Poison (XC1)

Poison is a debuff in Xenoblade Chronicles. It is one of the damage-over-time debuffs, dealing damage equal to a percentage of the triggering hit multiple times over its duration. Poison arts are usually ether attacks rather than physical attacks. Multiple instances of poison may be active at once; they do not interrupt or override each other, as long as they are caused by different arts.

For party members' arts, poison always has a strength of 100% of the triggering damage, and lasts for 30 seconds dealing damage every 2 seconds. This makes it the strongest of the damage-over-time debuffs.

For enemies' arts, poison usually has a strength of 20% but can range up to 30%, almost always with a duration of 20 seconds.