Is it just me or is Poison damage absurd?

So when a monster poisons you, it'll normally do like 3/4 of your health at max health. And considering how often some of the monsters in mh3u use their poison moves it's kind of ridiculous. I mean they even altered the gigginox to use his poison moves more often and even gave him some new ones. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I always, always bring antidotes so I wouldn't know. But from what I've heard the poison damage is supposed to be ridonculus at G-rank. And this thing about nox using more poison seems weird aswell. It uses as much poison now as I remember it from tri.


So well yeah bring antidotes and the problem is no more.

<-- wears Wroggi armor for cowgirl style. lolwut poison?

It seems they gave it a pretty significant buff. I don't know, when I was fighting him he seemed to use poison 3/4 times to every other move. After fighting him more to make a decent poison weapon that hasn't changed. Maybe I only have this problem because I use the greatsword and it's a bit more difficult to doge poison attacks (I.E. I start my swing as the gigginox brings up for his all around poison and if I even do finish my swing in time I can't dodge backward). It gets to be a problem when I'm forced to use more antidotes than I actually have and forget about doing the three gigginox quest without negate poison.

It just seems that it does way more damage than it should. It does more damage than any elemental blight, you need an item to cure it, some monsters use it almost always. For the gigginox it isn't exactly a special move. If a monster can hit me with a move that already does half my health and then puts a status on me that QUICKLY whittles away another mega potions worth (More than that actually) there's a problem.

g rank, and high rank poison is worse than low rank. iirc you even get a change of colour and effect on your char.

The G rank (I'm not sure about low and high rank) poison is devastating. Especially when you use a lance and can't get away from the nox fast enough. That's why I'd use a bow, and maybe a bowgun. With the bow, you can pummel it from a distance, and if you're using the kelbi bow, can slaughter it at a distance. (assuming you have a group of other players, with, or without the kelbi bow)