Necromancer · Poison and Bone Skills

Poison Dagger

Required level 6PoisonClassic

What it does

adds poison to your dagger attacks.

How Poison Dagger works, in depthThe Necromancer's dagger attack adds poison over time: 7–15 over 2 seconds at level 1, 540–581 over 9.6 seconds at level 20, with +30% attack rating and +20 a level, and +20% per hard point in Poison Explosion and Poison Nova. How the damage brackets run and how item poison stacks with it.

Items that give Poison Dagger

2 items

+ levels to the skillyour own class only

Blackbog's SharpUnique · Cinquedeas	+5 to Poison Dagger (Necromancer Only)	38

Chargescast from the item until the charges run out

of Poison DaggerSuffix	Poison Dagger charges (level and number set by item level)	24

Per level

before synergies, masteries and +skills from items

Level	Poison Damage	over	Attack Rating:	Mana cost
1	7-15	2	30	3
2	13-23	2.4	50	3.25
3	20-32	2.8	70	3.5
4	30-43	3.2	90	3.75
5	40-56	3.6	110	4
6	53-70	4	130	4.25
7	67-85	4.4	150	4.5
8	82-103	4.8	170	4.75
9	104-126	5.2	190	5
10	129-153	5.6	210	5.25
11	155-181	6	230	5.5
12	185-212	6.4	250	5.75
13	216-245	6.8	270	6
14	250-281	7.2	290	6.25
15	286-319	7.6	310	6.5
16	325-359	8	330	6.75
17	374-410	8.4	350	7
18	426-464	8.8	370	7.25
19	481-521	9.2	390	7.5
20	540-581	9.6	410	7.75
21	601-644	10	430	8
22	666-710	10.4	450	8.25
23	740-786	10.8	470	8.5
24	818-866	11.2	490	8.75
25	899-949	11.6	510	9
26	984-1035	12	530	9.25
27	1072-1126	12.4	550	9.5
28	1165-1220	12.8	570	9.75
29	1268-1325	13.2	590	10
30	1375-1434	13.6	610	10.25

Also raised by

items that add levels without naming it

Synergies

per hard point in

Poison Explosion: +20% Poison Damage per Level
Poison Nova: +20% Poison Damage per Level

Leads to

Poison ExplosionLevel 18

Boosts

Source: skills.txt row “Poison Dagger” and skilldesc.txt of build 3.3.93847. Mana = (mana + lvlmana × (level − 1)) × 2^manashift ÷ 256; damage brackets at levels 2–8, 9–16, 17–22, 23–28, 29+ scaled by HitShift. · Report incorrect data

Unless stated otherwise, everything here is Diablo II: Resurrected build 3.3.93847, Reign of the Warlock.