Pox

Infested

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Pox

Statistics

Utility

Spore Impact

Poison Cloud

Duration

5 s

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update: The Silver Grove

CODEX

These festering sacs of pus and gas burst violently on impact.

The Pox are a thrown Infested weapon released in Update: The Silver Grove. Similar to the Torid, the Pox's projectiles release a toxic cloud upon coming into contact with a surface or enemy, making it ideal for large groups or area denial. However, its low magazine size and ammunition reserves mean that players must be mindful of their ammo.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	4	6,500	1,200	2	Time: 24 hrs
30,000	4	6,500	1,200	2	Rush: 35
Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price:15,000
Bio Lab Research 3,000
5,000	20	200	900	250	Time: 72 hrs
5,000	20	200	900	250	Prereq: Dual Toxocyst
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals Toxin damage.

Advantages:

Third highest base damage of all throwing-type secondaries, behind Castanas and Sancti Castanas.
- Innate Toxin damage – effective against Flesh and Ferrite Armor and ignores Shields and Proto Shields.
Spores create gas clouds which deal 10 Toxin damage per second for 4 seconds.
- Pox gas cloud deals damage over time and can be stacked.
- Pox gas clouds do not inflict self-damage.
Tied for second highest status chance of all secondaries alongside Vaykor Marelok, behind Dual Toxocyst and Tysis; and second highest status chance of all throwing-type secondaries, behind alt-fire Fusilai.
- Can achieve 100% status chance with Scorch (Mod), Frostbite, Pistol Pestilence, and Jolt.
High reload speed.
Can use the pistol exclusive Fulmination Mod.

Disadvantages:

Innate Toxin damage – less effective against Robotic and Fossilized.
- Cannot deal Slash, Impact, and Puncture damage; does not benefit from mods that increase these damage types.
Lowest critical chance of all throwing-type weapons.
Low ammo capacity of 20.
Tied with Talons for second lowest magazine size of all throwing-type secondaries.
Lowest fire rate of all throwing-type secondaries.
Slow projectile flight speed, with heavy arcing.
Cannot use thrown secondary exclusive mod Concealed Explosives.

NotesEdit

The Poison Cloud deals 20 Toxin damage per second during its 5 second duration, totaling 100 Toxin damage.
- Each second during the Poison Cloud's duration factors in Pox's status and crit chance as well, allowing each tick of damage to potentially proc and/or crit until the 5 seconds ends.
- Additionally, each tick of damage will also guarantee a Toxin proc with a halved duration (from 8 seconds to 4 seconds). Thus granting a possible 200 additional Toxin damage assuming the hostile remains in the Poison Cloud for the entire 5 second duration, for a grand total of 300 Toxin damage.
Pox has a noticeably bigger lingering cloud when Fulmination is equipped.

TipsEdit

As the Pox explode on contact with surfaces instead of sticking to them, adding Heat, Electricity or Blast damage is recommended to keep enemies in the clouds for extended periods.
The high status chance of the Pox, along with its innate Toxin damage makes it an effective tool to strip off enemy armor via Corrosive procs.
- Corrosive can be mixed with Blast to essentially create a stunlock cloud of armor stripping, which (with multiple cloud stacks) can shred armor in seconds.
This weapon performs especially well in corridors and cramped spaces where enemies are forced to cluster together, and the stacked gas clouds can make short work of them.
- Pox users should be mindful about their ammo reserves when using this tactic, however, because they might find themselves ganged up by enemies while trying to pick up ammo drops.

BugsEdit

When disarmed by a Drahk Master, the Pox appears on the ground as Castanas.

TriviaEdit

Pox refers to a type of disease that is characterized by pustules or pockmarks that cover the whole body, examples of which include Chickenpox and Smallpox.
- In earlier times, Pox may be used to refer to diseases in general, or a curse.