474958492 ID:48374 Spd:5833 Blessed Invisible Bloated |
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Nightmare Registered user Soul Calibur 2 Last page view: 4606 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
Alrunia herbs also work for this, even if they are cursed. Lacking those or potions of cure poison, using first aid immediately after taking poison damage can give you back some or all of the HP you lost, and train the first aid skill. Which is a great thing, because for a lot of characters, first aid goes up very very slowly. Another thing, if you have regenration gear (necklace, rings, bracers, crown, artifacts) put it all on, the HP gain can potentially negate the poison damage. "As for me, I feel priveleged to be among the only species able to make scientific inquiries." -unknown "Be sure to keep your distance if you don't have resistance." -DG |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4075 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
Usually you have five different incarnations of poison removal before your get your hands on even a single ring of regeneration. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Subconscious Registered user Adventurer of the Human Mind Last page view: 5398 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes and 16 seconds ago. |
It can be that its the poison stacking issue that led to that mad amount of damage. It was on D:4 so it wasnt in bad danger level, relying on poison resistance I went and kicked that bee hive trying to generate more bee wax as it should do - got swarmed by like dozen of bee warriors. Fought them well and ascended back to Arena level (D:3) to freeze bee generation, and then just died... In one turn. Well I had several herbs with me but usually im not using them before I have identified them (I had no herbalism). "The white baby dragon equips the small shield." WTF :D |
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Doalag Registered user Last page view: 5857 days, 15 hours, 11 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
Multiple bee stings can be very dangerous, ok you saw only one. Is there really only one level of poison resistance/immunity. I got the feeling there was more than one but I have no evidence. |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4075 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
There is the intrinsic, and you can get additional poison resistance from some artifacts or (I believe) whips of the snake. Assassins become immune to poison late in the game. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Nightmare Registered user Soul Calibur 2 Last page view: 4606 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
I've had a bunch of characters die to poison. The nastiest way, is with a great new character who walks through the dungeon and steps on a hidden pit trap. Then about 5 pit vipers pop out and immediately start attacking you. Their poison is very deadly, and multiple hits all but assure your demise, even if you have two prayers Another bad way to go is getting overconfident with those bee hives or just a rattlesnake or cobra when you're hurt. Stone Oozes usually show up later in the game and deep in the CoC, by that point you have many options for taking them out. "As for me, I feel priveleged to be among the only species able to make scientific inquiries." -unknown "Be sure to keep your distance if you don't have resistance." -DG |
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Subconscious Registered user Adventurer of the Human Mind Last page view: 5398 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes and 16 seconds ago. |
Aaaahh. I hate pitvipers, they are like instant death sentence to your character. I have had many many many potential-looking characters die to them early. Even on like exp lvl 10. Main reason why I love detect traps so much. Silfir, nice title. Hehe :) "The white baby dragon equips the small shield." WTF :D |
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Ancient_pink_dragon Registered user So I was talking to a dark elf Last page view: 5715 days, 5 hours, 1 minute and 56 seconds ago. |
Agh, pitvipers. Hate'em. Poison is always nasty for new characters. You attack the Ancient pink dragon with all of your force, but do not mange to harm it! The Ancient Pink Dragon breaths a deathray, poision, fire, acid, ice, lightning, water, corruption, missle, petrefication, and stun breath at you. All of your equipment is torn apart! You die... ####################################### ..-------------------------------D%$[(% ####################################### Robojesus_gintfrg St99 Le99 Wi99 Dx99 To99 Ch99 A99 Ma99 Pe99 L++ Dv/Pv 1500/1500 H -5843(18857) P 99999 (99999) Exp50/48320283474958492 ID:48374 Spd:5833 Blessed Invisible Bloated |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4075 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
Without those two starting prayers, early game survival for most characters would be at least twice as difficult. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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vogonpoet Registered user Last page view: 4963 days, 20 hours, 15 minutes and 14 seconds ago. |
Bring me the poison! You got the poison? I got the rememdy! I got the pulsating rhythmical remedy! sorry, there was just no way I could resist that |
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Nightmare Registered user Soul Calibur 2 Last page view: 4606 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
well, you are a poet "the remedy, is the experience" "As for me, I feel priveleged to be among the only species able to make scientific inquiries." -unknown "Be sure to keep your distance if you don't have resistance." -DG |
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Molach Registered user Lord of DurisMud Last page view: 5148 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes and 53 seconds ago. |
Or rather, Prodigy is. |
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vogonpoet Registered user Last page view: 4963 days, 20 hours, 15 minutes and 14 seconds ago. |
There we go. My wizards are also twisted firestarters. |