A Poisoner's Guide to LA Pythium

[MaxWilson]

Okay, the short version is that the F9 bless affects hoof attacks (and presumably, all secondary attacks).

Longer version: I modded 3 Eponi chieftains to be sacred, with maxed attack values and two hoof attacks doing zero physical damage. I took an F9 bless and had my prophet cast Divine Blessing at the beginning of combat (then retreat). I used Shift-K to kill off all the real opponents in the battle, and Control-U to insert a common archer #33, modded to have 1000 hit points, morale 99, and 100% fire vulnerability. I re-ran this combat several times. Variance in the damage was high, but with two flaming hooves (zero physical damage), the archer seemed to take about 50 hit points of damage per round. With one flaming hoof it was about half that. Eliminating the fire vulnerability brought this to 25/12, again with very high variance (50 points some rounds, 6 on others).

F9 bless affects all melee weapons. This is good news for jaguars, etc. I imagine D9 is similar but I have not tested it.

-Max

(Mod script follows)

-- Test fire bless
#selectweapon 8
#nostr
#att 25
#dt_cap
#dmg 0
#end

#selectweapon 56
#nostr
#att 25
#dt_cap
#dmg 0
#end

-Eponi Chieftain. Comment out one of the 56s to remove a hoof.
#selectmonster 1207
#enc 0
#prot 40
#holy
#weapon 56
#weapon 56
#end

-- Archer, I think.
#selectmonster 33
#hp 1000
#enc 0
#fireres 100
#mor 99
#end