POISONS, OILS, AND COATINGS Tier List - Get Those Weapons Working! - BG3 Honour Mode Guide 

Extremely accurate

Holy shit SOMEONE gets it

Runepowder >>>>

@@baltemys6097**SPOILER ALERT** I used a rune powder barrel to decimate like 90% of the sharan temple 💀

Yeah, would be quite valuable to hear how how their damage is calculated and all that mechanics stuff

@@slaminjaminotter7286House of Grief*

@@nicholaskersey3771 I am going to eat you

I also used this but it falls off in act 2 where everyone is immune to sleep. but it rocks tough fights like githyanki

Angering Vlaakith and questioning her divinity should be S+ Tier

Yes, this please good sir

Poking every scrying eye is A tier

There is one further way to prevent that. You can press K while having your rogue selected, go to the reaction tab and tick the box for "ask" on all sneak actions. That way, when you do hit them with the weapon and put them to sleep, the game will NOT automatically apply sneak attack, but it will ask you if you want to apply it. Thus, you can select at that time if this is normal situation where more dmg the better, or if you just applied a sleep effect and you will not be wanting to sneak attack them.

I thought puddles are infinite. What exactly did they patch out? Because it's it's camp specific, why not just put a puddle next to a waypoint and go back to THAT every time?

@@seePyou they are infinite, but dipping only lasts a few turns. In older patches, dips in certain poison puddles lasted until long rest

Just tried it out, but doesn’t quite work as well as expected. The same attack won’t both trigger and apply, only one or the other.

To me the toxin implementation is extremely strange. They work nothing at all like their tabletop counterparts, and really feel like a waste of clicks in their current form!

You can coat your weapons in fire? Like just a basic fire surface or a alchemy fire surface?

Basic fire surface should work. You can also dip into things that are on fire like a burning torch or burning candle. Just drop one on the ground next to you and then you can start dipping. With a candle you might need to interact with it first before you can dip but interacting with it is a free action. Oh and I’ve heard you can also dip into an enemy or ally that is coated in an effect.

@@carnivoriousleaf basic fire is enough. All my characters have a candle in their inventory and use it whenever I have nothing better to do with my bonus action. you can drop it on the ground and light it for no action, then dip your weapons in it for a bonus action, then pick it up for free. It adds 1d4 fire damage to each attack.

@@carnivoriousleafTo add to others replied, candles and torches work fine. HOWEVER, the candle is an extra item you need to be carrying and it is always going to be stacking by other candles you are picking up if you are like more RPG players (hoarders). The cool thing about the torch is that only ONE of the torches is LIT in your inventory; the one you are "carrying". You see, the torch, unlike the weapon, doesn't leave your inventory when you equip it! It's ridiculous, but when you have your weapon equipped, above it, in your character screen, there is a torch, and it's the same exact torch that is in your inventory! What this means: there is a constantly lit torch in your inventory that is lit, which means it doesn't stack! Dropping this torch with the special icon guarantees a lit item drops near you which you can dip your weapons in! No guessing whether it will be lit or not, and also, it helps a little that the item is larger, the flame bigger, the light bigger, making it easier to see and interact with when you are picking the target of the dip action!

Yeah, the fact that an average of around 2,5 minutes of talking /consumable feels actually informative and not pointlessly drawn out is very impressive.

It kinda adds some saving grace, but still rather meh. I mean, do you really want to ve using equipment that requires a consumable to do anything? Maybe early on when you really dont have anything better.

@@mittag6326 it's handy for when you have nice equipment that does not apply a condition on hit, like knife of the undermountain king, so they can participate in your reverb build.

@@mittag6326 consumables are easy to get in large quantities in this game. So a build relying on using them at every fight is completely doable.

Toxins can also be stacked and works outside of turn based. With stealth archer: the trigger of toxin damage can put them into the recoil animation preventing them from out of combat healing. It essentially stun locks them in between your control-click cooldown. Cheesy as hell? sure. Powerful? hell yes.

There's an illithid power that adds stat drain to your attacks. Stat drain is a condition.

Wow so they nerfed it to the ground for no apparent reason especially on contrast with how much op stuff they added

Awesome, glad it helped!

Yes! And yes, once that launches I'm very likely to cover some mods

I hadn't considered the inoculation effect working with the boots! That's pretty funny and definitely super powerful!

@@Cephalopocalypse I wouldn't have thought of it, either!

That sounds right! I think it becomes available to any merchant with an alchemy items pool once the party hits level 6, but it's random whether it shows up on a given day

That's very true! Given the way you have to finesse it to work, I also don't like it as a primary strategy (even aside from not usually using wet at all because it's broken). Invaluable for any party with a fire-damage character though!

Nowhere! Or rather, by using them and then inspecting the entry in the combat log (for some of them, which show the save) or checking the game files with a hex editor (for the ones that for some reason have the save hidden). These items were I think an extreme afterthought so the tooltips are confusingly written, uninformative, contain typos, and are often outright wrong (tell us how you really feel Ceph)

@@CephalopocalypseTy, this is sad, i'm loving my first playthrough and i'm struggling to understand and use many features

The way I see Encrusted with Frost, the best thing you get from it is disadvantage on dex saves. When combined with snow burst ring, you drastically increase the chance that the enemy fails its prone save

I tend to agree! That's one I never use myself, and I think a general bias in my lists is that if I never use something, I try to imagine the best use case for it and can end up overcorrecting and rating it too high as a result

You have a 65% chance to succeed a DC11 roll with a +4. So flipped around, your DC11 poison will hit 35% of the time against a +4 con save enemy. The video definitely makes it sound harder for an enemy to fail a con save than it is. There are like a dozen types of weapons that let you lacerate once per short rest, inflicting disadvantage on con saves. You have a 28% chance of landing your DC11 poison against a +7 con save enemy that has disadvantage on the roll.

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​@@Cephalopocalypse i completely forgot about that video! I have heard you mention it before but it slipped my mind, thanks :]

Shield is something you choose to use when you need it . And it protects your squishiest character (the wizard) from all the enemies. Wizardbane protects you from one enemy only (unless you spread your attacks, but then, it means you also spread your damage instead of focusing each enemy one by one to kill them fast) Also having counterspell in your party means you won't be hit by the most dangerous spells from your opponents anyway, so spellcasters are often not the main threat.

They aren't - the save DCs for these are fixed and don't change with items or effects (though if you can reduce enemy saves with eg bane or cutting words, that will help land them more reliably)

@@Cephalopocalypse Thanks! I thought there was a chance since acuity *does* work on Bow of Banshee as well as the Snowburst Ring + Drake cold-bow prone combo ... so thought maybe there would be a chance. But guess not. Thanks again!

Thanks so much for the support! I really appreciate it :D

Berserker Barbarian can throw as a bonus action while raging

It can't inflict the 'poisoned' effect, unlike poison, so it doesn't give enemies disadvantage.