Poisonbone Arrow

Type

Arrow

Physical damage

28

Stamina damage

5

Poison buildup

60

About this item

Arrow whittled from animal bones. The tip is daubed with venom. Afflicts targets with poison.

Craftable item.

Crafting after obtaining Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook [3]

Limgrave

Starting Site of Grace: Saintsbridge

Before you go

• Crafting Kit
• Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook [3]
• 500 runes

1. Follow the northern Limgrave road east from Stormhill to Saintsbridge.
2. Cross the bridge and look for the merchant's camp just beyond it on the east side.
3. Talk to the merchant and buy the cookbook for 500 runes.
4. Buy the Crafting Kit from Kalé at Church of Elleh for 300 runes if Item Crafting is still locked. The cookbook alone does not unlock the crafting menu.
5. With the book and materials in your inventory, open Item Crafting outside combat and select Poisonbone Arrow. One craft makes 10.

Notes

• One craft makes 10, using 3 Thin Beast Bones and 1 Poisonbloom. You keep the cookbook and Crafting Kit; only the ingredients are spent.
• Ammunition for bows and light bows. It does not fit a greatbow, crossbow or ballista weapon.
• Adds 28 Physical attack power to the shot. This is the ammunition contribution, before the ranged weapon, skill, distance and enemy defenses determine the actual damage.
• This version saves the Flight Pinion but has shorter flight than its fletched counterpart. Use the fletched version for distant targets rather than assuming the same shot will reach equally well.
• Has 60 base Poison buildup per ordinary hit. The target's resistance must be overcome before the status triggers; damage and buildup are different parts of the shot.
• Ranged skills and burst weapons can apply their own buildup modifiers. Several projectiles connecting does not always apply the full ordinary-hit value for each one.
• Causes ordinary Poison after enough buildup. The listed buildup is not damage per second, and poisoning an enemy again while the same effect is active does not add a second identical damage-over-time effect.
• Arcane only improves the buildup through a weapon with suitable Arcane scaling, such as Serpent Bow. An ordinary crossbow does not gain stronger Poison simply because your Arcane is higher.
• Serpent Arrow has 78 base Poison buildup compared with 60 here. Fletching changes flight distance rather than closing that buildup difference.
• Carry up to 99 of this type. It has its own stack, separate from the other arrow types.