Venom: exactly like OSRS, or wear off after a time?

[Mike]

For the uninformed: Venom is a stronger version of poison, hitting once every 18 seconds, starting at 6 damage and going up by 2 damage every time it hits. There are 3 ways to get poisoned by venom: Zulrah and its snakelings, Toxic weapons (toxic blowpipe and toxic staff of the dead) and the passive effect of the Serpentine helm (which has a chance of applying venom when being hit).

If you need further information on how venom works exactly in OSRS (and how it can be countered), I would recommend looking it up on the available online OSRS wiki's.

Some would argue that - when combined with all the items we already have in PkHonor - venom as it works in OSRS would be too strong on PkHonor. For that reason - and to limit some ways to abuse this in PvM scenario's, I had decided to make a small alteration to the way venom works. Simply put, once you have been hit for 20 damage by venom, it will turn into regular poison, starting at 6 and slowly wearing off.

Do you agree with this change, or not? Cast your vote and tell us your reasoning (other than simply "it should be the same way as in OSRS").

[I2aw origins]

Personally I think it should be as close to OSRS as possible. Players who come from osrs are going to expect things to be the same -

[Azu rite]

http://2007.runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Venom
Shouldn't affect pvming according to that list

[Est pker5]

No leave it as it is, serp helm should have a use for pking.

[James]

Hopefully serp helm doesn't end up being like 100m and it's a super effective way to deal tons of damage from now on

[Iron adam]

I think venom should work exactly the same as in osrs.

[Grizzly mint]

Question: Say you get poisoned first, then venomed. Does the venom override the poison?

[Iron adam]

Question: Say you get poisoned first, then venomed. Does the venom override the poison?

It does on OSRS. Hopefully that is the plan here.

[Fsmurf7]

Serp helm no longer deals out venom damage in osrs, are we taking it out of here or no.

[Iron bloss]

Serp helm no longer deals out venom damage in osrs, are we taking it out of here or no.

The Serpentine Helm has a chance of applying venom to NPCs attacked with melee combat. Venom is not applied to NPCs who attack you.