Poison | Dark Souls 3

Poison is a status effect in Dark Souls 3.

Poison Information

• Lasts 90 Seconds, or until cured
• In PVE:
  • Base damage is 3 HP/s
  • Plus an additional amount that scales up with player Max HP
• In PVP:
  • Base damage is 7 HP/s
  • Plus an additional 0.07% of player hp/s
  • Total of 630 + 6.3% of player HP over 90 seconds
• Unlike Toxic and Frostbite, Poison has no effect on stamina regeneration.
• Poison inflicted by the Poison Spores weapon art of the Storyteller's Staff is unique, and scales very highly with max HP, making it the most effective form of poison.
• Poison total damage is unaffected by Luck
• Poison build up is affected by Luck for certain sources (detailed below)

Dark Souls 3 Poison Items

Dark Souls 3 Enemy Information for Poison

Dark Souls 3 Poison Notes, Tips & Trivia

• Poison shares resistance properties with Toxic.
• Poison was overhauled in the 1.11 patch
• The Storyteller's Staff poison is the unusual exception, with a scaling value so high that at some point it even outperforms Toxic.
• Luck appears to only speed up the application of poison, allowing you to poison an enemy with fewer hits. It appears to have no effect on poison damage, nor on poison duration.
• Weapons that have poison naturally on it can be imbued with Poison, or have a Poison Resin used on it, however this appears to only help apply the poison faster, and does not affect poison damage or duration.
• Tested on Pontiff Sulyvhan (regular NG), most poison effects did 13 damage per second, Dung Pies (Toxic) did 23 damage per second, Storyteller Staff's poison did 54 damage per second
• Ghru weapon poisons, poison arrows, the Poison Mist pyromancy, Rotten Pine Resin, and Poison Gem infusion all appear to apply the same identical poison (comparable to the Farron Keep swamp poison)