Poison Blade

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The Poison Blade inventory icon in Assassin's Creed II.

"It's another blade design...for delivering poison!"

―Leonardo da Vinci

The Poison Blade is one of the upgrades invented by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad for the Hidden Blade, essentially a hollow needle equipped with poison. Whoever Ezio injects with the poison will go berserk, swinging their weapon wildly and attacking all those in range before dying. Ezio can replenish this weapon by buying poison vials from Doctors.

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The poison blade in use

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Hidden Blade with Hidden Gun and Poison Blade attached.

This weapon is one of the best the player will get in the game; this is because Ezio can kill someone without attracting much attention to himself and instead making people look at the person going berserk. If the people looking at the person who is berserk are the targets, Ezio can assassinate them quickly and silently without them noticing a thing. Additionally, the player can make someone go berserk as a distraction to draw guards away from the target and assassinate him. This is especially helpful during Assassination Contract missions, as most of the time the targets have at least one Guard with them.

Poison vials cost 175 florins each and Ezio can carry up to five vials, but poison pouch upgrades bought from a local Tailor raise the amount of vials Ezio can carry at once (by up to 15).

In Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, the blade doesn't cause guards to go berserk, but kills them instantly. Also, it is commonly used by Ezio during combat.

Ways to use the Poison Blade efficiently:

1. Silent Kill. Guards will never notice the poisoning process even if it is right in front them!
2. Attention. Distraction is important during the game in missions. If you can not find thieves to lure the guards away, mercenaries to fight the guards, or even courtesans to literally distract them, then the Poison Blade helps out a lot. Poisoning a peasant or any one else in front of the guard (5-10 meters away). When the victim goes crazy and gets the attention of the guards you have two choices: assassinate the guards (you won't be noticed if the victim is still alive), or head on to your objective.
3. Clean Kill. When doing an Assassination Contract mission, a single target has at least one body guard. One way to easily finish the job is to poison the guard, he will later go crazy and "accidentally" hit the target with his weapon and kill the target instantly.

Step one: poisoning.

Step one: poisoning.

Step two: get back.

Step two: get back.

Step three: mission finished.

Step three: mission finished.

1. Make a Scene. Poisoning a person is a good distraction, especially when you poison a Brute and throw money at him. Civilians and guards will run towards the money and may be injured by the berserk Brute. Also a guard that is poisoned will be killed with one hit unlike other guards.
2. When running after a target, you can assassinate him with the poison blade and won't receive notoriety for the kill, even if you are seen.