Changes: Instant Poison (item)

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Instant Poison
Classes: Rogue
Use: Coats a weapon with poison that lasts for 1 hour.
Each strike has a chance of poisoning the enemy which instantly inflicts X Nature damage.

"This may sting a bit..."

Instant Poison is the first damaging poison a rogue can use. Once applied to a weapon, each successful hit will have a chance to inflict 300+0.1*AP nature damage. slower weapons will have a higher chance to apply the poison than faster weapons.

Instant Poison and [Crippling Poison] are the first poisons a rogue may use after finishing the required quest at level 20. Additional ranks may be used at appropriate levels.

Instant Poison Ranks

Rank	Level Required	Damage
I	20	13-17
II	28	21-25
III	36	30-38
IV	44	45-57
V	52	62-80
VI	60	76-100
VII	68	161-215
VIII	73	245-327
IX	79	300-400

Every rank of Instant Poison does an additional 0.1 * AP damage.

Notes

Safe to use in any situation, as it has no CC-breaking DoTs.
Nature damage is not reduced by armor, so it is more effective against heavily armored opponents.
Shiv can be used to automatically apply the poison, effectively increasing flat damage of the attack. shiv however can never crit and neither can the poison it applies so it's use is in this way is limited.
Without at least 4 points in [Improved Poisons], [Wound Poison] (because of its higher proc per minute rate) does more dps than instant poison.

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 * Safe to use in any situation, as it has no [[Crowd Control|CC]]-breaking [[Damage over Time|DoTs]].
 * Nature damage is not reduced by armor, so it is more effective against heavily armored opponents.
-* Shiv can be used to automatically apply the poison, effectively increasing flat damage of the attack. shiv however can never crit so it's use is limited.
+* Shiv can be used to automatically apply the poison, effectively increasing flat damage of the attack. shiv however can never crit and neither can the poison it applies so it's use is in this way is limited.
-* Without points in [[Improved Poisons]], [[Wound Poison]], because of its higher proc rate, often does higher dps, especially with daggers. this is uncertain for slower weapons as instant poison's procc rate is normalized.
+* Without at least 4 points in [[Improved Poisons]], [[Wound Poison]] (because of its higher proc per minute rate) does more dps than instant poison.
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