I noticed the Poison stops gaining when I put Chivalry on the Ostard.
Do any of these abilities need the poison at 100 to do more damage? Which ones?
Does the natural poison defense attack require Poison at 100 or does that matter is it stays at 65?
Or for the ones that need poison skill, will they increase as they use them? Thanks
Aura of Nausea
Poison Breath
Essence of Disease
Venomous Bite
Vicious Bite
Only Poison Breath is really dependant upon Poison skill for the level of Poison it inflicts. Poison Breath can inflict up to Lethal Poison (Lvl 5) to nearby opponents at GM Poison, and inflicts lower levels of Poison with greater distance/lower Poison skill. Use of Poison Breath will increase Poison skill, but it's very slow and Poison Breath itself is fairly mana intensive (50 Mana), so the pet needs to be kept high on Mana when training it's Poison skill via Poison Breath.
Venomous Bite inflicts Deadly Poison (Level 4) on nearby opponents. The level of Poison inflicted is not dependent upon Poisoning skill, last i checked.
The effectiveness of Aura of Nausea, Essence of Disease, and Vicious Bite are not dependent upon Poison skill. Aura of Nausea, Essence of Disease and Vicious Bite are available to pets that have any % of their melee damage type as Poison Damage, or are given the Poison Magical ability.
Poison skill itself does confer some measure of resistance to the Poison status for pets (as well as players). The higher the Poison skill, the greater the chance that Poison status will be nullified when it goes to tick (like Orange Petals accomplish). Strong Poison such as DP/Lethal can overpower this.
I decided to train mine up on TC at the cost of lots of Cargo on LS.
Got to resist part. Dang thing kills the spectrals with its defense spray even if you spam all stop so I'm not gonna get resist above 110.
Someone asked about this:
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Bane Dragons and Wildfire Ostards will occasionally retaliate against ranged attackers with a projectile Poison Breath that deals damage and inflicts up to Greater Poison (Lvl 3) status. The trick is to have the Spectral Spellbinders cast on the Bane Dragon/Wildfire Ostard within melee range (which avoids the retaliatory Poison Breath), and have the Bane Dragon/Wildfire Ostard powered down enough that it only attempts to inflict Lesser Poison (Lvl 1) with it's Poison Skin, which is too weak of a Poison level to affect Undead like Spectral Spellbinders. Basically the Bane/Wildfire Ostard has to go without Blackrock Stew for several days before they can train on Spectral Spellbinders without killing them with Poison.