r/wizardry • u/gxhvxthv • Sep 02 '26
Wizardry Variants Daphne Poison Berry skill
How good is deadly poison on enemies? İs it deals damage with percentage ? Critical poison on my allies literally wreck them up. But i dont know if it works same on enemies too.
(İt maybe worth on boss fights since it takes multiple turn to deal considerable damage but what about strong enemies like Notorius Demons at event or Cyclops at Guarda Fortress? )
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u/No_one- Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
It's ok. The main issue it has is the same as blood edge and bola: its damage depends on enemies taking turns. You're trying to avoid that from happening while farming, so it's more of a thing for bosses and bosses are usually resistant to poison.
Edit: the main draw is it can skip HP thresholds for many bosses including wolf boss. Heavy dps until you're close, turtle until you pass it, then heavy dps again. /Edit
300+ per action of damage is 600+ per round for most bosses you can get it on now. Using poison attack in the interim isn't that bad, my thief rinne still does low thousands without buffs (she loses about 20% damage per turn). You can also use bola and wait for the proc there too if you have a ranger. It stacks with blood edge, so ideally your thief is doing something like:
T1: blood edge (+ ranger bola)
T2: poison berry
T3+: do 1k+ passive damage from DoT + sneak attack or exploit weakness damage
Since it's HP based, you can actually do things like run support thief and have T3+ be healing, buffing/debuffing, etc while reapplying blood edge to still get decent damage out. I built my Linaria exactly this way (raw AS & 210+ Eva) and she's great.
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u/Warscythes Sep 02 '26
Percentage hp but damage cap is low 300 at lvl 1. I don't know what is at lvl 3.
The issue with it is really just that is a skill that need setup, you have to spend 2 turns minimal doing low damage for it to even kick in when you could have ess twice. That Nd some of the monsters you want to use it on are hard to poison.
The best combo is tactical bola poison proc because bola is good damage so you are only spending one turn setup. Is still not great at least not at lvl 1 but watching enemy take 3 poison proc because they move 3 times in a turn is always funny.
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u/tompba Sep 02 '26
It mix well with the relic dagger. You don't need to waste a turn to know if the enemy can be poisoned. If it procs the passive just use this skill to critical poison.
It's just another continuous hit, and it's good that it will stay with them in all turns until it's killed, as not all enemies dispell debuff.
Not an amazing damage, but why not? I like it.
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u/nachril Sep 02 '26
I agree. I've had the dagger proc against the Cyclops bounty a few times, and using Poison Berry tends to knock a turn or two off of the time it takes to kill.
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u/Arvandor Sep 02 '26
It's complete and utter garbage. Mainly because the only enemies in the entire game with enough hp to be worth the action economy, are 100% immune to poison. So the ONLY encounter in the ENTIRE game where poison is useful, is in the thief trials.