Implementing Poison in Stendhal: Difference between revisions

** I believe it should take time to coat a weapon with poison, similar to skills like fishing or mining coal. You would put a bottle of poison in one hand, and the melee weapon, ammunition, or missile in the other. "ApplyingYou are applying 'poison' to 'weapon'." would show in the chat log, and you wait 5 seconds, and "You have applied 'poison' to 'weapon." appears. - Richgar

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* Fast stabby weapons like daggers and arrows should have the highest chance of inflicting poison,. and thenThen swords and axes,. andClubs should have a thenlow clubschance. To apply the poison, it would be similar to the scroll eraser. You put the poison in one hand, and the weapon in the other, and wait 5 seconds for the poison to apply. The poison can last for a set duration after being applied, or it could last for a set amount of attacks. Since poison bottles in the game have no use other than quests... the values can be modified to make them more balanced for implementing the use of poison. - Richgar

* There should probably be changes to theThe current values of each poison should be balanced for them to be implemented into the game, for balance reasons. The current values of each poison, regen/total damage/frequency are:

! poison!! DamageRegen!! TotalDamageAmount!! Frequency

The weapon values are based on the weapon's penetration and the poison values are based on the approximate strength. Regular poison is ineffective on club type weapons and all poisons are most effective with daggers. DamageTaken is the damage the defender takes from the melee hit (taken). DefenderHP is the health of the defender before the hit (similar to tempHP). The second part in brackets represents a downward parabola. So if no damage is taken, i.e. miss or block, or if the enemy is killed in one strike, there is no chance of inflicting poison. The greatest chance of inflicting poison is by using a dagger with mega poison and inflicting a devastating wound that halves the enemy's hp. - Richgar