Poison

Effects of Poison

Poison lowers some of your stats. Those are: Healing Rate, Bleed Resistance and Critical Resistance.

Poison Resistance

Just like Radiation Resistance works for Radiation, Poison Resistance works for Poison. Currently, the only reliable way to get Poison Resistance is through your Endurance stat. Each point in Endurance will give you 5% Poison Resistance, which means that with 10 Endurance, you will already have 50% Poison Resistance.

While a gas-mask does not give you Poison Resistance directly, it does still lower the amount of poison (and bleed) damage you get from standing inside gas.

$PoisonResistance=(5*Endurance)$

Other Stats modifying Poison Resistance

Modifiers	Poison Resistance
Droplet Artifact	+20%

Poison Removal

Unlike Radiation, Poison will go away on its own. In order to remove Poison, you are advised to take Antidote (Drug), which will remove some Poison every 30 seconds for 120 seconds.

Sources of Poison

Gas

A very popular way for players to apply poison onto you is through the use of gas-grenades. These are especially prevalent in the middle of the season, where gas-masks might still not be used and the advantage you gain from flushing enemies out of entrenched positions can be massive. You will quickly notice the presence of green-ish gas once a gas-grenade is thrown. It expands quite far and also has a longer life-time then your average fire or smoke. It does however NOT block vision, even though it might look like that.

Attacks

Some NPCs attacks, as well as some very specific weaponry, can apply Poison Damage on hit. This is especially noticeable in Hospital, where the monstrosities there can not only poison you, but also radiate you.

Venomous Hands

This perk is almost exclusively used by Melee characters - which makes their Melee attacks apply Poison on hit. This can add up to quite some numbers, especially if you let them poke at you for a longer time.