Serpent Arrow

Arrow

Ordinary bow ammunition with 30 Physical attack power and 78 base Poison buildup. Poisonbone Arrows have 60 base buildup, so these provide more before bow and skill modifiers.

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Reference values

Type: Arrow
Physical damage: 30
Stamina damage: 5
Poison buildup: 78

About this item

Ordinary bow ammunition with 30 Physical attack power and 78 base Poison buildup. Poisonbone Arrows have 60 base buildup, so these provide more before bow and skill modifiers.

Causes ordinary Poison, despite the description's powerful-venom wording. It is not the faster Deadly Poison used by weapons such as Venomous Fang.

The meter still needs to fill, and poison-immune enemies only take the direct hit. More arrows do not stack several copies of ordinary Poison on an already poisoned enemy.

Technical details

category: Arrow
damage:
- physical: 30
- stamina: 5
dlc:
- Entry 1: 0
effects: None recorded
id: 50020000
status effects:
- poison: 78

In-game description

Arrow carved to resemble a flying snake. Used in tandem with the Serpent Bow.

Loyal minions of the Formless Serpents, their fangs are daubed with deadly poison.

Where to find

Isolated Merchant's Shack

Greyoll's Dragonbarrow

Starting Site of Grace: Isolated Merchant's Shack

Before you go

Have 120 runes per item.
Visit during the day.

Reach the northern Dragonbarrow plateau in Caelid. Follow its northern road west from the area around the Divine Tower of Caelid, keeping above the coastal cliffs.
Continue to Isolated Merchant's Shack at the western end of this road. Use the grace beside the shack and speak to the merchant inside during daylight.
If the merchant is missing at night, pass time until morning and reload the area. A Bell Bearing Hunter can appear here at night; defeating it is not required to buy the armor.
Buy Serpent Arrows for 120 runes each. The merchant has unlimited stock.

Notes

Ordinary bow ammunition with 30 Physical attack power and 78 base Poison buildup. Poisonbone Arrows have 60 base buildup, so these provide more before bow and skill modifiers.
Causes ordinary Poison, despite the description's powerful-venom wording. It is not the faster Deadly Poison used by weapons such as Venomous Fang.
The meter still needs to fill, and poison-immune enemies only take the direct hit. More arrows do not stack several copies of ordinary Poison on an already poisoned enemy.
Serpent Bow adds its own base Poison and can strengthen the buildup with Arcane. Other bows can fire these arrows, but a bow without Arcane scaling does not improve their Poison just because your Arcane is higher.
Mighty Shot and other bow skills can change buildup per hit. The listed 78 is the ammunition's base value, rather than the result of every skill shot.
The Dragonbarrow merchant sells unlimited stock for 120 runes each. These arrows have no crafting recipe, so the repeatable shop is useful when you want to save Poisonbloom.
Carry up to 99. Use a different arrow after Poison is active if direct damage or another status would help more.