Very confused about the relation between Intelligence and Poison Damage. Please Help!

[Sakura]

<p>Hi I've heard that Intelligence affects Poison Damage alot but so far I asked how does it affect, nobody knows or they dont reply. As far as I know, Poisons are applied on your weapon and procs when you auto-attack your enemy, and poison damage depends on your poison that you apply on your weapon.</p><p>So why do people say that raising your intelligence affects your poison damage? I tried equipping + Intel items and yet do not see any increase in my poison damage. I'm very confused. Please help.</p>

[Dreadpatch]

Very simple, the higher your intelligence, the more damage your poison based procs and poisons themselves will do. equip an item that does poison damage, or apply poison to your weapon. Then put in intelligence items, you will see an increase in damage.

[Dreadpatch]

It fluctuates for me, sorry didn't see last part of post. What level are you? Maybe the diff in int isn't enough to take affect yet.

[b0nehead]

<p>Int does make a difference, but I'm not sure of the formula for level/amount etc. </p><p>I will say that it does take a lot to make a real difference though - I was messing around with stuff at level 80 and it was something like 26 Int = 12 points extra on caustic, 6 on vitality breach. Haven't played for a while so can't quite remember, but something like that. </p><p>As has been said though, I'm not sure if the ratio changes as you increase/decrease in Int, but hope this helps.</p>

[Sakura]

<p>I'm a level 62 Swash. I equipped a + 20 Int item and yet the poison damage stays at 204. I don't understand.</p><p>Anyways since I'm a bimbo in real life, I don't need intelligence for my swash too.</p>

[b0nehead]

<cite>Sakura wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I'm a level 62 Swash. I equipped a + 20 Int item and yet the poison damage stays at 204. I don't understand.</p><p>Anyways since I'm a bimbo in real life, I don't need intelligence for my swash too.</p></blockquote>The UI/Tooltip is a little slow catching up with changes like this - try equipping the Int item and then zoning, you should see the difference then