Olgreb's Toxic Radiance
 Olgreb's Toxic Radiance
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| Level | 4 |
| School1 | Alchemy |
| Source(s) | The Unrestrained Analects Young Poisoner's Handbook |
| Casting noise | 2 |
| Spell noise | 0 |
| Power Cap | 100 |
| Flags | Area |
| Causes the caster to radiate toxic energy, continuously inflicting poison on everything in line of sight for as long as the spell lasts. |
Olgreb's Toxic Radiance (OTR) is a level 4 Poison Magic spell which both damages and poisons any creatures without poison resistance in the caster's line of sight for a few turns.
Venom Mages start with this spell, though it can also be evoked using the artefact staff of Olgreb.
Useful Info=
The damage can be split into two parts:
- Impact damage. Olgreb's deals
1d(1 + pow/20)damage per 1.0 decaAut.[1] Ignores AC. - Poison status. Monsters have a 50% chance (per 1.0 decaAut) to gain one poison "stack".[2] Monsters that are not poisoned have a 100% chance on the next action you take. Keep in mind that monsters have a limit of 4 stacks. See the Poison article for more detail on how poison stacks work.
- Players hurt by OTR are affected differently; you'll take
2d3[3] damage worth of poison instead.
Creatures with poison resistance are completely immune to Olgreb's Toxic Radiance.
This spell has a duration of 1 + 1d(1 + pow/25) turns.[4] Casting this spell again will increase the duration; it does not increase the rate of poison or poison damage.
Strategy
This spell is immensely strong for crowd-control, though it isn't fast. It is good at thinning out a crowd; weakening the strong monsters and killing the chaff. Casting t
Works very well with Ignite Poison. Ignite Poison deals 200% - 300% of expected poison damage, immediately. With Ignite Poison, OTR becomes even better at dealing with crowds, wiping entire screens in just a few turns.
Tips & Tricks
- Olgreb's Toxic Radiance deals damage, so it will break monsters out of fear, and dispel friendly summons which don't resist poison.
History
- Prior to 0.24 this spell did not deal direct damage on cast or properly trigger ally-harming conducts.
- Prior to 0.19, the damage of this spell varied by distance and the spell also poisoned the player character.
- Prior to 0.13, this spell poisoned all visible creatures for a single turn, didn't cause any direct damage. and could be cast when drawing the Venom card from a Deck of destruction.
- In 0.10, the effectiveness of Olgreb's Toxic Radiance was modified to scale with spell power and to still affect poison-resistant players 10% of the time.
- ↑ spl-damage.cc:3339 (0.30.0)
- ↑ spl-damage.cc:3378 (0.30.0)
- ↑ spl-damage.cc:3352 (0.30.0)
- ↑ spl-damage.cc:3271 (0.30.0)
