User blog comment:Dracosaurian/Discussion of the Week: Poison/@comment-11685710-20131210220009

Ahh Poison :D

I still remember me being a first-timer and playing Tri back in 2009. I got stuck at two monsters: Barroth (I figured out after getting the first part of his equipment, that he's weak to fire and just did him with the Quru stuff) and Uragaan...I would eventually get to do the same thing like with Barroth, but I was still too stupid to kill him even with water weapons, when I would decide to train a bit in the arena. There was that set set with the Gigginox Sword'n'Shield and it worked surprisingly well on him. I "rushed" over to the story-mode and grinded on Gigginox (resulting in him becoming my arch nemesis lol) and I was really pumped to finally take Ura on with that, and I went super smooth through the quest!

I just love me some poison weapons since then, because they work on almost every monster and especially good on Brutes: I have the feeling, that it affects their stamina a lot and my strategy foor them became to use poison and attack their legs until they would start drooling and then concentrate on their heads and tails, while they were recovering after moves. You won't believe how easy Deviljho (and I'm talking about Tri's abomination), when you're using the good ol' Gigginox Sword and Shield.

Well, that answers questions 1 and 2 for me.

My favourite poison monster ? None, I hate all those fuckers. Me using poison against monsters? Gonna do it all the time unless an element is more effective :D My favourite poison weapon has to be the G rank model of the Gigginox SnS, mostly for the looks, but also because it's more or less the best poison SnS and that's since the very beginning of my Hunter career my weapon of choice.

I don't think there should be anything changed too much except for maybe adding that it affects the monsters' (and your) stamina (if it doesn't already, as I said I've go the feeling the monsters start drooling faster when they're poisoned, but that may just be the effect of more health loss over time). It's imho one of the better ailments together with paralyze.