Peraine Heramide - why so dangerous?

The real reason for perraine or heramide's "deadliness" is that it keeps the person in the same place so that the poisoner can continue to hurl knives / shoot arrows at them.

Make no mistake, you know I know and they know that if they walked in and attacked you, you'd resist up and wreck them. Which is why they resort to the plinking death with 30 throwing knives.

Peraine doesn't automatically break on attack. It's a very, very small chance. I've had it happen to me once out of four instances of being killed through peraine from full health or near full. I'd say it's something like a 5% chance per hit, so odds are overwhelmingly in favor of someone being able to peraine you and then walk up and stab you to death while you're helpless. Amusingly, you used to be able to parry attacks while paralyzed (and may still, I haven't really been involved in anything like that for a few years), and I think spiked bracers/gloves would trigger as well while someone was fighting your paralyzed ass.

The danger of peraine, apart from the obvious paralysis, is the fact that there's no real response to it. You can allegedly take a certain tablet pre-emptively but you don't usually go around regularly eating tablets just in case somebody poisons you. Other than that, you can Way and pretty much nothing else. You can't even OOC for some reason.

Heramide inflicts rapid stun drain in the target. The time it takes to knock them out varies a bit depending on their endurance, but we're talking in terms of like 10-20 seconds or so from full. If delivered on a target with low stun (a solid backstab takes off like 70+ stun) they'll be knocked out in one or two ticks, so they can barely react. And then they're unconscious, like when you get knocked out from Waying too much, so you can just stand there and kill them.

Both poisons are very nearly a death sentence unless the person doesn't intend to kill you. Heramide can be overcome but you'd have to be very quick and have a solution that doesn't take time to pull off. I've had a character with 130hp/st get backstabbed with heramide and he was unconscious in about five seconds.

And yet, I've seen it do so twice in serious PvP situations, that resulted in death for the perainer...

I vastly prefer heramide.

Oldtwink. Spiked Bracers/Gloves were removed from the game more then five years ago. Peraine changed a lot as well since then, the likelyhood of you breaking out of it is much more significant. I'd say 1/5 chance per hit. So if you're being hit by 5 rounds, you're gonna break out.

Heramide is of course a different matter. You cant break out of heramide if you're unconscious. You're not unconscious because of heramide, you're unconscious because your stun is at 0. Heramide is just sapping stun. While you can cure heramide, you've got ... sooo little time to do it and considering you cant eat tablets while in the middle of the fight, the odds are even less. Very powerful poison.

For the record. I had a character who got heramide poisoned and in the span of ... 2 rounds, I knocked my attacker to negative hp, before falling asleep. The fucker regenned back to health before my poison ran out and finished me.

Are you talking about the January 2012 glad games? Who did you play? I played the mofuckin' champ, son.

bitches get put in ditches

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