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If a ranger/assassin with the Manyshot feat fires a pair of poisoned arrows at an enemy and the attack hits, does it count as 2 doses of the poison or just one because of a single attack roll? It seems to me that employing poison in this way is a really effective way of jacking up the otherwise low save DCs for most poisons.
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I'd say yes. It is two individual arrows, so as both deal flaming damage, both should deliver poison.
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That create some interesting problem with this:
Unlike other afflictions, multiple doses of the same poison stack. Poisons delivered by injury and contact cannot inflict more than one dose of poison at a time, but inhaled and ingested poisons can inflict multiple doses at once.
Apparently your target would have to save against the poisoned arrows in sequence, regardless of the fact that they were delivered with a single attack roll.
So you aren't actually increasing the save DC of the poison as you are delivering 2 doses with two different attacks, even if you roll only once to see if you hit.
No. The character receives a save to negate the poison, and the saving throw increases according to already ongoing poison effects. So what would happen is he would make one save vs the first arrow; if he passed, he would make a save against the second arrow at the same DC, if he failed he would make a save against the second arrow at DC+2. He would take poison damage for each failed save.
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/2011/march/v5748dyo5lc12?I-Drank-What-An-FAQ-on -Poison