What happened?

[ioticus]

Graeme Dice said:
Just think of it as the metal rusting and falling to bits. Decay requires a MR check, and with a MR of 18 5% of such spells succeed. It also must hit the target, and usually only takes effect once you've lost the battle anyways, so it's powerful, but not overly so.

The spell description states it only affects living creatures, so it doesn't make much sense to me.

[BigDaddy]

I know for a fact that it also works on Iron Dragons. Its one of the better ways to defeat them.

[Ironhawk]

Do you take Decay damage if you rout?

[BigDaddy]

I pretty sure you do. With poison damage, as soon as a unit reaches the edge of the screen, the poison drips repeatedly and either kills the unit or not.

[Tuna]

I'm quite sure that after combat decay doesn't just deal damage but outright kills everyone infected, modded ridiculously high HP's and regen dont help.

...Thus Anthrax is quite good hit& runner...

[Chazar]

Maybe this post about decay damage by Kristoffer O helps for this discussion as well: Post#325726

...so I would guess that not all banfire/decay effects are of the same 'quality'.

BTW, is there a cap on the regeneration rate? And do they all add up (e.g. does 'casting the spell personal regeneration', 'regeneration from items', 'regeneration from a blessing effect' and an 'innate regeneration ability' always stack? Does the regeneration percentage stack additively?)

[BigDaddy]

I believe, like many of the other game effects, they can stack, to a point. Like, you can have natural regen, A spell related regen, and item regen. I'm not sure if 2 regen items stack, but I know the spells say that they don't stack.