BoG4u wrote:
The poison only affects characters at the ticks, that is why I kept wielding/unwielding the weapon to determine if it would normally poison the character, generating that message. My strength was not reduced and the affect list does not show poison when either wielding or not wielding the weapon. So this bugged poison only affects regen rates and a hp decrease.
The only bug that I see is that it doesn't show up in affects or give a message when someone gets poisoned. IMO, it is the character's own stupidity for putting poison on a weapon and then touching that poison when they wield the weapon. Sort of like poisoning food or water then consuming it yourself. Personally, I would rather not see the so-called wield bug fixed, leave that part alone, just fix the rest of the issue.
I know I'll get flack for this, but I am only stating my opinions and fully expect the flack hoping to open an interesting discussion, and perhaps find out why this bug has not been fixed yet. Every thing I've read says that it has been around for a long time, maybe it isn't a bug but the way that Dulrik wants it to be. Or maybe, it started out being a bug, but then he liked what was going on and decided not to change it.