After the stored coating’s trained Poisoning requirement is met, each effective Poisoning point adds 0.20 percentage points and each effective Taste Identification point adds 0.15. Each input stops at skill 100: 20% + 15% = 35% maximum. The hit never promotes its coating tier, so Deadly remains Deadly. Native Weapon Abilities are unavailable to player characters.
Poisoning
Combat · Skill guide
Applies poison through supported items and weapons and improves the Magery Poison spell.
MAX SKILL100
SKILL GROUPCombat
PVPSee rules
PVMYes
TRAININGSee route
How do I train this skill?
Recommended activities for Poisoning at each skill range.
View the training tableCoating a weapon is not the same as delivering its poison
Use Poisoning on a poison potion, then target an eligible weapon or food. The potion’s grade has its own application window. Greater Poison requires 60 Poisoning to attempt, and Deadly requires 95; Alchemy does not replace that check.
Using a stored weapon coating requires trained Poisoning: Lesser 30, Regular 50, Greater 80, Deadly or Lethal 100, even if someone else prepared it. These are separate from the coating-application checks. Below the requirement, physical damage still works without poison or charge loss. Eligible PvP delivery adds up to 20% from Poisoning and 15% from Taste Identification, for one roll capped at 35%; PvM keeps its separate chance curve. A charge is spent only when the poison is actually applied.
For Academy practice, the Rogue training kit provides a reusable practice poison and practice dagger. These are Academy-only training tools, not unlimited combat poison; normal potions outside the Academy are consumed by ordinary applications.
How It Works
Apply poison to suitable weapons or food and improve supported poison attacks. Poison harms over time after it is successfully delivered.
Skill summary, training and related paths
Power Scroll and cap information
Maximum skill: 100. This skill has no active Power Scroll. It cannot train beyond 100 under the current rules.
Understanding effective skill
Which value counts? These numbers use the effective skill: the value after applicable skill bonuses or penalties. This can differ from your trained base value. Bless changes your stats; it does not directly add trained skill points.
Stored weapon coatings require trained Poisoning 30 / 50 / 80 / 100 / 100 for Lesser / Regular / Greater / Deadly / Lethal. Once eligible, ordinary PvM delivery uses 25% + effective Poisoning / 4, reaching 50% at 100. Taste Identification adds exactly one level from skill 50, including Deadly to Lethal, and never adds +2.
Requirements
Coat an eligible item through the normal Poisoning check and meet its separate trained delivery threshold. Charges are spent only when poison is accepted. Alchemy does not modify later delivery.
How to use it, step by step
If a step says to use a skill, open your character window, choose Skills and use the button beside that skill. If it says to use a tool, double-click the tool in your backpack. Passive benefits work automatically.
- Carry a poison potion and a valid item to coat.
- Use Poisoning, select the poison and then the supported weapon or food.
- For a poisoned weapon, land a qualifying hit to attempt delivery. Watch its remaining poison charges.
- For the Magery Poison spell, cast close to the target for the strongest base poison: distance is checked when the spell resolves.
Poisonable weapons and exact rules
Which weapons can be poisoned?
Weapon coating uses an explicit Ironveil weapon-family policy. It does not depend on native Weapon Ability slots.
| Weapon family | Can be coated? | Examples and conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Two-handed swords | Yes | No-Dachi, Crescent Blade, Rune Blade, Vampiric No-Dachi and Crownheart Runeblade |
| Two-handed axes | Yes | Axe, Battle Axe, Double Axe, Executioner’s Axe, Large Battle Axe and Two-Handed Axe |
| Two-handed spears and polearms | Yes | Spear, Short Spear, Halberd, Bardiche and Stormpiercer Spear |
| Approved one-handed blades | Yes | Kryss, Nightglass Rapier, Dagger, Butcher Knife, Cleaver and Assassin Spike families |
| Approved paired and double blades | Yes | Rogue Twin Daggers, Dual Short Axes, Double Bladed Staff and Pike |
| Other one-handed weapons | No | A native ability slot does not make a weapon poisonable |
| Maces, hammers and staves | No | Worldbreaker Warhammer, Cinder Oath War Mace, Dawn Mace and Quarter Staff remain ineligible |
| Bows and crossbows | No | Includes Fire Bow; this change is for melee weapons |
Use the Poisoning skill, select a poison potion, then select the weapon. Coating takes 2 seconds and still requires the normal skill check. The wielder must separately meet the stored coating’s trained Poisoning requirement, even if another player prepared the weapon. Alchemy does not replace this requirement. Native Weapon Abilities, including Infectious Strike, are unavailable to player characters.
Trained Poisoning required to use a coating
| Stored coating | Minimum trained Poisoning |
|---|---|
| Lesser | 30 |
| Regular | 50 |
| Greater | 80 |
| Deadly | 100 |
| Lethal | 100 |
These are combat-use requirements, not the separate potion-application difficulty shown above. Below the requirement, your weapon still deals physical damage without applying poison or consuming charges. The check uses the stored coating before any PvM Taste Identification promotion. A failed proc or rejected poison also leaves charges unchanged.
What changes as your skill rises
Read the conditions above each table. A percentage may describe a chance, a damage component or a multiplier: those are different things. The other values stay fixed unless the table says otherwise.
What the skill affects: These numbers use the effective skill: the value after applicable skill bonuses or penalties. This can differ from your trained base value. Bless changes your stats; it does not directly add trained skill points.
Detailed formulas and comparison tables
Applying poison to a valid item
The item must be eligible. “Cannot attempt” means the potion is outside that grade’s application window. The chance is for coating, not the later combat proc.
| Effective Poisoning | Lesser 0–60 | Regular 30–70 | Greater 60–100 | Deadly 95–100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0% | Cannot attempt | Cannot attempt | Cannot attempt |
| 20 | 33.33% | Cannot attempt | Cannot attempt | Cannot attempt |
| 40 | 66.67% | 25% | Cannot attempt | Cannot attempt |
| 60 | 100% | 75% | 0% | Cannot attempt |
| 80 | 100% | 100% | 50% | Cannot attempt |
| 90 | 100% | 100% | 75% | Cannot attempt |
| 100 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Poisoned weapon proc after a valid hit
First meet the stored coating’s trained requirement: Lesser 30 / Regular 50 / Greater 80 / Deadly or Lethal 100. Values below assume that requirement is met, charges remain and the final poison can replace the current one. PvP = effective Poisoning × 0.20% + effective Taste Identification × 0.15%, each capped at 100. Charges are spent only on accepted application.
| Effective Poisoning | PvP · Taste 0 | PvP · Taste 100 | Against a creature |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–29.9 trained | Blocked | Blocked | Blocked |
| 30 | 6% | 21% | 32.5% |
| 40 | 8% | 23% | 35% |
| 50 | 10% | 25% | 37.5% |
| 60 | 12% | 27% | 40% |
| 80 | 16% | 31% | 45% |
| 90 | 18% | 33% | 47.5% |
| 100 | 20% | 35% | 50% |
Single-target Poison at Magery 100, close range
The spell succeeds, is not resisted, resolves within 2 tiles and Taste Identification is 0. Poison Field produces the same base levels at Magery 100 but has no distance or Taste Identification bonus.
| Effective Poisoning | Base poison |
|---|---|
| 0 | Lesser |
| 20 | Lesser |
| 40 | Regular |
| 60 | Regular |
| 80 | Greater |
| 90 | Greater |
| 100 | Deadly |
Single-target Poison at Magery 100 + Poisoning 100
The spell succeeds, the target does not resist and the target has no immunity or equal or stronger active poison. Distance is measured when the spell resolves. Taste Identification grants no PvP tier and at most one PvM tier.
| Distance from target | Base poison | Taste ID 100 vs player | Taste ID 100 vs creature |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–2 tiles | Deadly | Deadly | Lethal |
| More than 2 but less than 3 tiles | Greater | Greater | Deadly |
| 3+ tiles | Lesser | Lesser | Regular |
Standard poison damage over time
The first damage tick is immediate in PvP and PvM and is included in the listed tick count. Reapplying the same active poison level does not add another first tick. A successful Cure stops the remaining ticks and grants no temporary immunity. Values shown are after the built-in poison damage scale but before the target’s Poison Resistance. Each tick is calculated from the target’s current health and clamped to this range, so later ticks can fall as health falls.
| Poison level | Damage per tick | Damage ticks | Time between ticks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesser | 2–8 | 10 | 2.25 seconds |
| Regular | 4–9 | 10 | 3.25 seconds |
| Greater | 6–10 | 10 | 4.25 seconds |
| Deadly | 8–15 | 15 | 5.25 seconds |
| Lethal | 10–25 | 20 | 5.25 seconds |
The single-target Magery Poison spell combines contextual Magery with effective Poisoning. Poisoning 100 by itself does not determine the final level.
A successful cure ends the remaining ticks. Poison resistance reduces the damage that is actually lost, and immunity, spell resistance or an equal or stronger poison can prevent a new application.
PvP weapon hits preserve the coating tier, so Deadly remains Deadly. Against creatures, Taste Identification 50+ supplies the single allowed +1, including Deadly to Lethal. Native Weapon Abilities, including Infectious Strike, are unavailable to player characters.
Deadly Poison has a different item-application difficulty. Poison Field and signed Poison traps also use their own calculations; there is no universal “Poisoning 100 = 100% poison success” rule.
Examples in play
Easy examples
Coating is not the same as hitting
You successfully coat a suitable weapon. The enemy is not poisoned yet: you must attack and successfully deliver the poison through the weapon’s rules.
Deadly coating against a player
An ordinary poisoned hit keeps Deadly as Deadly. At Poisoning 100 and Taste Identification 0, delivery is 20%; at 100 in both skills it is 35%. The poison tier is not promoted.
Skills that work with it
Advanced notes
Things to remember
- Not every weapon accepts poison, and stronger poisons are harder to apply. The application table is separate from the combat delivery chance.
- Against players, Poisoning adds up to 20 percentage points and Taste Identification up to 15, for one roll capped at 35%. Stored coatings require trained Poisoning 30 / 50 / 80 / 100 / 100 for Lesser / Regular / Greater / Deadly / Lethal, even on a transferred weapon. Below the requirement, physical damage still works without poison or charge loss. The separate creature delivery curve remains.
- PvP weapon hits preserve their coating tier, so Deadly remains Deadly. Against creatures, Taste Identification 50 or higher adds exactly one level and can promote Deadly to Lethal; it never adds +2.
- The first Poison damage tick is immediate in PvP and PvM and is included in the normal tick count. Reapplying the same active level does not repeat the first tick. Charges are consumed only when poison is successfully applied. Later damage arrives in timed ticks. A cure ends the remaining ticks, while Poison Resistance lowers the damage actually taken.
- Lethal is harder to cure than Deadly. Open the Potions & Cures guide for the exact spell, potion and bandage chances.
- The target can resist the spell, be immune or already have an equal or stronger poison.
- Poison Field uses Magery and Poisoning, but it ignores casting distance and receives no Taste Identification bonus.
- Poisoning also neutralizes supported Poison-family traps; that is a separate use from coating a weapon.
Training and Skill Progression
TRAINING / SKILL PROGRESSION
One recommended activity for each skill range, with a short note on what you need.
Before you start: set Poisoning to Up and leave room under the shared 720-point total. Set an unwanted skill to Down if the total is full.
NPC training: when the trainer listed for this skill offers a lesson, the fixed price is 300 gold and the lesson can reach 50.0 if both the individual and total caps have room.
Training area: supported Academy actions receive 5× normal gain through 80.0. An action still needs to run a real skill check; the Academy bonus cannot make an automatic or blocked action train.
Recommended training
Repeat the single activity listed for your level. These are practical training choices; the ranges are recommendations, not new unlock requirements.
| Your skill | What to repeat | Quick note |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0–49.9 | Thief Guildmaster lesson | Optional NPC lesson; 300 gold when offered. |
| 50.0–59.9 | Apply Regular Poison | Apply it to an eligible target; check range 30–70. |
| 60.0–94.9 | Apply Greater Poison | Apply it to an eligible target; check range 60–100. |
| 95.0–100.0 | Apply Deadly Poison | Apply it to an eligible target; check range 95–145. |
Rules and numbers
Poison type, target and delivery method determine the result. Against players, ordinary poisoned-weapon delivery adds 0.20 percentage points per effective Poisoning point and 0.15 per effective Taste Identification point, with each skill capped at 100: maximum 35%. Stored coatings require trained Poisoning 30 / 50 / 80 / 100 / 100 for Lesser / Regular / Greater / Deadly / Lethal. Charges are spent only when poison is accepted. The hit never promotes the coating tier. Against creatures, the separate Poisoning delivery curve remains. Weapon coating eligibility is defined directly by Ironveil weapon families rather than native Weapon Ability slots.
Listed amounts describe the stated conditions. Equipment, target rules, damage, healing limits and other effects can change the final result. An example of a chance is never a promise of the same outcome on every attempt.