Poisoning: is this how it is here?

[smart86]

Poison

Poison weapons are nice, but they don't stay poisoned for long. Note that there are two levels of success when you're poisoning weapons. If it tells you "You apply a dose of poison to the weapon," that means your chance of actually poisoning someone is a bit of a longshot. If it says "You apply a good dose of poison to the weapon," your odds are much better.

Poisoning weapons is not the only use for a Poison potion, however. Energy Vortex, the deadliest PvP spell, relies primarily on an extremely virulent poison for its deadliness. However, it is an oddity of the game that a character who's been poisoned cannot be poisoned again until the original poison wears off, even if the second poison is stronger. Therefore, some hardcore PvPers have taken to quaffing a minor Poison potion early in combat, to pull the teeth of enemy Energy Vortexes.

http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/10597/pg4.html

[Faust]

• Poisoning is difficulty based. This means, as you get more skilled, you will need to use more powerful potions to increase your skill.
• There is no strong dose message. You either fail or succeed. The dose is based on the strength of the potion used. I.E. if you succeed in putting a deadly poison on a blade, the blade will have a deadly poison dosage.
• If you fail, there's a chance that you will poison yourself. The poison will be slightly less strong than the dosage you were attempting to use.

You can no longer avoid a deadlier poison by taking a milder one, and getting hit by deadlier poison when already affected by a milder one will supercede the weaker poison.

[smart86]

Thanks for the quick reply Faust. This page was (I believe it was at least) created December 9, 1999 or the book was. So book is wrong?

[Faust]

T2A spanned from October '98 through April 2000 and anything written one day surely would be outdated the next due to the massive amount of patches through out the game each month.

The same holds true for any MMO today.