Quote:
Originally Posted by Reay
In the same game you can see an assassination attempt where the assassin manages to poison the mage in melee without even damaging him. So poison secondary effects seem to be activated even in melee if you hit but don't damage....
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Here's what happened in the assassination:
The assassin missed with his Short Sword.
Then he hit the Adon with his Poison Dagger, doing 11 points of damage, but the Body Ethereal check succeeded, so no physical damage was taken. However, the secondary effect does trigger in this case, so poison damage was done.
Body Ethereal does not protect you from the secondary effects of weapons that hit you, even if it saves you from the initial physical damage. Only if the melee weapon does no damage because it's stopped by armour (or just misses) then the secondary effect does not trigger (like Sombre says).
Debug output:
19573 striking with weapon Short Sword. att21 def25
19573 striking with weapon Poison Dagger. att28 def22
hitloc Assassin strikes Adon wl0 diff3 -> 4
hitunit 19573 15643 dmg2 spec2097153 ba4
damage 11 on Adon, spec0x200001 ba4
Ethereal negated 11 pnts of dmg
hitloc Assassin strikes Adon wl0 diff3 -> 4
hitunit 19573 15643 dmg15 spec8320 ba4