Talk: Poison-Making

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Much better formatting! Easier to use without all the scrolling, scrolling! - Davinator 08:17, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Now we just need some exciting pics! Loleil 08:22, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

For this page? What do you need pictures of? Headless High Dragon is one of my favorites, but I guess that's not poison-related! - Davinator 08:32, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Hehe well it looks suitably dead now! For this page I wouldn't mind something like a bomb going off, or any particularly spectacular weapon effects. Loleil 08:37, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

I've been dawdling my way through the last of the side quests before going to the Final Battle because I keep thinking Ostagar will come out and I can play that before finishing, but I've been thinking of a dual-wielding Rogue that also uses lots of the gases and grenades after using a few just to get rid of them in the Alienage apartments and warehouse. They can be pretty effective! Am I correct in understanding the way a wiki works is that images are just uploaded to a pool where pages can then draw from them? - Davinator 08:44, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Ah RtO, surely it can't be too much longer (fingers crossed) and yes if you upload an image it can be used in any page, though I'd recommend giving your picture a unique name to make it easy to find (i.e. "Zevran using Freeze Bomb"), remember to have no visible PC's, and don't forget to add categories . Loleil 08:56, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

No visible PCs? - Davinator 09:11, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

That's right. It's a new rule (you can read the ideas behind it Forum:Image Policy if you're interested) so we'd need shots of one of the companions. Loleil 09:29, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, ok! Nice discussion page. I figured there was a FAQ I missed, but I see there's a whole shelf of cans of worms that could open up. - Davinator 09:41, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Wow, I can't get these indents to work properly to save my life! - Davinator 09:43, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Can a mage use poison on their staff?

Just wondering if I've been wasting poisons as I usually have my whole party equip poison when combat starts, mages included but on their staff.--Djdelirius (talk) 04:48, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

Req: Improved Poison-Making

The top tier poisons (Quiet Death, etc.) in my copy of DA:O and DA:O:A all list 'Req: Improved Poison-Making' as a requirement. Both Lelianna (in Origins and Lelianna's Song) and Nathaniel have been unable to use these poisons even though they could make them!

This bug is driving me nuts, and nobody else seems to have it!

Poisons and Tactics

"STOP THAT BROGAN!!! I KNOW YOU'RE CRAZY BUT STOP THAT!!!"

I set some Concentrated Deathroot on Brogan's tactics, hoping he would keep his blade well juiced. Well, I found out his axe was soaked; the cycle time for the poison reuse is much faster than the expiration. I caught Brogan standing there continually juicing his axe, while the Harvester was laying a beating on Snug right in front of him.

In short, for ps3 anyhow, poisons are a direct command only tool, not something you can put in tactics with any hope of survival. Shadizar666 (Ruck Rules) 07:58, February 28, 2013 (UTC)

Grenade damage

It was a nice surprise to me that grenade damage increased with the number of ranks the character has in Poison-Making! :) I was just wondering where the information came from, as it's not mentioned in the descriptions for either the grenades themselves or the Poison-Making skill. I'm guessing it comes from a combination of in-game observations and the game files. -Sophia (talk) 19:33, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Length of effect for poisons.

Is there no data on how long poisons will remain effective? Doveen the fox (talk) 23:42, July 18, 2014 (UTC)

The Difference between Coatings and Poisons

Can someone better explain the differences (if any) between coatings and poisons?

From the way the article currently reads, I can't tell if they (a) are not the same thing and do stack with each other, (b) they are all considered the same thing and thus do not work together, (c) there are more than just the two types, but the stack-restriction only applies to those two, or (d) something else.

So, let's look at some clarifications and questions generated by the current wording, and my understanding of that wording.

IF (a): Substances termed "Coating" and substances termed "Poison" are different from each other, and the game engine treats them differently. Thus, you can have two active on your weapon at the same time - one active coating and one active poison (but you cannot have two or more coatings; neither can you have two or more poisons).

>> This is what I take the sentence structure to mean, but the problem is that it creates a question of, "which is which?" (also, see "c", below): there are some things that are called "coating" and some that are called "poison" but (for example) "venom" is neither (and is defined as different IRL from "poison" - though that means little in a magical fantasy setting crafted by non-biologists), and other substances don't seem to clarify. (Also: again, see "c", below.)

IF (b): The name of the thing doesn't matter, as it all falls under the umbrella category "poison"; thus you can only ever apply a single substance from this list to your weapon at any time, and applying any other substance from this list eliminates the first substance from this list.

IF (c): [also see "a" above] there are more than two "types" of substance available. One may use but one (single) substance from this list with the word "coating" and one (single) substance with the word "poison" and any number of other substances (so long as they are called neither "coating" nor "poison").

There may be something obvious I'm missing (for example which is which might be listed in-game), but my question is based off of reading the Wiki information as-presented.

Tacticslion (talk) 05:04, June 29, 2020 (UTC)

EDIT: I have edited this post - once to clarify my final sentence by adding "(for example which is which might be listed in-game)" and once to add this note about the fact that I edited this post. Both were done within one minute or so of the topic first being published. Tacticslion (talk) 05:06, June 29, 2020 (UTC)