Poison

Poison is a status effect in PSO. It can be inflicted by:

• poison trap
• Mothvert's attack
• Poison / Nar Lily's ranged attack and selfdestruct
• Barba Ray's underwater tentacle attack
• Astark's poison attack
• certain growths in the rooms and hallways of Ruins

Mechanics

Players

Poison and paralysis will overwrite each other if inflicted on a player.

Poison will gradually drain a player's HP until it reaches 1 or until cured. The damage dealt by the effect scales with difficulty.

Poison does not wear off on its own. It will remain on a player even if they return to Pioneer 2; however, it will not damage players who are on Pioneer 2. It can be cured with Anti, an Antidote, or a Sol Atomizer. An equipped Cure/Poison will prevent players from becoming poisoned, but will not cure previously inflicted poison when equipped.

Monsters

Players have no means by which to directly apply poison to monsters. A monster can become poisoned if it happens to be within the radius of a poison trap when it detonates; however, this is a rare occurrence. Poison will function the same on the monster, gradually siphoning its health until it dies.