Oblivion talk:Resist Poison

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Using Poison[edit]

Is a discussion on how poisons can be used appropriate for the intro for Resist Poison? I would be tempted to take it out, personally. Anybody else have thoughts on this? --Robin Hood (TalkE-mailContribs) 15:03, 2 May 2008 (EDT)

Yeah, it probably doesn't belong here. But moving it or deleting it raises the problem that we can't easily replace the sentence with a link: I don't think we really have a good place for readers to find information on how to use poisons. The information is out there on various pages, but we perhaps need to create a page at an obvious place like Oblivion:Poison with everything in one place. --NepheleTalk 18:34, 6 May 2008 (EDT)
Not tonight, dear, I've got a headache. :Þ Seriously, though, if I get a chance tomorrow, I'll at least create a stub page for it with a little basic info, cuz I can't believe we don't have a page dedicated to Poison yet. I suppose it falls under Alchemy too, but I think it could benefit from a page of its own. --Robin Hood (TalkE-mailContribs) 00:12, 7 May 2008 (EDT)
Okay, stub has been created with some basic info that I removed from the main Resist Poison page, where it didn't belong. Will obviously need some expansion yet, but not tonight...I'm WAY too tired and out of it. --Robin Hood (TalkE-mailContribs) 22:01, 7 May 2008 (EDT)

How exactly does it work?[edit]

Is it a percentage chance of ignoring the whole poison or taking it all like reflect spell or is it how much if it is reduced everytime like resist magic? The wiki to me says it works like like the first option but in the forum the few who responded said the second option. --I would be a Procrastinator, but I keep putting it off. 00:28, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

i think that it just reduces the damage done by the poisen. i'm not eczactly sure but i think that's right--GUM!!! 00:32, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure either. It may be a combination of both. For example, you either are silenced or you aren't, so it might be a percentage chance there, but a percentage damage effect when that's appropriate. Robin Hoodtalk 02:29, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I've just done some quick testing of this. An NPC with no poison resistance took a full 10 point reduction to his Intelligence when hit by a Strong Poison of Confusion. At 50% Resist Poison, he took a 5 point reduction using the same poison. At 90% Resist Poison he only took a 1 point reduction to his Intelligence, still using a Strong Poison of Confusion. I hit him several times with poisons and, even at 90% Resist Poison, he never fully resisted it, he just took a reduced effect. Hope that answers your question. --Takark 00:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it, Takark! Robin Hoodtalk 00:25, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Happy to help. :) I just realised what you meant about the Silence effect (I can be a bit slow sometimes). When I get chance I'll do some testing with effects with durations; I suspect it'll just reduce the duration, much like Resist Magic does, but I'd prefer to test that theory instead of just assuming. I'll report back at some point when I've looked into it. --Takark 13:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Resist Poison and Weakness to Posion work exactly like Resist/Weakness to Magic, the magnitude of poison effects is altered by the difference between them, and in case of effects without magnitude(i.e. Silence) the duration is altered instead.--Wizy 14:13, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Yeh it's certainly looking that way. Thanks for confirming it. To be honest, I just like testing things every now and then. ;) --Takark 15:31, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

() I can't say I'm surprised it would work that way, but it's good to know for sure. Thanks for confirming it, guys. I've gone ahead and added the new information to the page. Robin Hoodtalk 19:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Here are my proposed changes: User:Wizy/sandbox1, feel free to copy them to the page if you agree with them. I didn't add them cause I'm not sure if it's right to go and change something someone recently made o.o --Wizy 01:24, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
On a wiki, it's okay to be bold. We all change each other's contributions on a regular basis. Your changes look fine, so I put them in place. I kept the Poison Apple/Chokeberry note, though, but since "ingredients" already covers that aspect of it, I noted that the potions created from them are also unaffected. Robin Hoodtalk 01:55, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
D'oh! Thanks for the correction, Wizy. It's supposed to be my job to catch those, but apparently in reviewing the factualness of it, I missed the spelling. I think maybe I'll go play Diablo II now...at least I don't have to worry about missing typos there. :) Robin Hoodtalk 02:14, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
After reading the be bold article I fell more confident now, there are many pages I thought I could improve a little and didn't just for thinking what if they don't like it this way etc. And remember in Diablo II Resist Poison sucks, Reduce Poison Duration is the way to go and we went too much off-topic.--Wizy 02:29, 15 September 2010 (UTC)