Poisoning and Magery
How actually Poisoning skill works in a combination with Magery?
I have 110 Magery and 95 Poisoning and I always apply Deadly Poison to the monsters or Lethal Poison via Poison Field if preceded with Evil Omen spell.
Any reason to bump Poisoning to GM? Or it would not provide any additional benefits in compare to (120 Magery + 80 Poisoning) since it will always apply Deadly Poison?
Comments
"The formula for determining the level of poison inflicted on a target is Magery + Poisoning / 2 =
As of Publish 71, poison strength reduces with range instead of dropping to 1 at ranges 3 or greater. Also, players having more than 100.0 skill in both Poisoning and Magery have a 10% chance to inflict lethal poison at distance of less than 3 tiles. A successful Magic Resist causes the spell to have no effect."
Poison Field - UOGuide, the Ultima Online Encyclopedia
"The formula for determining the level of poison inflicted on a target is Magery + Poisoning / 2 =
Unlike the Poison (Spell), there is no distance check."
You may find a happy medium at 90 poisoning as the poisoning mastery can be advantageous. I couldn’t discern any difference between “tolerance mastery”at 90 over 100 skill. And you may enjoy injected strike as a mage as unlike with weapon specials, believe it or not the toggle does not switch off when casting spells.
If + skill is at a premium to you, consider going for 90 poisoning with 110 magery, over 80/120.”-+-