Poison

Poison is primarily damage debuff within Dune Awakening that is most commonly seen in two forms, enemy attacks and environmental traps. It has two forms, a slower debuff that does less damage but lasts longer and a potent poison (often related to weapon attacks, like the spitdart rifle) that acts faster and is more powerful, the two types of poison can stack. It is particularly nasty because it bypasses shields and has few ways to truly prevent it though one class does have helpful abilities for dealing with it. it works similar to the fire debuff where it won't cause damage till its fully filled by application and then spends the build up as a timer for its full damage. Out of the debuffs that can be applied it is often the one that gives you the most time to deal with the damage effect once it starts to take away health.

Possible threats found within Dune Awakening:

• Caves & Strongholds: Often found in caves alongside other landmine variants within caves and strongholds. This is first really strongly seen in Hagga Rift but continues from there in various forms.

• Snipers: The snipers who are recognized with the radio antenna helmets and the scope glint will often do poison build up along side massive damage with their spitdart rifles they use to attack. You start seeing this variant among Slavers, Maas Kharet, and Fireflies.
• Maas Kharet Faction: This faction has an affinity for poison damage in all forms. They use all forms of poison damage including abilities like poison capsule. The only faction unit that does not appear to apply poison debuff is the heavy trooper Maas Kharet.
• Enemy Players: Enemy players can apply poison damage to you. While enemies do not generally stack different types of poison damage the environmental poison cloud which can be released by Mentat Poison Capsule, Poison Tooth and Poison Mine skill and the weapon applied poison (Spitdart, unique rapiers, etc) can apply different poison debuffs. The poison cloud debuff is weaker but longer while the weapon applied poison debuff is the opposite.

Ways to deal with Poison damage:

• Bene Gesserit class skills: The Bene Gesserit class has two ways to deal with poison. A passive called Poison Tolerance and a technique called Metabolize Poison.
• Healing Items: Any healing item in the game that restores health, such as bandages and med kits, also instantly removes status effects like poison.
• Static Compactor: A static compactor shot to the center beneath a poison cloud will remove it completely.

Ways to deal Poison Damage:

• Spitdart Rifles: Almost all standard variants of the spitdart rifle deals a potent fact acting poison. Some unique variants may not.
• Unique Rapiers: There are unique variants of weapons themed around the Maas Kharet that apply poison damage. Most notably are the unique Rapier variants, like Poison Mist.
• Mentat Abilities: Mentats can learn attack abilities Poison Capsule, Poison Mine, and Poison Tooth.