I received a sweet Solipsism from Xur and it has Spirit of the Necrotic on it. Sounds great! So I use it in PvP and it doesn't work half the time Long range melee's are the worst culprits of this.
What gives?
Taken from light.gg
[Spoiler]Passively grants 30 Airborne Effectiveness to Weapons of Sorrow: Thorn, Osteo Striga, Touch of Malice, and Necrochasm.
Melee Hits apply Necrotic Poison. Poison deals Kinetic damage. Poisoned enemies spread Poison on death in a 5 meter radius.
Kills with the following also spread Poison:
• Thorn's Bullets
• Osteo Striga's Poison Effect
• Touch of Malice's Blight's Poison Effect
• Necrochasm's Poison and Cursed Thrall Explosions
Poison ticks every 0.517 [PVP: 0.7] seconds for a total of 19 [PVP: ?] ticks over 9.3 [PVP: ?] seconds. Deals a total of 1361 [PVP: ?] damage over the entire duration.
Poison's first tick deals 32.35 [PVP: 5?] damage.
In PvE, the damage of Poison ramps up every tick with the damage increases compounding together:
• 2nd-14th ticks each deal 3.5585 more damage compared to the one before
• 15th tick deals 9.705 more damage than the 14th
• 16th-19th ticks each deal 14.234 more damage than the one before[/spoiler]