How do u not fail on making poison, I usually have kei/tranq/voq on when making poisons for the int. I heard that dex/str maxed will help the chances of not failing. This was stated by an enchanter, but i need to know what the rogues think=). ?

Stat scores only affect your chance of getting a skill-up. They do not affect your chance to fail a combine.

There are 2 thing you can do to decrease fails on combines:
1) Get your poison skill maxed at 250 and get a +skill increase item for poison (like the Grandmaster trophy/seal). That way your poison skill will be maxed at 252 (highest allowed when using a +skill item).
2) Get the AA skill Poison Mastery. For Tier 2 poisons, even PM1 is a significant decrease in fails. I got a ~50% decrease in fails when I acquired PM1 (even though the aa skill description indicates it should have only affected it by 10%).
Xandrax Xuileb`Xukuth (Retired)
Level 65 Barbarian Rogue
Tunare (Vae Inimicus)

Edited by: Xandrax at: 2/17/03 3:24:15 pm

Pumping up my dex as high as it would go with my items seemed to help me the most in the 200-250 range... I had tried for a while with only maxxing int, and didn't get as many skill ups and successful combines. Haunting The Rathe for 3 Years Straight:
Baroness Delissandra Splitshadow - Half-Elven Assassin - For Hire
Grandmaster Poisoner (250), Master Potter (183), Grandmaster Lush (200)

"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another." - Oscar Wilde

I definatly second the motiong that stats have no affect on ssuccess rates. Once you a modified skill of 252, the only think that will help is AAs. Ishwar - level 58 Barbarian Rogue - GM smith - Dawnraiders