I can see us poisoning swords, daggers and arrowheads. But how would one poison a staff?

Enchanting is basically poison right?

i feel poisons are more of a rouge/nightblade thing so it should be a skill/perk for them. and i also feel it should only be for daggers :P

but thats just my crazy mind thinking :P

Sadishist wrote: »

Enchanting is basically poison right?

Depends, mate. And what are we supposed to do with the stuff you make in alchemy that ravages your health? Consume it yourself? I think only noobs would be that stupid to try it.

But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

yes, they should, but... how will they work? will they have a timer, or hit count ? or just 1 for hit ? and if so, the effects are kinda "deal xdmg and deal extra xx for 5 seconds" , be given once the hit lands, okay, sounds fun.
but how people would re-poison their weapons ?

also the staff issue, and maces also, since they are blunt trauma weapons, they lack teh capacity for actually injecting poison in one's circulatory system...

I mean, they could apply it based on quick-slot, unlocked with a bow/dual wield passive or something, but if so, would ww take extra dmg from it as well? since, you know, poison ?

arena25 wrote: »

Voting on my own poll...

Yes, poisons should be applied to weapons, but only to the weapons listed below:

Bow
Dagger
One-Handed Weapons (Sword, Mace, Axe)

Why only those 3? Well, unless you can hit someone in a melee with a staff, it's not gonna be effective. And 2-handed weapons are more likely to cut someone in half before the poison even starts working, so what's the point of applying a poison to the 2-handed weapons?

All the others though are fair game.

Destructive Clench for the Fire Staff knocks folks around fine, besides, why couldn't poison be at least partially carried by the fire/frost/shock bolt as it left the staff?

And for 2-handers, is there such a thing as overkill? I was not aware of this.

This would make alchemy a much more desirable crafting skill, and be in line with all other ES games.

VoidBlue wrote: »

Banky71 wrote: »

But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

lol love that movie.

Whenever someone mentions poison it kicks off that automatic response.

Certainly poisons should apply to normal blade and arrow weapons, but not for staffs. Those should be augmented with Spell crafting, if ZOS ever gets around to implementing that line. So yes, I would like to see poisons applied to weapons, but only at the same time that special spells could be applied to staffs.

As someone that doesn't have but one main char , I was under the impression that poison was used on weapons such as bows , daggers etc. Wtf is the point of a crafted poison in the first place? "Wait Mr. Molag , let me drink this poison before we engage in battle , please." How dumb is that? So you can craft poison that can only be ingested?

Sometimes I just dont have the words.

This is a full blown YES, but only for bladed weapons such as swords, axes, daggers.

However, I think it would be interesting to see other crafting skills that could have a similar effect for other weapons. Like mage oils to your staff that would give a temporary buff to light and heavy damage. Or in woodworking you can craft arrows that may or may not take up inventory space, that you could buff your bow and use for increased damage, whatnot.

I'd like to see the option to poison all bladed weapons as well as arrows. To keep it balanced, you could increase the enchantment effects on staves, but I don't know what to do with maces.

Lenikus wrote: »

yes, they should, but... how will they work? will they have a timer, or hit count ? or just 1 for hit ? and if so, the effects are kinda "deal xdmg and deal extra xx for 5 seconds" , be given once the hit lands, okay, sounds fun.
but how people would re-poison their weapons ?

also the staff issue, and maces also, since they are blunt trauma weapons, they lack teh capacity for actually injecting poison in one's circulatory system...

I mean, they could apply it based on quick-slot, unlocked with a bow/dual wield passive or something, but if so, would ww take extra dmg from it as well? since, you know, poison ?

What I'm thinking is, any poison would be like enchantments, i.e., they have a limited amount of charges before having to apply the poison again. However, no weapon can have a poison AND an enchantment...it must be one or the other, never both.

And yeah, any edged weapon would work, so one-handed swords, daggers, axes, and bows will work. All others no.

And as far as werewolf, I'm not a werewolf, so I don't know the passives.

It'd be nice if instead of poisoning weapons, we could poison resource nodes. Or maybe even use them as a weapon, hurl them for an AoE effect in PvP.