Originally posted by velrac:

One tip about the poison resist. In the beginning they seem expensive to make which will make you hesitant to use them. This normally results in getting poisoned without having poison resist up and dieing. Don't panic just drink your poison resist and let yourself get repoisoned. This will apply the poison dot again, but at the lower poison resist dmg which will make it much more likely that you will survive.

To add to what velrac said here. Drink a poison resist as soon as you get to the edge of the swamp. Keep a close eye on its buff timer on your HUD. As soon as it runs out drink another one. Rinse and repeat until you leave the swamps. When you drink your last one start heading out of the swamp before its timer runs out.

The reason to keep the buff going is that the poison resist mead doesn't work if you are already poisoned. It only works if it's active before you get poisoned.

Good luck to you.