Poison Arrow | Dark Souls Wiki

Best 'weapon' in the game. I've been making a list and so far I've found you can poison: black knights; silver knights; drakes; man-eating shells; channellers; royal sentinels; man-serpents and serpent mages; necromancers; capra demons in the Demon Ruins; rock worms; giant boars; infested barbarians in Blighttown (but they'll get to you before the damage is relevant); painting guardians (but they have high poison resistance, can dodge the arrows and are unlikely to be far enough away to make it worthwhile). Haven't tested it on other enemies yet, would be grateful if anyone can add to the list.

No point in shooting them at hollows, they'll go down in one hit anyway.

You might need very long range to hit enemies without triggering them, but in most cases a longbow should do even without the Hawk Ring. Four hits at the most will be plenty to start the poison effect. Note that you can't increase the poison's duration by hitting the enemy while the countdown is going on, you have to wait for it to be exhausted then poison again.

Sometimes the enemy will be too far away for you to see the damage counter - just look to see if there's an impact and/or bleed animation, keep firing if there is, and the damage bar will appear once the poison takes effect.

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Mine doesn’t sell them

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I love that two measly hits with these can take out knight archers, Channelers, Catacombs mages, and a bunch of other annoyances in this game--all while I sit and drink my coffee

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The godarrows of cheese

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Great for taking out those accursed silver knight archers! Make sure you stock up on at least 150 of them before going to Anor Londo. Trust me. I learned this from FightinCowboy.

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Useful in pvp because they poison you through i-frames.
I learned this the hard way from a friend of mine

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Very useful when you want to cheese your way through many parts of the game. It's surprising how many enemies are weak to poison.

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these motherf****** are guaranteed to pop poison in so little shots it's NUTS bro

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using them on anor londo cornise archers if u want a safe run through

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I was very surprised, these arrows have a very high damage cap. Pop an enemy with 3 then play a game on your phone til they're dead lol

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Just used these arrows for the first time on the Royal Sentinels. Gotta say, I love these damn things. I'm gonna buy a metric *****ton of them when I start playing again this evening.

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