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I was looking at poison damage recently and I realized it's a resource that is not available in these boards. So I made this Graphs.
For comparison, I've put a Greatsword Fighter attack, Greatsword Champion attack and Electric Arc (on a single target). All against High AC and average saves.
And the "points" are the best poisons you can find at these levels. I've only counted one round of damage (so initial save and second save at the end of the enemy round) against average Fortitude. I've considered the poisons' save DCs but most DCs are already as high as the Alchemist DC so a Toxicologist would get the same damage nearly every time.
Hope this helps.
It's interesting to see.
This doesn't count the damage from the successful delivery strike, right?
Toxicologist can inflict a -2 save when poisoning vs flat-footed. It would be interesting to see a graph adjusted for that, also.
Unfortunately, it asks me to modify each poison, so I've preferred to check on one poison as the effect will be roughly the same to all of them and it adds 25% expected damage.