I was playing around with this effect and checked the wiki but it made no mention about this. Does spell reflect work on poison? I had something like 90% and whenever someone would attack me I could see them under some kind of reflect effect and realized I wasn't getting poisoned.
The NPC's that usually have poison potions on them were lacking it whenever I checked their corpse and the weapons were not enchanted.

It's my understanding that reflect spell does not work on poisons. Since poisons are not spells. I have not specifically test this.

Maybe the effects that your not seeing but expect are due to spells (or enchantments). Sometimes it's not easy to tell if an enemy has poisoned their weapon.

Quote UESP wiki: Damage done by poisons is affected by Weakness to Poison and Resist Poison

I believe one of the beautiful things about poison is that it doesn't care about reflect spell, spell absorption or resist magic. Only about resist poison. Very deadly.

Absolutely no effect on poison

Well what kind of poison? Some poisons are absorptions just made into a potion and applied to a weapon. If so absorption spells should cause a reflect considering it's magic? Just my theory. :flamethrower:

I would imagine that all poison effects work the same way, only effected by weakness to poison, and resist poison, I see no reason why specific poison effects would be exempt to this, though I might not be an expert on the subject, but I think that by now, someone would probably have determined the details of how spell reflect or absorbsion work, and would know if they effect poisons.

If enemies are not poisoning you, I'd say that they probably either did not use poisons, did not get a chance to hit you after poisoning their weapons, or you have resistence to poison.

If you have a potion with frost damage, a resist frost effect might reduce damage, however resist, reflect or absorb has no effect. A lady in the arena has a resist magic 100% shield. Poison was the best way to kill her for a pure mage.

Extra thing about poison, liches and mended flesh elementals are hard for mages as they reflect and is immune against poison, however a weakness to poison 100 spell takes care of this. Yes it can be reflected but as they don’t do poison attacks it don’t hurt you

Archers has it easier as enchantments of bows or arrows is not reflected to you, however the enemy will resist the effect 100% if they roll a successfully reflect.

Thanks for the replies. I thought it would be weird if spell reflect worked on poison (although it wouldn't of surprised me since alchemy is kind of magical) I must of been noticing the things I was fighting under some other kind of effects.