Raising Poisoning

[Graem Carcer]

Folks,

A friend of mine is asking around trying to find out the best way to raise poisoning. From what little I know there are two ways:

1.) Poison weapons over and over
2.) Poison weapons, then use it on enemies which also gets you more gains (As you're using the charges you've put on the weapons)

I don't know if there's a faster way to tell him though; whether the type of monster he poisons matters, or what type of poison to use at each level.

I've directed him to stratics and UOpowergamers, but they both seem to be out-dated back to Age of Shadows.

Anyone know anything to suggest to him?

 - Carcer

[Raiden Morana]

It's a while back since i trained it but it was basically poison a bag full of daggers, poison a bag full of daggers, poison a bag full of daggers... Then redo!

Hope this helps >_> 

[Shadwell]

Back in the day all you needed was a few fishsteaks and a keg.

Poison steak. Put steak on pile. Take steak from pile. Poison steak. etc.

[Graem Carcer]

They stopped that now Shadders, apparently it don't let you stack poisoned/unpoisoned food anymore.

The real debate is between poisoning weapons again and again,
or poisoning weapons then using that poison on targets, as you can gain from the charges.

If you had 50 potions, that can be applied to 50 weapons (50 chances to gain)
If you then USED those weapons/charged, (50 x 16 charges per weapon) you're looking at 800 chances to gain, but a lot of effort, bandages and repairs are included in that package.

Wish Stratics was kept up-to-date 'cause then I could just direct him there!

[Radek Wilkes]

*Peeks in*

You need one roll of cheese and a f**k load of poison kegs (dependant on your current skill ofc)

Just poison the roll of cheese over and over, worked for me. Still got that cheese somewhere.

[Graem Carcer]

Any reason for cheese over another piece of food?

[Radek Wilkes]

Well.. no. Apart from tradition.

[Mela Arkay]

I use a gourd.. to poison:D

[Mr Bloodaxe]

I'm going for the poison a few weapons and use it approach at the moment, any which way seems to take an age but I am getting there, raising other skills too which I need.

Only thing I am not sure is what level's to change what poison you use?

[Graem Carcer]

So far as I know, you use regular 'til about 65 then change to greater, changing to deadly at 94

The 'use it' method is probably more effective, as it gives you 16x more chance to get gains as you can gain from poisoning something with your weapons; the only problem of course is it's time consuming, and an absolute ball-ache; but in return you get extra gains and some gold/artifacts along the way.

[Radek Wilkes]

Going to GM poisoning is alittle pointless imo. You can apply deadly without -any- fail at 80 poisoning, and still have an 80% chance to bump it up to lethal poison.

[Graem Carcer]

My friend'll be barking mad when he hears that.

Is it 100% chance to ramp it to lethal at GM? In essence, when you apply a weapon with DP, you are applying Lethal P by default?

[Mr Bloodaxe]

I only intend to get mine to 70 or 80....can't remember which.

[Radek Wilkes]

Yeah I think it's 100% at gm.

And Lud, 70 isnt really worth it. Greater doesn't do a great deal of damage, 80 is the way to go.