QUOTE(Estarra @ Aug 14 2005, 02:05 AM)
All these suggestions are good if it wasn't for the fact that warriors were never meant to be the archetype to be the major poison users (read what you want into that--I'll say no more on the subject).
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Dear gods, I just transferred my artifact runes!
Oh, that was EVIL. 
I want evade 
QUOTE(Murphy @ Aug 14 2005, 04:04 PM)
hmm, i would come back full time if we got a snake type class where we could stack afflictions ETC.
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You are only complaining because you kill 90% of Lusternia before you even start stacking afflictions.
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Okay, I've been thinking about this quite a bit, and it is true that the Poisons skillset is lacking the sort of combat edge that you would get from being skilled in venoms and that sort of expertise. Here are a few basic ideas that could balance things out.
MASTERENVENOM
Knowing the edge of your weapons and the optimal application for your venoms, you can envenom weapons with greater effect than a person unskilled in your art. (not much of an increase, just to 60 or 65 percent)
LETHALDOSAGE
Extract a venom in greater concentration than normal. (Basically, it consumes the entire gland to produce a single application's worth of venom which will always transfer on contact and is harder to cure, perhaps taking up to three or four regular cures to fully go away, or just allheale. Syntax to the extent of APPLY LD CHARYBDON SCIMITAR, from a seperate vial)
MURMUR (transcendant skill)
You have studied poisons long enough to know every physiological effect they can have upon an victim. By mimicking or producing these sensations within your victim you can cause them to relapse into the venom's effects. (This would be a sort of chant, wherby you cause the target to randomly relapse into an afflicion that they had suffered some time in the last few minutes. It would run off of balance and charisma, and perhaps replace Anerod for relapse. I don't know whether these murmured afflictions would be cured in the regular way, or perhaps all be treated as a mental affliction)
I think that between these three skills, warriors, merchants and casters could all benefit to their own ability, and poisons could develop as a more combat oriented skillset.
MASTERENVENOM
Knowing the edge of your weapons and the optimal application for your venoms, you can envenom weapons with greater effect than a person unskilled in your art. (not much of an increase, just to 60 or 65 percent)
LETHALDOSAGE
Extract a venom in greater concentration than normal. (Basically, it consumes the entire gland to produce a single application's worth of venom which will always transfer on contact and is harder to cure, perhaps taking up to three or four regular cures to fully go away, or just allheale. Syntax to the extent of APPLY LD CHARYBDON SCIMITAR, from a seperate vial)
MURMUR (transcendant skill)
You have studied poisons long enough to know every physiological effect they can have upon an victim. By mimicking or producing these sensations within your victim you can cause them to relapse into the venom's effects. (This would be a sort of chant, wherby you cause the target to randomly relapse into an afflicion that they had suffered some time in the last few minutes. It would run off of balance and charisma, and perhaps replace Anerod for relapse. I don't know whether these murmured afflictions would be cured in the regular way, or perhaps all be treated as a mental affliction)
I think that between these three skills, warriors, merchants and casters could all benefit to their own ability, and poisons could develop as a more combat oriented skillset.
And that, my friends, is something I thought up many a year ago. When I was still a poisonist. Yah. Really long ago.
