Poisoning

Coat one-handed blades in poison. Assassins and Rangers build on it.

Overview

Poisoning applies a potion to a weapon or food. Each hit then has a chance to deliver it.

What It Does

• Use the skill, pick a poison potion, then a one-handed slashing or piercing weapon or a piece of food. Windows: lesser 0 to 60, regular 30 to 70, greater 60 to 100, deadly 80 to 100. Each application costs 20 karma.
• A weapon gets 18 minus 2 per poison level charges. Every hit uses one and delivers the poison 50% of the time.
• Below 80 skill a failed application can poison you.

On Perilous Legends

• Poisoning is one of the eight pet skills on affinity books and pet power scrolls.

Classes That Use It

Assassin: Venomancer +2 Poisoning per level; Venom can raise an existing poison a level per hit; Assassinate delivers lethal poison from stealth. Ranger: Poisoned Arrows use your Poisoning to set the level: 90 deadly, 65 greater, 40 regular, otherwise lesser.

Training It

Apply poison to weapons. Thieves teach it.