• Poisoning Essay by P-NuTBefore you start poisoning you have to make sure you have two things:

Cash (Around 200-250k)
Alchemist (Mid 90s - GM)
UOA

Otherwise getting it to GM will take you ages and twice as much money. Poisoning skill is target based (means that you have to use the skill on as many targets as possible to get a gain). When you have that get yourself a bag with around 60-100 Blades (knifes, daggers, swords etc.) line them up so you can keep track of what you have already poisoned. Only work this skill in power hour because after you reach 90 it will get very expensive and you wouldn't want to spend extra 1000 shade for a lousy .1. Make sure you have everything ready when your burst starts (i.e you have 2 Kegs of poison pots and your bag of blades). When you start working your burst you start off with poisoning the first blade in your pack and if you do not gain you move on to the next one. As soon as you get a gain you can come back to the first blade and do it all over again. As you may have figured this can get very very tedious and boring...click a keg....use potion....target blade. That is why UOA is a must when you work poisoning. There is a way to make a macro that would go through all your blades but its hard to make and it may not work properly if you are lagging. I used the following UOA Macro: 

Use Item Type (Keg)
Use Skill (Poisoning)
Use Item Type (Poison Potion)
Pause 10000

*Note: You have to add pauses in between lines as well.

This macro will basically do the boring part for you (Click keg, use skill, find potion) and will leave you
with a target cursor and you will just have to click the right blade (once again arrange them neatly). That is pretty much how I worked the skill itself.

The hardest thing is to come up with all that shade (I used 80000). Therefore I would strongly suggest to get a runebook with all the mage shops in Felucca as well as Trammel (and you might also want a rune to a local Moongate so you don't have to use the stones).

Now the routine part, grinding potions. As I have mentioned before you have to have a decent alchy. Grinding Lesser and even Greater Poison is not all that bad but when you get to the point where you have to use Deadly Poison you might want to make a macro for that too. Get a bag with about 11 mortars (or more if you want) and a bag with 100 empty bottles. Create a UOA Macro that double clicks the mortar and then targets the same mortar again (a shortcut to grind the last potion). So the macro will look like this

Use Item
Target
Pause 1000
Use Item
Target
Pause 1000
.
.
.

Use Items is the mortar and Target is the same mortar again. It will be a lengthy macro but it will save you hours of grinding. This macro basically grinds the last potion with every single mortar. Before you use it you have to make sure each mortar was used to grind the appropriate poison type. I would start off by manually using all my mortars to grind the potion I need and only then run the macro. When you have finished grinding your pots the empty bottle bag should be full of green bottles and you will just have to manually fill the keg (only takes about 4 minutes).

Here is the way I did it Poisoning:

30 - 45 - Lesser Poison
45 - 63 - Regular Poison
63 - 92 - Greater Poison
92 - 100 - Deadly Poison

You don't have to start using DP at 92. It is possible to GM Poisoning off GP only but that would take a lot longer, so if you got some money and you want to get it over with asap use DP.

I have recorded all the shade that I've used to reach Grandmaster Status and the total came to: 80244 Nightshade.

Good Luck!

blata.