Questions about Curses and Healing

[Endoperez]

There are two kinds of curses.

A cursed item cannot be removed. If you die, you drop them (and cursed items are more likely to be found), and changing you shape/casting Transformation/some other strange tactic might work.

There are also the spells Curse, Spirit Curse and Doom which vurse units and commanders. This kind of curse makes them more likely to get afflictions. This kind of a curse can't be healed either. However, you can heal the afflictions it causes, or just make sure you mage doesn't get hurt. Curse doesn't spontaneously create afflictions, it just makes wounds more likely to cause one.

[Juzza]

Oh, I also seem to recall that once many of my forces were being cursed but occationly became permanently ethereal, I'm unsure if this was a bug or a side effect of a curse.

[Endoperez]

That sounds really strange. Were you playing with EA Oni Kings? The Oni all have a second, 1-hp ethereal ghost form. If that form manages to survive the battle, they'll be back to full health again.

[Juzza]

No, I was playing as Tenchi, I forget which age, but it's kinda irrelevant which age cause it was happing to the Celestial Soldiers, some of them might have been bodied etherealed and somehow that might have stuck.

[sansanjuan]

"If you die, you drop them (and cursed items are more likely to be found)"

Would it then be possible to outfit an expenable commander with cursed items, throw them at, say, an SC and then let the computer outfit any of his/her empty SC slots with the cursed items? Just a thought.

[Juzza]

Yeah, thats a viable strategy!

[Agrajag]

Against an AI SC it will work, but the AI doesn't really use SCs.
Humans would probably fill up their SC's slots, so it wouldn't pick up the cursed item.

Also, the strategy doesn't work as you described it.
Since the items are cursed, whatever commander finds them also gets to keep them for life (They are cursed, he can't remove them.), so its not so much the computer outfitting his SC's empty slots with cursed items, but rather that the SC is forced to equip them since he is the one that found them.
Though if you really want to, you could probably send all sorts of cursed gift items to the AI, it might not be smart enough to know better than to equip them on inappropriate commanders.
Just remember that even cursed items usually have some useful function; You might not be able to remove that Eye of Aiming, and it may just "Lost an eye" you, but it still improves precision. (Just don't equip two of them at the same time, that's counterproductive.)

[Serenity]

Remember once when I put 2x eye of aiming on a commander that appeared to have multiple eyes at the graphic side.

Well needless to say he got blind.

[FedSlayer]

Agrajag said:
Just remember that even cursed items usually have some useful function; You might not be able to remove that Eye of Aiming, and it may just "Lost an eye" you, but it still improves precision. (Just don't equip two of them at the same time, that's counterproductive.)

EA Agartha would not want to use any of the eye equipment, being one-eyed they will become blind.

[Endoperez]

Also, if you equip everyone with one eye, and one dies, someone will find it and replace his remaining eye with it. Yeah, it happens.