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How exactly does poison work?

This thread was added on April 14, 2025, with posts from ekimarcher.

Original Post

Sorry for the probably dumb question, just can't find it clarified in a way I can understand. Probably just not searching right. But, my question is how do you determine and scale poison damage? I saw that it has like a 28 damage over 3 seconds default. My question comes from me looking at Heartseeker's Blightshot, which gives it chance to poison. If I wanted to do that, do I try to focus on scaling poison somehow, or should I still be scaling physical damage for Heartseeker?

Or is this even worth it? I saw, though possibly dated, that a lot of people were saying poison isn't good :(

Poison isn't as good as it was when it was completely busted overpowered.

You can scale poison damage by getting increases to appropriate damage. Generic, DoT and poison.