| Weapon poison | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Released | 27 February 2002 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Members | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Properties | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tradeable | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Equipable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stackable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Noteable | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Options | Empty, Drop | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examine | For use on daggers and projectiles. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Values | |||||||||||||||||||
| Value | 144 coins | ||||||||||||||||||
| High alch | 86 coins | ||||||||||||||||||
| Low alch | 57 coins | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 0.025 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Exchange | |||||||||||||||||||
| Exchange | 282 coins (info) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Buy limit | 2,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Daily volume | 6,172 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Advanced data | |||||||||||||||||||
| Item ID | 187 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Link | MOID | ||||||||||||||||||
Weapon poison is a potion made by using dragon scale dust on a kwuarm potion (unf), requiring 60 Herblore, yielding a weapon poison and 137.5 Herblore experience. It can be applied to all metal arrows (including amethyst), normal metal bolts, javelins, darts, and throwing knives, most daggers, spears and hastae as well. Weapon poison can be removed from a weapon with a cleaning cloth.
A single vial of weapon poison can poison only 5 arrows, bolts, darts, or throwing knives. This makes poisoning a substantial amount of ammo quite costly.
Melee attacks apply poison at 25% chance, where Ranged attacks apply poison at 12.5% chance. This chance only applies if the hit was successful (non-zero). Weapon poison initially deals 4 damage when applied using melee attacks, or 2 damage with Ranged attacks. The poison hits every 18 seconds, and if not reapplied to the target, the poison damage will deal 1 less damage every 5 hits until the target is no longer poisoned. Ranged weapons with Weapon poison applied, however, will only hit 2 once before starting to hit 1s. For melee weapons this means a total of 50 damage will be dealt from the poison, whilst for ranged weapons this will only be 7.
It is a possible reward from the Observatory Quest if the player identifies the Scorpio constellation.
Total poison damage
Total Poison damage (Melee: DM and Ranged: DR) is calculated by the sum of all numbers (n) up to the max hit (M), times the amount of hits per number (H=5).
DM(M)=H⋅∑n=1Mn=H⋅12M(M+1)=2.5⋅4(4+1)=50DR(M)=H⋅∑n=1M−1n+M=H⋅12M(M−1)+M=2.5⋅2(2−1)+2=7
Creation
| Item | Quantity | Cost | |
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 | Kwuarm potion (unf) | 1 | 2,750 |
 | Dragon scale dust | 1 | 69 |
| Total cost | 2,819 | ||
| Weapon poison | 1 | 282 |
| Profit | −2,537 | ||
| Profit after GE Tax | −2,542 | ||
Products
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 | Adamant arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Adamant bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Adamant dagger(p) | |
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 | Adamant dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Adamant hasta(p) | |
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 | Adamant javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Adamant knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Adamant spear(p) | |
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 | Amethyst arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Amethyst dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Amethyst javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Black dagger(p) | |
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 | Black dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Black knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Black spear(p) | |
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 | Blurite bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Bone dagger (p) | |
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 | Bronze arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Bronze bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Bronze dagger(p) | |
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 | Bronze dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Bronze hasta(p) | |
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 | Bronze javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Bronze knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Bronze spear(p) | |
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 | Dragon arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Dragon bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Dragon dagger (p)(cr) | |
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 | Dragon dagger(p) | |
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 | Dragon dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Dragon hasta(p) | |
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 | Dragon javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Dragon knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Dragon spear (p)(cr) | |
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 | Dragon spear(p) | |
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 | Iron arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Iron bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Iron dagger(p) | |
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 | Iron dart (p) × 5 | |
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 | Iron hasta(p) | |
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 | Iron javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Iron knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Iron spear(p) | |
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 | Keris(p) | |
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 | Mithril arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Mithril bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Mithril dagger(p) | |
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 | Mithril dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Mithril hasta(p) | |
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 | Mithril javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Mithril knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Mithril spear(p) | |
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 | Rune arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Rune dagger(p) | |
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 | Rune dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Rune hasta(p) | |
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 | Rune javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Rune knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Rune spear(p) | |
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 | Runite bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Silver bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Steel arrow(p) × 5 | |
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 | Steel bolts (p) × 5 | |
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 | Steel dagger(p) | |
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 | Steel dart(p) × 5 | |
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 | Steel hasta(p) | |
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 | Steel javelin(p) × 5 | |
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 | Steel knife(p) × 5 | |
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 | Steel spear(p) | |
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 | White dagger(p) | |
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Item sources
| Source | Level | Quantity | Rarity |
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| Ankou Regular | 75; 82; 86; 95  | 1 | 2/100 |
| Shadow warrior | 48 | 1 | 1/128 |
| Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) Medium level | 40; 63; 72; 77 | 1 | 1/128 |
| Mutated Terrorbird | 178 | 1 | 3 × 3/64 |
| Mutated Tortoise | 247 | 1 | 3 × 3/64 |
| Warped Tortoise | 121 | 1 | 3/64 |
| Warped Terrorbird | 96; 138 | 1 | 3/64 |
Money making
The following money making guide is available for Weapon poison:
| Method | Hourly profit | Skills |
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| Poisoning ammunition | 2,197,000 | None |
Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| 26 October 2004 (Update) |
An "Empty" option was added. |
Gallery (historical)
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| RuneScape 2 Beta |
29 March 2004 – present |