A Question Banefire

Theonlystd · #1 July 3rd, 2007, 12:41 AM

the damage the banefire spell does it great and usually kills outright if it hits something.

But does the Decay or whatever effect on units not actually directly hit by the banefire or by banefire Archers.. Always end in death?

Saulot · #2 July 3rd, 2007, 12:43 AM

I've seen some units survive decay. Just not mortals or otherwise common units.

Theonlystd · #3 July 3rd, 2007, 12:55 AM

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Saulot said:
I've seen some units survive decay. Just not mortals or otherwise common units.

Ok thanks pretty much what i assumed ..

Jazzepi · #4 July 3rd, 2007, 02:04 AM

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Theonlystd said:

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Saulot said:
I've seen some units survive decay. Just not mortals or otherwise common units.

Ok thanks pretty much what i assumed ..

I had an undead SC with like 5,000 years of life until he reached old age. He got hit by many banefire crossbows and they did nothing to him.

Jazzepi

Taqwus · #5 July 3rd, 2007, 04:18 AM

Decay is a fixed +5 years/battle turn, AFAICT, regardless of unit type or max age. Fairly different from D2, where the only way to survive decay once affected was having lots of regen, IIRC.

MaxWilson · #6 July 3rd, 2007, 08:02 AM

Yes, no matter how many Decay effects you get hit with during the course of a battle you'll only age something like 200 years maximum. Decay basically does nothing to undead, demons, Iron Dragons, etc.

-Max

thejeff · #7 July 3rd, 2007, 08:14 AM

Decay is also not likely to kill anything with a lot of hit points. They may come out of the battle old, diseased and crippled, but alive. In fact, does decay kill at all? You're likely to be diseased, which will kill you eventually, or afflicted, which may weaken you in the fight, but age doesn't actually do damage or kill outright.

In a recent SP game I had a lot of elephants get hit by decay. Annoying since they didn't die, it was hard to get them killed off and they were a lot less useful with 4-5 afflictions, but still expensive.

Xietor · #8 July 3rd, 2007, 12:49 AM

"But does the Decay or whatever effect on units not actually directly hit by the banefire or by banefire Archers.. Always end in death?"

Decay has very little effect on demons, since they have extremely long lifespans. It does age them, however. I guess if they had 2 or 3 battles where they got hit with decay, they may suffer some negative effects.

But decay is a pretty inefficient way to deal with demons.

The damage from banefire(the spell) is typically so great that units do not survive it. I have seen horrors die to it in 1 round.