NL: Venom Skill Helm

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thread starter MrMoogle Mar 20 2010 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

My hermit is going to become a NL "soon," so I started looking at which mastery books I should start buying, and got stuck with trying to understand Venom. What is the point of it? When is it good to use? When should I get it/max it? Most of the guides I have seen for NL recommend putting one point into it then max TT, but they are also a few years old, so I'm not sure how relevant they are with ToT additions. From what I can understand from the guides, you basically put one into it use it to lvl from 120-125 (or so) until TT is high enough to outdamage it. You use it on high HP enemies and poison key areas of the map, then clean up w/ avenger (like poison mist). Then after 125 use TT to train until forever. I guess if you have low damage you can use it longer until your equips get better, since it has it's own atk rating. Am I understanding this correctly? Any insight would be appreciated

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mystyle8642 03/20/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

dude this skill put monsters in curse which lower its hp over time. level 1 venom gives 12% success rate to curse so its worth 1 skill point very much. max it after get max TT and all the goods.

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MrMoogle 03/20/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Oh the title was supposed to be Help, not helm, I can't type today

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orangeking11 03/20/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Venom works with TT, so it doesn't really matter where it stands in relation to it really. xD Venom has a unique type of Poisoning, since unlike most other Poison skills that rely on Monster HP, Venom runs off a formula (which I never remember). Every time you hit a monster with TT/Avenger/etc (some skills excluded), you can inflict Venom up to 3 times (so the Poisoning damage stacks). xD The numbers look a tad confusing, but you are kinda right on the weak part. If you're a weaker NL, Venom's damage will help you keep up with much stronger NLs in training. xD

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vcxsinal 03/20/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Level 1 venom is very worth it, every single star from triple throw has a chance of poisoning the enemy. Obviously this doesn't work on bosses. Unlike other poisoning skills, the venom damage formula is unknown at this point. If you use triple throw + shadow partner, and pretend that if each star that succeeds on poisoning the enemy does 3k damage. If 3 out of 6 stars from triple throw + shadow partner succeeds on poisoning the enemy, the shown damage will be 9k dmg. Venom can really change how many hits you need to kill a monster. Sometimes I poison a nest golem, and start hitting a newt behind me to wait till the nest golems health goes down, then I kill it faster. Venom can't be the final killing hit, so thats why I wait.

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SinghNinja 03/20/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

You should totally get 1 venom but no more then that, its reallly helpful when ur training at newts and skeles when ur mobbing its really good because with avenger each monster can get poisened and they die a lot faster also like vcxsinal said, u can hit 1 monster and if it gets posioned finish of another monster and quickly turn around and kill the first one

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MrMoogle 03/21/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Thanks guys

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