Poison Skills

[Wallzak]

<p>I've always heard that, if dps is the goal, then raise STR for melee damage, and INT for poison damage (after Lyceum last night I noticed about 21% of my damage came from poison, the rest from desease, cold and heat which i'm assuming is coming from others in my group).</p><p>Besides Hemotoxin, where our poison DPS come from?  I"m looking for suggestions to raising the part of my DPS without hurting my melee.</p>

[Jayad]

Spell crits raise the damage from your poison you use (i.e. hemotoxin, caustic), not all poison damage.

[Wallzak]

<p>so just to confirm, hemotoxin/caustic is the only poison we used that crits and INT affect?</p>

[Jayad]

no, every poison you can use which *does damage* is considered a "spell". So are most procs, including our Mark line. They will all get the crit boost. However, if you use combat arts or such which happens to have poison damage *type*, it's not affected.