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Deals high Toxic damage in a period of time as long as 10 minutes (Toxic lasts until cured, expired or death) |
Toxic is a gameplay mechanic in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. It is a debuff status effect and one of the auxiliary special effect and a damage type.
General Information for Toxic:
- Deals high Toxic damage in a period of time as long as 10 minutes (Toxic lasts until cured, expired or death)
Build up
When exposed to Toxic, a build-up bar will appear at the middle of the screen.
- The size of the bar is determined by the amount of Toxic resistance.
- If the exposure stops, the bar will slowly decrease.
- The bar will continue to fill up with exposure.
- The ailment will take effect when the bar is full.
Effect
Once the toxic bar is full, your health bar will begin to decrease rapidly.
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Deals high Toxic damage in a period of time as long as 10 minutes (Toxic lasts until cured, expired or death)
- Toxic has similar visual and audio effects to Poison for identifying whether it is poison or toxic. (You can Identify the toxic when the mist is darker)
- Reduces stamina regen by 15 per second.
Cure
- Using a Blooming Purple Moss Clump will get rid of any toxic build-up.
- Using Remedy also gets rid of toxic build-up.
- Resting at Bonefire.
Prevention
- N/A
More Defense against Toxic:
- Increasing Poison Resist (except Poisonbite Ring, which only increases Resistance to Poison)
Weapons, Items with Auxiliary Effect, Toxic:
- Weapons
- Dark Silver Tracer (Buildup: 36 (strong attack only), DoT: 6/sec, Total Damage: 3,600)
- Gravelord Sword (Buildup: 30, DoT: 5/sec, Total Damage: 3,000)
- Items
- Toxic Mist (Buildup (while in the Mist): 0.2/sec, DoT: 6/sec, Total Damage: 3,600)
- Dung Pie (Buildup: self 30, target 55, DoT: 7/sec, Total Damage: 4,200)
Enemies, Bosses and Characters with Auxiliary Effect, Toxic
- Characters
- Lord's Blade Ciaran (same as Dark Silver Tracer)
- Enemies
- Skeleton Baby (Buildup: 30, DoT: 7/sec, Total Damage: 4,200)
- Blowdart Sniper (Blighttown - Buildup: 80, DoT: 14/0.6 sec (only lasts 3 minutes), Total Damage: 4,200)
- Engorged Hollow (AoE Attack) ( Painted World of Ariamis - Buildup: 150/sec, DoT: 8/sec, Total Damage: 4,800)
- Snow Rat (Painted World of Ariamis - Buildup: 30, DoT: 5/sec, Total Damage: 3,000)
- Mini Bosses
- Undead Dragon (AoE) (Valley of Drakes and in Painted World of Ariamis - Buildup: 30/1.2 sec - 30/2 sec, DoT: 7/sec, Total Damage: 4,200)
- Bosses
- Nito (Buildup: 58, DoT: 8/sec, Total Damage: 4,800
Notes:
- Toxic and Poison have their own separate resist meters. You can get toxic and poisoned at the same time.
Damage Types |
Bleed ♦ curse ♦ Divine ♦ Fire Damage ♦ Lightning Damage ♦ Magic Damage ♦ Occult ♦ Physical Damage ♦ Poison ♦ Slash damage ♦ Strike Damage ♦ Thrust Damage |
- Anonymous
Toxic also reduces Stamina regeneration speed. Testing seems to indicate a 20% - 25% reduction.
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the miracle Replenishment "nullify" Toxic status by healing as much as it damage at the same pace
- Anonymous
"When exposed to Bleed, a build-up bar will appear at the middle of the screen." Someone mixed up words when copy-pasting sentences between here and the Bleed page.
I love watching some poor havelnoob fumble through his inventory for a blossom, only to find out too late that it's the wrong one.
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