Poisons
Poisons are crafted consumables from Alchemy in Elder Scrolls Online. They were introduced with the Dark Brotherhood.
How do Poisons Work?
- You must apply the poison to your weapon, consuming the item. Any light attack, heavy attack, or weapon ability has a 20% chance to apply poison effectss
- When a poison is equipped, the weapon enchant and charge will be suppressed and replaced by the poison description and count.
- Most poisons have a maximum duration of 6-10 seconds.
- Poison effects dillute if many effects are added.
How to create Poisons
- Poison reagents are gathered by killing enemies
- Poisons are created by combining reagents with oil-based Solvents. Each combination yields batches of 16.
- Higher level Solvents create stronger and longer-lasting poisons.
Poison Table
Below is an overview table of available poisons and their effects
| Poison |
Reagent |
Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Gradual Ravage Health |
Creeping Ravage Health |
deals (x) poison damage each second |
| Gradual Health Drain |
Sustained Restore Health |
deals (x) poison damage each second while restoring health to you each second |
| Damage Health | Ravage Health | deals (x) poison damage each second for 6 seconds |
| Drain Health | Restore Health | drains target's health with (x) poison damage each second while improving your health by the amount of that damage; DOT for 6 seconds |
| Damage Magicka | Ravage Magicka | increases cost of target's magicka abilities by 10% |
| Drain Magicka | Restore Magicka | drains magicka from target by increasing their magicka cost 10% for 10 seconds while restoring magicka to you each second |
| Damage Stamina | Ravage Stamina | increases cost of target's stamina abilities by 10% |
| Drain Stamina | Restore Stamina | increases cost of target's stamina abilities by 10% while restoring stamina to you each second |
| Uncertainty | Lower Spell Crit | reduces target's weapon and spell critical ratings by (x) |
| Prophecy-Draining | Spell Crit | reduces target's weapon and spell critical rating by (x) while increasing your own by ~30% of the drained value |
| Cowardice | Ravage Spell Power |
increases target's cost of Ultimate abilities by 30% |
| Sorcery-Draining | Spell Power | increases target's cost of Ultimate abilities by 30% while increasing your spell power by 5% |
| Enervating | Lower Weapon Crit |
reduces target's critical damage by 12% |
| Savagery-Draining | Weapon Crit | reduces targets's critcal damage by 12% while increasing your weapon critical damage |
| Maiming | Lower Weapon Damage |
reduces target's damage by 15% |
| Brutality-Draining | Increase Weapon Damage |
reduces target's damage by 15% while increasing your weapon damage by 5% |
| Fracture | Lower Armor | reduces physical resistance by (x) |
| Resolve-Draining | Increase Armor | reduces target's physical resistance 10% the value a Fracturing poison would but also increases your physical resistance by 90% of that Fracturing value |
| Vulnerability | Vulnerability | increases target's damage taken by 8% |
| Protection-Reversing | Protection | increases target's damage taken by 8%? while reducing your damage taken by 8%? |
| Breaching | Lower Spell Resist |
reduces target's spell resistance by (x) |
| Ward-Draining | Increase Spell Resist |
reduces target's spell resistance by (x) and increases your spell resistance by ~83% of their reduction |
| Defile | Defile | reduces target's healing received by 15% |
| Vitality-Draining | Vitality | reduces target's healing received by 15% while increasing your healing received by 8% |
| Conspicuous | Invisible | causes you to become stealthed while allowing you to see a stealthed victim |
| Stealth-Draining | Detection | prevents stealth for 6 seconds |
| Hindering | Reduce Speed | reduces movement speed 50% |
| Speed-Draining | Speed | reduces target's movement speed 50% while boosting your movement speed 30% |
| Entrapping | Stun | immobilizes your target for 6 seconds |
| Escapist's | Unstoppable | immobilizes your target while making you immune to crowd-control effects and breaking you free from any existing effects |
Anonymous
- Anonymous
Any sets affect the fire rate or length of time the poison is applied?
- Anonymous
So, my understanding is that in most cases, unless you are NOT worried about the enchantments on your weapons, poisons are largely useless in PVE
- Anonymous
Somthing happened with the last patch? The poisons are much less strong as they were previously.
- Anonymous
Ravage Magik and Stam is ridiculous... and you should only be able to apply one at a time...
- Anonymous
Incomplete list of poison and what you need (use any two?):
Ravage Health Flashly Larva, Nightshade
Gradual Health Drain Nightshade, Stinkhorn, Violet Coprinus, Nirnroot
Drain Health Blue Entomola, Columbine, Luminous Russola, Mountain Flower, Water Hyacinth
Damage Magicka Blue Enmtomola, Violet Coprinus, Cornflower, Blugloss, Lady’s smock
Damage Stamina Flshly Larva, Imp Stool, Luminous Russola, Emetic Russola
Breaching Beetle scuttle, Lady’s Smock, Violet Coprinus
Conspicuous Spider Egg, Nirnroot, Blue Entoloma, Namira’s Rot
Cowardice Blue Entomola, Bugloss
Defile Spider Egg, Nightshade
Protection-Reversing Beetle Scuttle, Nightstool
Resolve-Draining Imp Stool, Beetle Scuttle, Mountain Flower
Stealth-Draining Cornflower, White Cap
Vitality Draining Beetle Scuttle, Fleshly Larva, Butterfly Wing
Is that helpful?
I am still not sure why I would want to squelch the abilities of weapons. Maybe if I ever get leveled up far enough this will matter?
- Anonymous
DAMAGE HEALTH POISON IX,
Ravage Health, Ravage Magicka, Speed
Tell me the reagents, the calculator does not help
- Anonymous
this means squat - we know these effects. Everyone is asking the same thing, what do I use x to get x? The ultimate list would be to show what your need, and WHAT you get as a result!
- Anonymous
Do poisons on a restoration staff effect healing skills on allies?
- Anonymous
I’m playing with having one poison loaded at a time. First attack administers the poison, then the enchantment is functional. Pain in the ass to keep separating poisons and enabling them. It seems useful.
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