So I was just doing the prestige mission "A pinch of salt" when something weird happened. I was using the Sentenza and hitting the slimes for 103hp then I was poisoned and subsequently was hitting slimes for 38hp. Is this normal? The wiki states that when a knight is poisoned that he looses 1/3 to the damage dealt which can be found here http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Poison . I was using the mad bomber suit and helm which have a negative to poison, does this increase my negative to damage dealt because I was under the impression that it only increased the duration of the status that you have the negative to?
P.S. Sorry if I linked the page wrong.
This is normal.
When you are poisoned:
You cannot heal.
Your defenses are lowered (you take more damage from hits.)
Your attack strength is lowered (you do less damage to enemies.)
Being poisoned while you are wearing a set that has a weakness to poison might make the effects worse, yes. It definitely makes the poison last longer.
Similar to when you are on fire, if you have fire resist, the fire lasts less time and does less damage per hit when it does hit you.
Same thing with curse, curse resist will lower the time until it wears off, and can reduce the number of items cursed (weapons and vials.)
So it certainly would make sense if the poison affects you more strongly with a weakness from armour. I definitely notice with strong poison resist, when I am poisoned my attacks aren't affected very much.