A Question Banefire

[Xietor]

Well, that is my point. Since cleansing water is only effective against certain units, and it is evoc 6, it logically should have no peer in destroying demons.

How many demons have you seen survive banefire? Like none.

[Shovah32]

Nothing is meant to survive banefire, thats the point. Cleansing water is far easier to cast and water has never been a particularly strong evocation school anyway.

[Theonlystd]

the damage the banefire spell does it great and usually kills outright if it hits something.

But does the Decay or whatever effect on units not actually directly hit by the banefire or by banefire Archers.. Always end in death?

[Saulot]

I've seen some units survive decay. Just not mortals or otherwise common units.

[Theonlystd]

Saulot said:
I've seen some units survive decay. Just not mortals or otherwise common units.

Ok thanks pretty much what i assumed ..

[Jazzepi]

Theonlystd said:

Ok thanks pretty much what i assumed ..

I had an undead SC with like 5,000 years of life until he reached old age. He got hit by many banefire crossbows and they did nothing to him.

Jazzepi

[Taqwus]

Decay is a fixed +5 years/battle turn, AFAICT, regardless of unit type or max age. Fairly different from D2, where the only way to survive decay once affected was having lots of regen, IIRC.

[Xietor]

"But does the Decay or whatever effect on units not actually directly hit by the banefire or by banefire Archers.. Always end in death?"

Decay has very little effect on demons, since they have extremely long lifespans. It does age them, however. I guess if they had 2 or 3 battles where they got hit with decay, they may suffer some negative effects.

But decay is a pretty inefficient way to deal with demons.

The damage from banefire(the spell) is typically so great that units do not survive it. I have seen horrors die to it in 1 round.