Does Poison Stack?

lnwlf

Diabloii.Net Member
Does Poison Stack?

I recently have created a poisonmancer, and I was a bit confused about how/if poison damage stacks.

Using Poison Nova, X1-X2 dmg over 2 seconds, I hit a target and it was affected by poison for two seconds. If I hit the same target with two shots only .5 seconds apart what happens? Someone told me that the time stacks (two seconds for each poison nova they are hit with), but that doesn't seem to be the case.

After hitting a death lord three times there should be 6 seconds of poison on him according to the previous mentality. But, from the last hit, he is poisoned for only two seconds.

So...what happened?
 

Hrus

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: Does Poison Stack?

If you hit a poisoned monster with the poison with the same or better damage/time ratio, the damage and duration will be reset.
For more info about poison effect, read this "Calculating poison damage" thread.
 

Aien

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: Does Poison Stack?

What a fantastic reference, I hadn't yet seen that. Thanks for the link.
 
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