pun aside, i'm curious. I've read something a while back mentioning it but i cant recall. Are poisons going to be the same deal as they were in oblivion? The shoddy scheme of "1 time, 1 use"? I always found that a real ball buster having to re apply my poison every single time i hit something.

I'm personally hoping it will be more like giving your weapon a deadly coat, which can last for a set amount of time rather than JUST a single use. Like, when you poison your blade, it would be good for say, 15-30 seconds or X # of hits, then the poison would loose its toxicity, dry up, or just wear off the blade. Like in real life, some poisons coat an entire blade, and will last until the mixture breaks down. Others are good until they dry up and basically cant enter the body. Some are so volitile/hard to make, you only dip the very tip, and will get used up on the first strike - which is how all of oblivions felt and was lame - no variety.

So any word on this at all? I'm curious to know.

id like them to be more than 1 use, while lessining over time
but id guess its the same as obliv

I've not heard anything.. :shrug:

Maybe we'll have poisons that automatically reapply from the stack, or a poison queue of some sort.

I'd like to see some sort of grading system. i.e. something that has the ability to kill an opponent, but requires 3 samples, will simply damage them considerably if you only use 2. Or, make them sick and stagger around with just 1.

Whilst you're adventuring you get to learn the different effects of each ingredient. Ingredients that have the potential to be critically damaging should be harder to find.

I'm fine with them being one use only, as long as they find a more elegant way of applying poisons, pop up menus just break the immersion and the flow of gameplay. They should make it a simple animation or just apply them immediately once you press the hotkey. That way it won't be a hassle to apply them every time you need to poison someone.

The more imporant question is magnets.

What kind of wizardry is that?

illusion

One thing which got confirmed recently - if you are a stealthy person, you can put poisons into peoples pockets..

Magnets!? How do they work?! Poison application/delivery hasn't been fully explained yet. As others have posted, you're able to reverse-pickpocket poison (idk if its a vial, or a foodstuff) onto NPCs and rofl@ them from the shadow as they go into convulsions and wet themselves before choking to death on frothy vomitus.

Probably the same as before, one shot. Doesn't worry me though, the fact you can dip your blade in giant spider venom is good news enough for me.

I might get punched over the internet for saying this...

Like in World of Warcraft. The poisons there are applied to a weapon: They have a certain chance to get into the enemies blood, and last for a set amount of time, like 5 minutes. The chance of succesful poisoning and how long the poison lasts varies, depending on which poison you use.

I was going to ask in in the other thread that was closed due to post limits, but it applies here too since it is the delivery mechanism.

But before I could poison a knife with Damage Intelligence, but since there are No Attributes anymore, what actually would I be damaging with a poison like that?

Or would it even be called a Damage Intelligence poison?

Well said sir. :bonk:

well i always used poisons but im not even sure if they stacked so i would genrally start the fight with poison then just fight normal.

thats the first good thing ive heard about this game :cheat:
but like i said, its good

I have a feeling it will be along the lines of, after you put the poison on your weapon, each time you use it, the potency of the poison goes down in strength. So when you first use it the poison potency is 100%, then the second time its 75%, and so on and so forth.

There could be a "thicken poison" effect with ingredients. If a poison is completely unthickened, it dispels with a single strike. The more you thicken the poison, the more strikes it stays on your blade for.

Probably the same as Oblivion: put them in your "favorites" menu, use to apply to current weapon (not sure how it would work with dual wielding).

Ask a Mormon, they'll know!

Really though, I expect an improvement in the administration of poison, so far we know that we can reverse pickpocket poison onto people, and that suggests that poisons don't always take the form of the green bottles we saw in Oblivion (who'd drink something that comes from a strange green bottle they don't remember picking up?). It's also reasonable to believe that alchemy will have been improved in SOME form (possibly poisons to temporarily blind or intoxicte), what with the time and attention being given to crafting in Skyrim.

You mean i shouldnt have... uh... :sadvaultboy:




I'll melee you later, but for right now, this is actually a pretty good idea. How does the perk "improved poisons" sound, thats one of their tiered perks increasing a poisons application chance? Perhaps a nother called "vile poisons" which increases their negative effects, be it damage, debuff, or the duration of things like paralysis, and silence.