Siosilvar wrote:Poison damage builds objectively have worse boss DPS than non-poison builds, except for the one skill that's designed to massively multihit and work like *not* a poison skill (Infected Roots), that's not exactly up in the air. That's simply how it is.
They only have "worse DPS" compared to builds which stand still to attack/cast to do full damage, aka a situation which never happens on 115+ ubers.
Siosilvar wrote:We're not going to go around buffing posion damage just because it sucks at bossing when most of those builds are already really fast farmers, but mechanically it's just the truth that weapon poison builds *must* be bad at bossing, because poison damage is 25x worse on any WDM single target skill than a hit damage type is.
You are missing the forest for the trees. I've killed Akarat with different poison builds in 110-120 range (both casters and non-casters), which is a bit annoying, but I wouldn't say I'd go to the feedback thread asking for a buff just because it took 15 seconds instead of 3 to kill a single boss which has a mechanics specifically hard for poison damage. However javazon has the highest poison WDM passive coupled with a highest WDM attack to apply it (with the same scaling capability as Whirlwind) and -50% poison enemy res baseline. So, without additional context, it's literally impossible not to kill Akarat at level 120 with a poison javazon and therefore is entirely a skill issue.
Strong doubt it's 25x damage difference, the fastest attack on relevant meta builds is 5 fpa, which is merely 5x, assuming the first frame damage is the same. But it quickly tapers off once teleports and various "get into the safe zone"/"dodge the death zone" mechanics are introduced, since more time spent not attacking/casting is a direct reduction to the Dee Pee Ass, which is not the case for poison.
