Make necrophages' rot temporary


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Post Sunday, 3rd January 2016, 07:19

Make necrophages' rot temporary

As distinctly early-game enemies it seems a bit unfair to have max HP reduced pseudo-permanently at that stage of the game. Rather have the rot increased but wear off (slowly) with XP-gain, as per current stat-drain and 'Drain' status. Necrophages could have an 'xv' description mentioning that their particular sort of rot will be healed by gaining experience, unlike sources of pseudo-perma-rot later in the game.

Getting unlucky with an early necrophage means continuing less 10 or 20% max HP or using multiple !curing or !HW, which is either simply irritating, or potentially lethal.
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Post Sunday, 3rd January 2016, 08:29

Re: Make necrophages' rot temporary

Well, some rot will be cured any time you quaff a heal-wounds potion, so it's pseudo-temporary in that sense. I'd be more concerned about this truly-temporary rot becoming non-important to the point of irrelevance where it's better not to have AF:rot at all... at which point this temporary rot may be buffed to stay relevant, becoming even more aggravating if it seriously cripples your character in the early game. Early-game enemies you should not engage with are dime-a-dozen; necrophages don't stand out too much IMO, and they give newbies a nice early-game preview about what rot is, which they would not do if their rot was different.

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Post Sunday, 3rd January 2016, 20:14

Re: Make necrophages' rot temporary

Rot is very easy to cure now.

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Post Monday, 4th January 2016, 06:00

Re: Make necrophages' rot temporary

Apologies. I hadn't realised that !HW cures rot even when not at full HP. Always read the label...

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Post Monday, 4th January 2016, 06:32

Re: Make necrophages' rot temporary

That's a relatively new change.

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