Poison Fang is so amazingly bad

25 nora
poison 4 on attack, not even to base and only on melee attacks

 

its not as bad as you make it sound. It is basically a spot +4 damage -1 def tool to secure a kill. 25 nora for securing a kill is one of the cheapest options in the game and as bonus you get to keep the equip on your unit.

It is just that a spell like poisonous fume (35 nora. 8 damage -1 def) is much more easy in use and so will likely be prefered to include in a bg, but poison fang is cheaper.

 

It's always been bad, why the sudden burst of interest?

 

Because I was looking at the filler runes I put in my camp bg and was amazed at how awful it was.

 

10 nora and just straight give Poison rank 2, so it works with ranged attacks and if you gain a rank some other way.
Still worse than Frostcall because it doesn't change your damage type, but poison does at least give a debuff.

 

It doesn't just give chilled, it gives an alt damage type.

 

Always been this way. Was only ever run on occasion for things like skeezick sniper but even with that accounted for there have always been better equips for spot melee dmg accessible within faction.

 

Doesn't work with SS

 

For some reason I thought it granted a melee attack to the user. Even worse than I previously thought.

I second giving it the frostcall quiver treatment (ranged attacks only, grant attack: poison, poison dot, cheaper) or something similar.

 

Dragonclaw and Skeezick Blade do that.

 

and are the same price

 

And suck about just as much, if only slightly less.

 

If only they were range 1 basic attacks somehow...