source taken from UO U.Hall on Stratics



This was just on the 5 on Friday ... and it's a FALSE STATMENT.. unless they changed it in the past week.

I put 100 poison on a 120 archer ... did tests w/ using poison on an archer using serpents arrow... and it's always the same lvl poison with GM or ZERO poison skill... and it never gets harder to cure.

Maybe take a look at the serpents arrow.. do some tests... because yeah it does not effect a thing.

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Jeremy_EAMythic UO Community Coordinator

Ok, having looked at the code with Leurocian, unless there's some wacky bug we aren't seeing, poisoning has an effect both on your chance to poison and the level of the poison. The thing is, both the chance and the level have randomness associated with them, so it's entirely possible for a maxed-out char and a 0 poisoning char to roll the same poison level.

What it does is change the maximum poisoning level possible - so a 0 poisoning character will NEVER hit with level 5 poison, while a GM MIGHT.


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Weird.. because I have GM poison on soulstone... i removed fencing 120 .. put on a soulstone.. put 120 archery on... it HAS to be some different code...

Maybe it's the difference of having DP on your kryss compaired to just using a move to do your poison... dont know if that's the reason.. but you can't hit as high lvl of poison on a bow as you do w/ a bladed weapon.

Or as often... get ZERO poison and you hit just as good poison hits on someone as you would w/ GM poison ... and you can cure w/o fail ... I shot someone w/ quite a few Poison shots.. each was cured the first time.... when compairing bow to weapon .. might as well not have 100.00 points in poison on your archer because it does not change a thing.

Maybe you need to add the ability to poison the bow.. or a stack of arrows... (12 arrows at GM poison, same as charges on a weapon) ...

That or increase the poison chance when using a bow. Because now it's irrelivent to have poison on an archer. Might as well use your 100.00 ponits for something else...

That's all im saying... go test it yourself.

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Just went on TC and tested it myself, and I was able to get up to deadly poison with it. It does seem to be a little bit random. I usually got lesser with a chance for regular with 0 poisoning while having GM usually hit for greater or deadly.

I actually had to dig up this page to see exactly what type of poison i was hitting with.

On a side note: one time i killed an animal with serpent's arrow and a snake spawned. What 's up with that?

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I also thought it was affected by range. Thought you had to be within two tiles of your target to get the stronger poison. Much like the mage spell.

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Yeah it must be the difference of being able to poison a bladed weapon vs not being able to poison a bow...

It's also cake to cure serpents arrow compaired to normal bladed weapon DP hits. (at GM poison)

Oh well.

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