Lara finished a dungeon! She can gain one new ability from this list:
Antivenom I: Once per dungeon can restore 2 HP to a nearby living creature that was damaged by poison on the current or previous turn.
Cloth Proficiency: +1 Def when wearing armour with no base Def bonus, or when wearing no armour.
Drink Poison I: Once per dungeon can consume carried venom to recover HP equal to its damage.
My Pretties: When an owned pet deals poison damage it deals +1 poison damage.
Poison Resistance I: +2 Def against poison.
Poison Use: Can use venom when attacking.
Spider Sense: +1 Atk and Def against spiders.
Venomous Sting II: Makes a ranged attack that deals 2-3 poison damage.
My preference is Poison resistance. We have a better idea what does poison damage now and extra Def is always nice
Second choice is Poison use. but that takes up space in inventory and we rarely use consumables…
We also have no reliable source of venom glands. We got two to drop this dungeon but we’ve seen 0 before this.
If we had a better source of venom, Poison Use would be effective. I think Poison Resistance now since we are likely going to see a Bond Dungeon for Lara or Kamau next.
I wanted to say, what! just buy them at Paws’
But then I took an arrow to the knee checked Paws shop list at d6t46 and indeed there are no poisonous things there 🙁
I’m guessing new stuff will unlock now that we properly finished the dungeon.
This followed by maxing out Venomous Sting makes her a solid Tank that actually has a good Ranged option that doesn’t take up any Inventory space or need to waste Actions passing gear around.
I vote for Cloth Proficiency.
Lara needs more encumbrance space if we want her to eventually have Poison Use or Drink Poison.
she’s currently quite conspicuously wearing heavy armour.
not much use.
Sure, she is wearing heavy armour.
But on the other page Ricki is getting Big Haul II, for +2 enc. Getting Lara Cloth Prociency will give her an incentive to not wear armour, which in turn will let her have at least +4 enc available. Yes, at the cost of a lot of defense, but that is what Kamau is there for.
I want to see Lara for more than a replacement fighter with poison abilities we don’t care about.
Poison Use.
She already has +1 when doing poison damage.
So it is +2-3Atk with the weakest poison.
Also, Lara looks totally badass right now. She deserves that cigarette (only because it makes her happy and not that I want her to die an early death)
Venomous Sting II
I agree. All of Laura’s abilities are kinda meh, so we should focus on the numbered ones in the hopes that they eventually become worth something.
My Pretties? Maybe, Poison Use)
I agree that PoisonResistance is now probably the best pick, but consider how Antivenom-1 is worded.
Can that restored 2HP be actually more than the damage received? It sounds like that. Still, it’s just 1 or 2 HP healed, but since Antivenom is upgradeable, maybe it’s actually worth considering.
Yes, she can heal more damage than poison damage taken, just like how conditional defence has been clarified to apply in total even if you haven’t taken extra of the given type (e.g 3 melee 1 poison vs only Poison Resistance I deals 2 damage because +2 defence with poison damage). Hopefully upgrades give more uses and not just healing for 3.
However, healing is only useful if we take damage in the first place. It is slotless, which helps.