Old mages and Blood Nations

[Starshine_Monarch]

Originally Posted by earcaraxe

but do they get any younger? i guess if if my 70 years old PotS gets some boots, he still will be 70, inst he? and get diseased eventualy? right?

Actually no he won't. Despite still having stat penalties because of Old age, your mage will not get any new afflictions because of it. This is another reason it's a good pick over Rejuv, because a lot of times you need multiple castings of it to be completely safe from further afflictions.

Edit: Ninja'd

[FAJ]

Thats the main reason I rarely use rejuv. Most of the mages I want to be protected are more than 10 years over the limit.

I would probably use it more often if it set the casters age to 18, or something of that nature.

[Olive]

Are you sure that boots of youth prevent afflictions and not only aging ? I'm almost sure I had some warlocks who caught diseases with boots on. I'll try again. With Abysia, I usually used both rejuvenate and boots on Warlocks. A bit overkill but I sent them bloodhunting to cover the expenses.

[FAJ]

They may have caught diseases from some other means.

After many many games with Abysia, I have found the correlation between BoY and not catching diseases to be convincing enough to count on them as reliable.

[Edi]

There are so many mechanisms for getting disease that it's not funny. If you got toad rained, that's 5% disease chance right there for every occurrence. Sites, certain units in province, getting hit in combat (even a regular affliction from a battle may be disease) etc, all are possible culprits. I've never gotten any midwinter afflictions for any mage wearing BoY.

[Stretch]

I had a Vanjarl get stuck with an amulet of lycanthropy and eventually become a 500 year old skinshifter. Massive old age penalties, but he lasted 12+ months with no afflictions!